Title
Midwest Art Conservation Center's Protecting Public Art Collections Grant (Ordinance S-51275)
Description
Request to authorize the City Manager, or his designee, to accept and enter into an agreement for up to $17,599 in National Endowment of the Humanities Research and Development project through the Midwest Art Conservation Center (MACC) "Protecting Public Art Collections" grant. The grant funds would be used by the Phoenix Arts and Culture in Fiscal Year (FY) 2024-25 to assess risk of the City's Public Art Collections and develop emergency plans for these collections. Further request authorization for the City Treasurer to accept and the City Controller to disburse the funds for purposes of this ordinance.
Report
Summary
The City of Phoenix Arts and Culture Department was invited to participate in a project created by MACC called "Protecting Public Art Collections." MACC was awarded funding through a National Endowment of the Humanities Research and Development project. The goal is to develop a reproduceable framework for risk assessment of the Public Art using Geographical Information System (GIS) mapping. It will develop a free toolkit for public art collections nationwide and provide training for a wider group of public art caretakers to independently perform similar remote risk assessments and develop emergency plans for their collections. Phoenix was chosen for the project due to the GIS information in our Public Art map and climate.
Financial Impact
The grant opportunity has no financial impact to the Arts and Culture FY 2024-25 General Fund budget because it does not require a one-to-one match from the City of Phoenix.
Department
Responsible Department
This item is submitted by Deputy City Manager Inger Erickson and the Arts and Culture Department.