February 20, 2013

1. Roll Call

2. Consent Calendar
Action
Explanatory Document: Image of Baile!

1. Retroactively approve and accept into the Civic Art Collection the artwork Baile!, 1999, by Carmen Lomas Garza. The artwork is 22 inches x 33 1/2 inches, hand-cut paper mounted on foam core board. The artwork is a proposal for the sculpture by the same name that was commissioned for the San Francisco International Airport and accepted into the Civic Art Collection in 2000 (Resolution No.0110-00-033).

Motion: Motion to approve consent calendar items

3. SFAC Galleries
Meg Shiffler
Action
Explanatory Document: Presentation of summer exhibitions
Presentation Time: Approximately 10 minutes

Presentation of the SFAC Galleries’ 2013 summer exhibitions.

Motion: Motion to approve an artist honoraria payment in the amount of $2,000 to artist Joshua Short for his contributions to Cardboard Institute of Technologies’ summer 2013 exhibition at the SFAC Galleries Window Installation Site at 155 Grove Street.

Motion: Motion to approve an artist honoraria payment in the amount of $3,000 to Joseph Blum for his solo exhibition of photographs of the building of the new Bay Bridge span, which will be exhibited at City Hall in the summer of 2013. 

4. Boeddeker Park
Marcus Davies
Action
Explanatory Document: Rendering of Amy Blackstone’s Conceptual Design
Presentation Time: Approximately 5 minutes

Present Amy Blackstone’s Conceptual Design for artwork at Boeddeker Park

Motion: Motion to approve Amy Blackstone’s Conceptual Design for an artwork at Boeddeker Park.

5. SFO Airport, Terminal 3, Boarding Area E
Marcus Davies 
Action
Explanatory Document: Rendering of Artwork by Eric Staller; Rendering of Artwork by Merge Conceptual Designs; Boarding Area E Revised Budget.
Presentation Time: Approximately 10 minutes

Request to approve an increase in Eric Staller’s and Merge’s contracts for artworks at SFO Airport, Terminal 3, Boarding Area E.

Motion: Motion to authorize the Director of Cultural Affairs to increase the agreement with Eric Staller from $25,000 to $304,040 to add to the scope of work Design Development, Construction Documents, Fabrication and Consultation during Installation for an artwork at SFO Airport, Terminal 3, Boarding Area E.

Motion: Motion to authorize the Director of Cultural Affairs to increase the agreement with Merge Conceptual Designs from $50,000 to a not to exceed amount of $300,000 to add to the scope of work Design Development, Construction Documents, Fabrication and Consultation during Installation for an artwork at SFO Airport, Terminal 3, Boarding Area E.

6. 2013-2014 Prequalified Artist Pool
Marcus Davies and Zoe Taleporos
Action
Explanatory Documents: Panel Summary
Presentation Time: Approximately 5 minutes

Report on the Artist Selection Panel’s recommendations for the 2013-2014 Prequalified Artist Pool.

Motion: Motion to approve the following artists for the 2013-2014 Prequalified Artist Pool: (to be named at the meeting)

7. SOMA West McCoppin Hub
Justine Topfer
Action
Explanatory Documents: Final Design Drawings
Presentation time: Approximately 7 minutes

Presentation of the final design drawings and sculpture mock up for the artwork, Handsignals, by Rebar for the SOMA West McCoppin Hub project.

Motion: Motion to approve the construction document phase deliverables (final design drawings and sculpture mock up) for the artwork, Handsignals, by Rebar for the SOMA West McCoppin Hub project.

8. Port Pier 92
Justine Topfer
Action
Explanatory Documents: Panel 2 Summary and Proposal by Haddad|Drugan, LLC
Presentation time: Approximately 5 minutes

Report on the final selection panel meeting of the Port Pier 92 and presentation of the selected proposal for approval

Motion: Motion to approve the proposal of a temporary artwork, Transfiguration, for the Port Pier 92 Silos Project by the artist team Haddad|Drugan, LLC as recommended by the selection panel.

Motion: Motion to authorize the Director of Cultural Affairs to enter into a contract with the artist team Haddad|Drugan, LLC in an amount not to exceed $190,000 for design, fabrication and consultation during installation of a temporary artwork for the Port Pier 92 Silos Project.

9. Church and Duboce Streetscape
Jennifer Lovvorn
Action
Explanatory Document: Revised Installation Site Plan, Plan B Installation 
Presentation Time: Approximately 5 minutes

 

Present for approval alternate installation locations for two of the nine bronze chairs from the artwork

Domestic Seating, 2012 by Primitivo Suarez-Wolfe at the intersection of Church and Duboce.

Motion: Motion to approve the alternate installation locations for two of the nine bronze chairs from the artwork Domestic Seating, 2012 by Primitivo Suarez-Wolfe which are currently installed on east side of Church Street next to Safeway, moving one to the north side of Duboce Avenue and the other to the south side of Duboce Avenue per the revised site plan.

10. Central Subway: Union Square Market Street Station Platform
Jennifer Lovvorn
Discussion
Explanatory Document: Photographs of Artwork Model In Progress
Presentation Time: Approximately 5 minutes

Update on design development phase deliverables of the artwork by Jim Campbell and Werner Klotz for the platform level of the Central Subway, Union Square Market Street Station.

11. Public Comment
Discussion 

(This item is to allow members of the public to comment generally on matters within the Visual Arts Committee’s purview as well as to suggest new agenda items for the Visual Arts Committee’s consideration at a future meeting.)

12. New Business and Announcements
Discussion

(This item is to allow the Commissioners and Arts Commission staff to introduce new agenda items for consideration at a future meeting, to report on recent arts activities and to make announcements.)

13. Adjournment
Action

JC 2/15/13

Explanatory Documents added 2/19/13: Item #9, Revised Installation Site Plan and Item #10, Photographs of Artwork Model In Progress

Explanatory Documents revised 2/21/13: Items #7, Final Design Drawings and #4, Rendering of Amy Blackstone's Conceptual Design; Explanatory Document added: Item #2, Image of Baile!, Item #5, Plan B Installation

Explanatory Documents added 2/22/13: Item #6, Panel Summary

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