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MEETING OF THE FULL ARTS COMMISSION
Monday, June 6, 2005
3:00 p.m.
City Hall, Room 416
1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place

Agenda

The regularly scheduled meeting of the San Francisco Arts Commission will be held on June 6, 2005, at 3:00 p.m., at City Hall, Room 416, 1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place, San Francisco, CA 94102.

Roll Call
Approval of Minutes
Action
Motion to approve May 2, 2005 Minutes.
Explanatory document: Draft minutes
President’s Report
Discussion
Introduction of new Commissioners. 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 May 3, 2005.
2. Motion to approve the Civic Design Review Committee Meeting Minutes of May 16, 2005.
  
  Visual Arts Committee Recommendations (May 3, 2005)
  Action
3. Motion to approve an increase in the contract amount with Suzanne Biaggi for fabrication, transportation and installation of a sculpture at Laguna Honda Hospital, from $55,000 to $64,300, to allow for three additional basalt “marker” columns and insurance against loss for four years.
4. Motion to authorize the Director of Cultural Affairs to enter into contract with the artist team of Jeff Northam and Rufus Butler Seder for final design, fabrication, transportation and installation of an artwork for the new Glen Park Branch Library in an amount not to exceed $36,000.
5. Motion to accept artist Vicki Saulls's public artworks “Nuotatori” and “Locus” into the Civic Art Collection.
6. Motion to approve the return and loan for five years of the Bufano sculptures to the Valencia Gardens housing development contingent upon a memorandum of understanding (“MOU”) outlining the terms of the loan agreed to by all the parties.
7. Motion to approve the following artists as finalists for the Sava Pool Public Art Project: the Los Angeles-based collaborative group, Electroland; Catherine Wagner; and Relja Penezic; and to approve Seyed Alavi as an alternate.
8. Motion to authorize the Director of Cultural Affairs to pay each finalist for the Sava Pool Public Art Project (the Los Angeles-based collaborative group, Electroland; Catherine Wagner; and Relja Penezic; or the alternate Seyed Alavi) $1,000 to develop a site-specific proposal for the second phase of the selection process.
9. Motion to approve the artist team of Susan Schwartzenberg (San Francisco) and Michael Davis (San Pedro, CA) for the Harvey Milk Recreational Arts Center Public Art Project.
10. Motion to authorize the Director of Cultural Affairs to enter into contract with Susan Schwartzenberg and Michael Davis for an amount not to exceed $82,000 to develop final designs, fabricate and install a work of art for the Harvey Milk Recreational Arts Center.
11. Motion to approve revised designs for “Earth” and “Air” images for tapestries by Ann Chamberlain and Bernie Lubell for Laguna Honda Hospital.
12. Motion to authorize the Arts Commission staff to negotiate the private sale of “Masquerade in Black” by Jay DeFeo to a Bay Area arts institution.
13. Motion to approve an honorarium payment to Lewis deSoto of $2,000 to develop a proposal that incorporates recognition of San Francisco’s sister cities into his artwork “On the Air” at San Francisco International Airport.
14. Motion to approve the final inspection and completion of the Diller + Scofidio project at Moscone West.
15. Motion to approve the design proposal submitted by David Best for the Hayes Green project and to approve the temporary installation of the sculpture from May 25 to September 30, 2005.
  
  Civic Design Review Committee Recommendations (May 16, 2005)
  Action
16. Motion to approve location as presented, exclusive to the proposed pump station at Park P-18, pending further review of the design of the building.
17. Motion to approve Little Saigon Phase 3.
18. Motion to approve California Japantown Monument Phase 3.
19. Motion to approve Academy of Sciences Phase 3.
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 Committee
  1. Discussion: Report from Chair of Civic Design Committee regarding activities of the Committee and the Program.
3. Community Arts, Education and Grants Committee—Blanche Brown, Chair
  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 panelists for the Cultural Equity Grants panel pool:
    
