There has been no official group to handle the realm of public art in Charlottesville since the Piedmont Council for the Arts folded in 2017, but City Council took a step forward to creating one at their meeting on March 16.
“Today, staff is proposing that the city create a public art commission that would manage the city’s public art collection,” said Deputy City Manager James Freas.
For many years, the city worked with an organization called Art in Place to install and maintain public sculptures such as a giant whale tail visible from the U.S. 250 bypass. The Piedmont Council for the Arts took over in 2015. Some of the works have fallen into disrepair and Freas said the new group would be responsible for their removal…