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No. 55104-3-1
DIVISION I OF THE COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE STATE OF WASHINGTON
RUD OKESON, DORIS BURNS, WALTER L. WILLIAMS and
ARTIIUR T. LANE, individually and on behalf of the class of all persons
similarly situated,
Respondents.
vs.
THE CITY OF SEATTLE,
Appellant,
BRIEF OF AMICI CURIAE AMERICANS FOR THE ARTS AND
VARIOUS ARTS ORGANIZATIONS IN SUPPORT OF
APPELLANT ON ONE PERCENT FOR ART
Laurie K. Beale, WSBA #28288
Stoel Rives LLP
600 University Street, Suite 3600
Seattle, WA 98101
Tel. (206) 624-0900
Fax (206) 386-7500
Nina Ozlu, Chief Counsel
Govt. & Public Affairs
Americans for the Arts
1000 Vermont Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20005
Tel. (202) 371-2830
Attorneys for Amici Curiae
Americans for the Arts et al.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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I. INTEREST OF THE AMICI CURIAE .........................................1
II. SUMMARY OF ARGUMENT ..................................................... 3
m. ARGUMENT .................................................................................. 4
A. Mitigation Is a Traditional and Appropriate Use of
Percent for Art Funds.....:................,.........................·........ 4
B. The Elaborate Community and Stakeholder
Engagement Process Utilized in Public Art
Programs Inevitably Yields an Appropriate Nexus
to the Sponsoring Agency's Needs .................................... 7
C. Flexibility Is Necessary for the Optimal
Administration of Percent for Art Ordinances................. 12
D. Seattle's Model Percent for Art Ordinance Should
Be Reinstated As Applied to City Ught .......................... 16
IV. ..CONCLUSION............................................·....·....·....·..·.........·· 20
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TABLE OF AUTHORITIES
Palle(s)
American for the Arts,
Public Art: An Essential Component of Creating Communities
(Monograph, 2004) ....................................................................................2
Americans for the Arts, with University of Washington Press,
Public Art By The Book (2005).................................................·......·....·2,5
Americans for the Arts,
Public Art Programs Fiscal Year 2001 Research Report (2003) ..........2. 5
Arts Extension Service, in cooperation, with
the National Endowment For the Arts,
Going Public: A Field Guide to Developments in Art in Public Places
(1988) ................................................................................................ ...8, 16
Brown, Brenda & Rubin, Mary,
Public Art Funding: Developing Percent-for-Art Programs
(Americans for Arts Monograph, 2000) .........................................4, 9, 17.
Public Art, 2003 United States Conference of Mayors Adopted Policy
Resolutions at the 71" Annual Meeting (Denver)....................................l9
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I. INTEREST OF THE AMICI CURIAE
Americans for the Arts is a nonprofit organization and the
national association representing 5,000 local arts agencies and statewide
arts orgÍurlzations. A local arts agency is an agency oflocal government
or a private nonprofit organization that presents programming to the
public, provides services to artists and arts OTga.ni"Htions, manages cultural
facilities, admini~ters public art programs, including percent for art
ordinances, awards grants to artists or arts organizations, and participates
in community cultural planning. Through these activities, local arts
. agencies promote the arts at the local level, endeavoring to make them part
of the daily fabric of community living. Seattle's Office of Arts &
Cultural Affairs is a local arts agency and a long-time professional
member of Americans for the Arts.
Americans for the Arts is also the national source for practices and
standards in the public art field. Its national Public Art Networlc program
includes training for professional development, researching field trends,
docunlenting best and innovative practices, promoting peer-to-peer
networlcing, and offering technical assistance in the specific area of local
and state public art programs. Americans for the Arts has published
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several publicationsl about public art programs, and Seattle's Office of
Arts & Cultural Affairs public art staff has been active and recognized
leaders within the public art field.
Artist Trust is a state-wide nonprofit organization dedicated
exclusively to supporting Washington State artists worlcing in all creative
disciplines. Founded in 1987 by a group of arts patrons and artists
concerned about the lack of support for individual artists, this organization
is shepherded by a 26-member Board of Trustees and a professional staff.
Programs include direct grants to artists and a broad range of artist
information, employment, and professional development services.
