Full_Commission
2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 MEETING OF THE FULL ARTS COMMISSION
Monday, June 4, 2007
3:00 p.m.
City Hall, Room 416
1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place
Agenda
- Roll Call
- Approval of Minutes
Action
Motion to approve May 7, 2007 Minutes.
Explanatory document: Draft minutes
- President’s Report
Discussion
Current developments and announcements.
- Interim 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
- Motion to approve the Community Arts, Education and Grants Committee Meeting Minutes of May 8, 2007.
- Motion to approve the Executive Committee Meeting Minutes of May 15, 2007.
- Motion to approve the Visual Arts Committee Meeting Minutes of May 16, 2007.
- Motion to approve the Civic Design Review Committee Meeting Minutes of May 21, 2007.
Community Arts, Education and Grants Committee Recommendations (May 8, 2007)
Action
- Motion to approve the Programs in the Community (PIC) grant to the following PIC grantee organizations, recommended by the PIC review panel, pending written confirmation from Grants for the Arts:
Central City Hospitality House, $19,000
Eldergivers, $19,000
Urban Services YMCA, $19,000
Filipino-American Development Foundation, $19,000
Bayview Hunters Point Foundation for Bayview Hunters Point 3rd Street Youth Center and Clinic, $19,000
Larkin Street Youth Services, $19,000
Rose Resnick Lighthouse for the Blind & Visually Impaired, $19,000
Boys & Girls Clubs of San Francisco, $19,000
Institute on Aging, $19,000
Youth Guidance Center, $19,000
San Francisco Parks Trust for Friends of Boeddeker Park, $19,000
Literacy for Environmental Justice, $18,998.31
World Savvy, $19,000
- Motion to approve Neighborhood Festival grants pending written confirmation from Grants for the Arts:
Uprising Community for Andrew’s Boarding and Boarding Care, Andrew’s Boarding and Boarding Care’s 4th of July Picnic, $3,000
San Francisco Foundation Community Initiative Funds for Excelsior Action Group, Excelsior Festival, $3,000
San Francisco Parks Trust for Bernal Heights Outdoor Cinema's Bernal Heights Outdoor Cinema, $3,000
Potrero Hill Neighborhood House, Inc., Potrero Hill Festival, $3,000
Reclaiming Collective for Marigold Project’s Dia de los Muertos Festival of Altars, $2,500
Visitacion Valley Community Development Corp for Visitacion Valley Business Opportunities and Outreach to Merchants’ Leland Avenue Street Fair, $3,000
Community Development Institute for South of Market Community Action Network’s SOMAfest, $3,000
Sunset Youth Services for Sunset District Neighborhood Coalition, Sunset Community Festival, $3,000
North of Market/Tenderloin Community Benefit District, Santa Sitings, $3,000
San Francisco Foundation Community Initiative Funds for Portola Neighborhood Steering Committee, Portola Festival, $3,000
OMI Cultural Participation Project, OMI International Family Festival, $3,000
- Motion to enter into a grant agreement, not to exceed $11,270, for graffiti abatement at SomArts.
Visual Arts Committee Recommendations (May 16, 2007)
Action
- Motion to approve the six final poster designs by artist Helena Keeffe for the Art on Market Street program to be reproduced and installed in twenty-four kiosks on Market Street between Van Ness Avenue and the Embarcadero from July 16 to November 8, 2007.
- Motion to approve Link Building gate entry as an art project site.
- Motion to authorize the Interim Director of Cultural Affairs to enter into a $3,000 design contract with Diana Pumpelly Bates for the Link Building entry gate.
- Motion to approve an honorarium to Mark Lee Morris for $1,000 and an honorarium to Jillian Mcdonald for $1,000 for their participation in the SFAC Gallery exhibition Conversation 4: Jillian Mcdonald & Mark Lee Morris (June 29–August 25, 2007).
Civic Design Review Committee Recommendations (May 21, 2007)
Action
- Motion to approve the Hamilton Pool and Recreation Center Phase 3.
- Motion to approve the SEWPCP Building 915—Modular Building Phase 2.
- Motion to approve the Sensu Element, San Francisco Japantown Phase 2.
- Motion to approve the Sunnyside Conservatory Renovation Phase 1 contingent upon further study of the exterior form expressing the original use of the building.
- Committee Reports
- Executive Committee—P.J. Johnston, Chair
- Discussion: Report from Chair of Executive Committee regarding activities of the Committee and the Program.
- Action: Motion to authorize the Interim Director of Cultural Affairs to enter into contract with the San Francisco Symphony to produce the annual Summer in the City concert series in the amount of $1,498,387.
- Civic Design Committee—Andrea Cochran, Chair
- Discussion: Report from Chair of Civic Design Committee regarding activities of the Committee and the Program.
- Action: Motion to approve the Crocker Amazon Playground Soccer Field Renovation Phases 1 and 2.
