May 7, 2012 | San Francisco Arts Commission

Full Commission - May 7, 2012

NOTICE OF CANCELLATION OF REGULAR MEETING
AND NOTICE OF SPECIAL MEETING
OF THE FULL ARTS COMMISSION

Please Note Special Location

Monday, May 7, 2012
3:00 p.m.
African American Art and Culture Complex
762 Fulton Street

Revised Agenda

Roll Call
Approval of Minutes
Action
Motion to approve April 2, 2012 Minutes.
Explanatory documents: Draft minutes
President’s Report
Discussion
Current developments and announcements.
Director’s Report
Discussion
Current administrative, budgetary and programming developments and announcements.
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 March 19, 2012.
2. Motion to approve the Community Arts, Education and Grants Committee Meeting Minutes of April 10, 2012.
3. Motion to approve the Visual Arts Committee Meeting Minutes of April 18, 2012.
4. Motion to approve the Civic Design Review Committee Meeting Minutes of April 23, 2012.
  
  Visual Arts Committee Recommendations (September 21, 2011)
  Action
5. Motion to approve an artist honorarium in the amount of $1,500 to Bert Bergen for his curatorial and artistic contributions to an SFAC Gallery exhibition about silkscreening in the Bay Area scheduled for exhibition at San Francisco City Hall.
  
  Community Arts, Education and Grants Committee Recommendations (April 10, 2012)
  Action
6. Motion to approve recommendations to award 58 grants totaling $235,860 in the 2011-2012 cycle of Individual Artist Commission grants to the following individuals, and to authorize the Director of Cultural Affairs to enter into grant agreements with each for the amounts listed:
  Annie Danger, $5,060
  Anthony Williams, $10,000
  Benjamin Levy, $8,100
  Dave End, $8,100
  Deborah Slater, $7,700
  Elizabeth Stephens, $10,000
  Erling Wold, $10,000
  Francis Wong, $9,500
  Guillermo Gómez-Peña, $10,000
  Idris Ackamoor, $8,100
  Jacob Felix Heule, $8,100
  Jewlia Eisenberg, $7,700
  Jon Jang, $9,500
  Lenora Lee, $8,100
  Leticia Hernandez, $7,700
  Lily Cai, $8,100
  Lisa Gray-Garcia, $8,100
  Marcus Shelby, $10,000
  Mica Sigourney, $8,100
  Monique Jenkinson, $10,000
  Nathaniel Justiniano, $8,100
  Sara Shelton Mann, $10,000
  Sascha Jacobsen, $8,100
  Scott Wells, $10,000
  Sean Dorsey, $10,000
  Todd Brown, $10,000
  Weishan Liu, $7,700
  
  Visual Arts Committee Recommendations (April 18, 2012)
  Action
7. Motion to approve Gays Without Borders to shroud the Harvey Milk Bust at City Hall for International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia, May 17, 2012.
8. Motion to approve the following arts professionals as potential panelists for the Art on Market Street Selection Panel:
  Ellen Oh, Program Administrator, Institute for Diversity in the Arts, Stanford University
  Julio Morales, Adjunct Curator, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
  Courtney Fink, Executive Director, Southern Exposure
  Maysoun Wazwaz, Program Manager, Mills College Art Museum
  Kevin Chen, Program Director, Intersection
  Jenifer Wofford, artist
  Thien Pham, artist
  Packard Jennings, artist
  Helena Keeffe, artist
  Stephanie Syjuco, artist
9. Motion to approve the final designs with revised text for Celebrating Bay Area Arts poster series by artist Paul Madonna for the Art on Market Street Program 2012-2013, which includes a total of 36 posters installed in 18 bus shelters on Market Street between Embarcadero and 8th streets from June to September 2012.
10. Motion to approve revised designs by Merge Conceptual Design for the fire station artwork at the new Public Safety Building.
11. Motion to approve the design proposal by Johanna Poethig for an artwork at Hamilton Park.
12. Motion to approve two new tapestry designs by artist Lewis deSoto for Laguna Honda.
13. Motion to approve the project approach for a public artwork at Fire Station 36 as part of the Earthquake Safety Emergency Response Neighborhood Fire Stations Public Art Project.
14. Motion to modify blanket Resolution #0806-07-216 to read as follows: Motion to authorize the Director of Cultural Affairs, in consultation with the City Attorney’s Office and the Controller’s Office, and subject to any required approvals from those or other City agencies, to take action, without a resolution from the full Commission, on the following items: Approve contracts, purchase orders or direct payment vouchers up to $500,000 with conservators, art technicians, or other qualified contractors for the purpose of performing conservation, maintenance and repair on works of art in the City’s art collection; approve contracts, purchase orders, or direct payment vouchers up to $500,000 with art service providers for transportation, storage, installation, de-installation of artwork, construction of cases, vitrines and framing, and other similar work related to the care and maintenance of the City’s collection that does not require design approval from the Commission.
15. Motion to modify blanket Resolution #0205-01-063 to read as follows: Motion to authorize the Director of Cultural Affairs, in consultation with the City Attorney’s Office and the Controller’s Office, and subject to any required approvals from those or other City agencies, to take action, without a resolution from the full Commission, on the following items: Approve contracts, purchase orders, or direct payment vouchers not exceeding $100,000 for services provided by a wide range of vendors, including but not limited to: 1) artists, contractors, consultants, printers, graphic designers, photographers, signage fabricators and photo labs, whose services do not require design approval from the Commission; 2) approve of contract modifications and additional project expenses not exceeding $100,000 that are within the project budget, but do not require design approval by the Commission; 3) approve start-up of new art enrichment projects, including determination of overall project parameters; 4) approve short listed candidates recommended by Selection Panels 5) authorize entering into design contracts not to exceed $100,000.
16. Motion to approve final material and finish sample for Cayuga Playground artwork gates by Eric Powell.
17. Motion to approve Boeddeker Park Public Art Program Project Outline, including direct selection of artist Amy Blackstone for art enrichment.
18. Motion to authorize the Director of Cultural Affairs to enter into a contract with Amy Blackstone for design, fabrication, transportation and installation of an artwork for Father Alfred E. Boeddeker Park in an amount not to exceed $25,600.
  
