Policies/Guidance: Strategies: Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council

Reproduced by kind permission of Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council

Public Art Strategy 1999
Abstract

Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council is recognised nationally for its promotion and provision of high quality public art, primarily through the successful Dudley Borough Public Artist and Public Art Initiative which has operated since 1989.

Public art is a corporate activity, however. The Council also has a proud record of successful delivery of public art through its Community Arts Team and Schools Advisory Services and for promoting the Borough as a welcoming place for artists to live and work independently of the Council.

The challenge to the Council is to move forward from this position. The Public Art Strategy sets out the Council's approach to public art. It explains the founding principles of public art in the Borough; provides the Council's definition of public art; outlines the corporate vision for public art in the Borough; sets out the delivery mechanisms for public art in the Borough; identifies public art agencies active in the Borough but external to the Council; lists funding and resourcing sources for its public art activities and sets objectives and an implementation schedule for future development.

Instrumental in the provision of the Strategy is a recognition of the need to build on past success and to refine and direct public art corporately to improve upon and develop the Council's approach, taking public art in the Borough into the new Millennium.

CONTENTS LIST

INTRODUCTION
THE METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF DUDLEY
PUBLIC ART IN THE BOROUGH - A RECORD OF ACHIEVEMENT
FOUNDING PRINCIPLES OF PUBLIC ART IN THE BOROUGH

The Role of Public Art in the Borough
A DEFINITION OF PUBLIC ART
A CORPORATE VISION OF PUBLIC ART IN THE BOROUGH

The Dudley Borough Agenda
Economic Vitality
Personal Well Being
Lifelong Learning
Environment Central Government Planning Policy Advice
West Midlands Arts
Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council - Unitary Development Plan
Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council - Percent for Art Policy
Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council - Borough Arts Strategy
Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council - A Strategy for Dudley's Canals
Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council - Dudley Countryside Strategy
Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council - Sustainable Transport Plan 1998
Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council - A Strategy for Glass, Sept 1997
Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council - Dudley Housing Strategy 1997-2000
Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council - Local Agenda 21 Process
The Black Country Nature Conservation Strategy

DELIVERY OF PUBLIC ART IN THE BOROUGH

The Borough Artist
Community Arts Team
Education Services
The Commissioning Process
Project Stages and Budget
The Project Management of Individual Commissions
Dialogue, Community Consultation and Involvement
Achieving Equal Opportunities
Maintenance and Decommissioning
Documentation/Archiving of Public Art
EXTERNAL AGENCIES
FUNDING AND RESOURCING

Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council
Other Public Agencies Operating within the Borough
External Public Art Client Base
Private Sector Percent for Art Opportunities
National Lottery Funding: Arts and Heritage
The Arts Council of England
West Midlands Arts
European Funding
Single Regeneration Budget
Trust Funding
Competitive Awards
Sponsorship, including Association of Business Sponsorship of the Arts
Private Finance Initiative
FUTURE DIRECTIONS AND ACTION POINTS

Objective 1: Widen and inform the debate about public art in the Borough

Objective 2: Maintain in-house public art expertise

Objective 3: Remain at the forefront of innovation in public art

Objective 4: Promote the public art of the Borough

Objective 5: Secure more wide ranging Percent for Art initiatives

Objective 6: Promote expanded opportunities for local and regionally based artists, particularly women, disabled, ethnic minority, young and inexperienced artists

Objective 7 Seek opportunities to promote and provide additional studio space within the Borough to assist development of a locally based public art resource

Objective 8: Widen community involvement

For further information contact: Steve Field, Borough Artist, Dudley MBC, The Public Art Unit, The Laundry Block, Himley Hall, Dudley DY3 4DF. Tel: 01902 894958; Email: Steve.Field@dudley.gov.uk

The full Strategy may be downloaded from Dudley MBC's website: www.dudley.gov.uk/council/plan_app/artstrat/content.htm