 Thank you all for coming. My name is Paul Gamble and I work with the community engagement lab during the day and during the night. I do community gatherings around public art, especially for arts and energy. My name is Amanda Golden and I am the consultant who has been hired to help you guys develop your public art master plan. So what is public art? It's anything that you want it to be, right? It can be monumental. It can also be unexpected, right? But it can also be functional. This is a bike rack. So why does public art matter in Montpelier? It matters so that people can experience things that are unexpected. You already have some of these wonderful things here, but how can we bring that out and really showcase these things? But public art, most of all, is really an outward expression of community values. And I think that that's the most important part that is missing in the conversation about public art. And that's what we're here to do in creating this public art master plan with all of you. So arts and energy is this planning process, which is going to be a public art master plan. And it all culminates with a piece at 1 Taylor Street, which I hope all of you have heard about. So what are the things that are important to you? What do you want your public art to say? And where do you want it to be? I know that Ward wants to talk a lot about public art and what it means to him and what it's meant to him in this community. So as has been explained, the goal for tonight is that we as a group are going to draw five different places in town and try to imagine the kind of art that might go there. And the drawings that we do may well end up in the master plan as ideas. Going around and trying to figure out exactly how many pieces we have in town. I mean, I don't know if there's 10, 12, 15, but here's a few. This is gone. This was the piece monument. Amanda just showed this. This is the alley piece, which is really surprising. Where are these? Here. Yep, 100 yards away. The one on the left is at Mobilear High School. This one is down at the Pocket Park. It's a partial torso. And I actually think that some of the murals that anonymously pop up in town are very meaningful pieces. They could be neat to find a way to sanction them. So these are just some images from Langdon Street Alive, a project that sponsored like 25 pieces of public art. One of my overarching conclusions that I think a lot of people shared is when public art gathers and builds community, that's when it's the best. So a piece of art is really exciting when people you don't know gather around and just have a conversation about it. Or indeed, public art becomes the context for a community festival. So that's my overarching lesson is that public art builds community. Okay, so what we're going to do tonight then is we're going to look at five places in town. So this is Shaw's in the river. We're going to look at City Hall Plaza. This is, I think, a really bright project for Montpelier to think about how we create beautiful public space in front of our City Hall. The second is we have an atrocious back wall of a parking garage that is screaming for love. The river from State Street to Langdon to School is a river corridor opportunity that we're going to look at. And I think also reflects other river opportunities we have. So it's about bridges, it's about river and about bank. And then the fourth is the alley between City Center and Bethany and then rolling into Bethany's front yard. And then the fifth is to look at the roundabout as a site for public art. And the artist, did you find any different experience with the different groups? I mean, how did the experience change or not for you? You know, we're also people that know these spaces well in some cases and we're able to immediately lay good ideas on the table. So they know how to care about these things instead of looking at them abstractly. That there's a real understanding. Thank you all for your time, Les. Thank you, everybody. Thank you, artists. Thank you. Thank you, Amanda.