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MEETING OF THE FULL ARTS COMMISSION
Monday, February 4, 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 January 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
1. Motion to approve the Visual Arts Committee Meeting Minutes of December 6, 2007.
2. Motion to approve the Community Arts, Education and Grants Committee Meeting Minutes of January 8, 2008.
3. Motion to approve the Street Artists Committee Meeting Minutes of January 9, 2008.
4. Motion to approve the Executive Committee Meeting Minutes of January 15, 2008.
5. Motion to approve the Visual Arts Committee Meeting Minutes of January 16, 2008.
  
  Community Arts, Education and Grants Committee Recommendations (January 8, 2008)
  Action
6. Motion to approve the recommendation to award one grant totaling $100,000 for the 2007-2008 International Arts Festival Grant to the following organization and to authorize the Director of Cultural Affairs to enter into a grant agreement for the amount listed:
  
  World Arts West, $100,000
  
  Explanatory documents: International Arts Festival applicant ranking, panel comments, and bios of the grants review panelists.
7. Motion to approve recommendations to award eighteen grants totaling $439,500 in the 2007-2008 cycle of Cultural Equity Initiatives Level One grants to the following organizations, and to authorize the Director of Cultural Affairs to enter into grant agreements with each for the amounts listed:
  
  3rd I South Asian Independent Film Festival, $25,000
  ABADA Capoeira San Francisco, $25,000
  Asian Improv aRts, $15,000
  Carnaval San Francisco, $25,000
  Children’s Book Press, $25,000
  Chinese Culture Foundation of San Francisco, $25,000
  Chinese Historical Society of America, $25,000
  Fresh Meat Productions, $25,000
  Galeria de la Raza, $25,000
  Gen Taiko, $25,000
  Melody of China, Inc., $25,000
  Oasis for Girls, $25,000
  Purple Moon Dance Project, $25,000
  Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project, $25,000
  Radar Productions, $25,000
  Theatre Rhinoceros, $25,000
  Women’s Audio Mission, $24,500
  World Arts West, $25,000
  
  Explanatory documents: Cultural Equity Initiatives Level One applicant ranking and project descriptions by organization budget size: organizations with budgets up to $150,000, and organizations with budgets between $150,000 and $1 million; and bios of the grants review panelists.
  
  Street Artists Committee Recommendations (January 9, 2008)
  Action
8. Motion to approve (1) finding of violation of Street Artists Ordinance by Sua Far Lee for obtaining a selling space from the Arts Commission’s street artist lottery and selling with an expired certificate, and (2) re-issuance of Ms. Lee’s certificate.
9. Motion to approve amendments of November 14, 2007 Street Artists Committee minutes, Items 1 and 2.
  
  Executive Committee Recommendations (January 15, 2008)
  Action
10. Motion to increase the grant agreement with the Bayview Opera House, Inc., for a total grant not to exceed $310,399, contingent upon their revised budget submission.
11. Motion to approve the FY 2008-2009 Arts Commission budget submission to the Mayor’s Office.
12. Motion to approve the FY 2008-2009 Street Artists budget .
  
