MEETING OF THE FULL ARTS COMMISSION
Monday, April 6, 2015
2:00 p.m.
City Hall, Room 416
1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place

Agenda
Please note new meeting time, 2:00 p.m.

1. Roll Call
    
2. 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.)
    
3. Approval of Minutes
   Action
   Motion to approve March 2, 2015 Minutes.
   
   Explanatory Document: Draft minutes
    
4. Director’s Report
   Discussion
   Current administrative, budgetary and programming developments and announcements, including a Year One update on progress toward five-year strategic plan goals and objectives including a presentation of draft San Francisco Arts Commission logic model and performance measures.
   
   Explanatory Documents: Draft Logic Model, Draft Performance Measures, Status Update
    
5. Committee Reports and Committee Matters
   1. Executive Committee—JD Beltran, Chair
      1. Discussion: Report from the Executive Committee regarding activities of the Committee and the Program.
          
   2. 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 Programs.
          
   3. 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.
          
   4. Street Artists Committee—Barbara Sklar, Chair
      1. Discussion: Report from the Street Artists Committee regarding activities of the Committee and the Program.
          
   5. Visual Arts Committee—Dorka Keehn, Chair
      1. Discussion: Report from the Visual Arts Committee regarding activities of the Committee and the Programs.
          
6. 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 March 10, 2015.
       
   2. Motion to approve the Street Artists Committee Meeting Minutes of March 11, 2015.
       
   3. Motion to approve the Civic Design Review Committee Meeting Minutes of March 16, 2015.
       
   4. Motion to approve the Visual Arts Committee Meeting Minutes of March 18, 2015.
       
      Community Arts, Education and Grants Committee Recommendations (March 10, 2015; link to agenda)
      Action
   5. Motion to approve recommendations to award 43 grants totaling $586,485 in the 2014-2015 cycle of Organization Project Grants (“OPG”) to the following organizations, and to authorize the Director of Cultural Affairs to enter into grant agreements with each organization for the amounts listed:
      Anne Bluethenthal and Dancers (ABD Productions), $13,000
      Arab Film Festival, $13,000
      Aunt Lute Books, $13,000
      Carolina Lugo’s & Carolé Acuña’s Ballet Flamenco, $13,000
      Center for the Art of Translation, $13,000
      Chinese Historical Society of America, $13,000
      Circo Zero/Zero Performances, $13,000
      Circuit Network, $13,000
      Contraband/Mixed Bag Productions, $13,000
      CounterPULSE, $15,000
      Crowded Fire Theatre Company, $15,000
      CubaCaribe, $15,000
      Cultural Odyssey, $15,000
      Cutting Ball Theatre Company, $13,000
      Dancers’ Group, $15,000
      Del Sol Performing Arts Organization, $15,000
      Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network, $5,500
      Embodiment Project, $15,000
      Epiphany Productions, $15,000
      Fictional Artists’ Contemporary Theatre/San Francisco (FACT/SF), $13,000
      Flyaway Productions, $15,000
      Genryu Arts, $15,000
      ICTUS, $13,000
      Jess Curtis/Gravity, $13,000
      Joe Goode Performance Group, $15,000
      Litquake, $15,000
      Margaret Jenkins Dance Company, $15,000
      Nā Lei Hulu I Ka Wēkiu, $15,000
      PlayGround, $13,000
      Post:Ballet, $13,000
      Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project, $13,000
      SAFEhouse for the Performing Arts, $13,000
      San Francisco Chamber Orchestra, $15,000
      San Francisco Cinematheque, $15,000
      San Francisco Friends of Chamber Music, $15,000
      San Francisco Green Film Festival, $13,000
      San Francisco Hip Hop DanceFest, $15,000
      San Francisco Independent Film Festival, $13,000
      Shadowlight Productions, $13,000
      Sixth Street Photography Workshop, $13,000
      Still Here, $3,335
      Switchboard Music Festival, $13,000
      Theatre Flamenco of San Francisco, $15,000
      Topsy Turvy, $6,650
       
   6. Motion to approve recommendation to award Yerba Buena Gardens Festival for funding in the 2014-2015 cycle of Organization Project Grants (“OPG”) and to authorize the Director of Cultural Affairs to enter into grant agreement for $15,000.
       
   7. Motion to approve recommendations to award Yerba Buena Gardens Festival for funding in the 2014-2015 cycle of Native American Arts and Cultural Traditions (“NAACT”) and to authorize the Director of Cultural Affairs to enter into grant agreement for $7,500.
       
