Full_Commission
2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 MEETING OF THE FULL ARTS COMMISSION
Monday, September 8, 2008
3:00 p.m.
City Hall, Room 416
1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place
Agenda
- Roll Call
- Approval of Minutes
Action
Motion to approve July 7, 2008 Minutes.
Explanatory document: 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
- Motion to approve the Executive Committee Meeting Minutes of June 17, 2008.
- Motion to approve the Community Arts, Education and Grants Committee Meeting Minutes of July 8, 2008.
- Motion to approve the Executive Committee Meeting Minutes of July 15, 2008.
- Motion to approve the Visual Arts Committee Meeting Minutes of July 16, 2008.
- Motion to approve the Street Artists Committee Meeting Minutes of August 13, 2008.
- Motion to approve the Civic Design Review Committee Meeting Minutes of August 18, 2008.
- Motion to approve the Executive Committee Meeting Minutes of August 19, 2008.
- Motion to approve the Visual Arts Committee Meeting Minutes of August 20, 2008.
Community Arts, Education, and Grants Committee Recommendations (July 8, 2008)
Action
- Motion for the Director of Cultural Affairs to enter into contract with the following teaching artists to work in the WritersCorps program for 2008-2009:
Milta Ortiz $38,000
Cindy Je $38,000
Myron Michael Hardy $38,000
Katharine Gin $51,500
Judith Tannenbaum $57,000
Visual Arts Committee Recommendations (July 16, 2008)
Action
- Motion to approve an artist honorarium to Jesse Schlesinger in the amount of $1200 for his contribution to the installation at Grove Street to be installed on August 24, 2008.
- Motion to approve the design in concept by RHAA Landscape Architects for the installation of Robert Howard’s Whales sculpture at the Ocean Campus of City College San Francisco.
- Motion to approve the revised proposal by Clare Rojas for boarding area G gate room wall at the San Francisco International Airport, which includes a faux molding and picture hanging hook.
- Motion to approve the public art program plan for Terminal Two of the San Francisco International Airport.
- Motion to approve the following pool of potential panelists for the San Francisco International Airport Terminal Two Artist Pool Selection Panel:
Ann Alger, Director of Public Art Program for Phoenix Airport;
Janet Bishop, Curator SFMOMA;
Timothy Burgard, Chief Curator, de Young Museum;
Susan Gray, Artist and Public Art Director, L.A. Redevelopment;
René de Guzman, Chief Curator, Oakland Museum of California;
Susan Harrison, Director of Art in Architecture for GSA, Washington, D.C.;
Kendal Henry, Public Art Administrator, N.Y.;
Walter Hood, Landscape Architect and Artist;
Mildred Howard, Artist;
Arlan Huang, Artist;
Larry Kirkland, Artist, Washington, D.C.;
Miwon Kwon, Art Dept. Faculty, UCLA;
Lizzetta LeFalle-Collins, Independent Curator;
Wang Po Shu, Artist;
Renny Pritikin, Director of Richard L. Nelson Gallery, UCD;
Mary Rubin, Public Art Administrator, San Jose;
Richard Shaw, Artist;
Hilda Shum, Artist;
Meredith Tromble, Critic;
Shelly Willis, Public Art Administrator, Sacramento;
Ruri Yampolsky, Seattle Arts Commission.
- Motion to approve the selection panel’s recommendation of the proposal by artist Bob Zoell for the secure connector at San Francisco International Airport, and authorization for the Director of Cultural Affairs to enter into an agreement with Bob Zoell for up to $200,000 to design, fabricate and transport their artwork for the Airport, pending Airport Commission approval of the design.
- Motion to approve the public art program plan for General Hospital.
- Motion to approve the following pool of potential panelists for the San Francisco General Hospital Artist Pool Selection Panel:
Ann Alger, Director of Public Art Program for Phoenix Airport;
Janet Bishop, Curator SFMOMA;
Timothy Burgard, Chief Curator, de Young Museum;
Susan Gray, Artist and Public Art Director, L.A. Redevelopment;
René de Guzman, Chief Curator, Oakland Museum of California;
Susan Harrison, Director of Art in Architecture for GSA, Washington D.C.;
Kendal Henry, Public Art Administrator, N.Y.;
Walter Hood, Landscape Architect and Artist;
Mildred Howard, Artist;
Arlan Huang, Artist;
Larry Kirkland, Artist, Washington D.C.;
Miwon Kwon, Art Dept. Faculty, UCLA;
Lizzetta LeFalle-Collins, Independent Curator;
Julio Morales, Artist and Co-Director of Queen’s Nails;
Wang Po Shu, Artist;
Renny Pritikin, Director of Richard L. Nelson Gallery, UCD;
Favianna Rodriguez, Artist;
Mary Rubin, Public Art Administrator, San Jose;
Richard Shaw, Artist;
Hilda Shum, Artist;
Meredith Tromble, Critic;
Shelly Willis, Public Art Administrator, Sacramento;
Ruri Yampolsky, Seattle Arts Commission.
