September 13, 2010

MEETING OF THE FULL ARTS COMMISSION
Monday, September 13, 2010
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 August 2, 2010 Minutes.
   
   Explanatory documents: Draft minutes
   
   
3. President’s Report
   Discussion
   Current developments and announcements.
   
   
4. Director’s Report
   Discussion
   Current administrative, budgetary and programming developments and announcements, including a brief presentation on the Arts Commission’s fundraising efforts and an update on City budget issues.
   
   
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 Civic Design Review Committee Meeting Minutes of July 19, 2010.
       
   2. Motion to approve the Executive Committee Meeting Minutes of July 26, 2010.
       
   3. Motion to approve the Community Arts, Education, and Grants Committee Meeting Minutes of August 10, 2010.
       
   4. Motion to approve the Visual Arts Committee Meeting Minutes of August 18, 2010.
       
   5. Motion to approve the Civic Design Review Committee Meeting Minutes of August 23, 2010.
       
      
      Community Arts, Education, and Grants Committee Recommendations (August 10, 2010)
      Action
   6. Motion to approve the following individuals as grants application review panelists for Cultural Equity Grants:
      Anushka Fernandopulle, nonprofit, public, and corporate sector consultant, leadership coach and facilitator
      Nadine Ghammache, Director of Individual and Community Giving; La Peña Cultural Center
      Karen Kwan, Institutional Gifts Officer; Community School of Music and Arts Mountain View
      Jeremy Liu, Executive Director; East Bay Asian Local Development Corporation (EBALDC)
      Byron Johnson, Senior Project Director; CompassPoint Nonprofit Services
      Sharon Maidenberg, Executive Director; Headlands Center for the Arts
      Lourdes Portillo, filmmaker
      
      
   7. Motion to approve the Bayview Opera House 2010-2011 Management and Program Plan and grant agreement in an amount not to exceed $312,705, pending any required changes.
       
      
   8. Motion to approve the SOMArts Cultural Center 2010-2011 Management and Program Plan and grant agreement in an amount not to exceed $587,343, pending any required changes.
      
      
      Visual Arts Committee Recommendations (August 18, 2010)
      Action
   9. Motion to increase Charles Sowers’ Contract DPAR10000107 for design and fabrication of artwork at the San Francisco International Airport, Terminal Two by an amount not to exceed $43,000 for additional costs of designing and fabricating the artwork display case.
       
   10. Motion to approve San Francisco General Hospital Community Mural Project, a 7' x 211' painted mural on the San Francisco General Hospital (“SFGH”) construction fence line. The mural will be painted by Precita Eyes artists Susan Cervantes, Marina Perez-Wong and Marta Ayala, SFGH staff and outpatients, and Buena Vista Elementary School students. The mural will be painted on October 2, 2010 at the SFGH Community Mural “Paint-In.”
        
   11. Motion to authorize the Director of Cultural Affairs to enter into contract with Anna Valentina Murch for design, fabrication, transportation and consultation during installation of artwork for the San Francisco General Hospital Acute Care Unit Plaza in an amount not to exceed $460,730.
        
   12. Motion to approve the revised design by Eric Powell for artwork pedestrian gate for Cayuga Playground relative to the Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”) compliance.
        
   13. Motion to approve the proposed gift to the City of a statue of Harry Bridges, designed by Bruce Wolfe for placement in Harry Bridges Plaza, from the Committee for Harry Bridges Plaza, contingent on progressive design approvals and establishment of a reasonable Arts Commission administrative fee and maintenance endowment.
        
   14. Motion to authorize the Director of Cultural Affairs to enter into a contractual relationship with Mr. Shannon Green for an honorarium in the amount of $10,240. Mr. Green will conduct research and provide administrative support for the 2010-2011 season of exhibitions at the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery. Mr. Green will be conducting his work from October, 2010 through May, 2011.
        
   15. Motion to approve two-dimensional artworks by 40 artists recommended by the Laguna Honda Artist Selection Panel for purchase for resident floors, patient rooms and clinic rooms of Laguna Honda Hospital.
        
   16. Motion to approve final color palette for Janet Echelman sculptures for San Francisco International Airport, Terminal Two.
        
