Special Meeting of the Full
Arts Commission
Monday, September 9, 2002
3:00 p.m.
25 Van Ness Avenue, Suite 70
San Francisco, CA 94102
Minutes
President Gatti
called the meeting to order at 3:10 p.m.
- ROLL CALL
Commissioners Present
Stanlee Gatti
Blanche Brown
Andrew Brother Elk
Rod Freebairn-Smith
Eddie Marshall
William Meyer
Janice Mirikitani
Denise Roth
Dugald Stermer
Dede Wilsey
Commissioners Absent
Andrea Cochran
Ralph Guggenheim
Kirk Anderson
Barbara Stauffacher Solomon
Ethel Pitts Walker
- APPROVAL OF MINUTES
The following Resolution was Moved by President Gatti, Seconded,
and unanimously Adopted:
RESOLUTION NO. 0909-02-228: APPROVAL OF MINUTES ADOPTED
RESOLVED, that this Commission does hereby approve the Minutes
of the Regular Monthly Meeting of August 5, 2002.
NOTE: ALL ADOPTIONS ARE UNANIMOUS UNLESS OTHERWISE
NOTED.
- PRESIDENT'S REPORT
President Gatti updated the Commissioners on the upcoming
Hearts of San Francisco Campaign, modeled on previous temporary
exhibitions in other U.S. cities, such as the Cow Parade in
Chicago and the exhibition of elephants and donkeys in Washington
D.C. The Convention and Visitors Bureau is taking the lead on the
Hearts of San Francisco project in collaboration with numerous
city organizations, departments and bureaus. The campaign has
generated a great deal of interest. Corporations and individuals
will underwrite individual installations, totaling approximately
200, and all visual art forms are expected to be represented. The
first three hearts are scheduled to be on the streets by
Valentine's Day, 2003. The others will be installed over time. The
plan is to have an installation in every neighborhood, possibly in
every city park. Ultimately, all of them will be sold at an
auction. President Gatti suggested the possibility of some of the
resulting funds supporting a long-term project of the Arts
Commission, such as Gallery 37.
Commissioner Meyer asked if the installations would be on City
property and therefore subject to Arts Commission approval.
Director of Cultural Affairs Richard Newirth clarified that
language other than "art" would be used to describe the
installations so that Commission approval for such a high number
of projects would not be required. He said that encroachment
permits from DPW or the Planning Department might be
necessary.
- DIRECTOR'S REPORT
Richard Newirth introduced London Breed, the new director of the
African American Art and Culture Complex. He also introduced
Bayview Opera House director Shelley Bell, who had recently met
with the Mayor and representatives of Muni and other departments
to discuss development plans for the Bayview district. In
particular, a master plan will be developed within the next six
months for a two-block area that includes the cultural center, a
school, a recreation facility, and a library. The goal of the
master plan is to maximize usage and eliminate redundancy. Another
goal is to upgrade the Opera House by the time the Third Street
Light Rail line is completed in 2004.
He updated the Commissioners on the Harvey Milk Plaza project. The
two winners of the competition will each present revised
conceptual designs of their projects on September 20. The next
step will be to meet with elected officials to discuss strategies
for raising the money to phase in the project over time. The
project has involved many departments and processes for
neighborhood involvement.
Mr. Newirth said that he would be making a site visit to the
Geneva Car Barn, which is being considered as a future Gallery 37
program site. The Recreation and Park Department is seeking funds
to fix up the building.
He announced that Mayor's Office of Community Development director
Pam David had left that department to become executive director of
the Walter and Elise Haas Fund.
President Gatti called the Commissioners' attention to the recent
City Attorney's memo regarding the policies that restrict the use
of city resources by city officials or employees for political
activity. He said that the restrictions had become a serious
issue, and asked Commissioners to direct any questions to him or
to Mr. Newirth.
Mr. Newirth announced a reception for two gallery exhibitions
commemorating September 11 in lower level city Hall this evening,
September 9, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. The Gallery will have a second
reception for its exhibition in the main gallery, 401 Van Ness, on
Saturday evening, September 14, 6 to 8 p.m. That show, titled
"Hall of Reflections" addresses the experiences of Iranian
immigrants.
President Gatti reminded those present of the city memorial
service in City Hall at 5:30 a.m. on September 11. The doors
will open at 4:30 a.m.
Commissioner Freebairn-Smith asked a question about a recent Board
of Supervisors vote on a reduction in the Arts Commission
budget.
