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Amendment of the Public Art Agreement with Volkan Alkanoglu for the Fabrication/Installation of the Public Art at the Main Library Renovation Project No.: DC094
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Date of BOCC Meeting: February 10, 2020
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The Board is hereby requested to authorize the County Manager to Amend the Public Art Agreement with Volkan Alkanoglu for the Main Library Renovation Project, to increase the amount of the contract by $104,500.00 to fabricate and install the public art. The initial contract with Volkan Alkanoglu was for the design in the not to exceed amount of $20,000.00. This amendment for the fabrication/installation will increase the total not to exceed amount to $124,500.00. (See Attachment 1, page 1).
(RFQ) for Public Art was advertised and posted on the CAF? (Call for Entry's) website on January 29, 2019. Two hundred and eight responses were received on February 26, 2019. An Art Review Committee was compiled of members from Engineering, Architects, City of Durham and Community organizations to review the online applications. The review committee reviewed responses and brought forward the top ten applicants. Those ten were reviewed and the top four were selected for Skype interviews. From those four Volkan Alkanoglu was selected as the Artist for the Main library Public Art. The committee agreed to enter into a contract for the Public Art design based on the body of work highlighted during the evaluation and interview process.
Following the selection, Durham County then executed a design contract with Volkan Alkanoglu on September 29, 2019 to begin the conceptual design/preliminary activities associated with the Public Art. The Library posted a Public Art Survey for public input which received over a thousand responses. On November 20, 2019, the Public Art Committee received a presentation from Volkan Alkanoglu and provided input on the concept. On December 7, 2019 Volkan presented the current concep...
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