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Name: Kelly Cheatle on Jul 26, 2006Comments: I can't imagine not seeing the art at the airport!! Please reconsiderFlag
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Name: Stephanie Livingston-Heywood on Jul 26, 2006Comments: I don't want to see big advertising posters and cars for sale when I visit the airport. I would like to see pictures of the Rochester area and art from local artist.Flag
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Name: Naomi Pless on Jul 26, 2006Comments: Art at the airport replaced by advertising! What an undesirable impression of this community to send to visitors!Flag
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Name: Richard L. Haisma on Jul 26, 2006Comments: I am outraged that important, beautiful and inspiring sculptures are to be removed from the Rochester Airport. These sculptures stand as intelligent and soulful welcomes to our city and to remove them is tantamount to a kind of spiritual suicide for this entire region. The arts community must protest. This is our very life! If we do not with a single voice stand up to this craven capitulation to the bottom line and short-sighted philistine ignorance we will never become the great upstate community that most of us are imagining.Flag
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Name: Kathleen Holt on Jul 26, 2006Comments: Art is for everyone - even people passing through the airport. Our community supported that art and made a place for it in the airport. Please do not allow such tangible signs of our community's spirit disappear.Flag
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Name: Eugene Schneider+ Gloria Baciewicz on Jul 26, 2006Comments: Please reconsider. Art/culture is what makes Rochester different. we cannot understand how a kiosk can be so valuable.Business people like art. We always talk about the airport art to guest. The art at the airport is teriffic and a product of Rochester.It should be in the ads for the airport. Most cities would dearly love to have such pieces donated.Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Jul 26, 2006Comments: It's not right that public art be hidden away in private offices.Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Jul 26, 2006Comments: Since when did people from the business world stop enjoying, BUYING and commisioning art This act of censorship is very disturbing.Flag
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Name: Elizabeth Lyons on Jul 26, 2006Comments: This is a short sited move. Just one more backward-thinking decision. As major cities fill their airports with significant works of art and gallery spaces with changing exhibitions, Rochester is removing any sign of culture and creativity from the airport. The real question is: Why are we not installing more art in the airportFlag
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Name: Howard Ressel on Jul 26, 2006Comments: Shame on us! Welcome to Rochester, dullsville. Is that the image we want to put fourth for the image capital of the world I think not, please find a way to ensure the public trust is not borken and keep Public Art at the airport.Flag
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Name: Amy Ressel on Jul 26, 2006Comments: to remove this artwork to put in a business center is simply wrong - what is happening when a beautiful atmosphere and relaxing setting are deemed less important than another place for people to do their work in this non stop world - take some time out, take a break and stop working every second of the dayFlag
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Name: Barry Quinn on Jul 26, 2006Comments: Please restore public art to the public areas of the airport for viewing and appreciation by the public it was intended for.Flag
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Name: Bryan Todd on Jul 27, 2006Comments: rochester is starting to really annoy me. i'm moving. byeFlag
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Name: Robert A. Baron on Jul 27, 2006Comments: People tend to underestimate the positive econmic impact of public art. Public art helps create a feeling of community, and presents a vibrant display of faith in a city's economic vitality -- which ultimately attracts more business and more culture. -- I wonder whether any provisions of the Visual Artists's Rights Act (VARA) may be of use in this situation. /R.Baron (robert@studiolo.org)Flag
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Name: Allan O'Grady Cuseo on Jul 27, 2006Comments: How can we claim to be an area of the arts if we remove the arts from the communityFlag
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Name: William J. Guminski on Jul 27, 2006Comments: Ive always found the sculptures at the airport to be rather bizarre and absolutely not of my taste. It was art nonetheless. And it was specifically commissioned and created for display at the airport. It needs to be put back! Its clandestine removal was a cowardly act by spineless authorities of questionable character. The airport is a significant gateway to our community. A visitors first impression of the Rochester community should not be one of cold sterility. I suspect that impression would be more fitting of the personality of the airport authority.Flag
