Meeting of the Full Arts Commission

 

Monday, February 4, 2002

3:00 p.m.

25 Van Ness Avenue, Suite 70

San Francisco, CA 94102


 

Minutes

Commission President Gatti called the meeting to order at 3:10 p.m.

  1. ROLL CALL

    Commissioners Present
    Stanlee Gatti
    Andrea Cochran
    Rod Freebairn-Smith
    Ralph Guggenheim
    William Meyer
    Denise Roth
    Barbara Stauffacher Solomon
    Dugald Stermer
    Ethel Pitts Walker
    Dede Wilsey

    Commissioners Absent
    Kirk Anderson
    Blanche Brown
    Andrew Brother Elk
    Eddie Marshall
    Janice Mirikitani

  2. APPROVAL OF MINUTES

    The following Resolution was Moved by President Gatti, Seconded, and unanimously Adopted:

    RESOLUTION NO. 0204-02-027: APPROVAL OF MINUTES ADOPTED
    RESOLVED, that this Commission does hereby approve the Minutes of the Regular Monthly Meeting of January 7, 2002.

    NOTE: ALL ADOPTIONS ARE UNANIMOUS UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED.

  3. PRESIDENT'S REPORT

    President Gatti welcomed Commissioner Wilsey and extended the Commission's condolences on the death of her husband.

    In reference to the possibility of budget cuts, he emphasized that reductions, no matter how small, would not be minor for the Arts Commission. He asked the Commissioners to make every effort they could to express their views to others.

  4. DIRECTOR'S REPORT

    Director of Cultural Affairs Richard Newirth announced that Community Arts and Education Program Director Liz Lerma was leaving the Commission for a position as Director of Community Programs at DPW.

    Ms. Lerma said that the DPW program would focus on the cleaning and beautifying of San Francisco, and that she hoped to continue working with the Arts Commission in her new capacity. She thanked the Commissioners for everything they did for community arts.

    Mr. Newirth said that he would attend the Urban Arts Federation meeting in Phoenix the following week.

    He announced the upcoming opening of the exhibition of "missing" fliers at City Hall on February 6, the dedication of the North Beach Parking Garage on February 7 and the next Writers Corps poetry slam at the Mission Cultural Center on February 22. He also announced two upcoming events at the African and African American Art and Culture Complex, a youth program on February 9 and a series of presentations by emerging performing artists February 28 through March 2 .

    He reported on the success of the recent Creativity Forum, which focused on the current need for arts education in schools for every child at every age. He reiterated that the coming year would be a tough one, and that assistance from the Commissioners would be needed as the Commission moved forward in advocating for arts education.

    He announced that the Co-Lab project, a joint project of the Arts Commission and San Francisco State University, would open on March 2 with events at both the Arts Commission Gallery and the SFSU gallery. The project consists of collaborations between artists and youth.

    He congratulated Arts Education Officer Rachelle Axel for securing a four-year $200,000 grant for the Arts Funders Collaborative.

    He reported that he had been invited by two individuals to visit St. Petersburg, where he would meet with people in education and confer with political officials on cultural policy and funding.

  5. CONSENT CALENDAR

    Item 19 was removed from the Consent Calendar and referred to Committee Reports.

    RESOLUTION NO. 0204-02-028: Consent Calendar
    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

    1. RESOLUTION NO. 0204-02-029 Motion to approve the Civic Design Committee Meeting Minutes of December 17, 2001.
      Explanatory Document: Draft Committee Minutes

    2. RESOLUTION NO. 0204-02-030: Motion to approve the Community Arts and Education Committee Meeting Minutes of January 8, 2002.
      Explanatory Document: Draft Committee Minutes

    3. RESOLUTION NO. 0204-02-031: Motion to approve the Executive Committee Meeting Minutes of December 18, 2001 and January 15, 2002.
      Explanatory Document: Draft Committee Minutes

    4. RESOLUTION NO. 0204-02-032: Motion to approve the Street Artists Committee Meeting Minutes of January 9, 2002.
      Explanatory Document: Draft Committee Minutes

    5. RESOLUTION NO. 0204-02-033: Motion to approve the Visual Arts Committee Meeting Minutes of October 24, November 28, December 13, 2001 and January 16, 2002.
      Explanatory Document: Draft Committee Minutes

      Civic Design Committee Recommendations (01/28/02)

    6. RESOLUTION NO. 0204-02-034: Motion to approve the Art Institutes International at San Francisco's proposal to remove concrete benches.