   17. Motion to approve the artist Colette Crutcher as recommended by the Chinese Recreation Center Panel to create exterior artwork for the Chinese Recreation Center.
        
   18. Motion to authorize the Director of Cultural Affairs to enter into a contract with the selected artist, Colette Crutcher, to create exterior artwork for the Chinese Recreation Center as recommended by the Chinese Recreation Center Panel, for an amount not to exceed $38,000.
        
   19. Motion to approve the artist Rebar for the SOMA West-McCoppin Garden Public Art Project; as recommended by the SOMA West Selection Panel.
        
   20. Motion to authorize the Director of Cultural Affairs to enter into a contract with artist Rebar for design and fabrication of artwork for the SOMA West-McCoppin Garden project in an amount not to exceed $51,000.
        
   21. Motion to approve Charles Sowers’ revised design for Windswept at the Randall Museum, which has the panels flush with the building wall as per the Randall Museum's request.
        
   22. Motion to approve the Artist Selection Panel’s recommendation of the following artists as finalists for the interior mural opportunity associated with the renovation of the Palega Recreation Center: Jeffery Long, Kelly Ording, and Scott Oliver, with alternate artist team Kate Connell and Oscar Melara.
        
   23. Motion to approve the artist selection panel’s recommendation of the following artists as finalists for the outdoor artwork opportunity associated with the renovation of the Palega Recreation Center: Peter Richards, Scott Oliver, and Rebar, with alternate Michael Arcega.
        
   24. Motion to approve clay models by Tom Otterness (for Mother with Children sculpture, four two-foot tall Hearts sculptures and three one-foot tall Hearts sculptures) and to authorize fabrication of bronze sculptures for the San Francisco General Hospital Potrero Avenue Plaza and Walkway.
        
   25. Motion to approve the design development phase deliverables with revisions per Visual Arts Committee recommendations for light court windows and curved glass element designs and art glass fabrication technique sample for art glass projects on Floor 3 of the San Francisco General Hospital Acute Care Unit by Mildred Howard.
        
   26. Motion to approve the design development phase deliverables for light court windows and curved glass element designs and art glass fabrication technique sample for art glass projects on Floor 4 of the San Francisco General Hospital Acute Care Unit by Stephen Galloway.
        
   27. Motion to approve the design development phase deliverables with revisions per Visual Arts Committee recommendations for light court windows and curved glass element designs and art glass fabrication technique sample for art glass projects on Floor 5 of the San Francisco General Hospital Acute Care Unit by Nancy Blum.
        
   28. Motion to approve the design development phase deliverables for light court windows designs and art glass fabrication technique sample for art glass projects on Floor 6 (two windows) of the San Francisco General Hospital Acute Care Unit by Arthur Stern.
        
   29. Motion to approve the design development phase deliverables with revisions per Visual Arts Committee recommendations for light court windows and curved glass element designs and art glass fabrication technique samples for art glass projects on Floor 6 (two windows and one curved glass element) of the San Francisco General Hospital Acute Care Unit by Julio Cesar Morales.
        
   30. Motion to approve the design development phase deliverables with revisions per Visual Arts Committee recommendations for light court windows and curved glass element designs and art glass fabrication technique samples for art glass projects on Floor 7 of the San Francisco General Hospital Acute Care Unit by Alan Masaoka.
        
       
       Civic Design Review Committee Recommendations (August 23, 2010)
       Action
   31. Motion to approve Phases 1 and 2 of the Union Square ADA Remediation with the contingency of revising the signage locations to be on concrete or granite, revising the cane guides to be more in line with the design vocabulary of the handrail, and making the concrete cane guides flush across.
        
   32. Motion to approve Phase 3 of General Hospital with the contingency that if there are changes to the design, the project should return to Civic Design Review.
        
       
       Street Artists Committee Recommendations (September 8, 2010)
       Action
   33. Motion to approve Advisory Committee of Street Artists and Crafts Examiners screening criteria for “Slumped/Flattened Bottles and Labels”; implementation of criteria to commence thirty (30) days after approval by full Arts Commission:
       Recommended criteria:
       (a) A raw commercially-manufactured bottle must be cleaned, prepared, slumped, and finished by the street artist.
       (b) The bottle must show a substantial or significant transformation of its commercial elements by the artist.
       (c) A bottle’s commercial label or applied images which are not created by the artist must be substantially altered to reflect significant input by the artist to the item as a whole. If the artist does not significantly alter the label or applied images, the artist may embellish the bottle itself; but the embellishment must visually outweigh the unaltered commercial label or images.
        