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Name: Maureen And Arthur Holtzman on Jul 27, 2006Comments: Our airport art lifts our mundane airport out of the ordinary and gives a hint of the community you're entering. It will be a shame to replace beauty with glass enclosed cubicles for "businessmen".Flag
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Name: Barbara Grosh on Jul 27, 2006Comments: I think it's terrible that the art is disappearing from the airport. We used to have a beautiful space, but now it's so cheesy with cars and other commercial stuff. Please put the art back on display. Our airport should reflect the first class community we are.Flag
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Name: Rebecca Haskins on Jul 27, 2006Comments: The public art in the Rochester Int'l Airport serves as a welcome to people arriving. The art gives the airport a friendly, attractive feel. The art has been donated to be a part of the airport and should remain in the public spaces. Rebecca HaskinsFlag
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Name: Curtis W. Stedge on Jul 27, 2006Comments: What message will we be sending to visitors stepping onto Rochester soil for the first time when we bombard them with the same thing they see in every other airport in the country, advertising and material goods We should be selling that which is different about us, our art, our sense of community, our creativity. Rochester is "Made for Living" because of our great culture and our amazing art. Don't send the wrong message to the rest of the world by taking away that which makes our city so great.Flag
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Name: Scott Seifritz on Jul 27, 2006Comments: The airport is cold and sterile enough as it is. We need it to have a soul, and public art is a good way to accomplish that. Other airports are famous for their art. Let's be famous for ours.Flag
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Name: Ben Margolis on Jul 27, 2006Comments: We need to impress our visitors at the place where the first impression occurs.Flag
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Name: Patti J. Lachance on Jul 27, 2006Comments: It is indeed a sad day when the public art that represents the very essence of of Rochester's creative, imaginative, and innovative cultural environment falls below office furniture and John Holtz vehicles on the airport food chain. If the issue is where to put a new "business center," then it's a problem easily solved without resorting to wiping out the beautiful work that speaks to so many.Flag
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Name: Linda Q. And Ned Corman on Jul 27, 2006Comments: Dear Executive Brooks: There probably is no right time to take down art nor burn books. Please use your good office to make certain Rochester International Airport art is not further dismantled.Flag
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Name: Jann G Packard on Jul 27, 2006Comments: It is appalling not only that the powers-that-be decided to denude our airport of that wonderful art by master artists BUT they proceeded to do it behind our backs! I am angry that this has and is happening.Flag
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Name: Kathryn Gaspar Going on Jul 27, 2006Comments: I urge you to support the return of missing airport art and the safekeeping of all that was installed. It is a basic responsible business practice to honor commitments to both the funders and the creators of the artwork. Since the arts are a major asset of the Greater Rochester Area it is imperative that they continue to be represented by public art in the airport.Flag
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Name: Kimberly M. Mersdorf on Jul 27, 2006Comments: There is more than enough "sign pollution" in our communty. Please take this petition as a serious plea to restore and maintain the art work at our airport from the people that you represent. Thank-you.Flag
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Name: Deanne Molinari on Jul 27, 2006Comments: What a travesty. So many people worked so hard and raised so much money to get art in the airport in the first place, that this is a slap in the face to ll of them, as well as the community. To do it in secret speaks of the same state of affairs we have at a national level. Where is the concern for communication with the people Enough of this underhanded action. Get the public involved. And keep the art at the Airport. We need more, not less!!!!Flag
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Name: Kathy Barsz on Jul 27, 2006Comments: I really can't believe that you would consider replacing such a beautiful introduction to our city with the sorts of generic billboard-type ads that have defaced the roadways - another example of the lack of imagination and pride in our community that our local government displays at increasingly regular intervals. Fortunately, most people I know can no longer afford to fly and so will not have to be disappointed in the welcome they would receive at the airport.Flag
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Name: Roy Sowers on Jul 27, 2006Comments: Congratulations, another fabulous demonstration of the mindnumbing stupidity of unelected bureacrats! Instead of Wendell's clock, send them to an undisclosed location.Flag
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