- Community Arts, Education and Grants Committee—José Cuellar, Chair
- Discussion: Report from Community Arts, Education and Grants Committee regarding activities of the Committee and the Program.
- Action: Motion to amend Resolution No. 0507-07-125 to correct an error in the grant amounts for Nanos Operetta and Triple Base Gallery, and to correct the funding total accordingly. The corrected amounts are as follows:
Nanos Operetta, $12,000
Triple Base Gallery, $3,500
The corrected total funding recommended for 2006-2007 Organizational Project Grants is $569,506.
- Action: Motion to approve funding recommendations for the FY2006-2007 Individual Artist Commission (IAC) grants totaling $391,900:
Bill Basquin, $9,600
J.D Beltran, $9,600
Evan Bissell, $7,500
Jonathan Burstien, $7,500
Matthew Davidson, $8,000
Keina Davis, $7,500
Jay Dayrit, $10,000
Brian Dempster, $9,000
Ana Fernandez, $9,700
Todd Gilens, $7,500
Eileen Goldenberg, $7,500
Maya Gonzalez, $7,500
Sam Green, $9,600
Anne Hamersky, $8,700
Taraneh Hemami, $9,700
Amy Hicks, $9,600
Mateen Kemet, $9,600
Jennifer Kroot, $9,600
Mike Lai, $7,500
Joyce Lee, $9,600
Rudy Lemcke, $9,700
Genny Lim, $8,000
Madeleine Lim, $9,600
Carlos Loarca, $9,700
Felicia Lowe, $9,600
Michelle Matz, $8,000
Rebecca McBride, $9,700
Amanda Micheli, $9,600
Kari Orvik, $8,700
Alberto Palomar, $8,000
Laura Parker, $8,700
Alison Pebworth, $9,700
Margo Perin, $8,000
Elissa Perry, $9,000
Greta Snider, $7,500
Chad Sweeney, $10,000
Sandra Taylor, $8,700
Michelle Tea, $10,000
Thy Tran, $10,000
Truong Tran, $10,000
Migdalia Valdes, $9,700
Sharon Virtue, $9,700
Jess Wells, $8,000
Rene Yanez, $7,500
Supporting Document: Panel Comments
- Motion to approve the following individuals as guideline review panelists for Cultural Equity Grants and to be considered for agency-wide panel pool:
Nancy Quinn, Principal, Quinn Associates, Arts Management Services
Wayne Hazzard, Executive Director, Dancers’ Group
Yesenia Sanchez, Fiscal Sponsorship Coordinator, Intersection for the Arts
Madeleine Lim, filmmaker; Founder and Artistic Director, Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project
Lily Kharrazi, dance writer; Living Cultures Grants Program Manager, Alliance for California Traditional Arts
Carolina Ponce de Leon, Executive Director, Galeria de la Raza
Sean Dorsey, choreographer; Artistic Director, Fresh Meat Productions
Olivia Malabuyo, Program Associate, Gerbode Foundation; former Managing Director, Bindlestiff Studio
Cicely Sweed, Center for Community Life Manager, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
Supporting Document: Panelist Biographies
- Street Artists Committee—Alexander Lloyd, Chair
- Discussion: Report from Chair of Street Artists Committee regarding activities of the Committee and the Program.
- Action: Motion to approve former certificate-holders for priority issuance of certificate with waiver of re-screening of wares: Jameson Christiansen, Larry Lowell, Wing W. Chan.
- Visual Arts Committee—Jeannene Przyblyski, Chair
- Discussion: Report from Visual Arts Committee regarding activities of the Committee and the Program.
- Action: Motion to approve the installation of, and accept into the Civic Art Collection, the series of permanent public artworks designed for and installed on the 28 T-Third Street Light Rail transit platforms by the three Third Street Light Rail Artist Teams, including Bill and Mary Buchen (Mission Bay); Horace Washington, Frederick Hayes, and JoeSam (Bayview Hunters Point); and Anita Margrill and Nobuho Nagasawa (Visitacion Valley and the standard pole-mounted sculptures), to include 28 pole-mounted metal sculptures (9 specialty pole-mounted sculptures and 19 standard pole-mounted sculptures); and 10 sets of metal laser-cut panel canopy shadow casters; metal, mosaic tile, granite, and sandblasted and painted paving insets on 14 platforms.
- Action: Motion to approve the long-term temporary installation in windscreen display cases on the 28 T-Third Street Light Rail platforms of 20 posters designed by the three Third Street Light Rail Artist Teams, including Bill and Mary Buchen (Mission Bay); Horace Washington, Frederick Hayes, and JoeSam (Bayview Hunters Point); and Anita Margrill and Nobuho Nagasawa (Visitacion Valley), as well as 40 posters designed by 14 youth as part of the Third Street Light Rail Youth Arts Program.
- New Business
Discussion
- Reports and Announcements
Discussion
- Public Comment
Discussion
- Adjournment
Action
5/31/07 spr
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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