Full Commission - June 5, 2017 - Agenda

Meeting Date:

June 5, 2017 - 2:00pm

Location:

City Hall Room 416

1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place

San Francisco, CA 94102

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MEETING OF THE FULL ARTS COMMISSION
Monday, June 5, 2017
2:00 p.m.
City Hall, Room 416
1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place

Agenda

Arts Commissioners: JD Beltran, President; Roberto Ordeñana, Vice President
Charles Collins, Simon Frankel, Mary Jung, Dorka Keehn, Sherene Melania, Abby Sadin Schnair, Marcus Shelby, Janine Shiota, Jessica Silverman, Barbara Sklar, Lydia So, Kimberlee Stryker, Paul Woolford; Rich Hillis, ex officio (non-voting)

Roll Call
Approval of Minutes
Action
Motion to approve May 1, 2017 Minutes.

Explanatory Document: Draft minutes
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.)
Director’s Report
Discussion
Current administrative, budgetary and programming developments and announcements.
Approval of Treasure Island Arts Master Plan
Action
Discussion and possible motion to approve the Treasure Island Arts Master Plan, which will guide the implementation of an art program to be funded over a twenty-year period with the proceeds of the 1%-for-Art requirement generated by the private construction and redevelopment of Treasure island and Yerba Buena Island.

Explanatory Document: Draft Arts Master Plan
Committee Reports and Committee Matters
1. Executive Committee—JD Beltran, Chair
  1. Discussion: Report from Executive Committee regarding activities of the Committee and the Programs.
  2. Action: Discussion and possible motion to exempt projects at 88 Broadway and 735 Davis, and at 260 Geneva (Balboa Park Upper Yard), from the agreement as amended between the San Francisco Arts Commission and the Mayor’s Office of Housing and Community Development regarding Civic Design Review and Public Art requirements for affordable housing projects.
    
    Explanatory Document: Draft agreement
2. Civic Design Review Committee—Kimberlee Stryker, Chair
  1. Discussion: Report from the Civic Design Review Committee regarding activities of the Committee and the Program.
  2. Action: Discussion and possible motion to approve exterior color design for the Bayview Opera House, one of four City-owned Cultural Centers under the auspices of the San Francisco Arts Commission.
    
    Explanatory Document: Color schematic
3. Visual Arts Committee—Dorka Keehn, Chair
  1. Discussion: Report from the Visual Arts Committee regarding activities of the Committee and the Programs.
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 Executive Committee Meeting Minutes of April 24, 2017.
2. Motion to approve the Community Arts, Education and Grants Committee Meeting Minutes of April 27, 2017.
3. Motion to approve the Civic Design Review Committee Meeting Minutes of May 15, 2017.
4. Motion to approve the Visual Arts Committee Meeting Minutes of May 17, 2017.
5. Motion to approve the Executive Committee Meeting Minutes of May 22, 2017.
  
  Civic Design Review Committee Recommendations (May 15, 2017; link to agenda)
  Action
6. Motion to approve new text for the Jerry Garcia Plaque #2 to be installed at 5099 Mission Street.
7. Motion to approve Phase 3 of the San Francisco Terminal 1 Boarding Area B Project.
8. Motion to approve Phase 1 of the Southeast Plant Biosolids Digester Facilities Project.
  
