In the summer, Carroll Creek is filled with massive water lilies and jewel-toned blossoms. In winter, it’s filled with brightly lit boats. But in the early spring, when torrential rain tends to muddy the waist-high water, there’s not much to draw the eye. It’s a deficiency the Carroll Creek Rotary Club, in partnership with the Ausherman Family Foundation, is working to address.

Last week, members of the foundation released a request for proposals for a kinetic art sculpture, a public art installation designed to invoke movement. The sculpture will sit in the middle of Carroll Creek in a high-trafficked area — either between North Market Street and the Stone Arch Bridge or the Stone Arch Bridge and the pedestrian suspension bridge, said Leigh Adams, the executive director of the Ausherman Family Foundation.

The concept came from the Rotary Club, but the Ausherman Family Foundation — with approval from the city’s Public Art Commission — is funding the first sculpture. The project is slated for installation by March of 2020, and the goal is to make the sculpture garden an annual event with multiple kinetic artworks funded by community partners.

Those sculptures will remain in the creek for at least three to six months and possibly through the fall, until the boats are installed in the creek to mark the winter solstice, said Bernard Gouin, the chairman of the Rotary Club’s Carroll Creek Commission. The club hopes to find at least one other sponsor and display two to three sculptures in the first year of the installation.

“Similar to how the boats were so successful, there’s the vision to have the sculptures go all the way down the creek,” Adams added. “The aquatic plants were a community project, too, so we’re hoping to sponsor the first one and launch that same kind of collaboration.”