- Motion to authorize the Director of Cultural Affairs to enter into contract with the artist team of Brianna Miller and Thien Pham for the development and implementation of a kiosk poster project with auxiliary programming for the Art on Market Street 2008 Program for a contract amount not to exceed $18,000.
- Motion to approve the following pool of potential panelists for the Central Subway Artist Pool Selection Panel:
Jorge Pardo, Director, L.A. Metro Art;
Courtney Fink, Director, Southern Exposure;
Hung Liu, Artist;
Jenifer Wofford, Artist;
Fred Wasserman, Director of Programming, Contemporary Jewish Museum;
Janet Bishop, Curator, SFMOMA;
Elizabeth Thomas, Matrix Curator, Berkeley Art Museum;
Lucinda Barnes, Chief Curator, Berkeley Art Museum;
Suzette Min, Assoc Professor, UC Davis;
Jens Hoffman, Phyllis Wattis Curator, California College of the Arts;
Walter Hood, Architect;
René de Guzman, Chief Curator, Oakland Museum of California;
Hilda Shum, Artist;
Julio Morales, Artist and Co-Director of Queen’s Nails;
Sandra Percival, Executive Director, New Langton Arts;
Jim Melchert, Artist;
Marina MacDougal, Curator;
Lawrence Rinder, Director, Berkeley Art Museum;
Jeff Kelley, Independent Curator;
Hou Hanru, Director of Exhibitions and Public Programs at the San Francisco Art Institute.
- Motion to approve the pooling of funds for the public art projects to be planned and developed for the four new branch libraries—Bayview/Anna E. Waden, Ortega, North Beach and Visitacion Valley—as part of the Branch Library Improvement Program.
- Motion to approve the following pool of potential panelists for the BLIP Artist Pool Selection Panel:
Courtney Fink, Executive Director, Southern Exposure;
Mark Thompson, Director, San Francisco State University Gallery;
Carolina Ponce de León, Board Member, Galeria de la Raza;
Linda Raynsford, Artist;
Reddy Lieb, Artist;
Joyce Hsu, Artist;
Elizabeth Thomas, Matrix Director, Berkeley Art Museum;
Katherine Aoki, Artist;
Leo Bersamina, Artist;
Sabina Chen, Executive Director, Chinese Culture Center;
Kristen Zaremba, Project Manager, Oakland Public Art Program;
and René de Guzman, Chief Curator, Oakland Museum of California.
Community Arts, Education, and Grants Committee Recommendations (August 12, 2008)
Action
- Motion to approve the following individuals as grants application review panelists for Cultural Equity Grants:
Jack Carpenter, Production Manager, World Arts West, theater facilities consultant
Rudy Garcia, Artistic Director, Alegría de San José
Wayne Hazzard, Executive Director, Dancers’ Group
Ken Ikeda, Executive Director, Bay Area Video Coalition
Raul Lozano, Executive Director, Teatro Vision
Thérèse F. Martin, Executive Director, ArtSpan
Marc Vogl, Program Officer, Arts & Culture, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
Michael Warr, Projects Director, CompassPoint Nonprofit Services
- Motion to enter into a 2008-2009 grant agreement with the CIF (Community Initiative Funds) of the San Francisco Foundation in an amount not to exceed $28,000 to support the arts education program intern.
- Motion to approve Neighborhood Festival grants to the following organizations pending written confirmation from Grants for the Arts:
Treasure Island Homeless Development Initiative to support the Treasure Island Community Day Festival, $3,000
North of Market/Tenderloin Community Benefit District to support the Safe Streets Holiday Street Festival, $3,000
Visitacion Valley Community Development Corporation for Visitacion Valley Business Opportunities and Outreach to Merchants to support the Leland Avenue Street Fair, $3,000
- Motion for the Director of Cultural Affairs to enter into contract with Aracely Gonzalez to teach in the WritersCorps program in an amount not to exceed $39,000.
Civic Design Review Committee Recommendations (August 18, 2008)
Action
- Motion to approve changes to approved Phase 3 design Mission Bay Pump Station at P-15.
- Motion to approve Phase 2 of the Parkside Branch Library.
- Motion to approve Phase 2 of the Bay Division Pipelines Reliability Upgrade—Tunnel Shaft Housing on the condition that the design team reevaluate the design of the base of the building.
Visual Arts Committee Recommendations (August 20, 2008)
Action
- Motion to approve the six final poster designs by artist Jenifer Wofford scheduled for reproduction and installation in 24 kiosks on Market Street from September 22 to December 18, 2008 for the Art on Market Street 2008 Program.
