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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

1. INTRODUCTION
2. THE METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF DUDLEY
3. PUBLIC ART IN THE BOROUGH - A RECORD OF ACHIEVEMENT
4. FOUNDING PRINCIPLES OF PUBLIC ART IN THE BOROUGH
   • The Role of Public Art in the Borough
5. A DEFINITION OF PUBLIC ART
6. 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
7. 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
8. EXTERNAL AGENCIES
9. 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
10. 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