Full_Commission
2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 MEETING OF THE FULL ARTS COMMISSION
Monday, December 1, 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 November 3, 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
- Motion to approve the Executive Committee Meeting Minutes of October 27, 2008.
- Motion to approve the Street Artists Committee Meeting Minutes of November 12, 2008.
- Motion to approve the Community Arts, Education, and Grants Committee Meeting Minutes of November 13, 2008.
Community Arts, Education and Grants Committee Recommendations (October 14, 2008)
Action
- Motion to approve recommendations to award eight grants totaling $120,000 in the 2008-2009 cycle of Creative Space grants 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
Chinese Historical Society, $13,500
CounterPulse, $18,000
Croatian American Cultural Center, $18,000
Dance Brigade, $15,000
Joe Goode Productions, $9,000
Southern Exposure, $18,000
Women’s Audio Mission, $13,500
- Motion to approve recommendations to award three grants totaling $300,000 in the 2008-2009 cycle of Cultural Equity Initiative Level Two grants to the following organizations, and to authorize the Director of Cultural Affairs to enter into grant agreements with each for the amounts listed:
Fresh Meat Productions, $100,000
ABADA Capoeira San Francisco, $100,000
Dance Brigade, $100,000
- Motion to approve the following individuals as grants application review panelists for Cultural Equity Grants:
Neela Banerjee, Writer and Youth Worker
Eugenie Chan, Playwright
Sarah Crowell, Program/Artistic Director, Destiny Arts Center
Daniel Gray Kontar, Writer, Youth Worker, Ph. D. student
John Jota Leanos, Professor of Social Practice and Community Arts, California College of the Arts
Jessica Mele, Program Director, Performing Arts Workshop
Indra Mungal, Community Program Manager, Oakland Museum of California
Sean Nash, Painter; Professor, California College of the Arts
Dr. Margaret Paloma Pavel, Executive Director, Earth House
David Perez, Literary and Performance Art Program Coordinator, Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana
Theo Rigby, Filmmaker
Gabriela Shiroma, Dancer; Choreographer; Teacher
Judy Young, Executive Director, Vietnamese Youth Development Center
Community Arts, Education, and Grants Committee Recommendations (November 13, 2008)
Action
- Motion to approve recommendations to award thirty-one grants totaling $260,440 in the 2008-2009 cycle of Individual Artist Commissions grants to the following individuals, and to authorize the Director of Cultural Affairs to enter into grant agreements with each for the amounts listed:
Chrissy Anderson-Zavala, $7,500
Sona Avakian, $7,500
Tyson Ayers, $7,680
Stephanie Baker, $7,500
Brent Bishop, $7,500
Evan Bissell, $9,000
Ellen Bruno, $8,500
K. E. Da Silva, $10,000
Chris Carlsson, $10,000
Dina Ciraulo, $7,500
Tsering Dhompa, $8,500
Jacqueline Gordon, $8,000
Pablo Guardiola, $9,000
Perry Hallinan, $7,500
Leticia Hernandez, $8,500
Dee Hibbert-Jones, $8,500
Gigi Janchang, $8,000
Cherylene Lee, $8,500
Lynn Hershman Leeson, $9,000
Rudy Lemcke, $7,500
Jason Mateo, $7,500
Jerome Reyes, $10,000
Kevin Simmonds, $10,000
Annie Sprinkle, $9,000
Kirsten Stolle, $8,000
Candacy Taylor, $10,000
Michelle Tea, $10,000
Truong Tran, $9,000
Max Wolf Valerio, $8,500
Jack Walsh, $7,500
Lindsey Wolkin, $5,260
Civic Design Review Committee Recommendations (November 18, 2008)
Action
- Motion to approve Phase 1 of the San Antonio Pump Station Upgrade Project.
- Motion to approve Phase 3 of the Lake Merced Pump Station Upgrade Project with the contingency that the project team will notify the Arts Commission when the approved landscape has been planted.
- Motion to approve Phase 1 of the La Grande Pump Station Upgrade Project.
- Motion to approve Phase 1 of the Hayes Valley Playground and Clubhouse.
Visual Arts Committee Recommendations (November 19, 2008)
Action
- Motion to approve a mural by artist Mona Caron covering two walls of a building at 86-98 Golden Gate Avenue at Jones Street in collaboration with youth from the Boys & Girls Clubs of San Francisco and the Community Arts Studio. The mural will depict the history of the neighborhood as well as the Southeast Asian community that currently resides in the area.
