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MEETING OF THE FULL ARTS COMMISSION
Monday, January 5, 2009
3:00 p.m.
City Hall, Room 416
1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place

Agenda

Roll Call
Approval of Minutes
Action
Motion to approve November 21, 2008 Minutes.
Explanatory document: Draft minutes

Motion to approve December 1, 2008 Minutes.
Explanatory document: Draft minutes
President’s Report
Discussion
Current developments and announcements.
Director’s Report
Discussion
Current administrative, budgetary and programming developments and announcements.
Consent Calendar
The following items are included in the Consent Calendar subject to withdrawal at the request of a Commissioner:

Approval of Committee Minutes
Action
1. Motion to approve the Visual Arts Committee Meeting Minutes of November 19, 2008.
2. Motion to approve the Community Arts, Education, and Grants Committee Meeting Minutes of December 9, 2008.
3. Motion to approve the Executive Committee Meeting Minutes of December 22, 2008.
  
  Community Arts, Education and Grants Committee Recommendations (December 9, 2008)
  Action
4. Motion to approve recommendations to award fifteen grants totaling $327,515 in the 2008-2009 cycle of Arts & Communities: Innovative Partnerships grants to the following organizations and individual artists, and to authorize the Director of Cultural Affairs to enter into grant agreements with each for the amounts listed:
  
  Brava Theater Center/Brava! For Women in the Arts, $32,100
  Chinatown Community Development Center, $27,450
  Croatian American Cultural Center, $27,450
  Eth-Noh-Tec, $8,510
  Flyaway Productions, $32,100
  Galería de la Raza, $32,100
  Genryu Arts, $8,050
  H.O.M.E.Y., $8,145
  Imagine Bus Project, $8,510
  Kularts, $9,450
  Mary Jean Robertson, $9,450
  OutLook Theater Project, $35,000
  Paul Flores, $35,000
  Rupa Marya, $32,100
  Seventh Native American Generation, $34,000
  
  Civic Design Review Committee Recommendations (December 15, 2008)
  Action
5. Motion to approve Phase 1 of the Geneva Historic Car Enclosure.
6. Motion to approve Phase 1 of the Tesla Treatment Facility.
7. Motion to approve Phase 2 of the Ortega Branch Library.
8. Motion to approve Phase 2 of the Merced Branch Library with the contingency that the landscape design be revised and presented before the Phase 3 review.
9. Motion to approve Phase 1 of the Golden Gate Valley Branch Library.
Committee Reports and Committee Matters
1. Executive Committee—P.J. Johnston, Chair
  1. Discussion: Report from Chair of Executive Committee regarding activities of the Committee and the Program.
2. Civic Design Review Committee—Cass Calder Smith, Chair
  1. Discussion: Report from Chair of Civic Design Review Committee regarding activities of the Committee and the Program.
3. Community Arts, Education and Grants Committee—Maya Draisin, Chair
  1. Discussion: Report from Community Arts, Education and Grants Committee regarding activities of the Committee and the Program.
  2. Action: Motion to approve the following individuals as grants application review panelists for Cultural Equity Grants:
    
    Kerry Adams-Hapner, Director of Cultural Affairs, City of San José
    Rob Bailis, Director, ODC Theater
    Brad Erickson, Executive Director, Theatre Bay Area
    Sabrina Motley, Vice President, Vesper Society
    Villy Wang, Executive Director,Bayview Hunters Point Center for Arts and Technology
    Charles Ward, Development Director, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
    Vanessa Whang, Director of Programs, California Council for the Humanities
    
    Explanatory documents: Cultural Equity Grants biographies of grants application review panelists.
  3. Action: Motion to amend Resolution No. 1201-08-303 by increasing the amounts of three grants from a total of $279,000 to $300,000 in the 2008-2009 cycle of Cultural Equity Initiative Level Two grants to the following organizations, and to authorize the Director of Cultural Affairs to enter into grant agreements with each for the amounts listed:
    