Mr. Newirth said that the vote probably related to the Hotel Tax
Fund. He said that the allocation from that source had been
finalized, and that the figure was low. Departments receiving
Hotel Tax Funds therefore had to come up with additional funding
to compensate for the drop in the funding they would have received
from the Hotel Tax Fund. Though the Hotel Tax Fund dropped 29% ,
the budget for programs funded by that source could only be
reduced by 10%. (Conversely, if the Hotel Tax Fund were to
increase substantially, a department budget could only be raised
10 percent, and the remaining Hotel Tax Fund money would go to the
General Fund.) Arts Commission programs affected by the Hotel Tax
Fund reduction are Cultural Equity Grants and Community Arts and
Education. In particular, the reduction affects the ability of the
cultural centers to proceed with capital projects. In reference to
the general fund budget, Mr. Newirth also said that the Arts
Commission had fared as well as any department, sustaining a two
percent flat cut.
- CONSENT CALENDAR
RESOLUTION NO. 0909-02-228: ADOPTED UNANIMOUS
Approval: RESOLVED, that this Commission does hereby adopt
the following items on the amended Consent Calendar and their
related Resolutions:
Approval of Committee Minutes
- RESOLUTION NO. 0909-02-229: Motion to
approve the Civic Design Committee Meeting Minutes of August
19, 2002..
Explanatory Document: Draft Committee
Minutes
- RESOLUTION NO. 0909-02-230: Motion to approve the
Executive Committee Meeting Minutes of August 20, 2002.
Explanatory Document: Draft
Committee Minutes
- RESOLUTION NO. 0909-02-231: Motion to approve the
Visual Arts Committee Meeting Minutes of August 21,
2002.
Explanatory Document: Draft
Committee Minutes
- RESOLUTION NO. 0909-02-232: Motion to approve the
Street Artists Committee Meeting Minutes of August 14,
2002..
Explanatory Document: Draft Committee Minutes
Street Artists Committee Recommendations
(08/14/02)
- RESOLUTION NO. 0909-02-233: Motion to approve
authorization of Program Director to draw a map of proposed
legal spaces on Jefferson Street, between Mason Street and
the Embarcadero, and north of the Pac Bell ballpark, between
the green and Pier 40, and to propose such spaces to the
Port Commission for approval.
- RESOLUTION NO. 0909-02-234: Motion to approve
issuance of a street artist certificate to Jeffrey Shedrick
with waiver of re-screening of wares.
Visual Arts Committee Recommendations (08/21/02)
- RESOLUTION NO. 0909-02-235: Motion to approve
sidewalk design and design of two sculptural bollards by
Topher Delaney for Club Quarter San Francisco at 425 Battery
Street.
- RESOLUTION NO. 0909-02-236: Motion to approve the
temporary installation of two sculptures titled Link and
Three Wishes by Bruce Chaban from Sept. 6 - Sept 30th in
Union Square as part of the Red Umbrella series.
- RESOLUTION NO. 0909-02-237: Motion to approve the
selection panel's recommendation of the following artists to
serve for one year term on the Recreation and Park
Department Bond Projects Pre-Qualified Artist Pool. Approved
artists will be eligible for consideration by community
panels for upcoming Art Enrichment commissions associated
with new and renovated Recreation and Park Department
facilities, including, but not limited to Helen Wills
Playground, Rochambeau Playground, West Portal Recreation
Center, Eureka Valley Recreation Center, Holly Park and Hoff
Street Playground: Aileen Barr, Ray Beldner, Suzanne Biaggi,
Amy Blackstone, Susan Cervantes, Colette Crutcher, Topher
Delaney, Scott Donahue, Lauren Elder, Sheila Ghidini, Steve
Gillman, Demetry Grudsky, Erika Olsen Hannes, Gonzalo
Hidalgo, John King and Regina Case, Marissa Kunz, Paul
Lanier, Yumi Lee, Jefferson Mack, Alexander MacLeitch team,
Betsie Miller-Kusz, Geoffrey I. Nwogu, Johanna Poethig,
Peter Richards, John Rubin, Vickie Jo Saulls, Bonnie Ora
Sherk, Mel Smothers, Vickie Jo Sowell, Lee Walton, Horace
Washington, Ann Weber & team, Yoram Wolberger.
- RESOLUTION NO. 0909-02-238: Motion to approve the
following individuals to be added to the juror pool for the
selection of sculpture for Boarding Area C: Madelaine
Grynsztein (Curator for painting and sculpture, SFMOMA),
Renny Pritikin (Chief Curator, Yerba Buena Center for the
Arts), Hitoshi Sasaki (Artist and former Curator for Airport
Museums Program at SFO, Kathy Holland (Independent Curator,
Co-author of Airport Collection assessment), and Lydia
Mathews (Art Historian, California College of Arts and
Crafts).
