MEETING OF THE FULL ARTS COMMISSION
Monday, July 6, 2015
2:00 p.m.
City Hall, Room 416
1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place

Agenda

1. Roll Call
    
2. 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.)
    
3. Approval of Minutes
   Action
   Motion to approve June 1, 2015 Minutes.
   
   Explanatory Document: Draft minutes
    
4. Director’s Report
   Discussion
   Current administrative, budgetary and programming developments and announcements.
    
5. Overview of Arts Commission Facilites at 401 Van Ness Avenue
   Discussion
   Presentation by San Francisco Public Works Building Design and Construction Project Manager Tara Lamont of the Arts Commission’s new offices, public spaces and Civic Art Collection storage in the renovated San Francisco War Memorial Veterans Building.
    
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 department.
          
   2. 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 Program.
          
      2. Action: Discussion and possible motion to authorize advances to the following Cultural Centers for FY2015-2016 based on the prior year’s total grant allocation and pending approval of the City budget, in the following amounts:
         African American Art and Culture Complex (“AAACC”) $155,824 (including $130,397 to AAACC and $25,427 to Queer Cultural Center as sub-grantee of AAACC)
         Bayview Opera House, $81,976
         Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts, $137,546
         SOMArts Cultural Center, $179,133 (including $153,705 to SOMArts Cultural Center and $25,427 to Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center as sub-grantee of SOMArts Cultural Center)
          
   3. Civic Design Review Committee—Cass Calder Smith, Chair
      1. Discussion: Report from the Civic Design Review Committee regarding activities of the Committee and the Program.
          
   4. Street Artists Committee—Barbara Sklar, Chair
      1. Discussion: Revitalizing An Urban Arts Market: An Evaluation of the Street Artists Licensing Program
         Presentation by Kate Faust, MPP, Policy Analyst
          
         Explanatory Documents: Revitalizing An Urban Arts Market: An Evaluation of the Street Artists Licensing Program: Presentation (pdf); Revitalizing An Urban Arts Market: An Evaluation of the Street Artists Licensing Program: Report (pdf)
          
   5. Visual Arts Committee—Dorka Keehn, Chair
      1. Discussion: Report from the Visual Arts Committee regarding activities of the Committee and the Programs.
          
