SAN FRANCISCO ARTS COMMISSION
VISUAL ARTS COMMITTEE
Wednesday, November 20, 2019
3 p.m.
401 Van Ness Avenue, Room 125
San Francisco, CA 94102
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Agenda

Visual Arts Committee Members:
JD Beltran      
Suzie Ferras
Dorka Keehn, Chair
Nabiel Musleh
Abby Sadin Schnair
Janine Shiota
Barbara Sklar

1. Call to Order, Roll Call, and Agenda Changes

2. General Public Comment
Discussion

3. Consent Calendar
Action
Explanatory Documents: Utility Box art in SOMA.pdf
Presentation Time: Approximately 2 minutes

1. Motion to approve We Live Here, ten vinyl wrapped utility box designs by artist Mel Vera Cruz. The artwork will be installed on ten utility boxes, located in South of Market. The project is funded by a grant from the Zellerbach Family Foundation Community Arts Program. The artwork will not become part of the Civic Art Collection.
    
2. Motion for the Director of Cultural Affairs to approve the artist honoraria to the following individuals: Sam Contis $2000, Carolyn Lazard $600, and Carmen Winant $2600 for the development of works that will be included in the SFAC Main Gallery exhibition Bed of Trouble.
    
3. Motion to authorize the Director of Cultural Affairs to increase the contract with White Light Inc. for an artwork at Central Subway Union Square Market Street Station from $448,623 to an amount not to exceed $458,723 (an increase of $10,100) to allow for additional engineering services required of the project.
    
4. Motion to authorize the Director of Cultural Affairs to increase the contract with Demiurge LLC for fabrication of an artwork at Central Subway Union Square Market Street Station from $819,287 to an amount not to exceed $872,806 (an increase of $53,519) to allow for additional labor and materials required of the project.
    
5. Motion to approve the arts professional Micki Meng, Founder of &Art&, as a panelist for public art selection panels for the 2019-20 and 2020-2021 Fiscal Years.

4. Salesforce Transit Center—Jenny Holzer
Jill Manton
Action
Explanatory Documents: Presentation
Presentation Time: Approximately 5 minutes

Motion: Motion to authorize the Director of Cultural Affairs to modify the existing agreement with Kiboworks, the fabricator of the Jenny Holzer text-based LED artwork at the Salesforce Transit Center, from $1,263,061 to an amount not to exceed $1,331,069 (an increase of $68,008). The amended agreement will also authorize an additional scope of work to be performed that will upgrade the brightness of the LED lighting system and extend the contract completion date until December 1, 2021.

5. SFAC Main Gallery Exhibition
Jackie Im
Action
Explanatory Documents: Presentation
Presentation Time: Approximately 5 minutes

Introducing the 2020 SFAC Main Gallery exhibition Conversation 8: Harry Dodge and Alicia McCarthy and presenting a motion for curatorial honorarium.

Motion: Motion for the Director of Cultural Affairs to approve the curatorial honoraria of $4000 to Nancy Lim for the research and development of the SFAC Main Gallery exhibition Conversation 8, set to open on April 17, 2020.

6. Golden Gate Golf Club House
Susan Pontious
Action
Explanatory Documents: Architectural Design Narrative
Presentation: 2 minutes

Motion: Motion to reallocate the $30,000 art enrichment funds generated by the construction of the Golden Gate Golf Club House to supplement the budgets of other Recreation and Parks Dept. public art or conservation projects because the art enrichment funding generated by the golf club house is inadequate to execute a meaningful art project there.

7. 49 South Van Ness

A. Prefunction Gallery Wall— Meghann Riepenhoff
Marcus Davies
Action
Explanatory Documents: Artist’s final imagery and material and fabrication mockup
Presentation Time: Approximately 3 minutes

Presentation of the artist’s final imagery and material and fabrication mockup as part of the Construction Document Phase deliverables for the Gallery Wall Artwork at 49 South Van Ness.

Motion: Motion to approve artist Meghann Riepenhoff’s Construction Document phase deliverables, including final imagery and a material and fabrication mockup for the Gallery Wall Artwork at 49 South Van Ness.

B. Forum Sculpture—Sanaz Mazinani
Marcus Davies
Action
Explanatory Documents: Artist’s material and fabrication mockup
Presentation Time: Approximately 3 minutes

Presentation of the artist’s material and fabrication mockup as part of the Construction Document Phase deliverables for the Forum Artwork at 49 South Van Ness.

Motion: Motion to approve artist Sanaz Mazinani’s Construction Document phase deliverables, including a material and fabrication mockup for the Forum Artwork at 49 South Van Ness.

8. Guy Place Park—Adriane Colburn
Marcus Davies
Action
Explanatory Documents: fabrication mockup
Presentation Time: Approximately 2 minutes

Presentation of the Gizmo Art Production’s fabrication mockup of Adriane Colburn’s artwork for Guy Place Park.

Motion: Motion to approve Gizmo Art Production’s fabrication mockup of Adriane Colburn’s artwork for Guy Place Park.

9. Mint Plaza
Aleta Lee
Action
Explanatory Documents: Final Design   
Presentation Time: Approximately 5 minutes

Presentation of final design of HYBYCOZO’s artwork for Mint Plaza.

Motion: Motion to approve the final design by HYBYCOZO’s for the Mint Plaza public art project.

10. New Business, Old Business, and Announcements
Discussion

11. Adjournment
Action

CC 11/15/19 2:46 pm

Notices

Agenda Item Information

Each item on the agenda may include the following documents:

1) Department or Agency or report;

2) Public correspondence;

3) Other explanatory documents.

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