This nine-member citizen board was created to manage art acquisitions, encouraging a broad range of social, cultural, and historic values. In October 1995, the Commission initiated the Sculpture on Loan Program with the placement of three pieces of art in the downtown area. The program has grown to twelve pieces in 1999 and thirteen in 2000. In August the Commission solicits art pieces to be on display in public areas and community parks for one year. The Commission selects the artwork, it is installed, and an honorarium is paid to the artist.
All pieces are available for purchase from the artist.
For information on the purchase of artwork in the Sculpture on Loan Program, or to donate art to the City of Greeley, call the Greeley Art Commission at 350-9454. Since the beginning of cities, public places have been areas in which communities have established their identities and reinforced common principles and symbols. Greeley's One Percent for Art program, approved in 1998, established a modest but deliberate mechanism to assure that significant public projects continue to invigorate the cultural identity of the community. One percent of the project cost would be devoted to the artist's services and the integration of the artistic design elements. The Greeley Art Commission is developing an artists register which lists pre-qualified artists from whom artistic design services for incorporation into a public improvement or project may be solicited in conjunction with the One Percent for Art program.