Portland City Code ch. 14 (Land Use Code)

Citation: Portland City Code ch. 14 (Land Use Code)
Jurisdiction: Portland (municipal)
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20 PUBLIC ART PROGRAM G. Enhance Portland's growing reputation as a city
which celebrates the arts.
20.1 ESTABLISHMENT H. Celebrate the multi-cultural and diverse
It shall henceforth be the policy of the City to character of Portland's communities with
provide on an annual basis regular funding for the place-specific art.
preservation, restoration, and enhancement of its I. Encourage collaboration between artists,
public art collection. This article and the funding landscape architects, urban planners,
contemplated are in recognition of the fact that architects, engineers, and other designers.
only by instituting a steady stream of funding for
this effort and standing by that commitment, will 20.3 APPLICABILITY
the City over time be able to fulfill its role as A. For the purposes of the Public Art Program, art
steward of its public art collection and help nurture work shall include the following:
and enrich thereby the quality of life in this city. 1. Sculpture, statues, or monuments in any
material or combination of materials.
20.2 PURPOSE 2. Painting.
The purpose of this article is to promote the 3. Graphic arts, printmaking, and drawing.
educational, cultural, economic, and general welfare 4. Photography.
of the City of Portland by providing the means to 5. Crafts in clay, fiber and textiles, wood,
fund the acquisition and care of art works by the metal, plastics, glass, and other materials.
City of Portland, which shall be the City's public art 6. Mixed media, any combination of forms or
collection. The Public Art Program seeks to: media, including collage.
A. Care for and maintain the public art collection 7. Functional art such as street furniture, as
of the City of Portland by documenting, described in the Guidelines for the Public
preserving, restoring, and