City and County of San FranciscoSan Francisco Arts Commission

June 6, 2011

Full Commission - June 6, 2011

MEETING OF THE FULL ARTS COMMISSION
Monday, June 6, 2011
3:00 p.m.
City Hall, Room 416
1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place


Agenda

  1. Roll Call

  2. Approval of Minutes
    Action

    Motion to approve May 2, 2011 Minutes.

    Explanatory document: Draft minutes

  3. President’s Report
    Discussion

    Current developments and announcements.

  4. Director’s Report
    Discussion

    Current administrative, budgetary and programming developments and announcements.

  5. 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 Civic Design Review Committee Meeting Minutes of April 11, 2011.
       
    2. Motion to approve the Community Arts, Education and Grants Committee Meeting Minutes of May 10, 2011.
       
    3. Motion to approve the Street Artists Committee Meeting Minutes of May 11, 2011.
       
    4. Motion to approve the Visual Arts Committee Meeting Minutes of May 18, 2011.
       
      Community Arts, Education and Grants Committee Recommendations (May 11, 2011)
      Action
    5. Motion to approve recommendations to award six grants totaling $15,000 in the Arts For Neighborhood Vitality grants to the following organizations, and to authorize the Director of Cultural Affairs to enter into grant agreements with each for the amounts listed:
      OMI Cultural Participation Project, $2,500
      Excelsior Action Group, $2,500
      Marigold Project, $2,500
      Richmond District Neighborhood Center, $2,500
      Genryu Arts / Gen Taiko, $2,500
      Urban Solutions, $2,500
       
    6. Motion to enter into a 2011-2012 grant agreement with Community Initiatives in an amount not to exceed $50,000 to sustain arts education programs.
       
      Street Artists Committee Recommendations (May 11, 2011)
      Action
    7. Motion to approve re-issuance of former certificate number (#899) to street artist Kathy Hallinan (currently #8396).
       
      Civic Design Review Committee Recommendations (May 16, 2011)
      Action
    8. Motion to approve Phase 2 of the Lafayette Park Renovation and Maintenance Building.
       
    9. Motion to approve Phase 1 of the San Francisco County Jail Guard Station and Bus Shelter contingent on moving the drain pipe from the from of the building, aligning the windows, slots and doors on the bus shelter, and integrating the building into the opening of the fence.
       
    10. Motion to approve Phase 2 of Firehouse No. 1.
       
    11. Motion to approve Phase 2 of the Tesla Portal Protection with the condition that the structure be angled, not stepped, and that the crane be painted a contrasting color.
       
      Visual Arts Committee Recommendations (May 18, 2011)
      Action

    12. Motion for the Director of Cultural Affairs to approve the mural design for FAMILIA, a 150' x 15' painted mural by artist Victor Reyes. The mural is to be placed on the wall of San Francisco General Hospital’s Community Health Network Building located at 2789–25th Street which faces Potrero del Sol Skate Park. This project is a collaboration between San Francisco General Hospital, the San Francisco Recreation and Parks Department and Buena Vista Elementary School Parent-Teacher Association.
       
    13. Motion to authorize the Director of Cultural Affairs, Luis R. Cancel, and Commissioner Gregory Chew to work with Studio 1500 to redesign the San Francisco Arts Commission logo and make the recommendation for adoption to the full Arts Commission.
       
    14. Motion to approve the selection of the following artists as recommended by the Public Safety Building Artist Selection Panel for the public art projects associated with the Public Safety Building: for the Police Memorial, artist Shimon Attie; for the Fire Station, artist team Merge Conceptual Design; and for the South Plaza, artist Paul Kos.
       
    15. Motion to authorize the Director of Cultural Affairs to enter into a contract with Shimon Attie, selected by the Public Safety Building Artist Selection Panel for design and engineering of an artwork for the Public Safety Building: Police Memorial in an amount not to exceed $74,000.
       
    16. Motion to authorize the Director of Cultural Affairs to enter into a contract with Merge Conceptual Design, selected by the Public Safety Building Artist Selection Panel for design and engineering of an artwork for the Public Safety Building: Fire Station in an amount not to exceed $50,000.
       
    17. Motion to authorize the Director of Cultural Affairs to enter into a contract with Paul Kos, selected by the Public Safety Building Artist Selection Panel for design and engineering of an artwork for the Public Safety Building: South Plaza in an amount not to exceed $95,000.
       
    18. Motion to approve the installation of an artwork, titled Lily Pod, by Laurel True, at Hayes Valley Playground.
       
    19. Motion to accept into the Civic Art Collection an artwork, titled Lily Pod, 2011 by Laurel True, commissioned for Hayes Valley Playground. The sphere-shaped sculpture is approximately 36” high x 44” diameter and is covered with glass, tile and mixed media mosaic.
       
