MEETING OF THE FULL ARTS COMMISSION
Monday, November 4, 2019
2:00 p.m.
City Hall, Room 416
1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place

Agenda

 
Arts Commissioners: Roberto Ordeñana, President; Kimberlee Stryker, Vice President
JD Beltran, Charles Collins, Suzie Ferras, Mary Jung, Dorka Keehn, Nabiel Musleh, Linda Parker Pennington, Abby Sadin Schnair, Marcus Shelby, Janine Shiota, Barbara Sklar, Paul Woolford; Myrna Melgar, ex officio (non-voting)
 

1. Roll Call
    
2. Approval of Minutes
   Action
   Motion to approve October 7, 2019 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, legislative 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) for a term beginning on January 1, 2020. The Nominating Committee approved the slate of Roberto Ordeñana as President and Kimberlee Stryker as Vice President.
    
6. Committee Reports and Committee Matters
   1. Executive Committee—Roberto Ordeñana, Chair
      1. Discussion: Report from the Executive Committee regarding activities of the Committee and the Programs.
          
   2. 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.
    
   1. Motion to approve the Community Investments Committee Meeting Minutes of October 1, 2019.
       
   2. Motion to approve the Visual Arts Committee Meeting Minutes of October 16, 2019.
       
      Visual Arts Committee Recommendations (October 16, 2019; link to agenda)
      Action
   3. Motion to approve Ingleside Gateway, a sculptural gateway by artist Eric Powell. The sculptural gateway will be installed at Ingleside Library, which is located on 1298 Ocean Ave. The gateway structure will measure approximately 11 ft. by 28.5 ft. The project is funded by grants from the San Francisco Office of Economic and Workforce Development and Mayor’s Office of Housing and Community Development. The sculptural gateway will not become part of the Civic Art Collection.
       
   4. Motion to approve the design of Sailing Sunrise Sunset, a mural by artist Antoine Marnata. The mural will be installed on two columns holding up the 20th Street ramp at Indiana Street, in the new dog park adjacent to the new development Avalon Dogpatch at 800 Indiana Street. The mural will be on Caltrans property and the Department of Public Works will be the formal sponsor from the City and County of San Francisco. AvalonBay is funding the mural and will be responsible for maintenance. The mural will not become part of the Civic Art Collection.
       
   5. Motion to authorize the Director of Cultural Affairs to enter into an agreement with Devco Engineering, Inc. for $8,170 for engineering services related to the installation of a sculpture by THEVERYMANY in the Consolidated Administrative Campus at San Francisco International Airport.
       
   6. Motion to authorize the Director of Cultural Affairs to increase the as-needed fine art services agreement (Contract No. 100012706) with Atthowe Fine Art Services from an amount not to exceed $500,000 to an amount not to exceed $749,000 (an increase of $249,000).
       
   7. Motion to authorize the Director of Cultural Affairs to increase the as-needed fine art services agreement (Contract No. 100012707) with Atthowe Fine Art Services from an amount not to exceed $500,000 to an amount not to exceed $749,000 (an increase of $249,000).
       
   8. Motion to authorize the Director of Cultural Affairs to increase the as-needed fine art services agreement (Contract No. 100012708) with Atthowe Fine Art Services from an amount not to exceed $500,000 to an amount not to exceed $749,000 (an increase of $249,000).
       
   9. Motion to authorize the Director of Cultural Affairs to increase the agreement with Amanda Hughen and Jennifer Starkweather from an amount not to exceed $60,000 to an amount not to exceed $82,000 to include additional work necessitated by changes to General Contractor’s art glass fabricator for an artwork at the Union Square Central Subway Station.
       
   10. Motion to approve the Final Design Phase Deliverables (Construction Documents and final materials) by Dana Hemenway for an artwork at San Francisco International Airport Terminal 1.
        
   11. Motion to rescind Resolution No. 0909-19-258 authorizing the Director of Cultural Affairs to enter into a contract with the selected artist Andrea Bowers for an amount not to exceed $1,100,000 for the design, engineering, fabrication, transportation and installation of an artwork for the San Francisco International Airport: Harvey Milk Terminal 1, Underpass Lighting public art opportunity.
        
   12. Motion to authorize the Director of Cultural Affairs to enter into a contract with the selected artist Andrea Bowers (DBA Radical Patience Inc.) for an amount not to exceed $1,100,000 for the design, engineering, fabrication, transportation and installation of an artwork for the San Francisco International Airport: Harvey Milk Terminal 1, Underpass Lighting public art opportunity.
        
   13. Motion for the Director of Cultural Affairs to approve an artist honorarium in the amount of $9,900 to Juana Alicia for the research and development of artwork for the SFAC Galleries exhibition, Juana Alicia: The Golden Capricorn Award (July 10–September 12, 2020).
        
   14. Motion for the Director of Cultural Affairs to approve the artist honoraria to the following individuals: Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo $2,600; Josh Faught $2,700; Lauren McKeon $2,300; and Bri Williams $2,000 for the development of works that will be included in the SFAC Main Gallery exhibition Bed of Trouble, which is set to open to the public on January 17, 2020.
        
   15. Motion to approve the project outline for a bronze plaque honoring Mayor Edwin Lee for the International Terminal Building Departures Lobby, San Francisco International Airport. The project budget is $70,000; funding will by provided by the San Francisco International Airport. The plaque will not become part of the Civic Art Collection.
        
   16. Motion to approve the finalists Elisheva Biernoff, Linda Geary, David Huffman, Jet Martinez, Ranu Mukherjee and Muzae Sesay for the San Francisco International Airport: International Terminal, BAA & BAG Recompose Walls public art project.
        