    Fresh Meat Productions, $100,000
    ABADA Capoeira San Francisco, $100,000
    Dance Brigade, $100,000
  4. Action: Motion to approve recommendations to award sixteen grants totaling $347,550 in the 2008-2009 cycle of Arts & Communities: Innovative Partnerships grants to the following organizations and individual artists, and to authorize the Director of Cultural Affairs to enter into grant agreements with each for the amounts listed:
    
    Brava Theater Center/Brava! For Women in the Arts, $32,100
    Chinatown Community Development Center, $27,500
    Croatian American Cultural Center, $27,500
    Eth-Noh-Tec, $8,510
    Flyaway Productions, $32,100
    Galería de la Raza, $32,100
    Genryu Arts, $8,080
    H.O.M.E.Y., $8,150
    Imagine Bus Project, $8,510
    Kularts, $9,450
    Mary Jean Robertson, $9,450
    OutLook Theater Project, $35,000
    Paul Flores, $35,000
    Raissa Simpson, $8,000
    Rupa Marya, $32,100
    Seventh Native American Generation, $34,000
4. Street Artists Committee—Alexander Lloyd, Chair
  1. Discussion: Report from Chair of Street Artists Committee regarding activities of the Committee and the Program.
  2. Action: Motion to approve requests by former certificate-holders for priority issuance of certificate with waiver of re-screening of wares: Jamison Christianson, Dustin Rankin.
5. Visual Arts Committee—Jeannene Przyblyski, Chair
  1. Discussion: Presentation by artist Bill Fontana on City Hall art installation.
  2. Discussion: Report from Visual Arts Committee regarding activities of the Committee and the Program.
  3. Action: Motion to approve an honorarium in the amount of $1200 to artist Gigi Janchang for her site specific artwork at the Grove Street installation site. Her exhibition opens February 13, 2009.
  4. Action: Motion to rescind Resolution No. 1201-08-296 to authorize the Director of Cultural Affairs to enter into an agreement with Janet Echelman for an amount not to exceed $244,000 for Phase I, conceptual design through construction documents, for an artwork at Terminal Two of San Francisco International Airport.
  5. Action: Motion to authorize the Director of Cultural Affairs to enter into an agreement with Janet Echelman for an amount not to exceed $276,750 for Phase I, conceptual design through construction documents, for an artwork at Terminal Two of San Francisco International Airport.
  6. Action: Motion to approve a proposal by Kendall Buster for San Francisco International Airport and authorization for the Director of Cultural Affairs to enter into contract with the artist for an amount not to exceed $500,000 to design, fabricate, transport and install the artwork.
  7. Action: Motion to approve a proposal by Charles Sowers for San Francisco International Airport and authorization of the Director of Cultural Affairs to enter into contract with the artist for an amount not to exceed $100,000 to design, fabricate, transport and install the artwork.
  8. Action: Motion to approve a proposal by Walter Kitundu San Francisco International Airport and authorization of the Director of Cultural Affairs to enter into contract with the artist for an amount not to exceed $100,000 to design, fabricate, transport and install the artwork.
  9. Action: Motion to approve the final artwork design for a metal wall sculpture by Eric Powell for the Ingleside Branch Library and to authorize the artist to proceed to fabrication and installation of the artwork.
  10. Action: Motion to approve a $1,000 increase in Eric Powell’s compensation amount for contract #POAR05000217, to design, fabricate and install an artwork for the Ingleside Branch Library, to cover the costs of preparing additional proposals, for a total new contract budget amount of $37,000.
New Business
Discussion
Reports and Announcements
Discussion
Public Comment
Discussion
Adjournment
Action

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Notices
Explanatory documents are available for public inspection and copying at the Arts Commission office, 25 Van Ness Avenue, Suite 240, San Francisco, CA 94102, during regular business hours. Info: Sharon Page Ritchie, 415/252-2591.

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