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MEETING OF THE FULL ARTS COMMISSION
Monday, May 4, 2009
3:00 p.m.
City Hall, Room 416
1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place

Agenda

Roll Call
Approval of Minutes
Action
Motion to approve March 9, 2009 Minutes.
Motion to approve April 6, 2009 Minutes.

Explanatory documents: Draft minutes
President’s Report
Discussion
Current developments and announcements, including a brief update on City budget issues.
Director’s Report
Discussion
Current administrative, budgetary and programming developments and announcements, including intitiatives with local media to promote arts and culture.
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 Ad Hoc Planning Committee Meeting Minutes of February 19, 2009.
2. Motion to approve the Executive Committee Meeting Minutes of March 23, 2009.
3. Motion to approve the Community Arts, Education, and Grants Committee Meeting Minutes of April 14, 2009.
  
  Community Arts, Education, and Grants Committee Recommendations April 14, 2009 )
  Action
4. Motion to approve recommendations to award forty-three grants totaling $525,000 in the 2008-2009 cycle of Organization Project Grants to the following organizations, and to authorize the Director of Cultural Affairs to enter into grant agreements with each for the amounts listed:
  
  AfroSolo Theatre Company, $13,500
  Arab Cultural & Community Center, $12,000
  ArtSpan, $12,000
  Asian Improv Arts, $12,000
  BAYCAT, $12,000
  Chhandam Chitresh Das Dance Company, $12,000
  Circo Zero, $12,000
  Climate Theater, $13,500
  CounterPulse, $13,500
  Cuba Caribe, $13,500
  Cutting Ball Theater, $12,000
  Cypress String Quartet/Cypress Performing Arts Association, $12,000
  DanceArt, Inc, $12,000
  Dancing Tree, $12,000
  Earplay, $12,000
  Epiphany Productions, $12,000
  Femina Potens, $12,000
  Genryu Arts, $13,500
  Golden Thread Productions, $12,000
  Intersection for the Arts, $13,500
  Janice Garrett and Dancers, $12,000
  Jess Curtis/Gravity, $12,000
  Joe Goode Performance Group, $13,500
  Litquake, $12,000
  Margaret Jenkins Dance Company, $13,500
  Museum of Craft & Folk Art, $12,000
  Na Lei Hulu I Ka Wekiu, $12,000
  New Langton Arts, $12,000
  PlayGround, $12,000
  Root Division, $12,000
  San Francisco Cinematheque, $12,000
  San Francisco Independent Film Festival, $6,540
  San Francisco Live Arts, $12,000
  San Francisco Mime Troupe, $13,500
  Scott Wells and Dancers, $12,000
  ShadowLight Productions, $12,000
  Shinichi lova-Koga/inkBoat, $12,000
  Small Press Traffic Literary Arts Center, $12,000
  Southern Exposure, $12,000
  Stepology, $13,500
  The African & African American Performing Arts Coalition, $12,000
  The ESP Project: Erika Chong Shuch Performance Project, $11,460
  The San Francisco Silent Film Festival, $12,00
  
