Culver City Parks Task 8.1 Final Plan - Flipbook - Page 126
Arts Maintenance
Regular maintenance of public art is crucial to
additional art-focused projects in Culver City. PRCS
needs to consider the funding for the maintenance
and conservation of outdoor public art pieces with
Cultural Affairs.
Figure 117. A Culver City Public Works employee services a fountain.
Source: PRCS, 2024.
Recommendations
The recommendations below are informed by
community input and meetings with key partners,
such as the Culver City Arts Foundation and
Historical Society.
Performances in Parks
There are a lack of performance spaces throughout
the Culver City Parks system, ranging in size and
scale. In neighborhood parks and parkettes, small
raised performance spaces for students or outdoor
lectures would be valuable in addition to larger
buildings or stages that are possible in community
parks such as Veterans Memorial Park and Culver
City Park. Overall, park capacity and parking
availability are limiting factors in building larger
facilities in many Culver City parks. Additionally,
some neighborhoods, such as Carlson Park, are
especially sensitive to noise from performances
within the parks. Noise considerations will need
to be taken into consideration for the siting of
any outdoor gathering space. El Marino Park,
Tellefson Park, Culver West Alexander Park, and
Coombs Parkette are candidates for small raised
performance spaces. Both El Marino Park and
Coombs Parkette also benefit from proximity to
schools. For parks situated in noise-sensitive areas
or where most performances will be intimate, a
designated performance area would not need to
be raised; instead, a small pavilion or plaza would
serve multiple functions.
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Some facilities can offer opportunities for multiple
uses and can be used for performances in off-hours.
For example, the Stone House at Lindberg Park,
which is a daycare during the day but open in the
evenings for public use, could be an additional
performance space. The Feasibility Study for
Veterans Memorial Park completed by Johnson
Favaro Architects included a performance building
that included extensive indoor performance
spaces for the arts, and a new expanded location
for the Culver City historical archives.
Creation Spaces
In addition to physical and temporary art
installations and exhibits, arts programing and
maker spaces can be bolstered and added within
the parks system. These spaces include studio
spaces for ceramics, painting, drawing, textiles,
and photography. New art-focused spaces and
buildings are proposed for both Veterans Memorial
Park and El Marino Park. Movable furnishings and
supplies in a designated outdoor space can serve
as a bridge to a permanent, indoor facility, and
in some cases, may be the most practical and/or
appropriate solution for new spaces for creativity
and community arts programming.
Arts and culture programming in Culver City can
also include residencies for the incubation of youth
and community talent, along with other along with
other community programming and education
opportunities.
Wayfinding and Cultural Identity
Art in Culver City has the opportunity to create a
cohesive visual identity for the city.
Art gateways at entrances to the city could be
developed to mark the sense of place of Culver
City and signify important thresholds for the city.
For example, there is an existing “Culver City” wood
sign at Sepulveda Blvd. and Centinela Ave. which is
maintained by PRCS but is not actually within the
city boundaries. It also can be hidden in its busy
intersection location by the freeway.
A unifying wayfinding system and graphic identity
would help people identify Culver City and build
awareness of its boundaries.