   34. Motion to authorize Program Director to request Board of Supervisors continuation of designation of plaza located at 17th Street and Castro Street as an area for street artists, with the exception of certain days in which the plaza shall be used exclusively for a street fair such as the Castro Street Fair or Castro CBD-sponsored events.
        
   35. Motion to approve recommendation of Street Artists Liaison Committee meeting of August 11, 2010: Recommendation for Arts Commission to request street artist selling spaces on Port of San Francisco property adjacent to Pier 33 and Pier 35.
        
6. Committee Reports and Committee Matters
   
   
   1. Executive Committee—P.J. Johnston, Chair
      1. Discussion: Report from Chair of Executive Committee regarding activities of the Committee and the Program.
          
      2. Action: Motion to authorize the Director of Cultural Affairs to enter into agreements totaling up to $250,000 (the “NEA Funding”) for the Mid-Market Arts partnership established with the National Endowment for the Arts Mayors’ Institute on City Design (NEA MICD25) grant award and to work with Arts Commission staff to develop and determine the final spending priorities and allocations of the NEA Funding to carry out the following key programmatic elements: Lighting design fabrications, installations and project management; Mid-Market arts organizations’ programming; Art in Storefronts; space feasibility studies; and marketing, and requesting periodic reports from the Director of Cultural Affairs and/or his or her designee(s) regarding the progress of the project and status of expenditures.
          
      3. Action: Motion to authorize the Director of Cultural Affairs to allocate up to $25,000 from the 28POP501 fund account to be spent as matching funds for the National Endowment for the Arts Mayors’ Institute on City Design (NEA MICD25) grant award to help support the lighting design, marketing and space assessment components of the project.
          
   2. Civic Design Review Committee—Cass Calder Smith, Chair
      1. Discussion: Report from Chair of Civic Design Review Committee regarding activities of the Committee and the Program.
          
      2. Action: Motion to approve the location change and siting of the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency kiosk from Hyde Street to Geary and Masonic.
          
   3. Community Arts, Education and Grants Committee—Maya Draisin, Chair
      1. Discussion: Report from Chair of Community Arts, Education and Grants Committee regarding activities of the Committee and the Program.
          
      2. Action: Motion to authorize the Director of Cultural Affairs to enter into contract with the following teaching artists to work in the WritersCorps program for 2010-2011:
         
         Anhvu Buchanan, $32,400
         Meg Day, $32,400
          
      3. Action: Motion to approve the African American Art and Culture Complex 2010-2011 Management and Program Plan and grant agreement in an amount not to exceed $477,827, pending any required changes.
          
      4. Action: Motion to authorize the San Francisco Arts Commission to enter into a 50-year preservation easement with San Francisco Architectural Heritage, a California nonprofit corporation, to protect the historical features of the Bayview Opera House.
          
         Resolution authorizing the San Francisco Arts Commission to grant a temporary preservation easement affecting the Bayview Opera House to the San Francisco Architectural Heritage.
          
         WHEREAS, The City and County of San Francisco (the “City”) owns the real property located at 4705 Third Street in San Francisco, California, which is under the jurisdiction of the City’s Arts Commission; and
          
         WHEREAS, The City and County of San Francisco (the “City”) owns the real property located at 4705 Third Street in San Francisco, California, which is under the jurisdiction of the City’s Arts Commission; and
          
         WHEREAS, The City, acting by and through the Arts Commission, leases the building located on such property and commonly known as the Bayview Opera House (the “Building”) to Bayview Opera House, Inc., a California nonprofit corporation (“Tenant”), pursuant to a Lease dated for reference purposes only as of July 1, 2009; and
          
         WHEREAS, Tenant has received a $197,535 grant from the National Park Service (“NPS”) pursuant to Grant Agreement No. 06-04-ML-0099 (the “NPS Grant”), and Tenant has used the NPS Grant funds to perform certain Building improvement work; and
          