  Visual Arts Committee Recommendations (January 16, 2008)
  Action
13. Motion to authorize the Director of Cultural Affairs to increase, by an amount not to exceed $6,000, contract #DPAR08000046 with artists Packard Jennings and Steve Lambert for their Art on Market Street Program kiosk poster series and auxiliary programming. Additional funds are for the printing of a catalog. The revised total contract amount is not to exceed $17,000.
14. Motion to authorize the Director of Cultural Affairs to enter into contract with Curator Patricia Maloney for her curatorial work on the Arts Commission Gallery exhibition Make You Notice, for an amount not to exceed $5,100.
15. Motion to approve the temporary installation of the sculpture Koilos Aeionic by artist Michael Christian on Patricia’s Green, sponsored by the Hayes Valley Art Coalition for a period of six months pending approval from the Recreation and Parks Department.
16. Motion to support the concept of placing a memorial bust of former Mayor Adolph Sutro in City Hall, pending Arts Commission approval of the design, the identification of an appropriate location in City Hall, and the raising of funds for all project costs including the maintenance endowment.
17. Motion to approve artist Clare Rojas’ proposal for Boarding Area G gateroom wall.
18. Motion to authorize the Director of Cultural Affairs to relocate the Rabbinoid sculpture by Gerald Heffernon from Stern Grove to Esprit Park pending favorable response from community groups in the surrounding vicinity.
19. Motion to approve the final installation of Blueprints, two curtain wall artworks, each consisting of a total of 21 insulated glass units, installed in two stair towers on the façade of the new San Francisco Municipal Railway Metro East Vehicle Operations and Maintenance Facility at Illinois and Cesar Chavez Streets by artists Nobuho Nagasawa and Anita Margrill, and to accept the two artworks into the Civic Art Collection.
20. Motion to approve the proposal by artist Owen Smith for the Art on Market Street Program in 2008 and to authorize the Director of Cultural Affairs to enter into contract with Owen Smith for the design of six original artworks and the printing of 24 kiosk poster reproductions, with auxiliary programming, for an amount not to exceed $18,000.
  
  Civic Design Review Committee Recommendations (January 28, 2008)
  Action
21. Motion to approve Phases 1 and 2 of the Alameda Siphon No. 4 Project—Chemical Injection Control and Electric Shed Buildings.
22. Motion to approve Phases 1 and 2 of the Roselle Crossover Improvements Project—Valve Vault and Generator Buildings.
Committee Reports
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
  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
  1. Discussion: Report from Community Arts, Education and Grants Committee regarding activities of the Committee and the Program.
  2. Action: Motion to approve the following individuals as grants application review panelists for Cultural Equity Grants:
    
    Wilma Bonet, Independent Playwright, Actor, Director
    Dr. Anthony Brown, Artistic Director, Asian American Orchestra
    Sabina Chen, Executive Director, Chinese Culture Center
    T. Kebo Drew, Development and Events Manager, Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project
    Laura Elaine Ellis, Executive Director, African and African American Performing Arts Coalition
    Joseph Jennings, Music Director, Chanticleer
    Angela Mattox, Associate Performing Arts Curator, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
    Chad Sweeney, Independent Writer and Co-editor, Parthenon West Review
    Michelle Tea, Artistic Director, Radar Productions
    Torange Yeghiazarian, Artistic Director, Golden Thread Productions
    
    Explanatory documents: Cultural Equity Grants Biographies of Grants Application 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: Ravit Maman, Ed Handelman, Aihua Zhang, Ann Garsson, Norma Hanley, Kevin McCarthy.
  3. Action: Motion to approve honorarium payment of no more than $2,500 to Rick Elizaga Design for design and creation of Street Artists Program website.
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 installation of Blueprints, an artwork by the artist team of Nobuho Nagasawa and Anita Margrill, consisting of two large graphic curtainwalls installed on the exterior of stair towers on the Municipal Railway Metro East Vehicle Operations and Maintenance Facility at 601 – 25th Street, at Cesar Chavez and Illinois Street.
  3. Action: Motion to accept into the Civic Art Collection Blueprints, an artwork by the artist team of Nobuho Nagasawa and Anita Margrill, consisting of two curtainwalls (each 36 feet high and 19 feet wide), and each on the exterior of two stair towers, with each curtainwall comprised of 21 individual insulated glass units, with two laminated tinted blue glass panels on the interior and two clear glass panels on the exterior laminated with a white line mechanical engineering drawing (each curtainwall with a different drawing) extended over the entire surface of each curtainwall, installed at the Municipal Railway Metro East Vehicle Operations and Maintenance Facility, located at 601 – 25th Street at Cesar Chavez and Illinois Street.
  4. Action: Motion to approve the indefinite extension of the Flor del Sol mosaic paving installation by artist Jennifer Alexander at Juri Commons subject to the agreement of the Recreation and Park Department with the explicit understanding that the Arts Commission shall have no responsibility for the maintenance of the work.
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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