March 4, 2013

MEETING OF THE FULL ARTS COMMISSION
Monday, March 4, 2013
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 February 4, 2013 Minutes.

   Explanatory Document: Draft minutes
    

3. President’s Report
   Discussion
   Current developments and announcements, including a report on events relating to the launch of the Heyday book, San Francisco: Arts for the City—Civic Art and Urban Change, 1932-2012.
    
4. Director’s Report
   Discussion
   Current administrative, budgetary and programming developments and announcements, including an update on strategic planning activities and preliminary brainstorm of potential future full Commission policy discussion and/or staff presentation topics.

   Explanatory Document: List of potential future policy discussion and/or staff presentation topics
    

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 28, 2013.
       
   2. Motion to approve the Civic Design Review Committee Meeting Minutes of February 11, 2013.
       
   3. Motion to approve the Community Arts, Education and Grants Committee Meeting Minutes of February 12, 2013.
       
   4. Motion to approve the Visual Arts Committee Meeting Minutes of February 20, 2013.
       
      Civic Design Review Committee Recommendations (February 11, 2013)
      Action
   5. Motion to approve Phase 3 of the Terminal 3, Boarding Area E Improvements Project.
       
   6. Motion to approve Phase 2 of the Portsmouth Square Restroom Replacement Project with the condition of pulling back the roof beams, extending the planter, and exploring additional options for bird control.
       
      Community Arts, Education and Grants Committee Recommendations (February 12, 2013)
      Action
   7. Motion to approve recommendations to award 34 grants totaling $300,460 in the 2012-2013 cycle of Individual Artist Commissions to the following individuals, and to authorize the Director of Cultural Affairs to enter into grant agreements with each for the amounts listed:
      Ali Liebegott, $8,000
      Alice Rogoff, $4,000
      Alison Pebworth, $9,000
      Allison Leigh Holt, $9,000
      Amy M. Ho, $10,000
      Charlie Varon, $8,000
      Chelsea Rae Klein, $9,000
      Christopher Sollars, $10,000
      Chun Yu, $9,000
      D’Arcy Drollinger, $9,000
      Dan Lau, $9,000
      Dawn Logsdon, $10,000
      Evie Leder, $9,000
      Ingrid Rojas Contreras, $9,000
      Jack Walsh, $9,000
      Jen Cohen, $9,000
      Jenny Odell, $9,000
      Jeremiah Barber, $9,000
      Jerome Reyes, $9,000
      Kevin Simmonds, $10,000
      Lyzette Wanzer, $9,000
      Madeleine Lim, $8,000
      Michelle Tea, $9,000
      Najib Joe Hakim, $8,000
      Nataly Gattegno, $8,000
      Nomy Lamm, $9,000
      Paz de la Calzada, $7,460
      Pireeni Sundaralingam, $10,000
      Sanaz Mazinani, $10,000
      Sarah Christianson, $9,000
      Taraneh Hemami, $9,000
      Truong Tran, $9,000
      Valerie Soe, $9,000
      Wendy Farina, $9,000
       
   8. Motion to approve a recommendation to award one grant totaling $10,000 in the 2012-2013 cycle of Individual Artist Commissions to the following individual, and to authorize the Director of Cultural Affairs to enter into a grant agreement with the individual for the amount listed:
      Rudy Lemcke, $10,000
       
      Visual Arts Committee Recommendations (February 20, 2013)
      Action
   9. Motion to retroactively approve and accept into the Civic Art Collection the artwork Baile!, 1999, by Carmen Lomas Garza. The artwork is 22 inches x 33 1/2 inches, hand-cut paper mounted on foam core board. The artwork is a proposal for the sculpture by the same name that was commissioned for the San Francisco International Airport and accepted into the Civic Art Collection in 2000 (Resolution No.0110-00-033).
       
   10. Motion to approve an artist honorarium payment in the amount of $2,000 to artist Joshua Short for his contributions to the Cardboard Institute of Technologies’ summer 2013 exhibition at the SFAC Galleries Window Installation Site at 155 Grove Street.
        
