Meeting Information

Full_Commission

MEETING OF THE FULL ARTS COMMISSION
Monday, April 7, 2008
3:00 p.m.
City Hall, Room 416
1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place

Agenda

1. Roll Call
   
   
2. Approval of Minutes
   Action
   Motion to approve March 3, 2008 Minutes.
   Explanatory document: Draft minutes
   
   
3. President’s Report
   Discussion
   Current developments and announcements.
   
   
4. Director’s Report
   Discussion
   Current administrative, budgetary and programming developments and announcements.
   
   
5. 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 Community Arts, Education and Grants Committee Meeting Minutes of March 11, 2008.
      
      
   2. Motion to approve the Civic Design Review Committee Meeting Minutes of March 17, 2008.
      
      
   3. Motion to approve the Executive Committee Meeting Minutes of March 18, 2008.
      
      
   4. Motion to approve the Street Artists Committee Meeting Minutes of March 20, 2008.
      
      
      Community Arts, Education and Grants Committee Recommendations (March 11, 2008)
      Action
   5. Motion to transfer funds from the Hotel Tax Fund in the amount of $5,000 to Grants for the Arts for the San Francisco Mayor’s Working Group on American Indian Concerns, to support a feasibility study for the development of an American Indian Community and Cultural Center.
      
      
      Civic Design Review Committee Recommendations (March 17, 2008)
      Action
   6. Motion to approve Phase 1 of the Camp Mather Visitor’s Center with the recommendation that the designers consider additional skylights and consider the balance of bicycle-friendly roads versus permeable paving.
      
      
   7. Motion to approve Phase 1 of the San Francisco General Hospital Rebuild Project with the stipulation that the Committee would like to see a revised design for Phase 2 that is more humane and that expresses the City’s commitment to take care of people where they need it.
      
      
   8. Motion to approve Phase 3 of the James Rolph Clubhouse and Playground Renovation.
      
      
      Executive Committee Recommendations (March 18, 2008)
      Action
   9. Motion to approve recommendations to award forty-eight grants totaling $596,750 in the 2007-2008 cycle of Organization Project Grants (OPG) to the following organizations, and to authorize the Director of Cultural Affairs to enter into grant agreements with each for the amounts listed:
      
      509 Cultural Center/Luggage Store, $15,000
      Afro Solo, $15,000
      American Indian Film Institute, $12,000
      Arab Cultural Center, $12,000
      Arab Film Festival, $12,000
      Army of Lovers, $7,150
      ArtSpan, $12,000
      Asian American Women Artists Association, $7,600
      Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center (APICC), $12,000
      Campo Santo, $15,000
      Charming Hostess, $12,000
      Cuba Caribe, $12,000
      Cypress Performing Arts Association, $12,000
      Dancing Tree, $12,000
      Dandelion Dance Theater, $12,000
      Deborah Slater Dance Theater, $12,000
      Del Sol Performing Arts Organization, $12,000
      Distortion 2 Static, $12,000
      Door Dog Music Productions, $15,000
      Erika Shuch Performance Project (ESP Project), $15,000
      EXIT Theatre, $15,000
      Femina Potens, $12,000
      Global Women Intact, $12,000
      Intersection for the Arts, $12,000
      Joe Goode Performance Group, $15,000
      Kid Serve Youth Murals, $12,000
      La Pocha Nostra, $12,000
      Litquake, $12,000
      Living Word Project, $12,000
      Manilatown Heritage Foundation, $12,000
      Out of Site: Center for Arts Education, $12,000
      Poor Magazine, $12,000
      Precita Eyes Muralists Association, Inc., $12,000
      Root Division, $12,000
      SAFEhouse, $12,000
      San Francisco Black Film Festival, $12,000
      San Francisco Camerawork, $12,000
      San Francisco Hip Hop DanceFest, $15,000
      San Francisco International Arts Festival, $12,000
      San Francisco Live Arts, $12,000
      San Francisco Shakespeare Festival, $12,000
      Scott Wells and Dancers, $12,000
      ShadowLight Productions, $12,000
      Sixth Street Photography Workshop, $15,000
      Small Press Traffic Literary Arts Center, $12,000
      Stepology, $12,000
      The Playwrights Foundation, $15,000
      Yerba Buena Arts and Events, $12,000
      
      Explanatory documents: Organization Project Grants applicant ranking by organizational budget size and project descriptions by discipline groups (Visual, Literary, and Media Arts; and Performing Arts), and biographies of the grants review panelists.
      
      
      Visual Arts Committee Recommendations (March 31, 2008)
      Action
   10. Motion to approve an amendment to increase the budget for Scott Donahue’s contract #POAR04000098 for the design, fabrication and installation of artworks for the Richmond Branch Library by an amount not to exceed $1,000, for a new contract total amount not to exceed $36,000, for additionally required engineering services regarding the safety of the artwork.
       
       
   11. Motion to acknowledge, accept with gratitude, and expend a gift of $2,000 from Friends of Duboce Park, and $1,500 from Hal Fischer and an anonymous donor, for the fabrication and installation of an artwork designed by Susan Schwartzenberg and Michael Davis of a quotation from Harvey Milk on the east-facing wall of the Harvey Milk Center for Recreational Arts.
       
       
   12. Motion to approve revised design in bronze for Cliff Garten’s sculptural handrails at Laguna Honda Hospital.
       
       
   13. Motion to authorize the Director of Cultural Affairs to enter into an agreement with Cliff Garten for $238,108 to fabricate, transport and install 604 linear feet of bronze sculptural handrails at Laguna Honda Hospital.
       
       
   14. Motion to rescind resolution 1001-07-278 approving location proposal for the Harvey Milk Memorial sculpture on a south-facing wall in the Van Ness lobby of City Hall pending approval of the site by the Harvey Milk City Hall Memorial Committee and the City Hall Preservation Advisory Committee.
       
       
   15. Motion to approve the placement of the Harvey Milk memorial bust in the Board of Supervisors Ceremonial Rotunda in City Hall.
       
       
   16. Motion to approve the final design proposal and budget submitted by Maya Lin for the suspended wire landscape sculpture to be fabricated from marine grade stainless steel tubing approximately 5/8 inches in diameter to be installed in the exterior West Terrace of the Academy of Sciences for an amount not to exceed $275,000 including fabrication, transportation and installation.
       
       
   17. Motion to approve final project proposal and authorization for the Director of Cultural Affairs to enter into an agreement with artist Maya Lin for an amount not to exceed $27,000 for installation of a suspended wire landscape sculpture in the exterior West Terrace of the Academy of Sciences targeted for August, 2008.
       
       
   18. Motion to authorize payment of an additional honorarium in the amount of $250 each to artists Wang Po Shu, Walter Kitundu, and Charles Sower to submit a revised proposal for the Randall Museum public art project.
       
       
   19. Motion to approve a project of the Community Arts and Education Program for an exhibition in kiosks on Market Street of posters submitted by the San Francisco Unified School District to be installed in April, 2008.
       
       
6. 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—Jeannene Przyblyski, 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 Community Arts, Education and Grants Committee regarding activities of the Committee and the Program.
         
         
   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: Barbara Zerbe, Canute Davis, Linda Pedersen, Michael Jamison, Salih Inci.
         
         
      3. 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.
         
         
   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 clay models of the bust and the three memorial panels for the Harvey Milk City Hall Memorial Bust sculpture.
         
         
7. New Business
   Discussion
   
   
8. Reports and Announcements
   Discussion
   
   
9. Public Comment
   Discussion
   
   
10. 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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