Scores and Comments
19.c.cf.300.388
City of Cocoa Beach
Application Details |
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| Proposal Type | Cultural Facilities - New Construction |
| Request Amount |
$271,000
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| Total Score | 840.000 |
| Average Score | 84.000 |
Panelist Scores
| Panelist | ScopeOfWork | MatchingFunds | ProjectImpact | Total |
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| Benson Lois | 25 | 20 | 25 | 70 |
| Davis LaVon Bracy | 23 | 25 | 31 | 79 |
| Deratany Tim | 28 | 28 | 40 | 96 |
| Dickenson Katharine | 26 | 28 | 36 | 90 |
| Fraser Towson | 26 | 26 | 32 | 84 |
| Lochrie Glenn | 23 | 27 | 24 | 74 |
| McMath Hope | 22 | 22 | 35 | 79 |
| Olson Terry | 25 | 25 | 35 | 85 |
| Townsend Kathryn | 27 | 27 | 35 | 89 |
| Williams Pat | 28 | 28 | 38 | 94 |
Comments |
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| Benson Lois - Score: 70.000 | |
| This is a really cool concept. I would love to support it. I think arts agencies are at their best when the look outside of their usual medium. However this is one government requesting a grant from another government without any demonstration of community support. | |
| Davis LaVon Bracy - Score: 79.000 | |
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It would have been nice to see a picture of exactly what this wall/gallery would look like. I am having a hard time visualizing this project. Pictures help with grant review. The need is present but satisfactory at best. No mention of underserved or local artistic partnerships. |
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| Deratany Tim - Score: 96.000 | |
| Interesting concept, could be the wave of the future! | |
| Dickenson Katharine - Score: 90.000 | |
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This grant is very unique. In reading Cultural Facilities Grants since 2000 I have never seen anything like the Public Art Gallery fashioned from a Parking Garage wall. How clever. The explanation of the process to create this interesting Art Gallery was well done. Also I very much like Cocoa Beach hiring an Arts Professional to curate exhibitions. Clearly there is a need for some kind of Cultural Facility in Cocoa Beach. I like the family friendly concept. |
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| Fraser Towson - Score: 84.000 | |
| {No comments provided.} | |
| Lochrie Glenn - Score: 74.000 | |
| There was mention of community support but that was not shown in the application. Needed more letters of support or actual numbers from surveys and polls. Why is this request for the garage portion of the project and not the main art gallery? This space seems like a display window more than a gallery. Does space allow for artist openings? Will people be able to get into space freely? More design sketches were needed to understand the space. Why no corporate sponsorships? Naming rights to space? The Need for Project statement spoke of the general need of art spaces in Cocoa Beach but not to the need for this project. And again if public space is needed, will this space be accessible to the public at all times? This grant would have benefited from estimates of the impact. How many will more visitors come if the project is complete? Measurable outcomes and goals are always encouraged. | |
| McMath Hope - Score: 79.000 | |
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I appreciate the integration of arts and culture into the larger City project. What was the result of the bond request? Would like to have seen additional donors to the project. I appreciate the recognition that donors can play a role in funding exhibitions and programs once the space is open, but it seems appropriate to have sought out individual and corporate funders even at this phase. Partners in the project are listed under "Need" and there is budgeted a part time exhibition curator within the City, but the plan seems more ambitious than the human and financial resources being put toward annual operations. $50k for the position, exhibition costs, marketing, and programming seems too low. A $20k position to oversee the proposed program and things like only $1600 in exhibition labor costs and $600 to do an opening event seem unreasonable. I realize this is a capital grant request, but as it is for a new entity these are critical questions to the longer term sustainability of the space. Will this space truly meet the standards to secure exhibitions like the Woodhead Collection and the Butcher show? There is discussion in the grant about lectures and programming around the exhibition, but the drawings show an exhibition space about as wide as a parking space. How and where will those programs take place?
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| Olson Terry - Score: 85.000 | |
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Is this just a chance for the City to get Arts money to help build their parking garage? A letter of support from Art Studios indicates that it is a nonprofit gallery, but you state that there are no public art galleries. Can you explain? |
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| Townsend Kathryn - Score: 89.000 | |
| Great idea partnering with the Brevard TDC but very curious that you have no letter of support from them or local officials or surrounding businesses impacted by this addition to the downtown scape. | |
| Williams Pat - Score: 94.000 | |
| {No comments provided.} | |