By STEPHANIE HAASER
Chair
Art in Public Places Advisory Board 

Art in public places helps to create beautiful public spaces and the Art in Public Places Advisory Board values community input.

Ongoing work being pursued by the Board:

• Working to access indoor art,
• Pending gate art for Betty Ehart Center,
• Creating a Working Group to define criteria for art celebrating homestead families,
• Working to identify language for an information plaque for Flower of Flight, located at the Pajarito Environmental Education Center,
• Voted to recommend that the Maru Fountain, located at the Los Alamos Public Library, be permanently turned off and to recommend that the County discontinue manually refilling it,
• Board consideration of locations for future artwork,
• Received an update on the Women’s Dormitory Project that includes a space for future artwork, and
• Pending updates to the Boards policies and procedures; includes details on art signage, merging the Los Alamos Public library art collection with the Art in Public Places art collection, and creating an awareness program for Art in Public Places.

Funding for the acquisition of art is defined within the Los Alamos County Code, Sections 20-364 and 20-365. Changes to the Art in Public Places Advisory Board funding would require changes to be made to the County Code.

Funding sources defined by the County Code:

• 1% of the budget of any capital improvement projects, whose budget exceeds $20,000.
• 0.5% of the budget of any road project.