City and County of San FranciscoSan Francisco Arts Commission

April 2, 2012

Full Commission - April 2, 2012

MEETING OF THE FULL ARTS COMMISSION
Monday, April 2, 2012
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 March 5, 2012 Minutes.

    Explanatory documents: 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 Executive Committee Meeting Minutes of January 30, 2012.
       
    2. Motion to approve the Street Artists Committee Meeting Minutes of February 22, 2012.
       
    3. Motion to approve the Community Arts, Education and Grants Committee Meeting Minutes of March 13, 2012.
       
    4. Motion to approve the Street Artists Committee Meeting Minutes of March 14, 2012.
       
    5. Motion to approve the Civic Design Review Committee Meeting Minutes of March 19, 2012.
       
    6. Motion to approve the Visual Arts Committee Meeting Minutes of March 21, 2012.
       
      Community Arts, Education and Grants Committee Recommendations (March 13, 2012)
      Action
    7. Motion to enter into a grant agreement for FY2011-2012 with Leticia Hernández for an amount not to exceed $14,000 to support a WritersCorps artist residency project at Hilltop School, with funding from a Creative Work Fund award.
       
    8. Motion to enter into grant agreements to award 42 grants totaling $468,754 in the 2011-2012 Organization Project Grants cycle and to authorize the Director of Cultural Affairs to enter into grant agreements with the following organizations for the amounts listed:
      3rd i South Asian Independent Film Festival, $11,260
      ABADA Capoeira San Francisco, $11,850
      Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center, $11,850
      Campo Santo, $11,260
      Center for the Art of Translation, $11,850
      Charming Hostess, $11,850
      Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco, $11,250
      Clerestory, $8,690
      Croatian American Cultural Center, $11,850
      CubaCaribe, $11,850
      Dancers' Group, $11,850
      Eldergivers, $11,250
      EXIT Theater, $11,850
      Garret Moulton Productions, $11,850
      Genryu Arts/Gen Taiko, $11,850
      Intersection for the Arts, $11,850
      Jess Curtis/Gravity, $11,850
      Joe Goode Performance Group, $11,850
      Kearny Street Workshop, $11,250
      Kulintang Arts, Inc., $11,850
      Litquake, $11,850
      Margaret Jenkins Dance Company, $11,850
      ME’DI.ATE, $11,850
      Museum of Craft and Folk Art, $11,850
      National Japanese American Historical Society, $11,850
      Out of Site: Center for Arts Education, $11,850
      PlayGround, $11,850
      Playwrights Foundation, $11,850
      Post Ballet, $11,850
      Queer Rebel Productions, $6,594
      Root Division, $11,250
      San Francisco Chamber Orchestra, $11,850
      San Francisco Friends of Chamber of Music, $11,850
      San Francisco Transgender Film Festival (Tranny Fest), $5,090
      Scott Wells and Dancers, $11,850
      Shadowlight Productions, $11,850
      Small Press Traffic Literary Arts Center, $11,850
      Stepology, $11,850
      Voice of Witness, $11,850
      Women’s Audio Mission, $11,850
      Writers Among Artists, $1,660
      Yerba Buena Arts and Events, $11,850
       
    9. Motion to enter into grant agreements to award two grants totaling $23,700 in the 2011-2012 Organization Project Grants cycle and to authorize the Director of Cultural Affairs to enter into grant agreements with the following organizations for the amounts listed:
      Fresh Meat Productions, $11,850
      Queer Cultural Center, $11,850
       
      Street Artists Committee Recommendations (March 14, 2012)
      Action
    10. Motion to request Board of Supervisors for re-designation of twenty-two (22) street artist spaces on Hyde Street, Jefferson to Beach streets, with exemption from regulation of Police Code Section 2405(c)(8)(2) which prohibits selling adjacent to a white zone.
       
    11. Motion to approve re-numbering of spaces on Hyde Street, Jefferson to Beach streets.
       
      Civic Design Review Committee Recommendations (March 19, 2012)
      Action
    12. Motion to approve Phase 3 of the San Francisco County Jail 3 Replacement: Guard Station and Bus Stop.
       
    13. Motion to approve Phase 3 of the 2008 Restroom Bond Program: States Street Playground.
       
    14. Motion to approve Phase 3 of the Central Subway Union Square Market Street Station with the condition that the lighting and landscaping for the Union Square head house are revised.
       
    15. Motion to approve Phase 1 of the Angelo J. Rossi Playground Restroom Replacement.
       
    16. Motion to approve Phase 1 of the SFO Terminal 3, Boarding Area E Improvement Project.
       
      Visual Arts Committee Recommendations (March 21, 2012)
      Action
    17. Motion to approve, after completion of a two-year community process commencing in January 2010 and facilitated by supervisor David Campos and the Bernal Heights community, the removal of the murals by Arch Williams and others on the Cortland Avenue and Moultrie Street sides of the Bernal Heights Branch Library, which will be replaced by a tile and bronze artwork by Precita Eyes on the Cortland Avenue side of the library and a painted mural by Reuben Rude on the Moultrie Street side of the library.
       
    18. Motion to approve final design of the mural by Reuben Rude for the Moultrie Street side of the Bernal Heights Branch Library.
       
    19. Motion to approve design development of the proposal for a tile and bronze mural by Precita Eyes for the front of the Bernal Heights Branch Library on Cortland Avenue.
       
    20. Motion to approve revised designs for the Art on Market Street Poster Series by artist Paul Madonna.
       
    21. Motion to approve designs for the artwork at the new Bayview Branch Library by artist Ron Saunders.
       
    22. Motion to authorize the Director of Cultural Affairs to enter into a contract with Johanna Poethig an amount not to exceed $49,000, for the design, fabrication, transportation and installation/consultation of an interior mural at Hamilton Recreation Center.
       
