SAN FRANCISCO ARTS COMMISSION
COMMUNITY INVESTMENTS COMMITTEE
Tuesday, December 10, 2019
1:00 p.m.
401 Van Ness Ave, Suite 125
 

AGENDA

1. Roll Call

 

2. General Public Comment
   Discussion
   (This item is to allow members of the public to comment generally on matters within the Committee’s purview as well as to suggest new agenda items for the Committee’s consideration.)

 

3. Director of Cultural Affairs Report
   Discussion
   Current developments and announcements.

 

4. Ebony McKinney Arts Leadership Grant

 Action: Discussion and possible motion to rescind Resolution No. 1007-19-283, which approved the $5,000 Ebony McKinney Arts Leadership award to Juliana Delgado Lopera; and to amend and increase grant number 19IAC35 by $5,000 to Juliana Delgado Lopera (authorized by Resolution No. 0506-19-110) and authorize the Director of Cultural Affairs to enter into a grant agreement for an amount not to exceed $20,000 at this time.

5. Special Projects Grants

  Action: Discussion and possible motion to approve recommendations to award thirty-four (34) Special Projects Grants, funded by District Supervisor Add-Backs 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: 

1. District 1 – Richmond District Neighborhood Center Inc.,$10,000 to support an Artwalk
2. District 3 – The North Beach Business Association, $70,000 to support “First Friday” Arts Walk & Arts in Storefronts Organizing
3. District 5 – San Francisco Juneteenth Festival (Fiscal Sponsor: African American Art and Culture Complex) $50,000 for the Juneteenth Festival
4. District 5 - African American Art and Culture Complex, $180,000 to support administrative operations and infrastructure
5. District 5 – Hayes Valley Neighborhood Association (Fiscal Sponsor: Intersection for the Arts) $25,000 for operating expenses
6. District 5 – First Voice Inc., $24,000 for a Youth storytelling and mentorship program
7. District 5 – New Conservatory Theater Center, $50,000 for Health and wellness theatre programs in SFUSD
8. District 5 – San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Company, $27,500 for performing arts programs for vulnerable communities
9. District 5 – Handful Players Inc., $27,500 for Performing arts programs for vulnerable communities
10. District 6 – Anne Bluethenthal and Dancers, $15,000 for Creative storytelling in the Tenderloin
11. District 8 – Noe Valley Chamber Music, $15,000 for Classical programs
12. District 8 – The Marsh, a breeding ground for new performance, $50,000 for youth theatre education in the Mission
13. District 8 – Fresh Meat Productions, $25,000 for the Trans Dance Festival
14. District 8 – 3^rd I South Asian Independent Film, $20,000 for Southeast Asian Film Festivals
15. District 9 – Fresh Meat Productions, $25,000 for transgender dance arts programming in the Mission
16. District 9 – Precita Eyes Muralists, $10,000 for mural preservation and restoration at York Mini-Park
17. District 9 –  Acción Latina, $25,000 for free, bilingual Spanish/English family friendly art walk and experience along 24^th Street in the Mission
18. District 9 – The Dance Brigade A New Group from Wallflower Order, $30,000 for architectural services
19. Citywide – San Francisco Trans March (Fiscal Sponsor: QCC-The Center for Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Art & Culture), $15,000 for LGBT historical event
20. Citywide - QCC-The Center for Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Art & Culture, $40,000 for capacity building support
21. Citywide – First Voice Inc., $100,000 for Asian Pacific Islander programming
22. Citywide – Artspan, $20,000 for citywide arts services
23. Citywide – California Lawyers for the Arts, $20,000 for citywide arts services
24. Citywide – Dancers Group, $20,000 for citywide arts services
25. Citywide – Intersection for the Arts, $20,000 for citywide arts services
26. Citywide – Theatre Bay Area, $20,000 for citywide arts services
27. Citywide – Bay Area American Indian Two-Spirits (Fiscal Sponsor: QCC-The Center for Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Art & Culture), $10,000 for Native American cultural programming
28. Citywide – International Indian Treaty Council, $10,000 for Native American cultural programming
29. Citywide – Yerba Buena Arts & Events, $50,000 for Native American Arts and Cultural Festival
30. Citywide –  Golden Gate Performing Arts, Inc., $250,000 for ADA improvements
31. Citywide –  Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Historical Society, $310,000 for archival organization support
32. Citywide – Marigold Project (Fiscal Sponsor: Intersection for the Arts), $40,000 for the Día De Los Muertos Cultural Event

 

Action: Discussion and possible motion to approve recommendations to award two Special Projects Grants 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:

1. Arts Education Alliance of the Bay Area (Fiscal Sponsor: Intersection for the Arts) $30,000 for citywide support to arts education providers.
2. Uphill Arts (Fiscal Sponsor: Intersection for the Arts) $56,000 for a citywide Anti-Tagging Program for Youth.
    

6. 2020-2022 SFAC Review Panelists

Action: Discussion and possible motion to approve the following panelists to serve, as selected by staff, on SFAC review panels for the 2019-2020 and 2021-2022 fiscal years:

Abigail Green, Arts Administrator, ODC

Aja Couchois Duncan, Practicing Artist, Change Elemental

Alexandra Higgins, Arts Administrator, Cal Performances

Amy Trachtenberg-Miller, Practicing Artist

Andréa Spearman, Arts Administrator, Dancers' Group

Angelica Rodriguez, Arts Administrator

Ann Trinca, Arts Administrator, Ann Trinca Artist Management

April Bojorquez, Arts Administrator, Saint Mary's College Museum of Art

arturo riera, Arts Administrator, Riera Digital LLC

Astria Suparak

Bhumi Patel

Brea Weinreb, Practicing Artist

Brechin Flournoy, Arts Administrator

Christopher Ellis, Arts Administrator

Dandre Johnson, Practicing Artist

Gabriel DeLeon, Practicing Artist, 1991

Gregory Stock, Arts Supporter/Enthusiast, Firefly Systems, LLC

Irene duller, Academic/Educator, Otherwise

J.F. Ellman, Practicing Artist

Jamey Brzezinski, Practicing Artist, Self-employed Artist

Jeanne Pfeffer, Practicing Artist

Jeremy Bo Droga, Practicing Artist

Jessica Eastburn, Practicing Artist

Joseph Abbati, Practicing Artist

Joshua Keller, Bohlin Cywinski Jackson, San Francisco Art Institute, People I've Loved