   17. Motion to approve as installed the completed stained and fused glass window mural, We will walk right up to the sun, 2019, by Sarah Cain, located at the San Francisco International Airport, AirTrain Grand Hyatt Station along the North Wall.
        
   18. Motion to approve as installed the completed artwork Green Map, 2019 by Ellen Harvey for the San Francisco International Airport Grand Hyatt Hotel.
        
   19. Motion to approve as installed the completed artwork This Infinite Gateway of Time and Circumstance, 2019 by Jacob Hashimoto for the San Francisco International Airport Grand Hyatt Hotel.
        
   20. Motion to approve as installed the completed artwork Circadian Transit, 2019 by Tahiti Pehrson for the San Francisco International Airport Grand Hyatt Hotel.
        
   21. Motion to approve as installed the completed artwork Ether, 2019 by Kohei Nawa for the San Francisco International Airport Grand Hyatt Hotel.
        
   22. Motion to approve as installed the completed artwork Winter/Spring, Standing in Claremont Canyon, 2019 by David Wilson for the San Francisco International Airport Grand Hyatt Hotel.
        
   23. Motion to approve as installed the completed artwork Cultural Fabric (Bay Area), 2019 by Miguel Arzabe for the San Francisco International Airport Grand Hyatt Hotel.
        
   24. Motion to approve as installed the two-dimensional artwork program of purchased works at San Francisco International Airport Grand Hyatt Hotel:
       Miya Ando, November Evening Cloud 4.6, 2017, dye on aluminum, 48 in. by 72 in.
       Natalya Burd, So much more than this, 2018, acrylic, mirror, Plexiglas, 47 in. by 94 in.
       John Chiara, Cabrillo Highway at Pescadero Creek Road, Variation 4, 2017, Camera Obscura Ilfochrome photograph, 58 in. by 71 in.
       James Chronister, California (1), 2018, oil on canvas, 72 in. by 50 in.
       Michael Dvortcsak, Sublimens, 1985, oil and wax, on canvas, 85.5 in. by 72.5 in.
       Richard Diebenkorn, #2, 3, 5, 7, from Nine Drypoints and Etchings, 1977, Drypoint and etching, 25 in. by 33 in. each
       Crystal Liu, underground, ‘stuck in between’, 2016, collage, gouache, ink and watercolor on paper, 47 in. by 104 in.
       Terri Loewenthal, Psychscape 73 (Downs, Mount, CA), 2017, archival pigment print, 40 in. by 30 in.
       Terri Loewenthal, Psychscape 18 (Banner Ridge, CA), 2017, archival pigment print, 42 in. by 56 in.
       Klea McKenna, Born in 1717, 2017, gelatin silver photogram, 43 in. by 50 in.
       Richard Misrach, Golden Gate Bridge, 2.27.00, 4:55 pm, 2000, pigment print, 60 in. by 74 in.
       Richard Misrach, Golden Gate Bridge, 4.17.00, 4:01 pm, 2000, pigment print, 60 in. by 74 in.
       Richard Misrach, Golden Gate Bridge, 3.4.01, 7:30 pm, 2001, pigment print, 60 in. by 74 in.
        
   25. Motion to approve artist Taraneh Hemami’s six final designs for the 2019 Art on Market Street Kiosk Poster Series.
        
   26. Motion to approve the selected finalists, Nicholas Galanin, Walter Kitundu and Nora Naranjo Morse, for the Alameda Creek Watershed Center public art project.
        
       Executive Committee Recommendations (October 29, 2019; link to agenda)
       Action
   27. Motion to rescind Resolution No. 0805-19-208, which authorized the Director of Cultural Affairs to enter into an agreement with the San Francisco Symphony to produce twelve Symphony concerts in each of fiscal years 2019-2020 and 2020-2021, for a total of 24 concerts, one of which each year is to be free to the public and held in a publicly accessible venue, commencing August 1, 2019 and concluding by August 31, 2021, for an amount equal to the Controller’s calculation of the ad valorem tax for FY 2019-2020 and FY 2020-2021, currently estimated to be $6,658,946.
        
   28. Motion, pursuant to Charter Section 16.106(1), to authorize the Director of Cultural Affairs to enter into an agreement with the San Francisco Symphony for 24 concerts that will retroactively apply to twelve concerts produced in the Symphony’s 2018-2019 season and to twelve concerts to be produced in the Symphony’s 2019-2020 season, with one concert each season free to the public and held in a publicly accessible venue, for an amount equal to the amount allocated in the applicable annual Budget and Appropriation Ordinance currently established to be $3,478,883 for the City’s fiscal year ending June 30, 2020 and estimated to be $3,635,573 for the City’s fiscal year ending June 30, 2021, for a combined estimate of $7,114,456.
        
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
    

posted 11/1/19, 1:00 p.m. spr
 

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, 415/252-2256. 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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利便参與會議的相關規定

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POLITICA DE ACCESO A LA REUNIÓN

De acuerdo con la Ley sobre Estadounidenses con Discapacidades (Americans with Disabilities Act) y la Ordenanza de Acceso a Idiomas (Language Access Ordinance) intérpretes de chino, español, y lenguaje de señas estarán disponibles de ser requeridos. En adición, se hará todo el esfuerzo posible para proveer un sistema mejoramiento de sonido, materiales de la reunión en formatos alternativos, y/o proveer un leedor. Las minutas podrán ser traducidas luego de ser aprobadas por la Comisión. Para solicitar estos servicios, favor contactar a Sharon Page Ritchie, Commission Secretary, por lo menos 48 horas antes de la reunión al 415/252-2256. Las solicitudes tardías serán consideradas de ser posible. La sala de audiencia es accesible a silla de ruedas.


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