- Motion to approve the following artists as recommended by the Central Subway Artist Pool Selection Panel as additions to the Central Subway Artist Pool to be eligible candidates for Central Subway Public Art Program art opportunities:
Seyed Alavi
Tomie Arai
Lawrence Argent
Alice Aycock
Ron Baron
JD Beltran and Scott Minneman
Jonathan Bonner
Bill and Mary Buchen
Kendall Buster
Ed Carpenter
Chusien Chang
Jackie Chang
Jackie Ferrara
Bill Fontana
Karen Ganz
Cliff Garten
Brian Goggin
Douglas Hall
Nancy Hom
Yumei Hou and Cai Hong Zhao
Joyce Hsu
Michio Ihara
Yunfei Ji
Ilya and Emilia Kabakov
Kenneth Lum
Wang Po Shu and Louise Bertelsen
Erwin Redl
Kent Roberts
John Roloff and Lewis deSoto
May Sun
Hank Thomas and Ryan Alexiev
Brian Tolle
Catherine Wagner
Flo Oy Wong
Rene Yung
Faye Zhang
- Motion to approve the following artists as recommended by the Branch Library Improvement Program Artist Pool Selection Panel as part of the pre-qualified pool for projects at four branch libraries in San Francisco:
Susan Adame
Adeyinka Adeyemi
Seyed Alavi
Steven Allen
Susannah Bettag
Freddy Chandra
Mei-Chu Chang
Marion Coleman
Susan Felter
Sheila Ghidini
Todd Gilens
Mark Grieve
Gerald Heffernon
Joyce Hsu
Alexandre Koulouris
Dorothy Lenehan
Cork Marcheschi
Anita Margrill
Fran Martin and Jim Crowden
Patricia Montgomery
Elsa Murray
Ene Osteraas-Constable and Scott Constable
Johanna Poethig
Samantha Renko
Jim Rosenau
Catherine Schmid-Maybach
Kathryn Schnell
Les Seymour
Arthur Stern
Barbara Szerlip
Amy Trachtenberg
Ann Weber
Lena Wolff
Debey Zito
- Motion to approve the inclusion of the following artists in a pre-qualified pool for projects at Terminal 2 at San Francisco International Airport:
Seyed Alavi
Terry Allen
Lawrence Argent
Dan Corson
Jim Hirshfield
Ray King
Sheila Klein
Michio Ihara
Anna Murch and Doug Hollis
George Peters and Melanie Walker
Jody Pinto
Charles Sowers
May Sun
Catherine Wagner
Nikolas Weinstein
- Motion to approve the six final designs for the Art on Market Street Project by Briana Miller and Thien Pham titled The Mighty Defender and the Unsung Hero, to be reproduced and installed in 24 kiosks on Market Street from December 22, 2008 to March 19, 2009.
- Motion to authorize the Director of Cultural Affairs to enter into an agreement with Janet Echelman for an amount not to exceed $244,000 for Phase I, conceptual design through construction documents, for an artwork at Terminal 2 of San Francisco International Airport.
- Motion to approve the selection of Charles Sowers to design an artwork(s) to be located in the “Kid’s Spot” locations in Terminal 2 of the San Francisco International Airport, and to authorize payment to Charles Sowers in the amount of $1,000 for a design proposal.
- Motion to approve the following list of artists and artist teams, who by virtue of the San Francisco General Hospital Selection Panel score will be considered first for commission opportunities in the new Acute Care Unit:
Rupert Garcia
Deborah Roundtree and Brian Crotty
Lena Wolf
Lorna Jordan
Lisa Levine
Paul Marioni and Ann Troutner
Joel Meyerowitz
Christian Moeller
Tom Otterness
Susan Schwartzenberg
Beliz Brother
Stephen Galloway
Cliff Garten
Paul Kos
Mike Mandel
Anna Murch and Doug Hollis
Masayuki Nagase
Mildred Howard
Julio Morales
- Motion to approve the following artists as an additional pre-qualified pool for any additional opportunities identified at San Francisco General Hospital:
Johanna Poethig
John Roloff
Nita Winter
Ed Carpenter
John Wehrle
Suikang Zhao
Lynn Basa
James Carpenter
Michio Ihara
Joe Thurston and Sean Healy
Amy Trachtenberg
Seyed Alavi
Rob Badger
Kathy Bradford
Dana Zed
Tony Berlant
Nancy Blum
Chris Green
Henry Domke
Abhi Ganju
Merle Serlin
- Motion to approve Rupert Garcia, by virtue of having received the highest score by the panel, as the lead artist for the entry lobby, and authorization to pay him an honorarium of $5,000 to develop preliminary design concepts.
- Motion to authorize the Director of Cultural Affairs to enter into agreement with Patrick Dougherty for the installation of a temporary willow sapling sculpture in Civic Center Plaza for a total amount not to exceed $60,000 for the design, development, fabrication, transportation and installation of the artwork as well as identification plaques.
- Committee Reports and Committee Matters
- Executive Committee—P.J. Johnston, Chair
- Discussion: Report from Chair of Executive Committee regarding activities of the Committee and the Program.
- Action: Motion to authorize the Director of Cultural Affairs to modify the contract to Chris Sutherland for an additional amount of $1728.40 for costs related to the retreat.
- Civic Design Review Committee—Cass Calder Smith, Chair
- Discussion: Report from Chair of Civic Design Review Committee regarding activities of the Committee and the Program.
- Community Arts, Education and Grants Committee—Maya Draisin, Chair
- Discussion: Report from Community Arts, Education and Grants Committee regarding activities of the Committee and the Program.
- Street Artists Committee—Alexander Lloyd, Chair
- Discussion: Report from Chair of Street Artists Committee regarding activities of the Committee and the Program.
- Action: Motion to approve requests by former certificate-holders for priority issuance of certificate with waiver of re-screening of wares: Jose Loli, Katya Newman.
- Action: Motion to approve honorarium payment of $300 plus cost of paint to Mario Hernandez for assisting Program Director in painting permanent spaces and temporary winter holiday spaces in the Downtown area.
- Action: Motion to approve request by applicant for waiver of 15-day policy in obtaining certificate: Anthony Kolar.
- Visual Arts Committee—Jeannene Przyblyski, Chair
- Discussion: Report from Visual Arts Committee regarding activities of the Committee and the Program.
- New Business
Discussion
- Reports and Announcements
Discussion
- Public Comment
Discussion
- Adjournment
Action
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Notices
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