The Washington State Arts Alliance, Washington's statewide
multidisciplinary arts advocacy and service organization, works to
promote public funding, legislation, and policy favorable to the arts and to
increase knowledge, understanding, appreciation, and practice of the arts
!n Washington through communication and education. Founded in 1976,
the Washington State Arts Alliance includes in its membership and
constituency over 1,000 arts organizations and loc$! arts agencies, as well
thousands of individual artists, educators, students, and patrons of the arts.
The Amici urge the Court of Appeals to reverse the trial court's
1 See Americans for d1e Arts, with Univ. of Wash. Press, Public Art By The Book (2005);
Americans for d1e Arts, Public Art: All Es.ential Compollent of Creating ComlltlUlities
(Monograph, 2004); Americans for d1e Arts, Public Art Programs Fiscal Year 2001
RB!learch Report (2003).
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decision to invalidate Seattle's 32-year old One Percent. for Art Ordinance
as applied to City Light and to reject the lower court's overly literal and
narrow interpretation of the content and type of public art that can yield a
"close nexus" between the proprietary interests of the public utility and the
public art that it. sponsors. Amici respectfully submit. this brief to provide
the Court with historical background, national context., public policy
principles, and applied practices of Percent for Art programs generally and
Seattle's recognized model Percent for Art program specifically.
n. SUMMARY OF ARGUMENT
Seattle's Public Art Program and specifically its Percent for Art
Ordinance are national models that have been emulated by dozens of cities
nationwide. Seattle's public art projects have been highly acclaimed and
widely documented in national newspapers, art publications, and text
books. Since the early years ofits inception in 1973, Seattle's public art
program has revolutionized the planning and engagement process of
involving artists, architects, sponsoring agencies, and the community t.o
achieve innovative, mCHningful, and inspiring works of art sited in public
places. Because Seattle has been so auccessful with its public art process,
these Satl1e principles have been adopted in cities large and sma1I across
the country.
Seattle was one of the first cities to include the capital
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improvement projects of utilities in its Percent for Art Ordinance. Today,
it is more typical than not for municipalities to include city-owned utilities
in their percent for art programs. To our knowledge, there has never been
a court challenge to invalidate a percent for art ordinance in any city,
county, or state in this nation. Seattle's public art program has set the
standards which others follow. Its process of engaging sponsoring
agencies, stakeholders, artists, and the public is among the best in the
country. Its public art process exceeds any test of reasonableness with
respect to a sponsoring agency's active participation in the selection of
appropriate artworks and necessarily leads to a "close nexus" between the
public art project and its funding source.
III. ARGUMENT
A. Mitigation Is a Traditional and Appropriate Use of Percent for
Art Funds
In 1959, the City of Philadelphia and its Redevelopment Agency
passed the first percent for art ordinance in America. "Their idea was a
simple one: set aside a small portion of the construction costs of public
projects for the inclusion of artworks which would enhance what they
considered the stark modernist architecture of the time.',z A percent for art
movement was born. Several major cities and states soon followed, and
Z Brown, Brenda & Rubin, Mary, Public Art FlI1IIii1Ig: Developing Percent-for-Art
Programs 1 (AmeriC8IIS for the Arts Monograph, 2000).
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by the mid-l 980s, there were at least 135 public art programs across the
country. Today, Americans for the Arts estimates that 350 public art
programs exist in the United States (including 46 of 50 states and the
District of Columbia), generating more than $200 million annually for the
commissioning, installation, maintenance, administration, and educational
and community outreach of public works of art.3 The municipal public art
programs are generally housed within a community's local arts agency.
The percent for art funding model has also been embraced and adopted in
private development throughout the United States. For instance, in
Sacramento, private entities contract with the municipal local arts agency
to administer its public art program using the same process. In contrast, in
Long Beach, the city and private companies contract with the nonprofit
local arts agency to administer the percent for art program.
Public art has evolved dramatically over the last 45 years. "The
concept of 'art in public places,' artworks transported from the studio to
the public plaza, gave way to 'public art,' with art reinforcing a sense of
place and occasion.'''' The definition of public art continues to evolve and
change. During the 1970s and 1980s, the issue was whether public art
should be a fi'ee-standing sculpture or work that is physically or
3 Americans for the Arts, Year 2001 Research Repon, supra note I, at 1.
4 Americans for the Arts, Public A.n By The Book, supra note I, at ix-x.
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conceptually intertwined with a particular site or issue. Today, a public art
program can encompass permanent, temporary, and portable works of art.