  Visual Arts Committee Recommendations (May 17, 2017; link to agenda)
  Action
9. Motion to approve Miguel Arzabe, artist, and Susie Kantor, Curatorial Associate, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, as panelists for public art selection panels for the 2017-2018 Fiscal Year.
10. Motion to approve and to accept into the Civic Art Collection the artwork entitled Shadow Kingdom, 2015, by Adriane Colburn. The artwork consists of five laser-cut, painted steel panels, each in varying heights from 75 in. to 144 in. The individual panels feature abstracted designs of flora and fauna that once inhabited the area. All of the panels are installed within the landscape so that when viewed from a distance they visually line up and take the shape of a California grizzly bear, while creating shadow designs on the ground. The installation is also inclusive of the surrounding granite curb stones, marking the perimeter of the site. The artwork is located at Daggett Plaza on 16th Street between Hubbell and 7th streets.
11. Motion to approve and to accept into the Civic Art Collection the artwork entitled Garden Guardians, 2016 by the artist team Wowhaus (Ene Osteraas-Constable and Scott Constable). The artwork is composed of two stylized bronze owls, the first measuring 36 by 24 by 16 inches; and the second 28 by 18 by 12 inches. The artwork is located in Noe Valley Town Square at 3861–24th Street.
12. Motion to approve the final full-scale clay figures for Women’s Column of Strength, by Stephen Whyte, with approval to proceed to fabrication and approval of proposed site at the Kearny and Pine Street corner of St. Mary’s Square Extension Plaza.
13. Motion to approve the projection of floral images by Obscura Digital onto the façade of the Conservatory of Flowers for a duration of five months, from June until October 2017.
14. Motion to approve an honorarium payment of $1,000 to Cliff Hengst for the research and development of a public program related to the termination of the SFAC Galleries window installation program at 155 Grove Street.
15. Motion to approve the following curatorial consultants to develop a list of artists whose work may be considered for purchase for San Francisco International Airport, and approval to pay each an honorarium of $1,500 for their services:
  Janet Bishop, Curator of Painting and Sculpture, San Francisco Museum of Art
  Abby Chen, Curator and Artistic Director, Chinese Culture Center
  René de Guzman, Curator, Oakland Museum of California
  Lizzetta LeFalle-Collins, Independent Curator
  Aimee Le Duc, Independent Curator, Director of Exhibition and Public Programs at the Fort Mason Center for the Arts
  Reynold Pritikin, Chief Curator, Jewish Museum of Art
  Lawrence Rinder, Director of the Berkeley Art Museum
16. Motion to approve the construction document phase deliverables (final drawings and final budget) by Leslie Shows for the Central Subway: Yerba Buena/Moscone Station Ticketing Hall.
17. Motion to authorize the Director of Cultural Affairs to increase Leslie Shows’s contract for the Central Subway: Yerba Buena/Moscone Station Ticketing Hall from $350,000 to $439,502 (an increase of $89,502) to increase artwork size, increase the number of individual glass panels, and upgrade to low-iron glass.
18. Motion to approve the proposal entitled W.F.T. (San Francisco), 2016 submitted by Joseph Kosuth for a text-based illuminated neon artwork to be installed on the western-facing façades of the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium for a total project budget of $1,200,000.
19. Motion to approve the selected finalists Miguel Arzabe, Favianna Rodriguez, Muzae Sesay and alternate Benicia Gantner for the Garfield Pool public art project as recommended by the artist selection panel.
20. Motion to approve the revised site location, the Geary Street Stations for Jorge Pardo’s artwork for the Van Ness Bus Rapid Transit (VNBRT) Project.
21. Motion to approve the final design development deliverables for Jason Jagel’s When Pink Elephants Fly, a temporary mural at the San Francisco International Airport: Terminal 1, Temporary Boarding Area B.
22. Motion to approve the final design development documents and construction document phase deliverables for Kota Ezawa’s artwork, Mondrian Meets the Beatles for the San Francisco International Airport: International Terminal, Boarding Area G, Gate Room 100.
23. Motion to approve the selected finalists for the San Francisco International Airport: Terminal 1, TSA Security Checkpoint, Suspended Artwork Project as recommended by the SFO Terminal 1 and Hotel Suspended Public Art Project Artist Selection Panel: Liz Glynn (Liz Glynn Studio), Jacob Hashimoto Studio, Ranjani Shettar (Talwar Gallery) and Tomás Saraceno (Tanya Bonakdar Gallery).
24. Motion to approve the selected finalists for the San Francisco International Airport: Terminal 1, Boarding Area B, Suspended Artwork Project as recommended by the SFO Terminal 1 and Hotel Suspended Public Art Project Artist Selection Panel: Mark Handforth (Gavin Brown’s Enterprise), Tomás Saraceno (Tanya Bonakdar Gallery), and Ranjani Shettar (Talwar Gallery).
25. Motion to approve the selected finalists for the SFO Hotel, Suspended Artwork Project as recommended by the SFO Terminal 1 and Hotel Suspended Public Art Project Artist Selection Panel: Jacob Hashimoto Studio, Dana Hemenway and Tahiti Pehrson.
26. Motion to approve the selected finalists for the San Francisco International Airport: AirTrain Extension, North Concourse, Art Glass Project as recommended by the SFO Art Glass Public Art Projects Artist Selection Panel: Sarah Cain, Jeffery Gibson, Sarah Morris (Parallax) and Meghann Riepenhoff.
27. Motion to approve the following finalists for the San Francisco International Airport: International Terminal, Boarding Area A, Art Glass Project as recommended by the SFO Art Glass Public Art Projects Artist Selection Panel: Bernadette Jiyong Frank, Alicia McCarthy and Meghann Riepenhoff.
28. Motion to approve the following finalists for the N-Judah Gateway Plaza Project as recommended by the N-Judah Gateway Plaza Project Selection Panel: Aileen Barr, Sarah Hotchkiss and Jesse Schlesinger.
29. Motion to approve the selected finalists Sanaz Mazinani, Tomás Saraceno (Tanya Bonakdar Gallery), Ranjani Shettar (Talwar Gallery), Sarah Sze (Sarah Sze Studio), and alternate Liz Glynn (Liz Glynn Studio) for the atrium lobby of the 1500 Mission Street Office Building as recommended by the project selection panel.
30. Motion to approve Final Design deliverables for the public art project by Cliff Garten for Bayview Gateway.
31. Motion to approve the artist Jetro Martinez and proposal for the Westside Pump Station Reliability Improvements Public Art Project as recommended by the Artist Selection Panel.
32. Motion to authorize the Director of Cultural Affairs to enter into contract with artist Jetro Martinez for an amount not to exceed $136,000 for design and installation of an artwork for the Westside Pump Station Reliability Improvements Project.
33. Motion to approve the selected artists Jefferson Pinder, Chris Sickels (Red Nose Studios), and Kate Rhodes for the Peephole Cinema project at the San Francisco International Airport: Terminal 1, Temporary Boarding Area B.
34. Motion to authorize the Director of Cultural Affairs to enter into contract with artist Jefferson Pinder for an amount not to exceed $9,990 for a video artwork for the San Francisco International Airport: Terminal 1, Temporary Boarding Area B.
35. Motion to authorize the Director of Cultural Affairs to enter into contract with artist Chris Sickels (Red Nose Studios) for an amount not to exceed $9,990 for a video artwork for the San Francisco International Airport: Terminal 1, Temporary Boarding Area B.
36. Motion to authorize the Director of Cultural Affairs to enter into contract with artist Kate Rhodes for an amount not to exceed $9,990 for a video artwork for the San Francisco International Airport: Terminal 1, Temporary Boarding Area B.
  