    7. RESOLUTION NO. 0204-02-035: Motion to approve Maxine Hall, ADA Ramp Addition, Phase 1, 2, and 3.

    8. RESOLUTION NO. 0204-02-036: Motion to approve the Lane Street and Crocker Amazon Pump Station Replacement Projects, Phase 2 and 3.

    9. RESOLUTION NO. 0204-02-037: Motion to approve the Muni MMX Platform Administrative Phase 3.

      Visual Arts Committee Recommendations (01/16/02)

    10. RESOLUTION NO. 0204-02-038: Motion to approve the final design of the two glass curtain walls on the facade of the Muni Metro East Light Rail Vehicle Maintenance Facility by the Third Street Light Rail Artist Team of Nobuho Nagasawa and Anita Margrill.

    11. RESOLUTION NO. 0204-02-039: Motion to approve exhibitions by Jonathan Keats, Libby Black, Liz Cohen, Megan Archer, Josh Greene, Will Rogan, Asha Schechter, Trevor Shimizu, and Bob Linder for the gallery show, April 5 - May 18, 2002.

    12. RESOLUTION NO. 0204-02-040: Motion to approve exhibition by Chen Ju Pan for Grove Street Windows installation for April and May of 2002.

    13. RESOLUTION NO. 0204-02-041: Motion to authorize the Director of Cultural Affairs to modify and increase the contract with Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofidio for the fabrication and installation of their artwork design for the Moscone Center Expansion Project for an increase not to exceed $11,000 for additional engineering services by Pol-X West.

      Executive Committee Recommendations (01/15/02)

    14. RESOLUTION NO. 0204-02-042: Motion to approve request by Program Director for ordinance increasing the street artist certificate fee to $93.40 per quarter or $373.60 per year.

    15. RESOLUTION NO. 0204-02-043: Motion to approve the Fiscal Year 2002-03 General Fund Budget submission to the Mayor.

    16. RESOLUTION NO. 0204-02-044: Motion to approve the Fiscal Year 2002-03 Street Arists and Cultural Equity Grants program budgets submission to the Mayor.

    17. RESOLUTION NO. 0204-02-045: Motion to approve the addition of individuals, Pamela Samaneigo, Melissa Szeto, Melody Takata and Michael Tekulsky to the Cultural Equity Grants panel pool.

      Community Arts and Education Committee Recommendations (01/08/02)

    18. RESOLUTION NO. 0204-02-046: Motion to approve a grant up to $3,000 from CAC funds to the Every Child Can Learn Foundation in support of the PTA's Family Arts Workshop.

    19. Motion to approve the following pool of panelists for Arts Education Organization Grant selection:
      Sheila Pressley, deYoung Museum
      Jonathan Yorba, Center for the Arts
      Sheila Baumgarten, Koret Foundation
      Carol Kocivar, PTA
      Max Lantz, Youth Commissioner
      Benjamin Lockett, Youth Commissioner
      Myron Howard Johnson, Youth Commissioner

    20. RESOLUTION NO. 0204-02-049: Motion to grant up to $202,000 to Intersection for the Arts, for continued support as fiscal sponsor of the African American Arts and Culture Complex.

    21. RESOLUTION NO. 0204-02-050: Motion to approve the SFAC Staff Recommended AAACC 2001-2002 Management and Programming Plan and Budget from Cultural Center Line Item Hotel Tax Funds.

      Street Artists Committee Recommendations (01/09/02)

    22. RESOLUTION NO. 0204-02-051: Motion to approve request by Program Director for ordinance increasing the street artist certificate fee for fiscal year 2002-03 to $93.40 per quarter or $373.60 per year.

  6. Committee Reports

    1. Civic Design Committee--Stanlee Gatti, Chair

      1. Report from Chair of Civic Design Committee regarding activities of the Committee and the Program.

        President Gatti reported that the Committee had again referred the design for the Beach Chalet addition back to the architects for revisions.

      2. Mr. Newirth raised the issue of the order of approvals when other agencies were involved. He said that he would set up a meeting with the Landmarks Advisory Board staff and Commissioner Freebairn-Smith, who is now an ex-officio member of the Landmarks Advisory Board, to discuss the issue.