Julius Rea, Practicing Artist, Contra Costa School of the Performing Arts

Katherine Ryan, Practicing Artist

Kayla Dryden, Arts Administrator, Asian Art Museum

Kerry Campbell, Practicing Artist

Liv Schaffer, Practicing Artist

Lumukanda Abdul-Kenyatta, Practicing Artist, The Speakeasy Storyteller Series

Marina Bianchi, Academic/Educator

Megan Brian, Arts Administrator, SFMOMA

Mia Tagano, Practicing Artist

Moisés García, Arts Administrator

Mollie McWilliams

Nat Trisha Lagaso Goldberg, San Francisco Arts Commission

Paolo Asuncion, Practicing Artist

Patricia O'regan, The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

Patricia P. Mitchell, Pat Mitchell Millinery

Patricia Torres, Practicing Artist

Paula Smith Arrigoni, Arts Administrator, BAVC

Phyllis Jean Williams, Practicing Artist

Richard Isen, Practicing Artist, Richard Isen

Robert Ripps, Arts Supporter/Enthusiast

Roberta D'Alois, Practicing Artist, Jump! Theatre

Santhi Kavuri-Bauer, Academic/Educator, San Francisco State University

Sharon E. Bliss, Arts Administrator, SF State Fine Arts Gallery, School of art

Sharon Tanenbaum, Arts Administrator

Shawna Vesco, Academic/Educator

Steven L Jenkins, Arts Administrator, 1967

Syam Waymon

Wiebke Raven, Arts Administrator, Jewish Community Center of San Francisco

Yayoi Kambara, Practicing Artist, KAMBARA + DANCERS

 

Explanatory Document:  Panelist biographies (PDF)

 

7. New Business and Announcements
   Discussion
   (This item is to allow Commissioners to introduce new agenda items for consideration.)

 

8. Adjournment
   Action

 

 

Posted 12/6/19 at 12:45 p.m. T.H.

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: Thanh Hong, 415-252-2260. 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.

 

Public comment in regard to specific items will be taken before or during consideration of the item.

 

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To obtain a disability‐related modification or accommodation, including auxiliary aids or services, to participate in the meeting, please contact Thanh Hong, 415-252-2260, at least 48 hours before the meeting, except for Monday meetings, for which the deadline is 4:00 p.m. the previous Friday.

 

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KNOW YOUR RIGHTS UNDER THE SUNSHINE ORDINANCE

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Citizens interested in obtaining a free copy of the Sunshine Ordinance can request a copy from Mr. Darby or by printing Chapter 67 of the San Francisco Administrative Code on the Internet, http://www.sfgov.org/sunshine/

 

ACCESSIBLE MEETING POLICY

Per the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Language Access Ordinance, Chinese, Spanish, and/or American Sign Language interpreters will be available upon request. Additionally, every effort will be made to provide a sound enhancement system, meeting materials in alternative formats, and/or a reader. Minutes may be translated after they have been adopted by the Commission. For all these requests, please contact Thanh Hong, program associate, at least 48 hours before the meeting at 415-252-2260. Late requests will be honored if possible. The hearing room is wheelchair accessible.

 

利便参與會議的相關規定

根據美國殘疾人士法案和語言服務條例，中文、西班牙語、和/或美國手語翻譯人員在收到要求後將會提供翻譯服務。另外，我們將盡力提供擴音設備。同時也將會提供不同格式的會議資料， 和/或者提供閱讀器。此外，翻譯版本的會議記錄可在委員會通過後提供。上述的要求，請於會議前最少48小時致電415-252-2260向Thanh Hong, program associate 提出。逾期提出的請求，若可能的話，亦會被考慮接納。聽證室設有輪椅通道。

 

POLITICA DE ACCESO A LA REUNIÓN

De acuerdo con la Ley sobre Estadounidenses con Discapacidades (American 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 Thanh Hong, program associate, por lo menos 48 horas antes de la reunión al 415-252-2260. Las solicitudes tardías serán consideradas de ser posible. La sala de audiencia es accesible a silla de ruedas.

 

Patakaran para sa pag-access ng mga Miting

Ayon sa batas ng American Disabilities Act at ng Language Access Ordinance, maaring mag-request ng  mga tagapagsalin wika sa salitang Tsino, Espanyol at/o sa may kapansanan pandinig  sa American Sign Language. Bukod pa dito, sisikapin gawan ng paraan na makapaglaan ng gamit upang lalong pabutihin ang inyong pakikinig,  maibahagi ang mga kaganapan ng miting sa iba't ibang anyo, at/o isang tagapagbasa. Ang mga kaganapan ng miting ay maaring isalin sa ibang wika matapos ito ay aprobahan ng komisyon. Sa mga ganitong uri ng kahilingan, mangyari po lamang makipag ugnayan kay Thanh Hong, program associate sa 415-252-2260. Magbigay po lamang ng hindi bababa sa 48 oras na abiso bago ng  miting. Kung maari, ang mga late na hiling ay posibleng tanggapin. Ang silid ng pagpupulungan ay accessible sa mga naka wheelchair.