  Visual Arts Committee Recommendations (April 22, 2009)
  Action
5. Motion to approve honoraria payments to the following artists for the amount of $400 each: Michelle Blade, Jason Jagel, Ray Potes, Clare Rojas, Deth P. Sun, Kelly Tunstall, and Marci Washington, and $1200 to Maya Hayuk, for their participation in the exhibition “Trace Elements” at the SFAC Gallery from May 8, 2009 to July 3, 2009.
6. Motion to approve the removal of a portion of a mural entitled History of the Sunset District created in 1978 with lead artist Henry D. Sultan and the Sunset Mural Workshop and restored in 2003 with Precita Eyes Muralists under the direction of Jason Gilmore. The mural is located on the retaining wall on the north side of the West Sunset Playground at 3223 Ortega Street in San Francisco, and will be removed as part of the renovation to the Ortega Branch Library to increase security and decrease vandalism.
7. Motion to approve the following individuals as members of the Leland Avenue Streetscape Artist Selection Panel: Rene de Guzman, Senior Curator, Oakland Museum of California; Amy Trachtenberg, artist; Marlene Tran, community representative; and Anne Seeman, community representative.
8. Motion to approve the following individuals as candidates for the Valencia Streetscape Artist Selection Panel: Kevin Chen, Program Director, Intersection for the Arts; Carolina Ponce de León , Director, Galería de la Raza; Patricia Rodriguez, Gallery Manager, Mission Cultural Center; Alleluia Panis, Executive Director, Kularts; Susan Cervantes, Executive Director, Precita Eyes Mural Arts Center; Margie O’Driscoll, Executive Director, American Institute of Architects, San Francisco Chapter; and Kim Anno, artist, professor, writer.
9. Motion to approve Clare Rojas’ final design for her artwork for Boarding Area G at San Francisco International Airport and approval to proceed with fabrication.
10. Motion to approve patina colors for Cliff Garten’s sculptural handrail for Laguna Honda Hospital.
11. Motion to approve revised proposal by Suzanne Biaggi to integrate the design of the retaining wall encircling the sculpture site in Courtyard F at Laguna Honda Hospital by cladding it in cor-ten steel so that it appears as an intended sculptural element.
12. Motion to approve and accept four glass mosaic artworks—Hermit Thrush 2, 3 3/4” x 40” x 3/4”; Goldfinch 5, 40” x 40” x 3/4”; Goldfinch with Zinnia 2, 40 1/3” x 39 7/8” x 3/4”; Morning Light 2, 471/4” x 47 1/4” x 3/4”—2009 by Diane Andrews Hall, commissioned for Laguna Honda Hospital, into the Civic Art Collection.
13. Motion to approve the artist team Wowhaus and their proposal for the Ortega Branch Library, as recommended by the Ortega Branch Community Artist Selection Panel.
14. Motion to authorize the Director of Cultural Affairs to enter into contract with the artist team Wowhaus in an amount not to exceed $75,000 for the final design, fabrication, and transportation of an artwork for the Ortega Branch Library.
15. Motion to approve an honorarium payment to Christian Werthmann in the amount of $9,500 to develop a design proposal and to address the feasibility and cost of implementing the Harvey Milk Memorial (also known as the Pink Cloud) as a temporary project at the intersection of Castro, Market and 17th Streets.
16. Motion to approve the following arts professionals as potential selection panelists for the Church & Duboce Muni Track and Streetscape Improvements Public Art Project: Joseph Becker or Jennifer Dunlop Fletcher, Assistant Curator, Architecture and Design, SFMOMA; Zac Frank, former Special Projects Director, Urban Art Program, NYC Department of Transportation, Division of Urban Art and Design; and Julio Morales, artist.
17. Motion to approve Laurel True as the project artist for the Hayes Valley Playground project.
18. Motion to rescind Resolution No. 0913-04-192, which suspended the Civic Art Collection Loan Program in September 2004 as a result of budget cuts and the elimination of the Civic Art Collection Program Director.
19. Motion to implement the Civic Art Collection Loan Program, as described in the staff report, with the borrowing department assuming all costs associated with the loan.
20. Motion to approve six finalists: Julie Chang, Colette Crutcher, Paul Hayes, Liang LiQing, Shan Shan Sheng, and Margarita Soufertis; and two alternates: Kana Tanaka and Hou Yumei; for the Chinese Recreation Center public art project.
21. Motion to approve the final design of What is Missing?, a cone-shaped sculpture with audio and video components, by Maya Lin, to be permanently displayed in the East Terrace of the Academy of Sciences.
Committee Reports and Committee Matters
1. Executive Committee—P.J. Johnston, Chair
  1. Discussion: Report from Chair of Executive Committee regarding activities of the Committee and the Program.
2. Civic Design Review Committee—Cass Calder Smith, Chair
  1. Discussion: Report from Chair of Civic Design Review Committee regarding activities of the Committee and the Program.
3. Community Arts, Education and Grants Committee—Maya Draisin, Chair
  1. Discussion: Report from Chair of Community Arts, Education and Grants Committee regarding activities of the Committee and the Programs.
  2. Action: Motion to approve recommendations to award fourteen grants totaling $106,000 in the 2008-2009 cycle of Native American Arts & Cultural Traditions (NAACT) grants to the following organizations and individual artists, and to authorize the Director of Cultural Affairs to enter into grant agreements with each for the amounts listed:
    
    In the “Individual Artists” category:
    Ross Cunningham, $7,500
    Reid Gomez, $7,500
    Jeremy Goodfeather, $7,500
    Niki Lee, $6,000
    
    In the “Presenting the Arts” category:
    
    Asociacion Mayab, $7,250
    La Pocha Nostra, $7,250
    Mama Calizo’s Voice Factory, $7,500
    Yerba Buena Arts & Events, $7,500
    
    In the “Building Sustainable Arts” category:
    Galeria de la Raza, $15,000
    Native American AIDS Project, $15,000
    Seventh Native Am Generation, $15,000
    
    In the “Mini-Grants” category:
    Friendship House, Inc., $1,000
    Na Lei Hulu I Ka Wekiu, $1,000
    Native American AIDS Project (Taking Care of the Tribe Powwow), $1,000
    
    Explanatory Documents: Native American Arts & Cultural Traditions Partnerships applicant ranking and project descriptions; summary notes of the application evaluation; and biographies of the grants review panelists.
4. Street Artists Committee—Alexander Lloyd, Chair
  1. Discussion: Report from Chair of Street Artists Committee regarding activities of the Committee and the Program.
  2. Action: Motion to approve requests by former certificate-holders for priority issuance of certificate with waiver of re-screening of wares: Jose Loli, Nicole Ballard, Mame Fama Thiam, Guo Ming Chen, Ramesh Chindam, Frederick Grandy.
5. Visual Arts Committee—Jeannene Przyblyski, Chair
  1. Discussion: Report from Visual Arts Committee regarding activities of the Committee and the Program.
  2. Action: Motion to approve the Director of Cultural Affairs to enter into an agreement with Stanley Saitowitz for an amount not to exceed $10,000 for research and preliminary design relative to the “greening” of the Promenade Ribbon sculpture and its conversion from an electrically illuminated sculpture to one utilizing other solar-activated sources, and to conduct research into a concrete patching compound for the repair of the spalled and cracked concrete along the Ribbon, with funding to be provided by the Port of San Francisco.
New Business
Discussion
(This item is to allow Commissioners to introduce new agenda items for consideration.)
Reports and Announcements
Discussion
(This item is to allow the Commissioners to report on recent arts activities and make announcements)
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.)
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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