Two sculptures intended to be focal points at Wildflower and Silver Palm parks, as well as design work on an interactive play area, will cost the city $130,620.
Without comment, City Council members on Jan. 11 authorized City Manager Leif Ahnell to execute an agreement with May + Watkins Design of Athens, New York, whose artists designed the aluminum works that will thematically connect the parks. Both sculptures are more than 10 feet tall.
The interactive play area will be in Wildflower Park.
The cost is in line with the approved $125,000 budget for art at the parks.
Council members were thrilled by the two city-commissioned sculptures when they saw renderings in November. They depict leaves and flowers in pastel shades and will be illuminated.
Two other sculptures, by Jane Manus of West Palm Beach and Jeff Whyman of Delray Beach, will be loaned to the city by the Boca Raton Museum of Art for the parks.
Construction of Silver Palm Park and the adjacent Wildflower Park, located along the Intracoastal Waterway south and north of the Palmetto Park Road bridge, is underway.
When construction costs ballooned from $8.8 million to $10.3 million last year, council members made reductions that trimmed the total by about $1 million. But with Deputy Mayor Andrea O’Rourke adamantly opposed to any further reductions, council members declined other cost-saving measures outlined by city staff.
— Mary Hladky
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