      2. Action: Discussion and possible motion to approve the following artists’ inclusion in the 2015-16 Prequalified Artist Pool as recommended by the Artist Selection Panel:
         Rhiza A + D
         Amy Ahlstrom
         Elisabeth Ajtay
         Osman Akan
         Nora Akino
         Seyed Alavi
         Tristan Al-Haddad
         Volkan Alkanoglu
         Glenna Cole Allee
         Fred Alvarado
         Refik Anadol
         James Angus
         Kathy Aoki
         Jack Archibald
         Maria Artemis
         Jay Atherton
         Tauba Auerbach
         Ilan Averbuch
         Jennifer Bain
         Jenny E. Balisle
         Ball-Nogues Studio
         Brandon Ballengée
         Suzy Barnard
         Aileen Barr
         Bill Barrett
         Michael Bartalos
         Lynn Basa
         Solomon Bassoff-Faducci
         Alice Beasley
         Bruce Beasley
         Linda Beaumont
         Pete Beeman
         Louisiana Bendolph
         Mary Lee Bendolph
         Jud Bergeron
         Ken Bernstein
         Elizabeth Berrien
         Timothy Berry
         Leo Bersamina
         Ross Bleckner
         Nancy Blum
         Coral Bourgeois
         Wythe Bowart and Josh Powell
         Cyd Bown
         Yael Braha
         Branch & Bokel
         Val Britton
         Laura Brodax
         David Brooks
         Beliz Brother
         Michael Brown and David Cole
         Brian W. Brush
         Teresa Camozzi
         Ed Carpenter
         Ledia Carroll
         Jennifer Cecere
         Jeanine Centuori
         Christian Cerrito
         Candy Chang
         Julie Chang
         Amy Cheng
         Carl Cheng
         Ka Yan Cheung
         Alexander Cheves
         Peter Coffin
         Adriane Colburn
         Marion Coleman
         Randy Colosky
         Lynette Cook
         Beatrice Coron
         Colette Crutcher
         Reed Danziger
         Eileen David
         Elizabeth Devereaux
         Jenna Didier
         Anthony Discenza
         Randy Dixon
         Craig Dorety
         Ellen Driscoll
         Katherine Du Tiel
         Amy Ellingson
         Kota Ezawa
         Ana Teresa Fernandez
         Sandra Fettingis
         Claudia Fitch
         t.w. five
         Caio Fonseca
         Bernadette Jiyong Frank
         Chris Fraser
         Future Cities Lab
         Stephen Galloway
         Benicia Gantner
         Ann Gardner
         Carmen Lomas Garza
         Linda Gass
         Matthew Geller
         Sheila Ghidini
         Matt Gil
         Liz Glynn
         DeWitt Godfrey
         Brad Goldberg
         Stanley Goldstein
         Isca Greenfield-Sanders
         Barbara Grygutis
         Michael Guidry
         Charles Gute
         Julia Haack
         Blessing Hancock
         Harries Heder
         Jamil Hellu
         Taraneh Hemami
         Stephen Hendee
         Lauren Herzak-Bauman
         Oliver Hess
         Liz Hickok
         Amy Ho
         Cameron Hockenson
         Hooker & Kitchen
         Justin Hoover
         Paul Housberg
         Karrie Hovey
         Jon Barlow Hudson
         Hughen/Starkweather
         Richard Humann
         Aaron Hussey
         Cynthia Innis
         Kelly Inouye
         Jim Isermann
         Miki Iwasaki
         Johanna Jackson
         Ivy Jacobsen
         Jason Jägel
         Nova Jiang
         Chris Johanson
         Hayv Kahraman
         Howard Kalish
         Jun Kaneko
         Susan Kaprov
         Amy Karle
         BJ Katz and Chris Klein
         Cindy Kessler
         Jane Kim
         Ray King
         Sheila Klein
         Kipp Kobayashi
         Krivanek + Breaux/Art + Design
         Michael Krondl
         Adam Kuby
         Lead Pencil Studio
         Legge Lewis Legge
         Lisa Levine
         Rob Ley
         Marcus Linnenbrink
         Donald Lipski
         Hung Liu
         Robert Lobe
         Sharon Louden
         Thomas Loughlin
         Geraldine Lozano
         Dimitar Lukanov
         Li Ma
         David Maisel
         Elena Manferdini
         Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle
         Kara Maria
         Alan Masaoka
         Tomokazu Matsuyama
         Sanaz Mazinani
         Nikki McClure
         Canner Mefe
         John Melvin
         David Middlebrook
         Masako Miki
         Robert Minervini
         Brendan Monroe
         Julio Cesar Morales
         Morelab
         Paul Morgan
         Ranu Mukherjee
         John Musgrove
         John David O’Brien
         Laurie O’Brien
         Joe O’Connell
         Scott Oliver
         Kelly Ording
         Sean Orlando
         Deborah Oropallo
         Albert Paley
         Erin Palmer
         Jill Parisi
         Maria Park
         Tom Patti
         Hendrik Paul
         Gregg Payne
         Mia Pearlman
         Rosemary Pierce
         Yulia Pinkusevich
         Johanna Poethig
         Don Porcaro
         Precita Eyes Mural Arts and Visitors Center
         Tim Prentice
         J. John Priola
         Lucy Puls
         Pure Joy Collective
         Martin Puryear
         Re:Site
         Erwin Redl
         Michael Rees
         Mark Reigelman II
         Peter Reiquam
         Matthew Ritchie
         Jean-Pierre Rives
         Lordy Rodriguez
         Jann Rosen-Queralt
         Wendy Ross
         Yoshitomo Saito
         Carol Salmanson
         James Sansing
         Joshua Sarantitis
         Ron Moultrie Saunders
         Joe Saxe
         Thomas Sayre
         Debra Scacco
         Kenny Scharf
         Jesse Schlesinger
         Jovi Schnell
         Yvonne Lee Schultz
         Vicki Scuri
         Tamra Seal
         Peter Shelton
         Ang Tsherin Sherpa
         Buster Simpson
         Bonnie Smith
         Owen Smith
         Lisa Solomon
         Miriam Stahl
         Eric Staller
         Joshua G. Stein
         Aaron Stephan
         Arthur Stern
         Mary Ann Strandell
         Smith|Allen Studio
         May Sun
         Claudio Talavera-Ballon
         Kana Tanaka
         Tony Tasset
         THEVERYMANY
         Hank Willis Thomas
         Brian Tolle
         David Tomb
         Peter Tonningsen
         Amy Trachtenberg
         Ben Trautman
         Paul Tzanetopoulos
         Anja Ulfeldt
         Ioana Urma
         Camille Utterback
         Marie Van Elder
         Hans van Meeuwen
         Martin Venezky
         Richard Walker
         Connie Watts
         James Watts
         Martin Webb
         Ann Weber
         Christopher Weed
         Amanda Weil
         Rhonda Weppler
         Ellen and Allan Wexler
         Emily White
         Catherine Widgery
         Sarah Winkler
         Daniel Winterich
         Jenifer Wofford
         David Wolf
         Lena Wolff
         Mirang Wonne
         Wowhaus
         June Yokell
         Kelli Yon
         Dana Zed
         Suikang Zhao
         Susan Zoccola
         Faridun Zoda
         Bob Zoell
         Janet Zweig
          
         Explanatory Document: Selection Panel Summary
          
7. 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 Community Arts, Education and Grants Committee Meeting Minutes of June 2, 2015.
       
