Public art to be on video

Two locals have been tapped to produce a video documenting the city’s public art collection and the artists who created it.

The City Council approved at the Aug. 5 meeting a recommendation of the Arts Commission to award a contract to Aperture Films to film the documentary, starting this summer. The commission expects the project to be an continuing celebration of the arts community, an audio/visual record of the city’s artistic history to which new artists and their works will be added.

“It’s a fabulous idea,” said Pat Kollenda, newly elected chair of the commission. “Suzi Chauvel came up with it. It’s her area of expertise.”

Chauvel, a former commissioner whose multimedia art show opened Saturday at Rebecca and John Barber’s gallery in the Old Pottery Place, formerly owned a film company.