   11. Motion to approve an artist honorarium payment in the amount of $3,000 to Joseph Blum for his solo exhibition of photographs of the building of the new Bay Bridge span, which will be exhibited at City Hall in the summer of 2013.
        
   12. Motion to approve the construction document phase deliverables (final design drawings and sculpture mockup) for the artwork, Handsignals, by Rebar for the SOMA West McCoppin Hub project.
        
   13. Motion to approve Amy Blackstone’s Conceptual Design for an artwork at Boeddeker Park.
        
   14. Motion to authorize the Director of Cultural Affairs to increase the agreement with Eric Staller from $25,000 to $304,040 to add to the scope of work Design Development, Construction Documents, Fabrication and Consultation during Installation for an artwork at SFO Airport, Terminal 3, Boarding Area E.
        
   15. Motion to authorize the Director of Cultural Affairs to increase the agreement with Merge Conceptual Design from $50,000 to an amount not to exceed $300,000 to add to the scope of work Design Development, Construction Documents, Fabrication and Consultation during Installation for an artwork at SFO Airport, Terminal 3, Boarding Area E.
        
   16. Motion to approve the following artists and artist teams for the 2013-2014 Prequalified Artist Pool: Bryan Allen; D-L Alvarez; Kathy Aoki; Juana Alicia Araiza; Michael Arcega; Edgar Arceneaux; Arktura LLC; Arteclettica; Deborah Aschheim; Jay Atherton; Ball Nogues Studio; Suzy Barnard; Brian Barneclo; Aileen Barr; Michael Bartalos; Bruce Beasley; Lanny Bergner; Ken Bernstein; Timothy Berry; Leo Bersamina; Suzanne Biaggi; Micajah Bienvenu; Lisa Blatt; Carrie Bodle; Matt Borruso; Sarah Bostwick; Wythe Bowart and Josh Powell; Mark Brest van Kempen; Val Britton; Christopher Brown; Michael Brown and David Cole; Elaine Buckholtz; Dean Burton; Riis Burwell; Ed Carpenter; Cause Collective; Christian Cerrito; Alexander Cheves; Dayton Claudio; Adriane Colburn; Colette Crutcher; Michael Davis; Paz de la Calzada; Jenna Didier and Emily White; Katherine Dube; Jessica Eastburn; Amy Ellingson; Sam Erenberg; Alicia Escott; Kota Ezawa; Jeremy Fish; Claudia Fitch; David Fletcher; Rebecca Fogg; Chris Fraser; Matt Gagnon and Alan Grumet; Stephen Galloway; Benicia Gantner; Ann Gardner; Steven Gardner; Cliff Garten; Carmen Lomas Garza; Sheila Ghidini; Pere Gifre; Vanesa Gingold; Tracy Ginsberg and Theodore Lille; Brian Goldbloom; Walter Gordinier; Todd Gray and Kyungmi Shin; Mark Grieve and Ilana Spector; David Griggs; Barbara Grygutis; Edwin Hamilton; Gerald Heffernon; Jenny Heishman; Archie Held; Taraneh Hemami; Amy Ho; Paul Hobson; Barbara Holmes; Eric Hongisto; Karrie Hovey; Joyce Hsu; Salomon Huerta; Gordon Huether; Hughen/Starkweather; Suzanne Husky; Leonard Hunter; Misako Inaoka; Cynthia Innis; Kelly Inouye; Carrie Iverson; Jason Jagel; Packard Jennings; Chris Johanson; Ned Kahn; Sarah Kavage and Nicole Kistler; Katherine Keefer; Kipp Kobayashi; Naomie Kremer; Carrie Leeb; Mark Leichliter; Lisa Levine and Peter Tonningsen; Heidi Lippman; Hung Liu; Maria Lobo; Mary Lucking; Cybele Lyle; Whitney Lynn; Jefferson Mack; Jack Mackie; David Maisel; Jetro Martinez; Sanaz Mazinani; Adam McCauley; Robert Minervini; Anne Mudge; Anna Valentina Murch; Ken Murphy; Joaquin Newman and Eduardo Pineda; Joe C. Nicholson; Jann Nunn; Scott Oliver; Penny Olson; Kelly Ording; Sean Orlando; Erik Otto; Gay Outlaw; Tressa Pack; Andrea Padilla; Erin Palmer; Siddharth Parasnis; Susan Pascal Beran; Tahiti Pehrson; Sam Perry; Joel Phillips; Troy Pillow; Yulia Pinkusevich; Ferris Plock and Kelly Tunstall; Johanna Poethig; Nigel Poor; Eric Powell; Al Price; Rebar Art and Design Studio; Rhiza A + D; Meghann Riepenhoff; Lordy Rodriguez; John Roloff; Koryn Rolstad; Leah Rosenberg; Catherine Ruane; James Russell; Saori Ide Russell; Serrah Russell; Heath Satow; Ron Moultrie Saunders; Jovi Schnell; Vicki Scuri; Merle Axelrad Serlin; Sheri Simons; Phillip Smith; Tracy Snelling; Jessica Snow; Chris Sollars; Charles Sowers; Heather Sparks; Joshua G. Stein; Arthur Stern; Roger White Stoller; Anne Storrs; Marcia Stuermer; Primitivo Suarez-Wolfe and Ginger Wolfe-Suarez; Stephanie Syjuco; T.W. Five; Christopher Taggart; Kana Tanaka; Aaron Terry; David Tomb; Ben Trautman; Urban Rock Design; Urbana Studio; Camille Utterback; Gregg Valley; Kerry Vander Meer; Philip Vaughan; Mark Dean Veca; Rhonda Weppler; Lindsey White; Diane Whitmore; Joshua Wiener; Daniel Winterich; Jenifer Wofford; Brandon Zebold; Dana Zed; Jody Zellen; and Susan Zoccola.
        