   2. Motion to approve the Civic Design Review Committee Meeting Minutes of June 15, 2015.
       
   3. Motion to approve the Executive Committee Meeting Minutes of June 22, 2015.
       
      Community Arts, Education and Grants Committee Recommendations (June 2, 2015; link to agenda)
      Action
   4. Motion to authorize the Director of Cultural Affairs to enter into grant agreement with the Clement Street Merchants Association for an amount not to exceed $25,000 to oversee the design, approval and installation of a large scale mural at 152 Clement Street, facing Third Avenue.
       
      Civic Design Review Committee Recommendations (June 15, 2015; link to agenda)
      Action
   5. Motion to approve Phases 1 and 2 of the San Francisco International Airport (“SFO”) Interim Boarding Area B project, contingent upon: (1) minimizing the coping flashing at the roof and (2) eliminating the “storefront” of the window head sill jambs, with a flush veneer.
       
      Executive Committee Recommendations (June 22, 2015; link to agenda)
      Action
   6. Motion to authorize the Director of Cultural Affairs to enter into an agreement with Joseph Kosuth for the development of a preliminary design proposal for the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium Public Art Trust project in an amount not to exceed $25,000.
       
   7. Motion to approve the Final Design Phase deliverables by Louisiana Bendolph for the San Francisco International Airport: Terminal 3.
       
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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Notices
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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ACCESSIBLE MEETING POLICY

Per the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Language Access Ordinance, Chinese, Spanish, and/or American Sign Language interpreters will be available upon request. Additionally, every effort will be made to provide a sound enhancement system, meeting materials in alternative formats, and/or a reader. Minutes may be translated after they have been adopted by the Commission. For all these requests, please contact Sharon Page Ritchie, Commission Secretary, at least 48 hours before the meeting at 415-252-2591. Late requests will be honored if possible. The hearing room is wheelchair accessible.


利便参與會議的相關規定

根據美 國殘疾人士法案和語言服務條例，中文、西班牙語、和/或美國手語翻譯人員在收到要求後將會提供翻譯服務。另外，我們將盡力提供擴音設備。同時也將會 提供不同格式的會議資料， 和/或者提供閱讀器。此外，翻譯版本的會議記錄可在委員會通過後提供。上述的要求，請於會議前最少48小時致電 415-252-2591向 Sharon Page Ritchie, Commission Secretary, 提出。逾期提出的請求，若可能的話，亦會被考慮接納。聽證室設有輪椅通道。


POLITICA DE ACCESO A LA REUNIÓN

De acuerdo con la Ley sobre Estadounidenses con Discapacidades (Americans with Disabilities Act) y la Ordenanza de Acceso a Idiomas (Language Access Ordinance) intérpretes de chino, español, y lenguaje de señas estarán disponibles de ser requeridos. En adición, se hará todo el esfuerzo posible para proveer un sistema mejoramiento de sonido, materiales de la reunión en formatos alternativos, y/o proveer un leedor. Las minutas podrán ser traducidas luego de ser aprobadas por la Comisión. Para solicitar estos servicios, favor contactar a Sharon Page Ritchie, Commission Secretary, por lo menos 48 horas antes de la reunión al 415-252-2591. Las solicitudes tardías serán consideradas de ser posible. La sala de audiencia es accesible a silla de ruedas.


PATAKARAN PARA SA PAG-ACCESS NG MGA MITING

Ayon sa batas ng Americans with Disabilities Act at ng Language Access Ordinance, maaring mag-request ng mga tagapagsalin wika sa salitang Tsino, Espanyol at/o sa may kapansanan pandinig sa American Sign Language. Bukod pa dito, sisikapin gawan ng paraan na makapaglaan ng gamit upang lalong pabutihin ang inyong pakikinig, maibahagi ang mga kaganapan ng miting sa iba’t ibang anyo, at/o isang tagapagbasa. Ang mga kaganapan ng miting ay maaring isalin sa ibang wika matapos ito ay aprobahan ng komisyon. Sa mga ganitong uri ng kahilingan, mangyari po lamang makipag ugnayan kay Sharon Page Ritchie, Commission Secretary, sa 415-252-2591. Magbigay po lamang ng hindi bababa sa 48 oras na abiso bago ng miting. Kung maari, ang mga late na hiling ay posibleng tanggapin. Ang silid ng pagpupulungan ay accessible sa mga naka wheelchair.