  Executive Committee Recommendations (April 23, 2012)
  Action
19. Motion to approve expenditure of up to $12,000 from Administrative Fund to cover costs of celebration of the 40th anniversary of the Street Artists Program on June 30, 2012.
20. Motion to approve Advance Written Determination for Director of Cultural Affairs to serve on the Board of Directors for the California Alliance for Arts Education.
  
  Civic Design Review Committee Recommendations (April 23, 2012)
  Action
21. Motion to approve Phase 3 of the Third Street Light Rail 4th and Brannan Station.
22. Motion to approve Phase 1 of the 17th and Folsom Playground contingent upon reorienting the shade structure, reducing the service area, exploring additional entryways, lowering the fencing, opening visual permeability from the street, and relating the planting and design to the history and culture of the Mission Creek area.
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.
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.
  2. Discussion: Report from the African American Art and Culture Complex regarding current activities.
  3. Action: Motion to approve recommendations to award ten grants totaling $29,750 in the 2011-2012 cycle of Arts For Neighborhood Vitality to the following organizations, and to authorize the Director of Cultural Affairs to enter into grant agreements with each for the amounts listed:
    Out of Site: Center for Arts Education, $3,000
    Bernal Heights Outdoor Cinema, $3,000
    Excelsior Action Group, $3,000
    Marigold Project, $2,750
    The Bay Bridged, $3,000
    Genryu Arts, $3,000
    Kulintang Arts Inc., $3,000
    Chinese Historical Society of America, $3,000
    Chinese Culture Foundation of San Francisco, $3,000
    Come Out and Play San Francisco, $3,000
    
    Explanatory Documents: Applicant ranking; project descriptions; and summary notes of the application evaluation.
  4. Action: Motion to revise Resolution No. 0402-12-093 to correct a clerical error. The corrected motion is as follows:
    Motion to enter into grant agreements to award 42 grants totaling $491,340 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, $11,260
    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, $10,690
    Clerestory, $8,690
    Croatian American Cultural Center, $11,850
    CubaCaribe, $11,850
    Dancers’ Group, $11,850
    Eldergivers, $10,690
    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, $6,600
    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
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: Cristiano Rocha, Joseph Darby, Tania Echegaray, Joann Chen, David Aguilar, Guo Xie, Jampa Kalsang, Caroline Saxl, Glendon Codling.
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 approve the following vendors for the list of pre-qualified fine art service providers:
    Angotti & Reilly, Inc.
    Anne Rosenthal Fine Art Conservation
    Architectural Conservation, Inc.
    ARG Conservation Services
    Atthowe Fine Art Services
    Brady Fine Art
    Chrysalis Art Conservation
    City Picture Frame
    Conservation Solutions
    Evergreene Architectural Arts, Inc.
    Rowan Geiger
    Lawrence Fine Art Services
    May Painting Conservation
    Mikhail Ovchinnikov Art Conservation
    Thomas Portue
    Rayko Photo Center
    Ria German-Carter
    Rocket Science
    Ship/Art International
    Sterling Art Services, LLC
    Stonesculpt
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.)
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.)
Adjournment
Action

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