Thanks to the pioneering and highly successful efforts in Seattle, artists
are now commonly incorporated into architectural and landscape design
teams from the start of construction in order to achieve a more holistic
experience to the aesthetic execution of the capital project. This process
has been replicated in numerous cities. Many ordinances today no longer
funit projects to the visual arts; they now encompass an array of film,
performing, computer, and visual arts. They also include resources for
educational progranlming and funding for conservation and maintenance
of the artworks. Today, public art programs have adopted public policies
that require detailed processes for engaging community participation,
specifically with key stakeholders and sponsoring agencies.
While no two municipal public art programs or percent for art
ordinances are identical, there are key public policies, practices, and
values that they generally share. Public art can serve one of several public
purposes:
· Mitigation - enlivening and beautifying the area in, on, about,
or around buildings and objects that are in public spaces or
accessible to the public.
. Identity - creating a heightened sense of place, pride, and civic
engagement, and enhancing a community's prestige or a particular
sponsoring group's purpose.
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· Education - enhancing public appreciation of art and/or
educational messages communicated through the art.
. Economic - revitalizing neighborhoods, attracting attention,
tourism, appreciated value of the works of art, and creating artist
jobs.
In the Seattle Percent for Art case, the lower court ruled that City
Light may not spend utility funds for the purpose of mitigating a
substation's appearance, when the primary purpose of the art is to provide
artistic benefit to the surrounding neighborhood and the public as a whole.
This is a misstatement of public art policy. The primary purpose of
mitigating the negative appearance of a purely functional building or
infrastructure is to enhance its aesthetic appearance because it is creating a
physical mass or obstruction of some kind in or near a public space or in
the interior area of a publicly-accessible space. The primary purpose of
public art mitigation efforts is not to conduct a beautification project for
the sake of good will. It's because a negative action has taken place in a
public area and it needs to be counter-balanced.
B. The Elaborate Community and Stakeholder Engagement
Process Utilized In Public Art Programs Inevitably Yields an
Appropriate Nexus to the Sponsoring Agency's Needs
One of the comerstones of the public art movement is the
community and stakeholder engagement process. Public art programs pro-
actively develop and facilitate extensive, detailed, and meaningful
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engagement processes to address the needs of the sponsoring agency and
of the general public or targeted group. Regardless whether the
sponsoring agency is a private company or municipal government, if the
physical environment of an area that is accessible to the public is altered,
then good business practice requires good communication. Engaging the
sponsoring agencies and the public early in the process has been shown to
reduce negative reactions after-the-fact.
Public art program directors typically work closely with both the
sponsoring agency and the community to ensure that the art has a strong
connection to its site, either physically or conceptually. This approach
became fullyengrained in public art programs across the country when the
National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency, awarded its first-ever
Art in Public Places matching grant ofS45,OOO in 1967 to the city of
Grand Rapids for the placement of Alexander Calder's monumental
sculpture "La Grande Vitesse" in a public plaza. The Endowment's
criteria for awarding the grant were the specific qualities of the site and
the participation of various civic orga.ni"Htions in supporting the arts
initiative.',s As a result, a fully realized ''public art" movement was born,
and similar criteria were adopted by municipal arts agencies both for their
S Árts ExteDsion Serv., with National Endowment for !be Arts, Going Publú:; A FWd
Guide to Developmmts In Art In Public Places 9 (1988).
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own public art programs, which include percent for art funds, and for
purposes of applying for federally-matched funds.
The community and stakeholder engagement process has since
built on these simple criteria and has become a dynamic, pro-active, and
meaningful process where soliciting participation is not conducted to
merely meet bureaucratic criteria, but to achieve a higher quality product,
involving the fullest expression of the artist's creativity, the sponsoring
agency's short- and long-term needs, and the public's enthusiastic
involvement.
Depending on the general needs of the community and
stakeholders and the specific needs of the sponsoring agency, public art
projects can be executed in a variety of ways:6
. Discrete object - the traditional approach of placing stand-alone
sculptures, murals, or other artworks in or around public-accessible
buildings, plazas, and parks as a means to beautifY and humanize
the environment.
. Integration of public art and architecture - a multi-
disciplinary design team approach wherein artists worll: on project
teams with architects, engineers, landscape architects, and other
design professionals to create capital improvement projects (CIPs),
such as waste water treatment facilities, utility substations, and
utility poles in order to achieve the highest aesthetic and functional
innovation. (Note: Seattle's public art program was the first to do
this; now, it is one of the nation's most popular approaches to
public art.)
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Brown, supra note 2, at 2.
