SAN FRANCISCO ARTS COMMISSION
COMMUNITY ARTS, EDUCATION, AND GRANTS COMMITTEE
Tuesday, December 4, 2018
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. Participatory Budget Grants       
                                                                                                                                                                                                                      
   Action: Discussion and possible motion to approve recommendations to award three Special Projects Grants funded by District 10 Participatory Budget process 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:
   
   Bayview Local Makers Fair (Fiscal Sponsor: Economic Development on Third) $25,000.
   Mural Restoration Project (Fiscal Sponsor: Economic Development on Third) $32,000.
   Youth Explosion Event (Fiscal Sponsor: Shekinah Christian Fellowship of San Francisco) $25,000             

                                                                                                                       

      5. Special Projects Grants

Action: Discussion and possible motion to rescind and reissue the Special Projects Grant to Javier Stell-Fresquez (authorized by Resolution No. 1001-18-302) and to|authorize the Director of Cultural Affairs to approve the addition of a fiscal sponsor, Counterpulse, and to enter into a grant agreement for amount not to exceed $10,000.

Action: Discussion and possible motion to approve recommendations to award six 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:

District 5 - African American Art and Culture Complex, $180,000 to support administrative operations and infrastructure.
District 5 - San Francisco Juneteenth Festival (Fiscal Sponsor: African American Arts and Culture Complex) $50,000 to support an annual festival and organizational infrastructure.
District 6 - Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Historical Society, $200,000 to support strategic planning and implementation for an archival institution.
District 8 - New Conservatory Theatre Center, $50,000 to support theater programming for youth.
District 10 - Bay View Opera House, $100,000 to support capital improvements.
District 10 - 1 Brush Initiative (Fiscal Sponsor: San Francisco Beautiful) $20,000 to support the creation of a Blanken Avenue Mural.

Action: Discussion and possible motion to approve recommendations to award six Special Projects Grants to the following organizations, to support their citywide work as arts service organizations and to authorize the Director of Cultural Affairs to enter into grant agreements with each organization for amounts not to exceed the following:​
Artspan $20,000.
California Lawyers for the Arts $20,000.
Dancers Group $20,000.
Intersection for the Arts $20,000.
Theatre Bay Area $20,000.QCC-The Center for Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Art & Culture $40,000.

Action: Discussion and possible motion to approve recommendations to award three 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:              
Arts Education Alliance of the Bay Area (Fiscal Sponsor: Intersection for the Arts) $20,000 to support an arts education pilot program.
Arts Education Alliance of the Bay Area (Fiscal Sponsor: Intersection for the Arts) $30,000 for citywide support to arts education providers.
Uphill Arts (Fiscal Sponsor: Intersection for the Arts) $56,000 for a citywide Anti-Tagging Program for Youth $56,000.

      6. 2019-2021 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 2018-2019 and 2019-2020 fiscal years:

Aaron Harbour, Co-director, Et al. gallery and KGPC radio

Aarushi Gupta, CEO, Shri Aarushi Inc.

Abhilasha Madan, Producer/Documentarian, Independent/Freelance

Alec White, Program Director, Jess Curtis/Gravity

Alexander Jarrell Jones, Coordinator for Arts Innovation and Outreach, SFUSD

Alison Bernet, Director of Development, San Francisco Girls Chorus

Amanda Carbajal, Graduate Student, NASA

Amy Berk, Director, City Studio (SFAI)

Amy Diaz-Infante, Faculty Member of Visual Art Department, City College of San Francisco

Amy DiPlacido, Curator of Exhibitions, San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles

Amy Mueller, Artistic Director, Playwrights Foundation

Amy Trachtenberg-Miller, Visual Artist, Self Employed

Anastasia Herold, Education Program Manager, San Francisco Symphony

Andréa Spearman, Program Assistant, Dancers' Group

Beatriz Herrera, Lead Organizer/Instructor at CCSF, SF Rising and City College of SF

Benjamin Frandzel, Institutional Gifts and Community Engagement Officer, Stanford Live

Bianka Bell, Graduate Student (Film), California College of the Arts

Brea Weinreb, Visual Artist, CTRL+SHFT Collective

Christelle Vieulles, Administration/Director's Assistant, International Art Museum of America

Claire Frost, Program Coordinator, ArtSpan

Cristiana Baik, Director of Development, Richmond Area Multi-Services, Inc. (RAMS)

Cynthia Pepper, Dance Educator/Filmmaker, CPCollaborations

Dana E. Fitchett, Freelancer (choreographer/movement educator/ writer/editor/MFA candidate), Running Toward

Dazaun Soleyn, Freelance Artist, dazaun.dance

Demitria Paz Pothakos Ruiz-Sauliere, Art Director/Floor Manager/Bartender, F8 Nightclub

Dhaya Lakshminarayanan, Performing Artist and Consultant

Donna Hardwick, Senior Director Communications, ITVS

Donna Mae Foronda, Partner Support Specialist, Facebook

Elizabeth Selna, Self-employed Artist/Educator/Consultant, Elizabeth Selna Art

Eric Baer, Executive Director, Piedmont East Bay Children's Choir

Guillermo Ornelas, Arts Education &Outreach Coordinator, Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts

Indi McCasey, Creative Education Consultant/Managing Director,Topsy-Turvy Queer Circus

James Alan Brzezinski, Artist/Emeritus Professor of Art/writer/editor, Self-employed/Merced College/Artweek and other publications

