Tacoma Daily Index, April 06, 2015

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MONDAY, APRIL 6, 2015

Vol. CXXIV, No. 65

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Tacoma Dome

How Ellida Lathrop unknowingly shaped public art at the Dome By Todd Matthews, Editor Forty years ago, a Tacoma resident named Ellida Lathrop traveled the country while working as a consultant for the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). As she visited different cities, Lathrop noticed all of the public art on display in city parks and on downtown street "I really corners. Closer and truly believed to home, she in the importance watched as Seatof the arts," said tle built its pubEllida Lathrop of lic art collection, her advocacy work too, and wanted in 1975 that led to to see the same the creation of the thing happen in One Percent for Art Tacoma. ordinance. In 1980, What became the law generated clear to Lathrop $280,000 for public was that many of art at the Tacoma these cities were Dome. (PHOTO BY creating public TODD MATTHEWS) art by enacting an ordinance known commonly as One Percent for Art. The law was exactly what it sounded like—one percent of the budget to construct public buildings would be set aside for public art. Lathrop, who was also president of the Tacoma-Pierce County Civic Arts Commission, led a campaign to enact the One Percent For Art ordinance in Tacoma. In the end, Tacoma City Council unanimously CONTINUED enacted the ordinance ON PAGE 2 in 1975.

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