City and County of San FranciscoSan Francisco Arts Commission

March 7, 2011

Full Commission - March 7, 2011

MEETING OF THE FULL ARTS COMMISSION
Monday, March 7, 2011
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 February 7, 2011 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. Presentation on Arts Commission move to War Memorial Veterans Building scheduled for 2016.

  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 February 8, 2011.
       
    2. Motion to approve the Civic Design Review Committee Meeting Minutes of February 14, 2011.
       
    3. Motion to approve the Visual Arts Committee Meeting Minutes of February 16, 2011.
       

      Community Arts, Education and Grants Committee Recommendations (February 8, 2011)
      Action
    4. Motion to approve recommendations to award twenty grants totaling $325,850 in the Art and Communities: Innovative Partnerships grants to the following organizations and individual artists, and to authorize the Director of Cultural Affairs to enter into grant agreements with each for the amounts listed:

      Exploration Grants
      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

      Realization Grants
      Arab Cultural and Community Center, $23,000
      Bayview Hunters Point Center for Arts and Technology (“BAYCAT”), $20,250
      CounterPULSE, $20,250
      Eldergivers, $23,000
      Galería 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 Yañez, $15,000
       
    5. Motion to enter into a grant agreement for $5,000 with the Central Market Community Benefit District, as fiscal sponsor for 24 Days of Performance, part of the National Endowment for the Arts Mayors’ Institute of Community Design.

       
      Civic Design Review Committee Recommendations (February 14, 2011)
      Action
    6. Motion to approve Phases 1 and 2 of the Groundwater Supply Well Stations—Golden Gate Park, contingent on straightening the angle of the cutout on the edge of the building, moving the LED lighting to the less visible side of the door, and relocating the parking space at the central well station to the north of the building.
       
    7. Motion to approve the Lafayette Park Renovation contingent upon a site visit to review the landscape plan.

       
      Visual Arts Committee Recommendations (February 16, 2011)
      Action
    8. Motion to approve Design Development Phase deliverables for the artwork, with text pending future approval, by artist Shan Shan Sheng for the interior of the Chinese Recreation Center and authorization to proceed with fabrication of the artwork.
       
    9. Motion for the Director of Cultural Affairs to enter into contractual relationship with artists Amy Balkin, Sergio De La Torre and Rebar, who will each receive a $1,000 honorarium for their contributions to the 2011 Sister City Biennial exhibition at the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery.
       
    10. Motion for the Director of Cultural Affairs to enter into a contractual relationship with artist Travis Somerville, who will receive an honorarium of $2,000, and with artist David Huffman, who will receive an honorarium of $5,000, for their contributions to an upcoming exhibition at the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery.
       
    11. Motion to approve the purchase of Water and Plastic, digital c-print, 2010, $1,000; Water, Plastic and Sky, 2010, digital c-print, $1,000; and Water, Plastic and Vapor, 2010, digital c-print, $1,000 by artist Jasmin Lim for the Civic Art Collection.
       
    12. Motion to approve Design Development Phase deliverables (refined design of sculpture, project budget, surface treatment sample, mockup of kinetic component and structural engineering of pier and post connection) by artist Moto Ohtake for Fulton Playground.
       
    13. Motion to approve final design for artist Walter Kitundu’s artwork for the Children’s Area at San Francisco International Airport Terminal Two.
       
    14. Motion to approve the Art on Market Street kiosk poster proposal by artist Ian Huebert and to authorize the Director of Cultural Affairs to enter into contract with Ian Huebert to develop and complete six poster designs for an amount not to exceed $8,000.
       
    15. Motion to approve revised color palette for artist Amy Ellingson’s design for the terrazzo floor at San Francisco International Airport Boarding Area E.
       
    16. Motion to approve and accept the steel sculpture Full Circles, 2011, by artists Mark Grieve and Ilana Spector, commissioned for the Visitacion Valley Branch Library, into the Civic Art Collection.
       

      Executive Committee Recommendations (February 28, 2011)
      Action
    17. Motion to enter into a 2010-2011 grant agreement with Community Initiatives in an amount not to exceed $140,000 to support the design, publication and release of the Arts Commission’s 80th anniversary book.
       
    18. Motion to approve the acceptance of 43 individual donations to ArtCare totaling $43,225 for support in restoring and maintaining the Civic Art Collection’s artwork most in need of conservation work. These donors are: Hilarie Faberman, Gerry Belling, Rick Friedman, Jordan Sachs, Don Hardy, Francesca Passalacqua (Harqua Foundation), Steven Spector and Robert Ripps, Sheana W. Butler, Jerry Lutovich, Marilyn Rinzler, Trax Ceramic Gallery/Sandy Simon, Phyllis and Robert Harlick, Myra Block Kaiser (Tulsa Community Foundation), San Francisco Art Dealers Association (SFADA), Paul Sack and Shirley Davis, Carole A. Cohen, Ed Russell and Candice Gold, Dr. and Mrs. P. M. Stein, Marion E. Greene, Dorothy R. Saxe, Steven H. Oliver, Jeannene Przyblyski, Don Kay and Bonnie Levinson, John Stuppin, Jo Farb Hernandez, Howard Junker, The Fred Reichman Art Group, Jeffrey Spahn Gallery, Diane B. Wilsey, Charles Kremer, Sylvia Brown, Marilyn Taubman, Ann Adair Voulkos, Gallery Paule Anglim, Beau Takahara and Beth Garbett Takahara, Younhee Paik, Jill S. Manton, Lynnne Baer and Jay Pidto, Casey and Associates, Tracy Bosworth Bosche, John and Jody Arnhold (The Arnhold Foundation), Peter and Beverly Lipman, Roselyne C. Swig, Marna Clark.
       
  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. 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.
         
    3. Community Arts, Education and Grants Committee—Sherri Young, 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 approve the following individual as grants application review panelist for Cultural Equity Grants:

        Shelley Trott, Arts Program Officer, Kenneth Rainin Foundation
         
      3. Action: Motion to approve the resolution authorizing the San Francisco Arts Commission to accept a $400,000 grant from the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency for a structural strengthening and accessible improvement project at the Bayview Opera House.

        Explanatory document: Draft resolution
         
    4. Street Artists Committee—Gregory Chew, 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: Carlos Ortiz, Javiera Kuncar, Marc Cassius, Xing Zhi Yuan, Katya Newman, David Aguilar, Amparo Roman, Naomi Wager, Daniel Hennessy, Changlin Huang, Maureen O’Brien.
         
    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.
         
  7. 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.)

  8. Reports and Announcements
    Discussion
    (This item is to allow the Commissioners to report on recent arts activities and make announcements.)

  9. New Business
    Discussion
    (This item is to allow Commissioners to introduce new agenda items for 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.

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