February 8, 2011
COMMUNITY ARTS, EDUCATION, AND GRANTSCOMMITTEE
Tuesday, February 08, 2011
3:00 p.m.
25 Van Ness Avenue,Suite 140
1.
Cultural Equity GrantsProgram Director Report
Discussion
Current administrative,budgetary and programming developments and announcements.
Action
1.
Motion to approve recommendations toaward twenty grants totaling $325,850 in the Art in Communities: InnovativePartnerships grants to the following organizationsand individual artists, and to authorize the Director of Cultural Affairs toenter into grant agreements with each for the amounts listed:
ExplorationGrants
African Advocacy Network, $10,000
Asian American Women Artists Association(AAWAA), $10,000
Chinese Culture Foundation of San Francisco,$10,000
Genny Lim, $6,000
Imagine Bus Project, $10,000
Outlook Theater Project, $10,000
Rene Yung, $10,000
Voice of Witness, $9,500
RealizationGrants
Arab Cultural and Community Center, $23,000
Bayview Hunters Point Center for Arts &Technology (BAYCAT), $20,250
CounterPulse, $20,250
Eldergivers, $23,000
Galeria de la Raza, $21,850
Golden Thread Productions, $20,250
Intersection for the Arts, $20,250
Kid Serve Youth Murals, $20,250
Out of Site: Center for Arts Education, $23,000
Paul Flores, $20,250
Queer Cultural Center, $23,000
Rio Yanez, $15,000
Supplemental Documents: Art in Communities: InnovativePartnerships ranking and project descriptions; summary notes of the applicationevaluation; and bios of the grant review panelists.
2.
Community Arts and Education Program Director Report
Discussion
Current administrative, budgetary and programmingdevelopments and announcements.
Action
1.
Motion to enter into a grantagreement for $5,000 with the Central Market Community Benefit District, asfiscal sponsor for 24 Days of Performance, part of the National Endowment forthe Arts Mayor's Institute of Community Design award.
3.
WritersCorps Report
Discussion
Current administrative, budgetary and programmingdevelopments and announcements.
4.
Arts Education Report
Discussion
Current administrative, budgetary and programmingdevelopments and announcements.
5.
Cultural Center Report
Discussion
1.
Current administrative,budgetary and programming developments and announcements.
2.
Mid-Year presentations byQueer Cultural Center, Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts, and SOMArtsCultural Center
6.
New Business
Discussion
(This item is to allow Commissioners to introducenew agenda items for consideration.)
7.
Adjournment
Action
BLT 2/03/11
Notices
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