Jamilah Bradshaw, Program Associate, The California Endowment

Jan Wurm, Artist/Curator/Past Director of Exhibitions, Richmond Art Center

Jayo Miko Macasaquit, Human Resources Manager, Oakland Public Education Fund

Jeanne Powell, Writing Consultant

Jeffrey Michael Rebudal, Performing Arts Consultant/Choreographer, J. Rebudal Consulting & Rebudal Dance

Jennifer Andrea Porras, Arts Program Specialist, California Arts Council

Jennifer Lovvorn, Chief Cultural Affairs Officer City of Berkeley, Berkeley Civic Arts Program

      Jessica Townsend, Consulting Program Analyst, Northern California Community Loan Fund

Jeremy Liu, Senior Fellow for Arts, Culture, and Equitable Development at PolicyLink

Jeremy Michael Vasquez, Spoken Word Artist/Motivational Speaker

Jessica Beard, Executive Director, West Valley Mission Federation of Teachers/AFT 6554

Joanne Butcher, Business Coach to Filmmakers, Filmmaker Success

Joanne Kreiter, Artistic/Executive Director, Flyaway Productions

John A. Weingardt, Supervisory Collection Manager (Preservation), Smithsonian Institution/NMAAHC

Julie Saltzman Kellner, Managing Director, Aurora Theatre Company

Katerina Huezo-Perepelitsa, Art Gallery Manger and Curator, Unleashed Gallery

Kevin Simmonds, Writer

Kimberly Shuck, Adjunct 1, California College of Art

Lamont Bransford-Young, Master Mixer, Fingersnaps Media Arts

Laura Howard, Director, Kinf Life Media

Leila Weefur, Editor In Chief, A/V, Art Practical

Lordy Rodriguez, Artist

Marcelo Javier Ebeling Pereira,Artistic Director, San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Company

Marcus Arana, Retired Disabled

Margaret McCarthy, Co-Artistic Director, San Francisco Neo-Futurists

Margaret Timbrell Hiatt, Artist

Maria Guzman, Chair/Faculty, Art Department College of Alameda

Maria Medua, Director, SFMOMA Artists Gallery

Marie Michelle Hirsch, Artist and Former Board Member, Great Wall of Oakland

Martha Gorzycki, Cinema Professor/Animation Program Director, School of Cinema San Francisco State University

Masashi Niwano, Festival and Exhibitions Director, Center for Asian American Media (CAAM)

Maura Tokarski, Arts Educator and Advocate, Youth in Arts

Maya Sisneros, Marketing Director, Aunt Lute Books

Meklit Hadero, Singer, Musician, Cultural Activist  

Melissa San Miguel, Artist 

Michael Gene Sullivan, Collective Member/Resident Playwright, San Francisco Mime Troupe

Mirah Moriarty, Co-founding Director, DANCE MONKS

Mitchell Menchaca, Executive Director, City of Phoenix Office of Arts and Culture

Morningstar Gali, California Indian Tribal Representative

Mytia Zavala, Executive Director of the American Indian Film Institute

Nancy Karp, Artistic Director/Choreographer, New Arts Foundation

Nanette Cooper-McGuinness, Co-director and Soprano, Ensemble for These Times

Natalia Neira, Co-Executive Director, La Peña Cultural Center

Natalie Jeanelle Greene, Artistic Director, Mugwumpin

Orit Ben Shitrit, Artist and Educator, The New School, CCA, NYFA

Oscar Villalon, Managing Editor, ZYZZYVA 

Patricia Torres Ortiz, Artist, ArtSpaceSF

Raissa, Artistic Director, PUSH Dance Company

Randy Reyes, Choreographer/Performance Artist/Production Assistant, Self-Employed/Freelance/CounterPulse/Jess Curtis - Beyond Gravity

Ricalda Uchiyama, Director, Mahea Uchiyama Center for International Dance

Sadie C Harmon, Dementia-Inclusive Communities Director, Elder Care Alliance

Samantha Dizon, Artistic Director, URBAN x INDIGENOUS

Sara Kerastas, Artistic Producer, Cal Shakes

Sarah Augusta Reich, Development Associate/Freelance Arts Blogger, Crowden Music Center

Sarah Heady, Senior Grants Writer, California Institute of Integral Studies

Scott Cooper Samels, Founder and Artist, Rhymes for Good

Shanna Bowie, Arts Center Program Manager, Destiny Arts Center

Shirah Dedman, Filmmaker, Shirah Dedman Media

Simon Betsalel, Architectural Drafter, Self Employed

Thomas Dolan, Architect, Safer DIY Spaces

Thomas Robert Simpson, Founder and Artistic Director, AfroSolo Theatre Company

Tiffany Laszlo, Directors Assistant, International Art Museum of America

Tomas Riley, Professor, San Francisco State University

Tracy Brown, Chief Consultant, BHL

Van Nguyen-Nguyen, Program Manager, Performing Arts Workshop

Wan Yang, In-house Artist, Green Couch

Yayoi Kambara, Artistic Director and Choreographer, KAMBARA + DANCERS

Yvette Marie Dibos, Administrative Assistant, California College of the Arts

Zoe Donnellycolt, Operations Manager, Authentic Arts & Media

 

Explanatory Document:  FY1920 SFAC Panel Pool.pdf

 

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

 

8. Adjournment
   Action

 

Posted 11/30/18 12:00 p.m. KC

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: Kyle Chu, 415-252-2218. 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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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 Kyle Chu, Program Associate, at least 48 hours before the meeting at 415-252-2218. 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415-252-2218向Kyle Chu, 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 Kyle Chu, Program Associate, por lo menos 48 horas antes de la reunión al 415-252-2218. 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 Kyle Chu, Program Associate sa 415-252-2218. 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.