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Visual_Arts_Committee

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VISUAL ARTS COMMITTEE
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
10:00 a.m.
25 Van Ness Avenue, Suite 70


 

Agenda

 

  1. North Beach Branch Library
    Jennifer Lovvorn
    Presentation of finalists and alternate for the North Beach Branch Library public art project.

    Motion: Motion to approve the artist selection panel's recommendation of the following artists as finalists for the North Beach Branch Library public art project: Bill Fontana, Paul Hayes and Mark Malmberg as finalists and Mark Baugh-Sasaki as the alternate.

  2. Church & Duboce Muni Track and Streetscape Improvement Project
    Jennifer Lovvorn
    Presentation of finalists and alternate for the Church & Duboce Muni Track and Streetscape Improvement public art project.

    Motion: Motion to approve the artist selection panel's recommendation of the following artists as finalists for the Church & Duboce Muni Track and Streetscape Improvement public art project: Masayuki Nagase, Primitivo Suarez-Wolfe, and Matthew Passmore/REBAR as finalists and Donald Fortescue as the alternate.

  3. General Hospital Acute Care Unit - Second Floor Corridor
    Jennifer Lovvorn
    Presentation of Lena Wolff's preliminary design illustrations for an artwork for the second floor corridor of the General Hospital Acute Care Unit.

    Motion: Motion to approve preliminary design illustrations by Lena Wolff for an artwork for the second floor corridor of the General Hospital Acute Care Unit.

  4. General Hospital Acute Care Unit - Art Steering Committee
    Jennifer Lovvorn
    Staff Report

    Report on formation of the General Hospital Acute Care Unit Art Steering Committee and request for Commissioner representative to the committee.

    Motion: Motion to approve the following arts professionals as possible members of the General Hospital Acute Care Unit Art Steering Committee: Leonard Hunter, former Art Commissioner; Hilda Shum, artist; Richard Shaw, artist; Blake Summers, Director and Chief Curator, San Francisco Airport Museums; and Peter Richards, artist.

  5. Art on Market Street
    Jill Manton
    Staff Report
    Presentation of proposals by three artists for the 2009/10 Art on Market Street Program.

    Motion: Motion to approve the kiosk poster proposal by artist Pamela Wilson Ryckman for the Art on Market Street 2009/10 Program and to authorize the Director of Cultural Affairs to enter into a contract for an amount not to exceed $16,000 to design and print six posters and coordinate an auxiliary public program.

    Motion: Motion to approve the kiosk poster proposal by artist Binh Danh for the Art on Market Street 2009/10 Program and to authorize the Director of Cultural Affairs to enter into a contract for an amount not to exceed $16,000 to design and print six posters and coordinate an auxiliary public program.

    Motion: Motion to approve the kiosk poster proposal by artist Jonathan Burstein for the Art on Market Street 2009/10 Program and to authorize the Director of Cultural Affairs to enter into a contract for an amount not to exceed $16,000 to design and print six posters and coordinate an auxiliary public program.

  6. Valencia Streetscape
    Tonia Macneil

    Presentation of finalists and alternate for the Valencia Streetscape public art project.

    Motion: Motion to approve the artist selection panel’s recommendation of the following artists as finalists for the Valencia Streetscape public art project: Michael Arcega, Ana Teresa Fernandez, Brian Goggin, and Misako Inaoka.

  7. 2008-2009 Annual Maintenance of the Embarcadero Historic and Interpretive Signage and the Promenade Ribbon Sculpture
    Carol Marie Daniels

    A brief review of the 2008-2009 projects funded by the San Francisco County Transportation Authority.

  8. New Business

    Discussion of possible Laguna Honda Hospital print purchases for patient rooms - Jill Manton

    Section 149 policy issue about use of private percent for art funds for performing arts spaces of facilities as well as for visual arts acquisitions or display - Jill Manton

  9. Old Business

  10. Adjournment

MC 6/12/09


Notices

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