San Francisco Arts Commission
Meeting of the Full Arts Commission
Monday, June 3, 2002
3:00 p.m.
25 Van Ness Avenue, Suite 70
San Francisco, CA 94102
Commissioner Guggenheim called the meeting to order at 3:15 p.m.
- ROLL CALL
Commissioners Present
Andrea Cochran
Rod Freebairn-Smith
Ralph Guggenheim
Eddie Marshall
Janice Mirikitani
Barbara Stauffacher Solomon
Dugald Stermer
Ethel Pitts Walker
Dede Wilsey
Commissioners Absent
Kirk Anderson
Stanlee Gatti
Blanche Brown
Andrew Brother Elk
William Meyer
Denise Roth
- APPROVAL OF MINUTES
The following Resolution was Moved by Commissioner Guggenheim, Seconded, and unanimously Adopted:
RESOLUTION NO. 0603-02-147: APPROVAL OF MINUTES ADOPTED
RESOLVED, that this Commission does hereby approve the Minutes of the Regular Monthly Meeting of May 13, 2002.
NOTE: ALL ADOPTIONS ARE UNANIMOUS UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED.
- PRESIDENT'S REPORT
- DIRECTOR'S REPORT
Director of Cultural Affairs Richard Newirth introduced the new CAE Program Director Judy Nemzoff
Ms. Nemzoff said that she had recently served on a Cultural Equity Grant panel and had been involved in the local performing arts community for 20 years. She is a former talent scout, and her most recent positions have been Manager of the Convention and Visitors Bureau's Arts and Tourism program and Marketing Director for the San Francisco S.P.C.A.
Mr. Newirth thanked Jewelle Gomez, Nancy Gonchar, Carol Marie Daniels, and the members of the CAE and CEG staffs for their hard work and patience during the transition.
Mr. Newirth announced the upcoming annual WritersCorps event on Wednesday, June 5, celebrating the publication of the program's newest anthology titled Believe Me, I Know. Commissioner Freebairn-Smith congratulated the program staff.
Mr. Newirth also announced that the Arts Commission's public art program had been profiled as one of the top eight in the country in a new book titled Designing the World's Best Public Art. The book also profiles several artists that the San Francisco program has commissioned.
Mr. Newirth reported that the Mayor was currently delivering his budget to the Board of Supervisors at their regularly scheduled meeting. Under a new procedure that had been established this year, preliminary budget hearings had been held to familiarize the supervisors with department operations. The next series of budget hearings will begin later in the month. He said that a 3% cut had been mandated for all departments, and that it had been proposed that the city would meet that requirement and avoid layoffs by reducing contributions to individual retirement plans by 2.75% for the upcoming year. Most of the unions, except for the largest one, have tentatively agreed.
He announced the scheduling of another meeting on the Harvey Milk project. The two winners of the competition will be present, and possibilities for developing their designs beyond the concept phase will be discussed.
He reviewed the status of the state budget and the original 57% cut from the California Arts Council budget. Subsequently both the Assembly and Senate subcommittees voted to restore $7 million to the CAC budget. The CAC director intends to retain every program at some level. Mr. Newirth said that support for individual artists through residency, tourism, and multicultural grants programs were eliminated in the May budget presented by the governor.
He reported on the recent productive meeting at the African American Art and Culture Complex. He commended Commissioner Walker on the leadership she had shown in eliminating the distinction between artists and community members and bringing the two factions together.
Mr. Newirth announced that Civic Art Collection assistant Jessica Goodson was leaving the Arts Commission and moving to Germany for personal reasons.
- CONSENT CALENDAR
Consent Calendar item 5 was removed from the Calendar.
RESOLUTION NO. 0603-02-148: ADOPTED UNANIMOUS
Approval: RESOLVED, that this Commission does hereby adopt the following items on the amended Consent Calendar and their related Resolutions:
Joint Civic Design and Visual ArtsCommittee Recommendations (04/17/02)
- RESOLUTION NO. 0603-02-149: Motion to
continue discussion of the project Emperor Norton Memorial
in the Visual Arts Committee Meeting on May 22, 2002.
Civic Design Committee Recommendations (05/20/02)
- RESOLUTION NO. 0603-02-150: Motion to approve
Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, Perimeter Security
Enhancements, Phase 1,2,3.
- RESOLUTION NO. 0603-02-151: Motion to approve
Minnie and Lovie Ward Recreation Center, Phase 1.
- RESOLUTION NO. 0603-02-152: Motion to approve
Broadway Streetscape Improvement Project from Montgomery to
Battery streets only, Phase 2 excluding proposed trash
receptacle design and street light design. Subsequent blocks
will be reviewed separately.
Special Civic Design Committee Recommendations (05/22/02)
- Motion to approve Laguna Honda Hospital Replacement
Project Phase 1 and 2, contingent upon review of window
design at core and at top level of resident buildings prior
to June 3rd Full Commission Meeting.
Executive Committee Recommendations (05/21/02)
- RESOLUTION NO. 0603-02-153: Motion to approve
recommendations for 34 grants totaling $455,100 in the 2002
cycle of Organizational Project Grants.