    Clarence Ting, media artist
    EG Crichton, visual artist, former Individual Artist Commission recipient
    Jess Wells, novelist
    Nancy Suib, book distributor
    Truong Tran, poet and teacher
    Raissa de la Rosa, Cultural Funding Program Coordinator, City of Oakland
    Indra Mungal, Community Programs Manager, Oakland Museum of California
    Marc Vogl, Artistic Director, Killing My Lobster theatre company
    John Federco, photographer, teacher
    Holly Babe Faust, former Executive Director of the Oakland Youth Chorus
    Keina Elswick Davis, painter, former Individual Artist Commission recipient
    Peikwen Cheng, photographer, former Individual Artist Commission recipient
    JD Beltran, visual artist, member of the advisory board for the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery
    Eleanor Harwood, curator at the Adobe Books galleries
    Tucker Nichols, visual artist
    Tod Booth, Program Director, San Francisco Independent Film Festival
    Felicia Lowe, independent and KQED film producer
    Taro Goto, Program Director, National Asian American Telecommunications Association
    Ariella Ben-Dov, director of MadCat Women’s Film Festival
    
    Explanatory document: Memo from Cultural Equity Grants Program Director Jewelle Gomez
  3. Action: Motion to approve the Programs in the Community (PIC) grant to the following PIC grantee organizations, recommended by the PIC review panel, from the 2005-2006 Grants for the Arts Fund, pending written confirmation from Grants for the Arts:
    
    Bay Area Community Resources (for CHALK), $12,000
    Central City Hospitality House, $17,000
    Community Educational Services (for Chinatown Beacon Center), $16,000
    Eldergivers, $17,000
    Filipino-American Development Foundation, $17,000
    Hunters Point Family, $17,000
    Kimochi, Inc., $16,000
    People Organized to Win Employment Rights, $17,000
    Rose Resnick Lighthouse for the Blind & Visually Impaired, $12,750
    Urban Services YMCA, $16,980
    
    TOTAL: $158,730
    
    Explanatory document: Community Arts and Education panel comments
  4. Action: Motion to modify the 2003-2005 contract of Judith Tannenbaum from $76,545 to $82,545 to pay for increased services in training and editing for WritersCorps from Youth Arts Fund.
  5. Action: Motion to modify the 2003-2005 contract of Meroe (also known as Mahru) Elahi from $47,135 to $49,135 to pay for increased services in teaching from Youth Arts Fund.
  6. Action: Motion for Director of Cultural Affairs to modify the contract of WritersCorps Log Cabin teacher Kimberly Nelson from $31,722 to $38,722, supported by funds from the Youth Arts Fund.
  7. Action: Motion to increase the contract with San Francisco Foundation Community Initiatives Fund, as originally authorized by Resolution No. 1101-04-248, by $26,500, to total $61,500, to support 2005-2006 Arts Education Funders Collaborative projects, and to support an arts education intern. Funds are from the Youth Arts Fund, Arts Education Fund, and Arts Education Organization Grant Fund.
4. Street Artists Committee
  1. Discussion: Report from Chair of Street Artists Committee regarding activities of the Committee and the Program.
  2. Action: Motion to approve former certificate-holder for priority issuance of certificate and waiver of re-screening of wares: Josh Martin.
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 loan of three Edvard Munch prints, “Separation I,” lithograph, “Death in the Sickroom,” lithograph, and “Head by Head,” woodcut, to the exhibition “Prints by Edvard Munch” organized by the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University. Loan dates are: February 22, 2006 to July 25, 2006.
  3. Action: Motion to acknowledge and thank Department of Public Works landscape architect John Thomas for his extraordinary personal contribution to Public Art projects, including the David Best sculpture and the Turk Hyde Mini Park. His personal donations are above and beyond his consistent professional helpfulness and support during the design and implementation of these and other Public Art projects.
  4. Action: Motion to approve artist honorarium up to a total of $8,000 for one artist as yet to be named, for summer residency project.
New Business
Discussion
San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery Presentation
Discussion: Presentation by Rupert Jenkins, departing Arts Commission Gallery Director.
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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