   17. Motion to approve the proposal of a temporary artwork, Transfiguration, for the Port Pier 92 Silos Project by the artist team Haddad|Drugan, LLC, as recommended by the selection panel, except for the final conception and visual design which is subject to approval after community outreach and further staff committee process.
        
   18. Motion to authorize the Director of Cultural Affairs to enter into a contract with the artist team Haddad|Drugan, LLC in an amount not to exceed $190,000 for design, fabrication and consultation during installation of a temporary artwork for the Port Pier 92 Silos Project.
        
       Executive Committee Recommendations (February 25, 2013)
       Action
   19. Motion to approve the acceptance of 26 donations to ArtCare totaling $33,275 for support in restoring and maintaining the Civic Art Collection’s artwork most in need of conservation work. These donors are: Rick Friedman, John Friedman, Gigi Bland Platt, Lynne Baer and Jay Pidto, Gregory Gibson, Diane Wilsey, Ronald and Gayle Conway, Melissa Creedon, J. Hobby, Andrew Neff, Jill Manton, Deborah and Ronald Victorelli, Robert and Sarah Smith, Jennifer Lyn Goudeau, George P. and Charlotte M. Schultz, Anthony and Page Arata, H. Marcia Smolens, Sylvia Browne, Kathleen Kenyon, ARG Conservation, Boston Properties, San Francisco Art Dealers Association, ArtMRKT, the trustees of the William and Gretchen Kimball Foundation, the Harqua Foundation and the Bob A. Ross Foundation.
        
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 17th and Folsom Park with the following conditions: consider the sense of enclosure created by the density of planting and rear fence; simplify the plant list; relate the lighting to the park programming and consider integration into the trellis; the path in front of the stage should lead from the southwest entry to the community garden gate.

         Explanatory Document: Letter from Supervisor Campos
          

   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 request by applicant for waiver of 15-day requirement for obtaining a certificate: Duckhee Lee.
          
   5. Visual Arts Committee—Barbara Sklar, Chair
      1. Discussion: Report from the Visual Arts Committee regarding activities of the Committee and the Programs.
          
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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