    2. Visual Arts Committee -- Ralph Guggenheim, Chair

       
      1. Report from Chair of Visual Arts Committee regarding activities of the Committee and the Program.

      2. RESOLUTION NO. 0204-02-052: Motion to approve the Director of Cultural Affairs entering into contract with Levy Design Partners for an amount not to exceed $9,500 for Completion of Construction Documents for the Integration of Artwork into the Third Street Light Rail Project.

    3. Executive Committee -- Stanlee Gatti, Chair

      1. Report from Chair of Executive Committee regarding activities of the Committee and the Program.

        In reference to item (b) below, Jewelle Gomez explained that ArtHouse funding for 2000-01 was complete. She said the following item had been changed to to clarify that funding for 2001-02 is for the fiscal year between July 1, 2001 and June 30, 2002. Funding at the new level will be $15,000 for the first half of the year and $10,000 for the second half.

      2. RESOLUTION NO. 0204-02-053: Motion to approve funding for ArtHouse for Fiscal Year 2001-2002 (July 2001-June 2002) at $25,000.

        Commissioner Freebairn-Smith asked if new sources of revenue were available to the the cultural centers.

        Mr. Newirth replied that some of the centers were more entrepreneurial than others. He said that, since city funding allocations would be reduced, all the centers would have to either find new ways of generating funding or cut back on their activities. He said that the Cultural Equity Grants program budget would also be reduced.

    4. Street Artists Committee --Dugald Stermer, Chair

      1. Report from Chair of Street Artists Committee regarding activities of the Committee and the Program.

        Commissioner Stermer reported on a possible increase in licensing fees. He said that the recommendation would be sent to the Supervisors for their approval.

      2. RESOLUTION NO. 0204-02-054: Motion to approve requests by former certificate-holders for priority issuance of certificate with waiver of re-screening of wares: Zhao Hui Liu, Eric Arigo, Perrie Harrison.

    5. Community Arts & Education --Denise Roth, Chair

      1. Report from Chair of Community Arts & Education Committee regarding activities of the Committee and the Program.

        Commissioner Roth reported that the Committee had approved the budget for the African and African American Art and Culture Complex.

        She announced that item (b) below, referred from the Consent Calendar, was being revised to add a new panel member Gina Mackintosh.

      2. RESOLUTION NO. 0204-02-048: Motion to approve the following pool of panelists for Arts Education Organization Grant selection:
        Sheila Pressley, deYoung Museum
        Jonathan Yorba, Center for the Arts
        Sheila Baumgarten, Koret Foundation
        Carol Kocivar, PTA
        Max Lantz, Youth Commissioner
        Benjamin Lockett, Youth Commissioner
        Myron Howard Johnson, Youth Commissioner
        Gina Mackintosh

  7. Reports and Announcements

    Commissioner Meyer reported on a recent Performing Arts Committee Meeting. He said that the Symphony had proposed the presentation of more orchestral performances in the next Summer in the City series, since these performances are among the most successful. He added that Commissioner Marshall's suggestion of a Brazilian jazz musician as a guest artist had been well received. The Symphony also plans to do another presentation of a staged Broadway musicals.

  8. Public Comment

    In public comment, Alma Robinson, California Lawyers for the Arts, thanked the Commissioners for their support of ArtHouse. She said that 39 organizations had received support through the Rent Subsidy program, and that several had received capital grants. She said ArtHouse will continue to offer technical assistance to arts organizations and artists in dealing with issues of facility management, and that the organization had hired a real estate finance analyst. ArtHouse has received an NEA grant to examine the possibility of organizational restructuring, and Margie O'Driscoll, the first director of ArtHouse, has been retained to help assess the feasibility of the organization's becoming an independent 501(c)3 separate from CLA and the Arts Commission.

    Sally Woelfel, ArtHouse, also thanked the Commission for its support .She distributed letters of support for ArtHouse from other arts organizations. She updated the Commissioners on current ArtHouse projects. These included helping a homeless theater group find affordable rehearsal space and working with the Redevelopment Agency to facilitate meetings to support art and culture in the Mid-Market area.

  9. Adjournment

    There being no further business, the Meeting adjourned at 4:00 p.m.

    Approved by Richard Newirth, Director of Cultural affairs

    RN/sw/02/04/02




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