         WHEREAS, The NPS Grant requires that a 50-year preservation easement protecting the historical building features of the Building (the “Easement”) be granted to the San Francisco Architectural Heritage, a California nonprofit corporation (“SFAH”), which is authorized and qualified to accept charitable gifts or easements for the purpose of preserving buildings, structures, or sites of historical, architectural or cultural significance; and
          
         WHEREAS, The NPS Grant requires that the Building be nominated to be placed on the National Register of Historic Places and Tenant submitted an application for such nomination to the California State Office of Historic Preservation on August 31, 2010; and
          
         WHEREAS, Tenant will use NPS Grant funds to pay the $15,000 preservation easement fee that SFAH requires to accept the Easement and Tenant has requested that City grant the Easement to the SFAH; and
          
         WHEREAS, On August 2, 2010, the Arts Commission adopted a motion directing the Director of Cultural Affairs to submit the Easement terms to the Arts Commission if the Director of Cultural Affairs approved the Easement terms negotiated by Arts Commission staff and SFAH; and
          
         WHEREAS, The Director of Cultural Affairs approves the negotiated terms for the Easement in the form of a Conservation Easement, which is on file with the Secretary of the Arts Commission and is incorporated herein by reference (the “Agreement”); now, therefore, be it
          
         RESOLVED, That the Arts Commission hereby approves the Agreement and authorizes the Executive Director of the Arts Commission to request approval of the Agreement by the City’s Historic Preservation Commission, and the City’s Board of Supervisors; and be it
          
         FURTHER RESOLVED, That if the City’s Historic Preservation Commission and the City’s Board of Supervisors approve the Agreement and the City’s Board of Supervisors authorizes the Director of Cultural Affairs to execute and deliver the Agreement and take any and all actions which the Director of Cultural Affairs, in consultation with the City Attorney and any other person specified by the City’s Board of Supervisors, determines are in the best interest of the City, do not materially increase the obligations of the City or materially decrease the benefits to the City, are necessary or advisable to consummate the performance of the purposes and intent of this Resolution, and comply with all applicable laws, including the City’s Charter, including any modifications or amendments to the Agreement.
         
          
   4. Street Artists Committee—Sherene Melania, 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: Shui Ken Yu, Min Xiong Li, Theresa Mabalatan.
          
      3. Action: Motion to approve requests by former certificate-holders for priority issuance of certificate with waiver of re-screening of wares: Kirsten Schipper, Roger Fierro, Latifa Rainbow, Jennifer Chen, Cappella Parrish, Pieter Muller, Barbara Zerbe, Shawn Harris.
          
      4. Action: Motion to approve request by applicant for waiver of 15-day requirement for obtaining a certificate: Malcolm Nicoll, Henry Jiao, Angelo Buenaseda, John Jorgenson.
          
      5. Action: Motion to commend and thank the Honorable Sherene Melania for her dedicated service as Chair of the Street Artists Committee from November, 2009 through July, 2010.
          
   5. Visual Arts Committee—Lorraine García-Nakata, Chair
      1. Discussion: Report from Chair of Visual Arts Committee regarding activities of the Committee and the Program.
          
      2. Action: Motion to increase the Phase I Design Development contract amount for each of the six selected artists for the three Central Subway Stations, to include artists Yumei Hou, Tomie Arai, Erwin Redl, Catherine Wagner, Tom Otterness, and the artist team of Jim Campbell and Werner Klotz, from $25,000 each to a total Phase I Design Development contract amount not to exceed $100,000 each for an increased Design Development Scope of Work, as required for each proposal, to include more extensive engineering and architectural costs, and more material samples, more complex models, and larger mock-ups.
          
7. New Business
   Discussion
   (This item is to allow Commissioners to introduce new agenda items for consideration.)
   
   
8. Reports and Announcements
   Discussion
   (This item is to allow the Commissioners to report on recent arts activities and make announcements.)
   
   
9. Public Comment
   Discussion
   (This item is to allow members of the public to comment generally on matters within the Commission’s purview as well as to suggest new agenda items for the Commission’s consideration.)
   
   
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.

Public comment in regard to specific items will be taken before or during consideration of the item.

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