- Motion to approve a mural by artist Cory Calandra working in collaboration with workshop participants from The Giants Community Fund, San Francisco Recreation and Park Department, the Excelsior Playground Program, and San Francisco Giants player Omar Vizquel, located at the Excelsior Playground at 579 Madrid Avenue in proximity of first base, pending approval from relevant parties to paint over an existing mural in the same location.
- Motion to approve an artist honorarium to Michael Zheng in the amount of $1000 for his organizational contribution to the main gallery exhibition to be installed on January 25, 2009.
- Motion to approve artist honoraria in the amount of $200 each to artists Todd Hido, David Maisel and Christina Seely to develop unique proposals for new North Light Court art banners in City Hall.
- Motion to approve final images of artist Beliz Brother’s photographic lightboxes for south resident floors for Laguna Honda Hospital.
- Motion to expend up to $15,000 of funds provided by the Emergency Management Department for the removal of the artwork Water Table from the Emergency Communications Center, for its relocation to an alternate site, and for rehabilitation of the artwork to its original condition.
- Motion to approve the final installation of five stainless steel sculptures and one stainless steel and glass sculpture by Troy Corliss at the Upper Noe Valley Recreation Center.
- Motion to accept five sculptures by artist Troy Corliss at the Upper Noe Valley Recreation Center into the Civic Art Collection.
Executive Committee Recommendations (August 19, 2008)
Action
- Motion to approve the allocation of $139,800 from the Public Art Fund to support several activities including the Mayor’s Art Award, the Arts Commission Gallery, the Arts Commission Planning Retreat expenses, and other administrative functions.
- Committee Reports and Committee Matters
- Executive Committee—P.J. Johnston, Chair
- Discussion: Report from Chair of Executive Committee regarding activities of the Committee and the Program.
- Civic Design Review Committee—Jeannene Przyblyski, Chair
- Discussion: Report from Chair of Civic Design Review Committee regarding activities of the Committee and the Program.
- Community Arts, Education and Grants Committee—Maya Draisin, Chair
- Discussion: Report from Community Arts, Education and Grants Committee regarding activities of the Committee and the Program.
- Action: Motion to amend the Neighborhood Festival grant to support the Sunset Community Festival from Sunset District Neighborhood Coalition to (fiscal sponsor) Sunset Youth Services.
- Action: Motion to approve the following individuals as grants application review panelists for Cultural Equity Grants:
Linda Blackaby, Director of Programming, San Francisco Film Society
Dyana Curreri-Ermatinger, Executive Director, San Francisco Center for the Book
René de Guzman, Senior Curator, Oakland Museum of California
Sergio De La Torre, Filmmaker and Assistant Professor, Art and Architecture Department, University of San Francisco
Lisa Dent, Owner and Manager, Lisa Dent Gallery
Taro Hattori, Visual Artist and Curator
Summerlea Kashar, Assistant Director, Cartoon Art Museum
Andrew Leland, Managing Editor, Believer Magazine
Genny Lim, Poet, Playwright, Performer and Educator
Michelle Mansour, Executive Director, Root Division
Jessica Mele, Program Director, Performing Arts Workshop
Kirthi Nath, Multimedia Artist
Ramedon O’Arwisters, Assistant Curator of Exhibitions, San Francisco Airport
giovanni singleton,Writer and Editor, Nocturnes Journal
Elizabeth Thomas, Phyllis Wattis MATRIX Curator, Berkeley Art Museum
Anurahda Vikram, Writer and Curator
Supplemental documents: Cultural Equity Grants Biographies of Grants Application Review Panelists.
- 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 requests by former certificate-holders for priority issuance of certificate with waiver of re-screening of wares: David Ortiz, Maryann Milburn, Libo Chen, Terence M. Hurley, Tanya Key, Javiera Kuncar, James Barbera, David Moses, Janice Patten, Julianne Sterling, Jeff Zepeda, Alma Caldwell.
- Action: Motion to rescind Resolution No. 0407-08-096 (“Motion to change the schedule of meetings of the Street Artists Committee from monthly to bimonthly, beginning with the meeting of May 14, 2008”) pursuant to directive of Sunshine Ordinance Task Force.
- Action: Motion to change the schedule of meetings of the Street Artists Committee from monthly to bimonthly, beginning with the meeting of May 14, 2008.
- 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 removal of a mural located on the back wall of the ballpark in proximity to first base at Excelsior Playground, 579 Madrid Avenue, San Francisco, painted in 1977 by a consortium of artists, subject to direction from the City Attorney.
- New Business
Discussion
- Reports and Announcements
Discussion
- Public Comment
Discussion
- Adjournment
Action
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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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