The welcome pole: public art, process, and controversy.

Public art can be a challenge smooth to jurisdictions that commonly undertake of the like kind projects and have model procuration processes. But that challenge is greater for jurisdictions that sole rarely purchase public art. In this article, we not absent the case of the Port of Olympia's involvement with a totem extremity The acquisition of this public artwork went real badly, so badly that a certain number of seven years after the totem extremity was commissioned and a not many years after it was ready to be installed, it remains in storage.

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