Visual_Arts_Committee
2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 VISUAL ARTS COMMITTEE
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
3:00 pm
25 Van Ness Avenue, Suite 70
Agenda
- Consent Calendar
1. Motion to approve an honoraria payment of $400 to Ms. Justine Topfer to coordinate the opening reception/speaker event for The SFAC Gallery's exhibition LUX at City Hall in mid-November, 2009. (Note: Ms. Topfer has been the project coordinator of LUX, and was not originally contracted for event coordination.)
2. Motion to approve Music of Change, a 14’ x 70’ tiled mosaic mural on the Fell Street retaining wall between Pierce and Steiner Streets, at the rear of Ida B. Wells High School. The mural will be created by Kid Serve Youth Mural founder Josef Norris and 50 students from Ida B. Wells High School, in collaboration with the Alamo Square Neighborhood Association and the North of Panhandle Merchant’s Association. Work will commence in April 2010 and will be completed in December 2010.
3. Motion to approve and accept into the Civic Art Collection NEVERODDOREVEN, 2009, a carved redwood sculpture by Living Lenses (Louise Bertelsen and Po Shu Wang), located in Courtyard J at Laguna Honda Hospital and Rehabilitation Center.
- Public Art Program Artist Selection Process
Susan Pontious
Program Director’s Report
Report on the standardization of the Public Art Program’s artist selection process.
- Church and Duboce Streetscape Improvement Project
Jennifer Lovvorn
Staff Report
Presentation of artist selection and proposal recommended by the Church & Duboce Artist Selection Panel.
Motion: Motion to approve the artist and proposal (to be announced at the meeting) recommended by the Church & Duboce Artist Selection Panel for the Church & Duboce Streetscape Improvement Project from the following list of finalists: Rebar Group, Masayuki Nagase and Primitivo Suarez-Wolfe.
Motion: Motion to authorize the Director of Cultural Affairs to enter into a contract with the artist selected by the Church & Duboce Artist Selection Panel from the following list of finalists (Rebar Group, Masayuki Nagase and Primitivo Suarez-Wolfe) for design, fabrication, transportation and installation consultation for artwork for the Church & Duboce Streetscape Improvement Public Art Project in an amount not to exceed $120,000.
- Leland Avenue Streetscape Improvement Project
Mary Chou
Presentation of selection of artist finalist recommended by the Leland Avenue Streetscape Artist Selection Panel.
Motion: Motion to approve the artwork proposal by Michael Passmore/REBAR, as recommended by the Leland Avenue Streetscape Artist Selection Panel, for the Leland Avenue Streetscape Improvement Project.
Motion: Motion to authorize the Director of Cultural Affairs to enter into contract with Michael Passmore/REBAR for the final design, fabrication, transportation and installation consultation of an artwork for the Leland Avenue Streetscape Improvement Project in an amount not to exceed $35,000.
- Airport
Susan Pontious
Presentation of revisions to Clare Rojas’ proposal for Boarding Area G at SFO.
Motion: Motion to approve revised Clare Rojas proposal for Boarding Area G at SFO, which adds a 4" frame around the image.
Appointment of new Arts Commission representative on Airport Art Steering Committee.
- PUC Art Enrichment Grant to Jennifer Alexander
Susan Pontious
Presentation of artist Jennifer Alexander’s proposed temporary sculpture garden to be created on a PUC land parcel through a grant from PUC art enrichment funds.
Motion: Motion to approve a $25,000 grant from PUC art enrichment funds to Jennifer Alexander to create a temporary sculpture garden using recycled materials on a PUC parcel of land at 970 Hudson Ave.
- Valencia Streetscape Improvement Project
Susan Pontious
Staff Report
Presentation of proposals by Michael Arcega and Brian Goggin, and request from Commissioners to select one artist to complete an artwork for the Valencia Streetscape Improvement Project.
Motion: Motion to rescind approval by the Visual Arts Committee on September 16, 2009 of the artist Michael Arcega and his proposal recommended by the Valencia Streetscape Artist Selection Panel for the Valencia Streetscape Improvement Project.
Motion: Motion to rescind approval by the Visual Arts Committee on September 16, 2009 to authorize the Director of Cultural Affairs to enter into contract with the artist Michael Arcega, selected by the Valencia Streetscape Artist Selection Panel, for the final design, fabrication, and transportation of artwork for the Valencia Streetscape Improvement Project in an amount not to exceed $52,000.
Motion: Motion to approve the artwork proposal by either Michael Arcega or Brian Goggin (to be determined at the meeting), as recommended by the Valencia Streetscape Artist Selection Panel, for the Valencia Streetscape Improvement Project.
Motion: Motion to authorize the Director of Cultural Affairs to enter into contract with either Michael Arcega or Brian Goggin (to be determined at the meeting) for the final design, fabrication, transportation and installation consultation of an artwork for the Valencia Streetscape Improvement Project in an amount not to exceed $52,000.
- Recommendation for the De-Accessioning of Jacques Overhoff’s Untitled, 1969, at Anna E. Waden Branch Library
Allison Cummings
Staff Report
Report on Library Comission’s request and Arts Commission staff’s recommendation to de-accession from the Civic Art Collection a sculpture by Jacques Overhoff, located at the Anna E. Waden Branch Library in the Bayview District.
Motion: Motion to recommend to the Full Commission, at the Library Commission’s request, the de-accessioning from the Civic Art Collection of Jacques Overhoff’s sculpture, Untitled, 1969, located at the Anna E. Waden Branch Library.
Motion: Motion to approve, at the Library Commission’s request, the demolition of Jacques Overhoff’s sculpture, Untitled, 1969, following the expiration of a 90 day notice period in which the artist or a party authorized by the artist is given opportunity to remove and relocate the artwork.
- Bernal Heights Branch Library
Susan Pontious
Staff Report
Presentation of request from the San Francisco Library Commission to conserve the mural by Arch Williams and others on the front facade of the Bernal Heights Branch building and to remove the murals on the sides and back of the building. The Committee is requested to take action on one of two possible motions:
Motion: Motion to approve the request from the San Francisco library Commission to conserve the mural by Arch Williams and others on the facade of the Bernal Heights Branch building, and to remove the murals on the sides and back of the building due to their deteriorated condition.
Motion: Motion to approve the request by the San Francisco Library Commission to remove the murals on the sides of the Bernal Heights branch building due to their deteriorated condition.
- New Business
- Old Business
- Adjournment
MD 10/16/09
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