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· Master planning - artists working with policy makers and
community groups to identify specific opportunities for the
integration of art within specific and ongoing projects, such as
transit systems and neighborhood redevelopment
· Temporary Installations - non-permanent works of art that
respond to a specific physical or social environment.
. CommUDity development - artists working directly with
segments of the community to create public art that responds to the
unique issues of that community, such as public housing or health
care institutions for the elderly, youth, or disabled.
The public art process is a rigorous engagement exercise with very
high communication standards in order to insure that sponsoring agencies
are fully participating and engaged in identifying the right art project for
their needs and their stakeholders' needs. This process, which is practiced
by Seattle's public art program, necessarily leads to art projects with a
close nexus to the sponsoring agency's CIP. Seattle City Light has
benefited immensely from this process in selecting the best art projects for
its CIP Percent for Art projects.
The Seattle Public Art Progratl1 Director and staff participate in
City planning efforts and meet ftequent1y with representatives from çach
of the City departments throughout the year to discuss capital
improvement plans and how the public art progratl1 can reinforce the
City's and each sponsoring agency's work. Public art staff reviews capital
improvement plans with the sponsoring agency's staff to identify
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appropriate locations for public art and prioritize projects that will meet
the goals of the City and the department. Artworks are related to the
capital improvement projects or the ongoing work of the sponsoring
agency/department and must be located in places that are publicly
accessible, usually on City-owned property. Once the work with City
departments and each sponsoring agency is completed, funding allocation
and project recommendations are presented to the Public Art Advisory
Committee (pAAC), a standing committee of the Seattle Arts
Commission, which helps develop final recommendations for the annual
Municipal Art Plan (MAP). Following P AAC review, the plan goes to the
full body of the Seattle Arts Commission for approval, and then to the
Department of Finance and the Mayor for final approval. Throughout the
year, as the City work plan changes and new funds are identified, the
MAP can be amended.
The lower court is establishing bad precedent to second-guess the
judgment of a sponsoring agency, in this case City Ught, in determining
which art projects serve the best interest of its agency and stakeholders.
The lower court implies that City Light is some kind of bystander in the
public art selection process with no opinion or decision-making authority
of its Percent for Art funds. This is clearly not the case. City Light has
participated in an extensive public art engagement process for each art
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project in which it has invested. City Light's involvement is significantly
more substantial than that of a mere funder, who writes the check, but
grants full authority to the arts organization to produce the art
independently as it sees fit. The public art process requires the sponsoring
agency to fully participate in the process. A public art project cannot be
recommended to the PAAC without the sponsoring agency's informed
consent and recommendation. It is impossible to imagine how a public art
project could not achieve a close nexus to the proprietary interests of each
sponsoring agency after going through a public art engagement process.
Seattle City Ugh! appears to be very satisfied with its choices of public art
projects. We urge the Appellate Court to focus on this public art
engagement and selection process as the measurement of nexus to a
utility's purpose and issues, rather than allowing courts to review each
public art project ,sponsored by Seattle City Light one-by-one.
C. Flexibility Is Necessary for the Optimal Administration of
Percent for Art Ordinances
Percent for art ordinance requirements can range from a half
percent to two percent of capital improvement projects. Typically,
municipalities and states include the cost of design and construction for all
public proj ects in the percent for art formula. Some states, such as
Florida, Minnesota, Nebraska, and Iowa, limit eligible costs to
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construction only. Many municipal ordinances specifically include the
CIP of public utilities, such as water, sewer, and waste management
Some cities, like Seattle and Los Angeles, also include electric in their
percent for art programs, because they are municipally-owned power
companies. Most major cities, such as San Diego, Austin, Phoenix,
Miami, and Houston have municipally-owned water utilities that
participate in their percent for art programs. Additionally, many
municipal and county percent for art ordinances, such as Miami-Dade and
Denver's International Airport program, also include airport CIP projects,
whose funding support are derived fÌ'Om user fees and are also subject to
Federal Aviation Administration approval. One need only look at the
beautiful design and engaging public art sited throughout airports
nationwide to see a thriving percent for art program at work.
It is also important to understand how public art program funds are
collected and accounted for, as is done in Seattle's Percent for Art
Ordinance, which stipulates the creation of a Municipal Arts Fund, a
discrete pooling fund that allows for funds to be tracked by source.
