There are many considerations when selecting a public sculpture, Romei said. Elements that figure into ultimate selection include price, taste, subject, durability, community impact and its place in an overall vision for the program. Most sculptures that have been acquired have been abstract, but other realistic installations are planned, such as the Bryan Deer Family in front of the Bryan Municipal Building. In large measure he has achieved that mission by his development of an extraordinary public art program. Romei said he has received interest in the project from around the country.
People call to ask how it works so they can implement something similar in their own community.
Romei said it is a sign of what the community is becoming. Within the decade, Bryan-College Station will be known throughout America as a center for public art and people from all over the world will be mesmerized tomorrow because of what we are doing today. Romei is planning a unique sculptural project with local business owner Celia-Goode Haddock. The project will be similar to the Chicago cow auction, in which fiberglass cows were made and artists painted them in various ways. Businesses then sponsored the individual cows, and they were sold at the end of the nine-month exhibition at an auction that benefited local arts and charities.