    23. Motion to approve the following finalists for the Daggett Park Public Art Project as recommended by the Daggett Park Art Selection Panel: Michael Arcega, Adriane Colburn and Charles Sowers.
       
    24. Motion to approve public art program outline for 17th and Folsom Park.
       
    25. Motion to approve construction document phase (which includes final quantity of chairs, final site plan of chair installation locations, artwork material and surface treatment sample, and final budget) of the Church & Duboce Public Art Project (Chairs) by Primitivo Suarez-Wolfe.
       
    26. Motion to approve the updated Central Subway 4th and Brannan Platform Station Project Outline indicating the inclusion of Arts Commission President JD Beltran as a panelist for the second selection panel meeting.
       
    27. Motion to approve the loan of Mark Adams’s Pond in Golden Gate Park, 1981, a flat weave wool tapestry, approximately 84 in. x 96 in. (San Francisco Arts Commission Accession Number 1985.5.1) to the exhibition Mark Adams, organized by the San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles in San Jose, California. The exhibition will be on view from May 15 through July 29, 2012.
       
    28. Motion to approve phrase for backdrop behind cylinder and concept for text inscribed in cylinder for Shimon Attie’s police memorial artwork for the new Public Safety Building.
       
    29. Motion to approve revised design and material samples for Paul Kos’s community plaza artwork for the new Public Safety Building.
       
    30. Motion to approve the placement of up to three black and white sculptural heads by Jun Kaneko from May 1, 2012 through December 18, 2012 at the War Memorial Veterans Building site.
       
    31. Motion to approve the placement of up to four sculptural heads from artist Jun Kaneko in Civic Center Plaza, pending approval from the Mayor and the Department of Recreation and Parks.
       
  6. Committee Reports and Committee Matters

    1. Executive Committee—JD Beltran, Chair
      1. Discussion: Report from the Executive Committee regarding activities of the Committee and the agency.
         
    2. Civic Design Review Committee—Cass Calder Smith, Chair
      1. Discussion: Report from the Chair of the Civic Design Review Committee regarding activities of the Committee and the Program.
         
      2. Action: Motion to approve Phase 2 of the Dolores Park Rehabilitation Project.

        Explanatory documents: Dolores Park Drawings
         

      3. Action: Motion to approve changes to the Phase 3 design of the Central Subway Chinatown station station with the condition that the transit-oriented development or any façade/fascia design to be constructed in its place is reviewed separately.

        Explanatory documents: Chinatown Station Drawings
         

    3. Community Arts, Education and Grants Committee—Sherene Melania, Chair
      1. Discussion: Report from the Community Arts, Education and Grants Committee regarding activities of the Committee and the Programs.
         
    4. Street Artists Committee—Gregory Chew, Chair
      1. Discussion: Report from the Chair of the 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: James Barchard, Randall Larson, Juan Marin Jimenez, Qiang Wu, Bushi Luo, Hui Wen Li, Marvin Kirkland, Birgitt Hellemann, Marilyn Burkhart, Mary Ann Milburn, Ruisen Liang, Victor Manrique, Madeline Marrow.
         
      3. Action: Motion to approve request by applicant for waiver of 15-day requirement for obtaining a certificate: Earl Thibodeau, Aidan Moran, Young Mo Hong, Haesu Go Hong, Pauliasi Lavaka.
         
      4. Action: Motion to approve honorarium payment of $50 plus materials to Mario Hernandez for assisting Program Director in painting spaces on Stockton Street.
         
      5. Action: Motion to approve authorization of Program Director to request Board of Supervisors to re-designate for six (6) months two (2) street artist temporary selling spaces on Post Street, northwest corner, at Stockton Street.
         
    5. Visual Arts Committee—Barbara Sklar, Chair
      1. Discussion: Report from the Visual Arts Committee regarding activities of the Committee and the Programs.
         
      2. Action: Motion to authorize the Director of Cultural Affairs to increase Attie Art Projects LLC’s (aka Scott/Shimon Attie) agreement from $147,800 for design development and construction documents by $44,750 for a total contract amount not to exceed $192,550.
         
      3. Action: Motion to award Rocket Science the bid to install Firefly, an artwork by Ned Kahn, at 525 Golden Gate Avenue, and to authorize the Director of Cultural Affairs to enter into an agreement with Rocket Science for an amount not to exceed $124,000.
         
      4. Action: Motion to authorize the Director of Cultural Affairs to enter into an agreement for an amount not to exceed $24,800 with Gizmo Art Productions, a sole source provider, to install Ned Kahn’s Rain Portal at 525 Golden Gate Avenue.
         
      5. Action: Motion to authorize the Director of Cultural Affairs to enter into an agreement with Bruce Damonte Photography for an amount not to exceed $10,000 to photograph a number of public art installations.
         
  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. New Business and Announcements
    Discussion
    (This item is to allow the Commissioners to introduce new agenda items for consideration, to report on recent arts activities and to make announcements.)
     
  9. Adjournment
    Action
     

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Explanatory documents listed above, as well as documents created or distributed after the posting of this agenda to the Arts Commission will be available for public inspection and copying at the Arts Commission office, 25 Van Ness Avenue, Suite 345, San Francisco, CA 94102, during regular business hours. Info: Sharon Page Ritchie, 415/252-2591. PLEASE NOTE: The Arts Commission often receives documents created or submitted by other City officials, agencies or departments after the posting of the Arts Commission agenda. For such documents or presentations, members of the public may wish to contact the originating agency if they seek documents not yet provided to the Arts Commission.

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