MEETING OF THE FULL ARTS COMMISSION
Monday, November 2, 2015
2:00 p.m.
City Hall, Room 416
1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place

Agenda

1. Roll Call
    
2. Approval of Minutes
   Action
   Motion to approve October 5, 2015 Minutes.
   
   Explanatory Document: Draft minutes
    
3. General 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.)
    
4. Director’s Report
   Discussion
   Current administrative, budgetary and programming developments and announcements.
    
5. Nomination and Election of Arts Commission Officers
   Action
   Discussion and motion to nominate and elect officers of the Arts Commission (President and Vice President). The Nominating Committee approved the slate of JD Beltran as President and Roberto Ordeñana as Vice President.
    
6. Committee Reports and Committee Matters
   1. Community Arts, Education and Grants Committee—Sherene Melania, Chair
      1. Discussion: Report from the Community Arts, Education and Grants Committee regarding activities of the Committee and the Program.
          
   2. Civic Design Review Committee—Cass Calder Smith, Chair
      1. Discussion: Report from the Civic Design Review Committee regarding activities of the Committee and the Program.
          
   3. Visual Arts Committee—Dorka Keehn, Chair
      1. Discussion: Report from the Visual Arts Committee regarding activities of the Committee and the Programs.
          
7. 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 October 13, 2015.
       
   2. Motion to approve the Visual Arts Committee Meeting Minutes of October 21, 2015.
       
      Community Arts, Education and Grants Committee Recommendations (October 13, 2015; link to agenda)
      Action
   3. Motion to approve the following panelists to serve, as selected by staff, on SFAC review panels for the 2015-2018 Fiscal Years:
      Salvador Acevedo, Principal, Contemporánea
      Tamara Alvarado, Executive Director, School of Arts and Culture at MHP
      Lincoln (LEDOH) Basaing, Artistic Director, Salt Farm Butoh
      Lindsie Bear, Director, Nature and Environmental Publishing, Heyday
      Vanessa Camarena-Arredondo, Executive Director, Studio Grand
      Sidney Chen, Artistic Administrator, Kronos Quartet / Kronos Performing Arts Association
      Christopher Dennis, Production Director, San Francisco Ballet
      Ashara Ekundayo, Founder, Chief Creative Officer, Impact Hub Oakland
      Erika Gee, Senior Planner, Chinatown Community Development Center
      Corrina Gould, Title VII Coordinator, AICRC; Co-Founder, IPOC
      Jessica Mele, Program Officer, Performing Arts, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
      Mina Morita, Artistic Director, Crowded Fire Theater Company
      Kirthi Nath, Filmmaker, Cinemagical Media
      Fuifuilupe Niumeitolu, Doctoral Candidate, Institute for the Study of Social Change, UC Berkeley
      Madeleine Oldham, Director, The Ground Floor and Resident Dramaturg, Berkeley Repertory Theatre
      Frances Phillips, Program Director, Arts and the Creative Work Fund, Walter & Elise Haas Fund
      Joan Pinkvoss, Executive Director, Aunt Lute Books
      Ellen Richard, Interim Managing Director, Magic Theatre
      Tomás Riley, Executive Director, CounterPulse
      Jim Santi Owen, Musician, musical director, arts educator, funder
      Adriane Tafoya, Registrar, Oakland Museum of California
      Angela Wellman, Founding Director, Oakland Public Conservatory of Music
       
      Civic Design Review Committee Recommendations (October 19, 2015; link to agenda)
      Action
   4. Motion to approve Phase 3 of the Golden Gate Recycled Water Pump Station & Reservoir.
       
   5. Motion to approve Phases 1 and 2 of the Noe Valley Town Square project.
       
   6. Motion to approve Phases 1 and 2 of the Geneva Car Barn and Powerhouse Project.
       
   7. Motion to approve Phase 1 of the Airport Building #624 project contingent upon: (1) simplifying the design so that the sill of the clerestory is a level line aligned at the lowest point; (2) making the panelization uniform instead of varied; (3) simplifying the area of the building number on the landside by eliminating the clerestories there and making the numbers visually distinct from the background; (4) eliminating redwoods from the landscape plan; (5) ensuring that all trees are placed far enough from buildings to allow sufficient canopy space, and eliminating any trees that are too close to the building.
       
   8. Motion to approve Phase 2 of the SFO Firehouse #3 and South Field Checkpoint Relocation project, contingent upon submitting the design of the entry for informal review prior to Phase 3 review.
       
   9. Motion to approve Phases 1 and 2 of the Treasure Island/Yerba Buena Island Streetscape Master Plan project.
       
   10. Motion to approve Phases 1 and 2 of the Yerba Buena Island Water Tanks project, contingent upon increasing the planting to screen the fence.
        
   11. Motion to approve Phases 1, 2 and 3 of the South Park Playground.
        
   12. Motion to approve Phase 1 of the 1500 Mission Street project.
        
   13. Motion: Resolved that, pursuant to Administrative Code Section 67.6(a), the Civic Design Review Committee hereby confirms that, effective October 1, 2015, its regular meetings shall occur at 3:00 p.m. on the third Monday of each month at 401 Van Ness Avenue, in Room 125.
        