   8. Motion to approve recommendations to award ten grants totaling $87,500 in the 2014-2015 cycle of Native American Arts and Cultural Traditions (“NAACT”) to the following organizations and individuals, and to authorize the Director of Cultural Affairs to enter into grant agreements with each organization and individual for the amounts listed:
      Seventh Native American Generation, $15,000
      Cultural Conservancy, $15,000
      Dancing Earth Creations, $10,500
      Ross Cunningham, $7,500
      Nā Lei Hulu I Ka Wēkiu, $1,000
      Instituto Familiar de la Raza, $1,000
      American Indian Film Institute, $7,500
      Nā Lei Hulu I Ka Wēkiu, $7,500
      Brava Theater Center/Brava! For Women in the Arts, $7,500
      Cultural Conservancy, $7,500
      Queer Cultural Center, $7,500
       
      Civic Design Review Committee Recommendations (March 16, 2015; link to agenda)
      Action
   9. Motion to approve Phase 1 of the Moccasin Building 76 Project.
       
      Visual Arts Committee Recommendations (March 18, 2015; link to agenda)
      Action
   10. Motion to approve the selected finalists: James Carpenter, Ned Kahn and Joseph Kosuth, for the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium Public Art Project as recommended by the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium Public Art Project Art Selection Panel.
        
   11. Motion to pay an honorarium in the amount of up to $2,500, plus reasonable travel costs to the following artists: James Carpenter, Ned Kahn and Joseph Kosuth, to develop proposals for the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium Public Art Project.
        
   12. Motion to approve an honorarium in the amount of $7,000 to Jeremy Fish for the development of new artwork for an exhibition for the SFAC Galleries’ Art at City Hall program set to open on November 4, 2015.
        
   13. Motion to approve the selected artist Richard Deutsch and his conceptual proposal for an exterior artwork at the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, as recommended by the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner Selection Panel.
        
   14. Motion to authorize the Director of Cultural Affairs to enter into contract with artist Richard Deutsch for an amount not to exceed $210,000 for design, fabrication, transportation and consultation during installation of an exterior artwork for the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner.
        
   15. Motion to approve the Civic Art Collection Guidelines (revision date March 18, 2015).
        
   16. Motion to approve San Francisco International Airport: Temporary Boarding Area B Art Program Outline as sites become finalized.
        
   17. Motion to reject revised conceptual design and budget for the landscape artwork by Mark Brest van Kempen for the Alameda Creek Watershed Center and cancel project.
        
   18. Motion to increase Moto Ohtake’s contract from $125,000 to $210,000 (an increase of $85,000) for the Central Subway Fourth and Brannan Station due to additional engineering costs, increased steel grade, and the requirement to source materials in the United States for all federally funded projects.
        
   19. Motion to approve the Conceptual Design Phase deliverables (rendering) by Jason Jägel for the Central Subway: Construction Barricade Temporary Public Art Project for Yerba Buena/Moscone Station to be on display for one year beginning in mid-2015 (exact date to be determined).
        
   20. Motion to approve the Design Development Phase deliverables (architectural design of panels, attachment system and glass samples) by Leslie Shows for the Central Subway: Yerba Buena/Moscone Station—Ticketing Hall Wall.
        
   21. Motion to approve the following finalists for the Public Utilities Commission Storm Drain Murals Pilot Project as recommended by the Public Utilities Commission Storm Drain Murals Selection Panel: Michael Bartolos, Mona Caron, Kelly Ording; with alternate Jetro Martinez.
        
   22. Motion to approve the final poster designs for Andrea Bergen’s Art on Market Kiosk Poster Series, Party Animals, June 8–September 4, 2015.
        
   23. Motion to approve the 2016 Program Outline for the Art on Market Street Kiosk Poster Series, 2016.
        
       Executive Committee Recommendations (March 30, 2015; link to agenda)
       Action
   24. Motion to authorize the Director of Cultural Affairs to enter into a grant agreement with Precita Eyes Muralists Association, Inc. in an amount not to exceed $100,000 for the restoration of murals and the creation of Peace Flags along the Calle 24 Latino Cultural District corridor in District 9.
        
   25. Motion to authorize the Director of Cultural Affairs to enter into a grant agreement with Youth Art Exchange in an amount not to exceed $17,500 for the expansion of three art walks in the Excelsior neighborhood in District 11.
        
7. 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.)
    
8. Adjournment
   Action
    

posted 4/3/15 10:30 a.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, 25 Van Ness Avenue, Suite 345, 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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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 Sharon Page Ritchie, Commission Secretary, at least 48 hours before the meeting at 415-252-2591. Late requests will be honored if possible. The hearing room is wheelchair accessible.


利便参與會議的相關規定

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POLITICA DE ACCESO A LA REUNIÓN

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