Exhibit 1: Summary of Awarded Public Art, 2022-2023
Artwork Artist
Grant
Amount/ Est.
Artwork Cost
Approximate Location Description Status
Rockspinners Zach Coffin $150,000 East end of Jean Sweeney Park The two Rockspinners will be multi‐ton boulders,
which can be spun easily and silently with a single
push.
Installed Summer 2022
Egrets with no
Regrets Dan Fontes $14,000 1925 Everett Street
Located in a largely industrial area, the Egret mural
reveals the natural ecosystem located just one block
away at the Oakland Estuary, and the native wildlife
which frequents the channel.
Installed Winter/Spring
2022
Back Story
Anchor Alameda
Association for
Art & Film
$10,000 Historic Alameda Theatre
Event series that featured a different film and
speaker taking place across three separate evenings
between August, 2022 and January, 2023, and again
on three continuous nights in February, 2023 as a
lead up to the Alameda International Film Festival.
Completed Between
Summer 2022 and
Spring 2023
Fiesta Alameda West End Arts
District $10,000 Alameda Point Taxiway
Fiesta Alameda is a one-day celebration of Latinx
music, dance, and food and art, free to the public,
open and accessible to all.
Completed Fall 2022
PAL in the Park Rhythmix Cultural
Works $10,000 Bohol Circle Immigrant Park
and Chochenyo Park
PAL in the Parks presented two culturally-themed
events in 2023: an Asian-American Pacific Islander
(AAPI) Celebration in May and a Hispanic Heritage
Celebration in September.
Completed Fall 2023
and Spring 2023
Plein Air Paintout
Frank Bette
Center for the
Arts
$5,000 Various locations
Annual show featuring artists who paint outside in
Alameda during the first week of August. The event
series included an outdoor festival featuring free art
demonstrations, instruction, portrait models for
drawing, kid’s activities and live music.
Completed Summer
2023
East Bay Open
Studios Alameda
Oakland Art
Murmur $5,000 Throughout Alameda
East Bay Open Studios in Alameda took place across
two weekends in June, 2023 and provided family-
friendly, self-guided tours of artist studios and
exhibition spaces throughout the city
Completed Summer
2023
Breathe Tara Pilbrow
Dance $5,000 Alameda Point Taxiway
This performance will recreate, expand, and refine
'Breathe', a work created for three dancers in July
2021
Planned for Spring
2024
Public Art Fund Grants
Artwork Artist
Grant
Amount/ Est.
Artwork Cost
Approximate Location Description Status
Alameda Afore Rodrigo Nava $100,000 Main and Atlantic
A gateway feature for Alameda Point; shapes are
evocative of the bow of a shape or the A in Alameda
and its material is a nod to the area's industrial past.
Installed Summer 2022
Beken Dewitt Godfrey $200,000 Alameda Point Waterfront
Park
The artwork resembles lighthouses, channel buoys
and frontier guard towards but is transparent to
invite entry.
Installed Summer 2022
MetalMorphosis
@ The Launch 1AM Projects $62,500 1777 Clement “MetalMorphosis” consists of a series of murals painted on nine (9) utility boxes Installed Fall 2023
Balance @ The
Launch 1AM Projects $75,000 1777 Clement
“Balance” consists of a large‐scale mural covering a
southern-facing wall of the project fronting Schiller
Street
Installed Fall 2023
Neptune Beach
Roller Coaster Jon Altemus $22,484 1600 Park Street
A scale model/artist’s interpretation of the original
roller coaster at the amusement park that operated
at Neptune Beach from 1917-1939.
Installed Fall/Winter
2022
Tidal Arch Adrien Segal $403,000 1951 Harbor Bay Parkway Taking inspiration from the tide charts, Tidal arch is
intended to give physical presence to the dynamic
natural forces at play in the marine landscape.
Completed June 2022
*Formerly the “Astro” Mural, the PAC recommended and City Council approved a new location and design, after the owners of the location originally proposed for the mural chose not to move forward.
On-Site Public Art