Seattle's ordinance has served as a model for many other cities'
ordinances. The common practice today allows for flexibility within
fundinl! sources of an earmarked and discrete account. For instance,
Seattle City Light's Percent for Art funds could pool funds derived from a
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series of smaller City Ught CIP projects (not from other agencies' discrete
accounts) in order to fund larger projects. This avoids tit-for-tat public art
projects in order to give City Light, through its own direction, the
opportunity to make a larger public art statement through pooled funds.
Many municipalities also allow flexibility ofuses of the
sponsoring agencies' funds. For instance, an underground wiring project's
CIP funds for public art may not be best suited for this same site, so the
funds can be directed to another, more public City Light site. For
purposes ofplHnning public art projects, it is very important for City
Ught, as the sponsoring agency, to inform the public art director of the
budget levels of the proposed CIP project and its goals.
Flexibility in administrative authority and resources directly
benefits the goals of both the sponsoring agency (here, City Light) and the
local arts agency. The sponsoring agencies are treated like clients, which
never forgo their decision-making authority to "green light" a public art
project. Public art Hdministrators, who work closely with each sponsoring
agency, serve as experts on staff of the local arts agencies. They maintain
quality control, standardized contracting, engage public and stakeholder
involvement, realize cost-efficiencies by maintaining a roster of high
quality artists, and have knowledge of placing and installing public art.
Flexibility in educational DrOl!T"Jllminl!' resources is also important
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in order to maximize the budget and enhance communications with the
community and key stakeholders. Educational programming can include
illustrating the theme of the artwork or producing educational materials for
a public art project that is situated in a public space (a City Light space in
this case). If the subject matter of the artwork is linked to a utility issue,
then it is less critical that the work be sited at a utility-owned location.
Sometimes it is desirable to pool funds within a discrete account for a
larger-scale educational campaign, ranging from organizing school
lectures and public art site visits, to publishing placards, brochures,
websites, and catalogues. For instance, rather than publishing a brochure
about each public art piece generated through City Light's percent for art
account, funds earmarked for education from some of its other public art
projects can be used to develop comprehensive materials and programs,
such as an educational website. Such material can teach current and future
ratepayers (e.g. school children) about conservation and other educational
issues that are integral to City Light's proprietary utility purpose.
The lower court acknowledged the proper use of utility funds for
the educational component of City Ught-sponsored public art projects, but
drew a confusing and arbitrary line between the types of educational
activities that are and are not pennissible. The lower court erroneously
focused its review on the artworks themselves, which are interpreted and
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appreciated differently from individual to individual, rather than focusing
on the process in which the sponsoring agency engaged in selecting the
public art projects and their educational components.
D. Seattle's Model Percent for Art Ordinance Should Be
Reinstated As Applied to City Light
"Seattle has been a pioneer in the process of integrating urban and
public art planning.,,7 Its community, stakeholder, and artist engagement
processes are regularly cited and applauded in every major publication
concerning public art and are replicated in cities across the country.
Seattle's Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs has served and continues to
serve as an educational resource for public art programs across the
country, hosting workshops, publishing workbooks, and lecturing at
conferences. Seattle's former Public Art Director BaIbara Goldstein
recently completed editing the most comprehensive nuts-and-bolts guide
for public art professionals published to date, entitled Public Art by the
Book (2005).
Through its exemplary prograt1l, Seattle engages artists as critical
thinkers and problem-solvera within specific city departments. One of the
most successful exat1lples of this approach was the landmark Skagit
Streaming public art project developed by Seattle artist Dan Corson for
7 Arts Ex1eDsion Serv. supra note 5, at 19.
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Seattle City light. This project capitalizes on the use of existing city
inftastructure and technology to better illustrate the relationship between
the utility, the natural environment, and the residents. The project is most
dramatically visible in downtown Seattle, far ftom the source of the dam
which is one element of the delivery of power for the city.
One of the then-unique features of the Seattle model was that
eligible Capital Improvement Projects included utility facilities in addition
to the construction or remodeling of any building, structure, park, street,
sidewalk, or parking facility. At the time, the inclusion of utility projects
within the parameters of eligible CIPs was unusual for a public art
progran¡. Today, many municipalities include city-owned utilities within
their percent for art ordinances. In 1976, Seattle's Viewland-Hoffman
electrical substation was a pioneer project that set the precedent for the
now widely adopted "design team" approach to public art. In a design
team project, artists are commissioned to work in collaboration with
architects, engineers, and other professionals to approach a project as a
whole and integrate the artwork into the fabric of the CIP .',8
Because Seattle owns its own water and electrical utilities, and
because both utilities construct and maintain large amounts of in-city
infrastructure, Percent for Art funds have been used to mitigate these
8 Americans for the Arts, supra note 2, at 7.
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construction projects' negative inlpacts on the cityscape that inlpact the
public and people working around these areas.