- RESOLUTION NO. 0603-02-154: Motion to approve the
addition of the following individuals to the Cultural Equity
Grants Panel Pool:
Kim Cook, consultant, former Executive Director of Theater Artaud
Helene York, General Manager A Traveling Jewish Theater
Leon Lee, Flutist and staff member of NAATA
Community Arts & Education Committee Recommendations (05/28/02)
- RESOLUTION NO. 0603-02-155: Motion to approve
Neighborhood Festival grants of $33,000 from 2002-03 Grants
for the Arts funds to the following organizations:
Bernal Heights Neighborhood Center, Fiesta on the Hill $3,250
Every Child Can Learn Foundation, San Francisco Youth Arts Festival $3,250
Intersection for the Arts, Arts Providers Alliance $1,000
New Direction, Bayview/Hunters Point 4th of July Picnic $3,250
Potrero Hill Neighborhood House, Inc., Festival 2002 $3,250
Precita Eyes Muralists Assoc., Inc., Urban Youth Arts Festival $3,250
Rescue Culture Collective, Dia de los Muertos $3,250
San Francisco SAFE, Sixth Annual Holiday Unity Parade & Rally $3,250
SOMA Youth Festival, SOMA Youth Festival $3,250
Sunset District Community Development, Sunset Community Festival $3,250
Treasure Island Homeless Development Initiative, Treasure Island Community Day $3,250
TOTAL $33,000
- RESOLUTION NO. 0603-02-156: Motion to approve
Bayview Opera House Ruth Williams Memorial Theater budget
modification to reflect inclusion of $33,578 from the
2000-2001 Hotel Tax Fund for a budget total of $335,139 for
fiscal year 2001-2002.
- RESOLUTION NO. 0603-02-157: Motion to approve the
proposed Bayview Opera House Ruth Williams Memorial Theater,
Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts, and South of Market
Cultural Centers' 2002-2003 Management and Programming Plans
and Budgets, from Cultural Center Line Item Hotel Tax Funds,
contingent upon receipt of required audited financial
reports and Community Support Group Meeting minutes.
Bayview Opera House $289,307
Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts $545,894
South of Market Cultural Center $914,476
TOTAL ALLOCATION $1,749,677
Visual Arts Committee Recommendations (05/22/02)
- RESOLUTION NO. 0603-02-158: Motion for the
Director of Cultural Affairs to enter into contract with
Stuart Dean for the conservation of the Dewey Monument in
Union Square for an amount not to exceed $90,000.
- RESOLUTION NO. 0603-02-159: Motion to accept into
the Civic Art Collection the tile mural by artist JoeSam
titled "Wade in Water," 2001, consisting of 900 glazed
ceramic tiles 12 x 12" installed on five walls in the new
Martin Luther King Swimming Pool covering approximately
3,712 square feet.
- RESOLUTION NO. 0603-02-160: Motion to accept into
the Civic Art Collection an installation by artists Jon
Rubin and Harrell Fletcher, "Photos of People from the
Neighborhood Enlarged and Attached to the Building, and
Fortunes in the Parking Spaces," 2002, consisting of 11
30"-34" wide porcelain-enameled steel medallions and
stenciled fortunes painted on the concrete floor at the end
of each parking space at the North Beach Parking Garage at
735 Vallejo Street.
- RESOLUTION NO. 0603-02-161: Motion to authorize
the Director of Cultural Affairs to enter into a contract
for $10,000 with Jeffrey Brown for architectural landscape
and art consulting services at the Sunnydale Pump Station
Endangered Garden Public Art Project.
- RESOLUTION NO. 0603-02-162: Motion to authorize
the Director of Cultural Affairs to enter into a contract
for $24,000 with Glass Block Designs for repairs and
modifications to the Embarcadero Ribbon Sculpture.
- RESOLUTION NO. 0603-02-163: Motion to authorize
Jud Fine and Barbara McCarren to change the color of the
granite in the "Split Mound" from "Radiant Red" to "Kenoran
Sage" and the finish to an all polished surface.
- RESOLUTION NO. 0603-02-164: Motion to approve the
mural design by lead artist Santi Huckaby on the exterior of
Hamilton Swimming Pool at the corner of Steiner and Post
Streets, funded by Neighborhood Beautification.
- RESOLUTION NO. 0603-02-165: Motion to approve the
mural design by Josef Norris at 1849 Harrison Street, funded
by Gerbode Foundation, Irvine Foundation, Grants for the
Arts, and a grant from the San Francisco Arts
Commission.
- RESOLUTION NO. 0603-02-166: Motion to approve
content of video program for Diller/Scofidio public art
project at Moscone Center Expansion Project.
- ESOLUTION NO. 0603-02-167: Motion to approve
completion of the interior artwork carvings by Shum, Shu
Gordon LLC for the Moscone Expansion Project.
- RESOLUTION NO. 0603-02-168: Motion to approve
City Site exhibition by Reuben Lorch-Miller, to open June
30, 2002.
- RESOLUTION NO. 0603-02-169: Motion to approve a
letter of support encouraging the Arts Commission to work
with Treasure Island staff on the preservation of the
Treasure Island Museum.
