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Meeting Information



Visual_Arts_Committee

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VISUAL ARTS COMMITTEE
Wednesday, June 20, 2007
3:00 p.m.
25 Van Ness Avenue, Suite 70

Agenda

  1. Consent
    1. Motion to approve H.O.M.E.Y design proposal for a mural at 24 th and Capp streets.

  2. Gallery Report
    Meg Shiffler
    Presentation of the upcoming exhibit, Conversations 4, and of the current Grove Street window installation, Renee Gertler: Flood.

    Motion:     Motion to approve an additional artist honorarium in the amount of $3,000 for Mark Lee Morris for his participation in the upcoming Conversations 4 exhibition. This additional amount will increase his total honorarium from the previously approved $1,000 to $4,000.

    Motion: Motion to approve an honorarium in the amount of $500 to artist Renee Gertler for her participation in Renee Gertler: Flood at the Grove Street window installation site.

  3. Portola Library
    Judy Moran
    Presentation of final design for Portola Branch Library by artist Dana Zed.

    Motion:Motion to approve the final design of four glass and metal panel shutters for the Portola Branch Library by artist Dana Zed, and to authorize the artist to move to the fabrication phase of her artwork.

  4. Laguna Honda Hospital
    Susan Pontious
    Presentation on Takenobu Igarashi’s artworks for Laguna Honda Hospital and Cliff Garten’s revised handrail design.

    Motion:     Motion to approve the following mock-ups of Takenobu Igarashi’s artworks for Laguna Honda Hospital:
    -Living Room terra cotta artwork
    -Dining Room terra cotta artwork
    -Residence Floor artwork
    -Residence Floor artwork
    -Residence Floor terra cotta artwork
    -Atrium Sculpture

    Motion: Motion to approve the revised scope for Cliff Garten’s sculptural handrail to include the link and knuckle buildings (600 LFT), and to include bronze as the revised material.

  5. Civic Art Collection Guidelines
    Susan Pontious
    Presentation of revised Civic Art Collection guidelines.
    Staff report

    Motion: Motion to approve the June, 2007, revised guidelines for the Civic Art Collection.

  6. Collections
    Susan Pontious
    Presentation of the re-gilding of the bust of Giuseppe Verdi monument by Ozario Grossoni, and of the re-fabrication of one new plaque to replace the two missing original plaques.
    Staff report

    Motion: Motion to approve re-gilding the bust of Giuseppe Verdi monument by Ozario Grossoni in order to restore the sculpture according to the artist’s original intent, and to re-fabricate one new plaque to replace the two missing original plaques.

  7. Central Subway
    Jill Manton/Judy Moran
    Discussion of the timing and coordination of architecturally integrated artwork. Request for suggestions of additional artists to recruit for architecturally integrated artwork.

    Motion:Motion to authorize staff to proceed with first round of artist selections for artworks that will be integral to construction using pre-qualified artists’ pool and additional recruited artists.

    Motion: Motion to approve the following candidates to serve on the artist selection panels for the Central Subway transit stations: representatives from the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Museum of the African Diaspora, the Asian Art Museum, and the Jewish Museum; as well as the Chinatown Community Development Center, the Union Square Association, and the Yerba Buena Alliance.

  8. Louise Bourgeois Temporary Sculpture on the Embarcadero at Pier 14
    Jill Manton
    Report on project negotiations and logistics.

    Motion: Motion to approve the temporary exhibition of a sculpture entitled “Crouching Spider” by artist Louise Bourgeois in the Pier 14 Plaza along the Embarcadero for a period not to exceed one year, commencing November, 2007, pending approval from the Port Commission and resolution of issues regarding liability, safety and security.

  9. Public Art Policy Discussion
    Jill Manton
    Discussion regarding threshold for Arts Commission approval of temporary projects.

    Discussion regarding community involvement in setting project priorities.

  10. “Endangered Garden” at Sunnydale Pump Station
    Jill Manton
    Discussion regarding Art Commission’s ability to sustain project and future options.

    Motion: Motion to approve ADA required hand rail design.

  11. Transbay Terminal
    Jill Manton
    Discussion of the staff and Commission role in public art program management.

  12. PUC Various Art Endeavors
    Jill Manton
    Temporary Projects in Natural Settings—Review of Dan Corson as possible artist candidate to be invited to develop a proposal.

    Lake Merced Site Profile—Susan Schwartzenberg.

  13. Sunnyside Conservatory
    Jill Manton
    Presentation of new project opportunity and discussion of possible approaches for art enrichment.

  14. PublicArt Reports
    Jill Manton
    Moscone Center West—Report on meeting with engineers and proposed course of action.

    Moscone Recreation Center—Report on ‘climability mock-up’ and current status of interaction with Recreation and Park Department.

    Academy of Sciences—Report on progress of Maya Lin’s work.

    P    ercent for Art in Private Development.

    525 Golden Gate Avenue—Report on Ned Kahn’s preliminary design of sculptural wind turbines for the north façade of 525 Golden Gate Avenue.

  15. New Business

  16. Old Business

  17. Adjournment

 

ES 6/15/2007

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: Ellen Shershow (415) 252-2594.

Public comment in regard to specific items will be taken before or during consideration of the item.

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