This precedent was emulated by the City of Phoenix when it hired
artists Michael Singer and Linnea Glatt through its percent for art program
to serve as the lead designers for a solid waste management facility.
Through the input and direction of the artists, the design for the facility
was opened up dramatically, creating not only a more sculptural building,
but a more functional facility that better served the needs of the Public
Works Department. Careful attention was also paid to the design of the
faCilities for employees of the plant, creating a more welcoming woIk:
environment. Funded through bonds, waste collection fees, and percent
for art, the Phoenix facility is a nationally-acclaimed architectural site that
reveals and provides new opportunities for community members and
school groups to visit the facility and leam about the role and importance
of waste management and recycling through large windows, catwalks, and
viewing amphitheaters, all designed by the artists. The New York Times
selected the project as one of the top ten design events of 1993.
In California, the City of Santa Monica's percent for art program
also encompassed CIP funds from the Big Blue Transit System, a local
bus system. A portion of the percent for art funds generated by bus stop
shelter construction was used to place art into the sidewalks along the
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designated transit corridor and near the bus stop shelters.
Seattle's Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs public art program was
nationally recognized in 1994 with the prestigious U.S. Conference of
Mayors City Livability Award, highlighting Seattle's program as a model
for thousands of cities across the country. Coincidentally, this award
program is underwritten by the Waste Management Corporation to
spotlight innovative programs that help offset the negative plights of urban
environments. Moreover, the Conference of Mayors l11'animously passed
a policy resolution in 2003 "reaffirming the valuable contribution oflocal
and state public art programs across country in mHnng our cities more
livable, beautiful, and unique.,,9 Seattle's role as a leader in the field, is
ftequently recognized, for example:
Seattle was one of the first cities in the United States to
adopt a Percent for Art ordinance in 1973. For more than
thirty years since then its public art programme has
been considered exemplary.
- Public Art Online, Case Study (emphasis added).lO
The Americans for the Arts' Public Art Network recently
completed the first national survey of public art programs,
revealing trends in program funding, structure, and
Hdm;n;stration. . . . The City of Seattle is one of the best
modeis and is interuationally renowned for its
innovative public art program that expands the
9 Public Art, 2003 UDiœd States Confer!mce of Mayors Adopted Policy ResoJutious at
1hc 71- Annual Meeting (Denver).
10 See http;//www.publicartonline.org.ulr/case/seattle/public_art.html.
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traditional boundaries for understanding how artists work
and what public art can be.
- The Edge (emphaais added). I I
IV. CONCLUSION
The trial court's decision to invalidate Seattle's longstanding
Percent for Art Ordinance as it applies to City Light is erroneous and sets
bad precedent. We urge the Appellate Court to establish the
comprehensive public art engagement and selection process as the
measurement of whether an appropriate nexus to a utility's purpose and
proprietary interests haa been achieved. The sponsoring agencies in every
public art project are full participants in the process and have final
decision-making authority. It is unreasonable and arbitrary for trial judges
to second-guess a widely-used public art process and the decisions of a
fully informed sponsoring agency on issues related to the artistic integrity,
validity, appropriateness, and educational value of each and every public
art project sponsored by City Light. This process haa worked effectively
for years in Seattle and hundreds of other cities whose utilities are subject
to percent for art ordinances. There is no legal or policy basis for
invalidating the percent for art ordinance as it applies to Seattle City Light.
11 GrantmakeIs in the Arts Annual ColÛelelll:e, Oct. 2002, see
http://www.gIarts.orglConjfJ3Ijû/lcolljD3.html.
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Dated this 15th day of August, 2005.
Respectfully submitted,
:;] RlVBS III
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une K. Beale, WSBA #28288
600 University Street, Suite 3600
Seattle, WA98l01
Tel. (206) 624-0900
Fax (206) 386-7500
Nina Ozlu, Chief Counsel
Govt. & Public Affairs
Americans for the Arts
1000 Vermont Avenue, NW
Washington, D.C. 20005
Tel. (202) 371-2830
Attorneys for Proposed Amici Curiae
Americans for the Arts, et al
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