    20. Motion to approve the following artists for the 2011-2012 Prequalified Artist Pool: Jose Antonio Aguirre, Ryan Alexiev, Kathy Aoki, Michael Arcega, John Bankston, Suzy Barnard, Brian Barneclo, Eliza Barrios, Jerry Barrish, Mark Baugh-Sasaki, Linda Beaumont, Chris Bell, Laura Boles Faw, Val Britton, Elaine Buckholtz, Mona Caron, Susan Cervantes, Freddy Chandra, Colab Studio, Adriane Colburn, Randy Colosky, Ilana Crispi, Maria Cristalli, Colette Crutcher, Paz de la Cazalda, Roberto Delgado, Alicia Escott, Flaming Lotus Girls, Bill Fontana, Chris Fraser, Stephen Galloway, Bencia Gantner, Karen Ganz, Ann Gardner, Mariana Garibay, Cliff Garten, Carmen Lomas Garza, Nataly Gattegno, Tracy Ginsberg, Stephen Glassman, Brian Goggin, Doug Hall, Michael Hayden, Gerald Heffernon, Jenny Heishman, Oliver Hess, Cameron Hockenson, Robert Horner, Yumei Hou, Joyce Hsu, Suzanne Husky, Ed Inks, Cynthia Innis, Packard Jennings, Henrik Kam, Sheila Klein, Ching Ko, Paul Kos, Philip Krohn, Adam Kuby, Yoon Lee, Carrie Leeb, Hugh Leeman, Mary Lucking, Whitney Lynn, David Maisel, Sue Mark, Jet Martinez, John Melvin, Merge, Julio Cesar Morales, Anna Murch, Masayuki Nagase, Susan Narduli, Ali Naschke-Messing, Tony Natsoulas, Kelly Ording, Erik Otto, Erin Palmer, Jackson Patterson, Lisa Levine and Peter Tonningsen, Eric Powell, Ann Preston, Konstantin Prishep, Christopher Puzio, Rebar Group, Peter Richards, Ricardo Richey, Riza A+D, Lordy Rodriguez, Leah Rosenberg, Sterling Ruby, Ruben Rude, Norie Sato, Ron Moultrie Saunders, Donna Schumacher, Shan Shan Sheng, Bonnie Ora Sherk, Leslie Shows, Buster Simpson, Emanuela Sintamarian, Savanna Snow, Chris Sollars, Charles Sowers, Miriam Stahl, Eric Staller, Jennifer Starkweather, Roger Stoller, Stephanie Syjuco, Kana Tanaka, Joe Thurston, Cynthia Tom, T.W. Five, Paul Tzanetopoulos, Camille Utterback, Kerry Vander Meer, Catherine Wagner, Megan Wilson and Jody Zellen.
       
    21. Motion to approve the Design Development Phase deliverables (mosaic mural design modified to fit within the building design and revised budget) by Kelly Ording for an interior artwork for the Palega Recreation Center.
       
    22. Motion to approve the artist selection panel’s recommendation of the following artists as finalists for the SOMA West Skateboard Park art opportunity: Michael Arcega, Yoon Lee and Jovi Schnell, with Ricardo Richey as an alternate, and to authorize the payment of an honorarium not to exceed $500 to each finalist to develop preliminary artwork proposals.
       
    23. Motion to approve revised design and final text for Shan Shan Sheng’s artwork for the interior of the Chinese Recreation Center.
       
    24. Motion to approve the design proposal for the glass History Panels to be installed on the exterior façade of the Bayview Branch Library.
       
      Civic Design Review Committee Recommendations (May 25, 2011)
      Action

    25. Motion to approve Phase 3 of the Davies Symphony Hall Poster Holders.
       
    26. Motion to approve Phase 2 of the Central Subway Chinatown station with the following conditions. The entry to the station should have reduced columns, revised signage, and an overall simplified design. The sculptural curved bench should not be broken up or divided. On Stockton Street, the angle of the glass in relation to the concrete base should be more resolved. The glass should be coplanar with the solid structure above it. The solid structure above should appear to be monolithic so that its material or art covering should be on its exterior faces and its bottom surface. The concourse level should be rethought to account for crowds. The curved wall on the concourse level should resolve to the floor in a way that does not present the need for handrails. The handrails in the station should be minimized and handled creatively. The massing of the transit-oriented structure design should be proposed by the architects in clearly delineated drawings. This illustration is to be part of the Phase 3 submittal and will be used to promote future design that is complementary to the design of the station.
       
  6. 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.
         
      2. Action: Motion to approve Phase 3 of Boeddeker Park and Clubhouse contingent on the ceiling not being painted and the play equipment colors matching the building.
         
      3. Action: Motion to approve Phases 1 and 2 of the Sunol AgPark Outdoor Classroom with the condition that the design team look into minimizing the number of handrails and extend the roof southward.
         
    3. Community Arts, Education and Grants Committee—Sherri Young, Chair
      1. Discussion: Report from Chair of 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:
        Ann Dickson, Director of Marketing and Communications, Oakland Museum of California
        PJ Hirabayashi, Artistic Director and Founding Member of San Jose Taiko
         
    4. Street Artists Committee—Gregory Chew, 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: Juan Roman, Ruisen Liang, Dong Ling Song, Florence Hori, Barry Prager, Wan Yu Li, Wei Quiang Kuang, Nicholas Sanguinetti, Qiang Wu, Glendon Codling, Cristiano Rocha, Anna Lichtenberg, Owan Stenzel.
         
      3. Action: Motion to approve request by applicant for waiver of 15-day requirement for obtaining a certificate: Jose Luis Ortigoza, Marcia Palma.
         
      4. Action: Motion to approve honorarium payment of $200 plus cost of paint to Drew Flores and honorarium payment of $200 to David Campos for assisting Program Director in painting street artist spaces in the Fisherman’s Wharf area.
         
    5. Visual Arts Committee—Lorraine García-Nakata, Chair
      1. Discussion: Report from Chair of Visual Arts Committee regarding activities of the Committee and the Program.
         
  7. Public Comment
    Discussion
    (This item is to allow members of the public to comment generally on matters within the Commission’s purview as well as to suggest new agenda items for the Commission’s consideration.)

  8. Reports and Announcements
    Discussion
    (This item is to allow the Commissioners to report on recent arts activities and make announcements.)

  9. New Business
    Discussion
    (This item is to allow Commissioners to introduce new agenda items for consideration.)

  10. 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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