- RESOLUTION NO. 0603-02-170: Motion to authorize
the Director of Cultural Affairs to enter into an Agreement
with Atthowe Fine Arts for an amount not to exceed $50,000
to design and engineer and construct sculpture footings and
bases and to transport and install 4 - 6 sculptures at San
Francisco International Airport.
- RESOLUTION NO. 0603-02-171: Motion to approve the
Revised Public Art Guidelines, dated May 1, 2002.
- RESOLUTION NO. 0603-02-172: Motion to increase
Owen Smith's contract by $3,000 to develop a design proposal
for paintings for the link building lobby.
- RESOLUTION NO. 0603-02-173: Motion to approve
Mark Henry Campbell, Mike Mandel, Ellen Oppenheimer, Ann
Preston, Merle Axelrad Serlin, and Nita Winter as a
pre-qualified pool of artists to be considered by Laguna
Honda Hospital for a commission to design artwork for the
third floor elevator lobby of the link building.
- RESOLUTION NO. 0603-02-174: Motion to approve
Chris Johnson, Marie Lovelace O'Neil, Winifred Day, and
Katherine Spencer as selection panelists for Ocean View
Recreation Center.
- RESOLUTION NO. 0603-02-149: Motion to
continue discussion of the project Emperor Norton Memorial
in the Visual Arts Committee Meeting on May 22, 2002.
- Committee Reports
- Civic Design Committee--Stanlee Gatti,
Chair
- Report from Chair of Civic Design Committee
regarding activities of the Committee and the Program.
- Commissioner Freebairn-Smith said that the largest item
before the Committee was the Laguna Honda Project, and that
numerous meetings had been held to review the models and
drawings. He said that Consent Calendar item 5, relating to
that project, had been withdrawn in order to give the
architects the opportunity to meet certain conditions. He
said that the Committee was asking for modifications, and
that another session would be held at the architects'
office.
- Report from Chair of Civic Design Committee
regarding activities of the Committee and the Program.
- Visual Arts Committee -- Ralph Guggenheim, Chair
- Report from Chair of Visual Arts Committee
regarding activities of the Committee and the Program.
Commissioner Guggenheim reported on the progress that had been made on the Moscone Expansion Center projects. At the May 22 Special Committee Meeting, artist Liz Diller had shown the Diller and Scofidio team's proposed content for the video screens of the exterior project, The interior project was also moving forward.
The following item, VI-2-b, was removed from the Calendar.
- Motion for the Director of Cultural Affairs to extend
contract with Griswold Conservation Associates LLC for Art
Conservation at the 911 Center until June 30, 2002.
- RESOLUTION NO. 0603-02-175: Motion to approve the
design concept of a mural by lead artist Susan Cervantes to
be installed on an interior wall in the offices of the San
Francisco Environment Department at 11 Grove Street, funded
by the General Fund, based on the project description and
lead artist's qualifications, and with the stipulation that
final design of the mural shall be approved by the Arts
Commission prior to authorization to proceed.
- Report from Chair of Visual Arts Committee
regarding activities of the Committee and the Program.
- Executive Committee -- Stanlee Gatti, Chair
- Report from Chair of Executive Committee
regarding activities of the Committee and the Program.
- Report from Chair of Executive Committee
regarding activities of the Committee and the Program.
- Street Artists Committee --Dugald Stermer, Chair
- Report from Chair of Street Artists Committee
regarding activities of the Committee and the Program.
- RESOLUTION NO. 0603-02-176: Motion to request by
former certificate-holder for priority issuance of
certificate with waiver of re-screening of wares:Ed
Brandstetter, Susan Ji, Paul Mallette, Daniel L. de Guevara,
Pedro Hidalgo, Lukkana Laoaskunchai.
- Report from Chair of Street Artists Committee
regarding activities of the Committee and the Program.
- Community Arts & Education --Denise Roth, Chair
- Report from Chair of Community Arts &
Education Committee regarding activities of the Committee
and the Program.
Commissioner Marshall commended Commissioner Walker for her role at the community meeting at the African American Art and Culture Complex.
Mr. Newirth reiterated the point that the arts people and the community people were one group. He said that the focus was the African American community and the Western Addition. He remarked on the Center's potential to be many things for many people.
Commissioner Walker commented on the urgent need to establish a nonprofit in the Center so that fundraising could begin.
- Report from Chair of Community Arts &
Education Committee regarding activities of the Committee
and the Program.
- Civic Design Committee--Stanlee Gatti,
Chair
- Reports and Announcements
In reference to the civic design review of the Laguna Honda project, Commissioner Freebairn-Smith emphasized for the record that the Committee would approve phases 1 and 2, and that only details still required approval.
- Public Comment
WritersCorps teacher Gloria Yamato thanked the Arts Commission for its support of the program. She reported on the national slam event, which she had attended with the two winning WritersCorps youth from San Francisco. She commented on the opportunity for the youth from the three cities to interact with one another and with established poets. She urged the Commissioners to attend the June 5 reading.
- Adjournment
There being no further business, the Meeting adjourned at 4:15 p.m.
Approved by Richard Newirth, Director of Cultural affairs
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