  Executive Committee Recommendations (May 22, 2017; link to agenda)
  Action
37. Motion to rescind Resolution Number 1981-988, which reads as follows:
  “RESOLVED, that this Commission does hereby approve the adoption of a provision for the issuance of two certificates to each street artist: one to be affixed to the the [sic] display in a prominent location at all times while the artist is selling; the other to be carried by the artist for use in entering in and participating in the Art Commission’s lottery system for the assignment of sales spaces.”
38. Motion to approve recommendations to award three grants totaling $77,251 in the 2016-2017 cycle of Cultural Equity Initiatives (“CEI”) to the following organizations, and to authorize the Director of Cultural Affairs to enter into grant agreements with each organization for amounts not to exceed the following:
  Creative Labor (Fiscal Sponsor: Queer Cultural Center), $7,666
  OX (Fiscal Sponsor: CounterPulse), $35,000
  Queer Rebels Productions (Fiscal Sponsor: Queer Cultural Center), $34,585
39. Motion to approve recommendations to award one grant totaling $25,000 in the 2016-2017 cycle of Cultural Equity Initiatives (“CEI”) to the following organization, and to authorize the Director of Cultural Affairs to enter into a grant agreement with the organization for an amount not to exceed the following:
  Chinese Historical Society of America, $25,000
40. Motion to authorize advances to the following Cultural Centers for FY2017-2018 based on the prior year’s total grant allocation and pending approval of the City budget, in the following amounts:
  Bayview Opera House, $86,186
  Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts, $144,609
  SOMArts Cultural Center, $188,331 (including $161,598 to SOMArts Cultural Center and $26,733 to Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center as sub-grantee of SOMArts Cultural Center)
41. Motion to authorize advances to the following Cultural Centers for FY2017-2018 based on the prior year’s total grant allocation and pending approval of the City budget, in the following amounts:
  African American Art and Culture Complex (“AAACC”) $163,826 (including $137,093 to AAACC and $26,733 to Queer Cultural Center as sub-grantee of AAACC)
42. Motion to enter into a grant agreement with Mission Economic Development Agency in an amount not to exceed $115,000 to provide affordable housing counseling to artists and arts workers.
43. Motion to increase the 2016-2017 Special Project Grant with Precita Eyes Muralists Association, Inc. (authorized by Resolution No. 0912-16-246) by $25,000 for a total grant amount not to exceed $50,000, and to extend the grant window to June 30, 2018. The grant is to complete a mural at the entrance of Laguna Honda Hospital with funding from the Participatory Budget process in District 7.
44. Motion to enter into a grant agreement with Economic Development on Third for an amount not to exceed $25,000 for a Jazz Street festival in the Bayview, as selected by the District 10 Participatory Budget process.
45. Motion to approve the following resolution.
  
  Whereas Oceanwide Center LLC (“Oceanwide”) desires to contribute $1,000,000 to the Public Artwork Trust Fund (“trust fund”) for distribution to the Museum of the African Diaspora as partial fulfillment of Oceanwide’s Public Art Fee; and
  Whereas Oceanwide may elect a refund of trust fund monies should the contribution not be distributed to the Museum of the African Diaspora; and
  Whereas the nature of Oceanwide’s contribution to the trust fund is such that competitive proposals would be unavailing, and a competitive process is impracticable;
  Therefore be it resolved that the contribution by Oceanwide Center LLC of $1,000,000 to the Public Artwork Trust Fund for distribution to the Museum of the African Diaspora is approved, pending final approval by the Arts Commission; and
  Be it resolved that the Director of Cultural Affairs is authorized to enter into a Memorandum of Understanding with Oceanwide Center LLC regarding Oceanwide’s contribution of $1,000,000 to the Public Artwork Trust Fund for distribution to the Museum of the African Diaspora, pending final approval by the Arts Commission.
46. Motion to approve an agreement as amended between the San Francisco Arts Commission and the Mayor’s Office of Housing and Community Development regarding Civic Design Review and Public Art requirements for affordable housing projects, excluding the exemptions for projects at 88 Broadway and 735 Davis, and at 260 Geneva (Balboa Park Upper Yard).
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.)
Adjournment
Action

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Full Commission - June 5, 2017 - Agenda

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