       Visual Arts Committee Recommendations (October 21, 2015; link to agenda)
       Action
   14. Motion to approve the mural design Diamonds on Divis, by Kristin Farr. The proposed mural is 20 feet by 7 feet and will be painted on the ground of a new bicycle corral at parking space 1140-G in front of 1190 Fell Street. The new bicycle corral is a project of the SFTMA and is sponsored and funded by the Madrone Art Bar.
        
   15. Motion to approve honorarium payments in the amount of $2,500 each for the research, development, creation and exhibition of newly commissioned artworks to the following artists: Jeremiah Barber, Dana Harel, Carolyn Janssen, Summer Mei Ling Lee, and Ramekon O’Arwisters. And honorarium payment in the amount of $700 each for the exhibition of existing artworks by the following artists: Zeina Barakeh, Victor De La Rosa, Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Ranu Mukherjee, and Tsherin Sherpa. The works described in this motion will be on view in the SFAC Galleries inaugural exhibition, Bring it Home: (Re)Locating Cultural Legacies through the Body, opening January 22, 2016.
        
   16. Motion to authorize blanket approval for a series of temporary art activities programmed by the Hayes Valley Neighborhood Association, the Hayes Valley Art Works and the Haight Street Art Center and which shall include projects such as temporary murals to be placed on the chain link fences surrounding the parcels, various kinds of art classes, performance and site decorations within Parcel O in Hayes Valley, located at the intersection of Octavia and Fell Streets, over the course of one year from October 22, 2015 until October 21, 2016.
        
   17. Motion to retroactively approve the display of the reproduction of original artworks by Todd Berman, Reynaldo R. Cayetano, Jr., Philip Hua, Ariel Dunity Johnson and Andria Lo designed specifically for display in 50 buses citywide (ten buses per artist) for duration of three months from October 1, 2015 through December 31, 2015 in spaces generally reserved for advertising.
        
   18. Motion to approve the Project Outline for the Treasure Island Art Activation Temporary Art Projects, pending final approval from the Treasure Island Development Authority and the availability of funding for implementation.
        
   19. Motion to approve the completed installation of artworks from the series Strangerhood: Castro, Chinatown, Fisherman’s Wharf, Haight-Ashbury, Mission and North Beach, 2015, by Lordy Rodriguez. All are printed reproductions on aluminum installed at San Francisco International Airport, Terminal 3.
        
   20. Motion to approve the selected fabricator, Magnolia Editions, for artist Clare Rojas’s Central Subway: Chinatown Station public art project, as recommended by the Central Subway: Chinatown Station Rojas Artwork Fabricator Selection Panel, and to approve Magnolia Editions’s subcontract of $139,560 to be assigned to Clare Rojas’s contract with the City for this artwork commission.
        
   21. Motion to authorize the Director of Cultural Affairs to increase Clare Rojas’s contract from $94,750, to $234,000 (an increase of $139,560) to add Magnolia Editions’s subcontract for fabrication, transportation, and fabricator’s consultation during installation to Clare Rojas’s contract for the Central Subway: Chinatown Station Crosscut Cavern artwork project.
        
   22. Motion to approve the selected finalists, Benicia Gantner, Lordy Rodriguez, and Jason Jägel, with Aileen Barr as alternate, as recommended by the Balboa Pool Public Art Selection Panel to develop conceptual proposals for the Balboa Pool Improvement Project.
        
   23. Motion to approve the conceptual proposal by Jenifer K. Wofford for the PUC Storm Drain Mural Project for display during the year 2016 and to authorize the Director of Cultural Affairs to enter into contract with the artist to develop and complete six unique mural designs for an amount not to exceed $10,000.
        
   24. Motion to approve the conceptual proposal by Michael Bartalos for the PUC Storm Drain Mural Project for display during the year 2017 and to authorize the Director of Cultural Affairs to enter into contract with the artist to develop and complete six unique mural designs for an amount not to exceed $10,000.
        
   25. Motion to approve the art enrichment program plan for Noe Valley Town Square.
        
8. New Business and Announcements
   Discussion
   (This item is to allow the Commissioners to introduce new agenda items for consideration, to report on recent arts activities and to make announcements.)
    
9. Adjournment
   Action
    

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Notices
Explanatory documents listed above, as well as documents created or distributed after the posting of this agenda to the Arts Commission will be available for public inspection and copying at the Arts Commission office, 401 Van Ness Avenue, Suite 325, San Francisco, CA 94102, during regular business hours. Info: Sharon Page Ritchie, 415/252-2591. PLEASE NOTE: The Arts Commission often receives documents created or submitted by other City officials, agencies or departments after the posting of the Arts Commission agenda. For such documents or presentations, members of the public may wish to contact the originating agency if they seek documents not yet provided to the Arts Commission.

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POLITICA DE ACCESO A LA REUNIÓN

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