Public Arts Committee And Parks And Recreation Committee Meeting 04/02/2025 – Will Receive Notice That Houdini Plaza Selfie-Sculpture Proposal Has Been Withdrawn

The Public Arts Committee is meeting 04/02/2025 at 8AM and the Parks, and Recreation Committee is holding a special meeting 04/02/2025 at 6:45PM just prior to the Common Council meeting at 7PM.

Each meeting agenda only contains one item which is the selfie sculpture that Appleton Downtown Inc had been requesting to install in Houdini Plaza. During the Common Council meeting on 03/19/2025 ADI Executive Director Jennifer Stephany indicated that they intended to withdraw the request, explaining that the prices for materials had turned out to be too high to allow them to proceed with the existing design and the groundswell of negative feedback they had received over the item had given them pause. Given that the request has been withdrawn, there is no need for action or discussion on the item by either of the committees. [I am curious if the Public Arts Committee will actually even meet simply in order to be told that the item has been withdrawn.]

View full Public Arts Committee meeting details here: https://cityofappleton.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?ID=1272415&GUID=ECAE4761-93CA-4604-B810-CD4E98CF126C
View full Parks and Recreation Committee meeting details here: https://cityofappleton.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?ID=1290671&GUID=2EECDA91-0F3B-46C6-B9C3-E666AE5EFD60