The Leesburg Public Arts Commission met on May 5, 2026, at 4:00 PM. The meeting opened with approval of the agenda and the minutes from the April 2026 meeting (Kira abstained). The commission then heard a presentation from Mike May of the Airport Commission regarding the proposed airport mural and observation area. A formal request for a $500 donation to Crossroads was voted on and approved. Updates were provided on several ongoing projects including the Paint the Plow initiative, Art Sparks sculptures, the Hearts Project, and plans for the VMFA visit and Love Your Mother event.
Do I have a motion to approve the agenda? And then do I have a second? Second. All in favor. Aye. Opposed. And then we need to approve the April 2026 meeting minutes. Do I have a motion to approve the minutes? When? Second. All right. All in favor. Aye. Opposed. And then Kira abstains, right? Yeah. Okay. All right. Great. All right. So we have a guest here today, Mike May from the Airport Commission to talk about presume the airport mural. So um why don't you start it off and then we can kind of go from there. Ah I want to check what Travis has told you guys before I go into it, but otherwise I can show what we did, what we took to Parks and Rec, we have a presentation, and then he has a slick sheet. Um about what went out for collecting. I think I think you helped with it. The call to artists. Yeah, yeah. So um and then there's a donation sheet that he's also made in the different levels that with the QR code that you have. Um so the call to artist closed on whatever day that commission thing was. I mean, we didn't get any, I think people were so ramped up about the hearts. I don't think we got it out to our regular people, and it was not on our COPA website where people checked for calls. Oh so I think we need to just re-extend it. Do it up. And then because I've already had two artists text me today about it. So um, so we'll uh we should just do another cycle of it, and then this time we just need because like now the hearts are done, we can you know put it out to everywhere that needs to go. So we uh we can do let's depending on when it goes out. We've got a we've got a few, we know a few different communities that we'll push it out to simultaneously as well. We've actually started with like that kind of this the donation sheet. Um maybe uh maybe maybe I think we should do another version of that now that probably puts a direct link to whatever website you guys want it to point to, but like, hey, here's the call to artist as well if they want to forward that on to other people. Okay, and then so you guys, how are you guys handling the donations? Uh so they have uh they gotta help we gotta help set up with a QR code under the 501c3 that was previously done under like uh one of the other least from public arts. So I I gave them a QR code that goes straight to our square. Okay, and then they can donate depending on the levels. And I worked with, I guess it was Travis, as far as changing a couple little things on that sheet. So the only thing is we do have a couple of little questions. I think he was asking about our website. I know we pushed it out, the donations. We pushed it out on our social media, but I've asked them to do something on the website as well on the FOLPA website. Well, thank you very much for that too. And then I need to still talk to you about something else.