- RESOLUTION NO. 0909-02-239: Motion to approve the
following individuals to be added to the juror pool for
Laguna Honda Hospital projects (courtyard sculpture and pool
tile design): Michele Rowe-Shields (Visual Arts Director,
Montalvo), Lewis deSoto (Artist), Rene Yung (Artist), Don
Douglas (Regional Director of Art Program, General Services
Administration), Jud Fine (Artist), Barbara McCarren
(Artist), Carrie Lederer (Curator of Exhibitions and
Program, Bedford Gallery, Dean Lesher Regional Center for
the Arts, Walnut Creek), Rene de Guzman (Curator Yerba Beuna
Center for the Arts), and Winifred Day (Independent
Curator).
Civic Design Committee Recommendations (08/19/02)
- RESOLUTION NO. 0909-02-240: Motion to approve the
Sunol Valley Floridation Facility, Phase 1.
- RESOLUTION NO. 0909-02-241: Motion to approve the
Beach Chalet Revised Deck and Improvements, Phase 1 and
2.
- RESOLUTION NO. 0909-02-242: Motion to approve the
Helen Wills Playground and Clubhouse Renovation, Phase
2.
Executive Committee Recommendations (08/20/02)
- RESOLUTION NO. 0909-02-243: Motion to approve
Community Arts and Education FY 2002-2003 budget.
- RESOLUTION NO. 0909-02-244: Motion to approve the
addition of the following individuals to the Cultural Equity
Grants Panel Pool:
Dawn-Elin Fraser, actor and teacher
Lisa Steindler, Artistic Director, Encore Theatre Co.
Conor Howard, director of the Irish Arts Foundation
Nancy Kates, teacher, activist, filmmaker
Dr. Dee Mosbacher, teacher and filmmaker
Jennifer Dowdell, author
- RESOLUTION NO. 0909-02-245: Motion to modify the
approval of recommendations for 34 grants totaling $435,100
in the 2002 cycle of Organizational Project Grants
(Resolution No. 0603-02-153 from May Executive Committee
Meeting) to be 34 grants totaling $505,500.
- RESOLUTION NO. 0909-02-246: Motion to review and
approve 20 grants totaling $332,900 in the 2002 cycle of
Cultural Equity Initiatives-Level One.
- RESOLUTION NO. 0909-02-247: Motion to review and
approve 3 grants totaling $360,000 in the 2002 cycle of
Cultural Equity Initiatives-Level Two.
- RESOLUTION NO. 0909-02-248: Motion to review and
approve 10 grants totaling $169,180 in the 2002 cycle of
Creative Space Grants.
- Committee Reports
- Civic Design Committee--Stanlee Gatti,
Chair
- Report from Chair of Civic Design Committee
regarding activities of the Committee and the Program.
- Visual Arts Committee -- Ralph Guggenheim, Chair
- Report from Chair of Visual Arts Committee
regarding activities of the Committee and the Program.
- Street Artists Committee - Dugald Stermer, Chair
- Report from Chair of Street Artists Committee
regarding activities of the Committee and the Program.
- RESOLUTION NO. 0909-02-249: Motion to approve
requests by former certificate-holders for priority issuance
of certificate with waiver of re-screening of wares:Flip
Schaffer, Eric Anrigo.
- Executive Committee -- Stanlee Gatti, Chair
- Report from Chair of Executive Committee
regarding activities of the Committee and the Program.
- Community Arts & Education --Denise Roth, Chair
- Report from Chair of Community Arts &
Education Committee regarding activities of the Committee
and the Program.
- RESOLUTION NO. 0909-02-250: Motion to approve the
transfer for up to $190,340 from the Hotel Tax Fund to
Intersection for the Arts for AAACC.
- RESOLUTION NO. 0909-02-251: Motion to enter into
contract with WritersCorps teacher Toussaint Haki Stewart
for up to $20,000.00 from 10/01/02 to 06/30/03 from Juvenile
Probation and DCYF Funds.
- RESOLUTION NO. 0909-02-252: Motion to enter into
contract with WritersCorps Events Coordinator Jose Carrasco
to produce the Youth Poetry Slam League and MLK Jr.
FreeWrite Contest for up to $15,000 from 11/01/02 to
06/30/03 from Youth Arts and Juvenile Probation Funds.
- Reports and Announcements
- Public Comment
- Adjournment
There being no further business, the Meeting adjourned at 3:40
p.m.
Approved by Richard Newirth, Director of Cultural affairs
RN/sw/09/09/02