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HomeMy WebLinkAbout09.25.2018 Minutes TOWN OF TIBURON Tiburon Town Hall 1505 Tiburon Boulevard Tiburon, CA 94920 Heritage & Arts Commission September 25, 2018 6:30 p.m. HERITAGE & ARTS COMMISSION SEPTEMBER 25, 2018 MINUTES CALL TO ORDER AND ROLL CALL – 6:30 Commission members; Fong(VF), Mujica-Beavers(AM), Norris(KN), Noguez(NN), Hall(FH), Etemad(JE) ORAL COMMUNICATIONS None CONSENT CALENDAR None NEW ARTIST EXHIBITION/RECEPTION 1. Lobby Artist : Nov/Dec Landmarks Society 2. Community Room : Nov/Dec The expected group to show in the Community Room was to be comprised of Tiburon Peninsula students going to local high schools. a. VF: which schools would be in that show? b. NN: letters have gone out to all shows and just waiting to hear back; TAM, MC, Branson, Redwood, etc. ACTION ITEMS 1. Heritage Preservation Award a. VF: invites will go out when Patti returns and reception will be 10,17 and hopefully all commissioners will be there; VF will work on award presentation 2. Artist Recruitment and 2019 Art Installation Calendar – AB: a lot of very interested artists she spoke with at Sausalito Art Festival but few are ready to go; some have enough work that they could do it; she brought cards for commissioners to review and follow up. AB: not sure on the recruitment from the Ark; with the interest, recruitment quite full. JE: recommend that Richard Rozen have a time slot; not so soon, but should have a spot for him. VF: speaking of Richard Rozen, sent everyone an email link regarding a potential show. JE: I had a meeting with R Rozen who mentioned he had a friend who has beautiful work A discussion of nude artwork followed. It was agreed that side views, back views, etc. were acceptable, but no frontal. 3. Community Art Show – “Closet Artists” VF: “Closet Artists” will be featuring people in the community who have never shown before; Working on guidelines; want to encourage the idea of art in the community; there will be some guidelines for making sure it is artists who have not shown before VF asked if anyone else was interested in working on this project? JE volunteered to help work on guidelines etc. Nora thought the concept was intriguing; but how do you judge who to accept? VF: will bring fun and joy to the community but will flesh out the guidelines. 4. Youth Art Program – NN presented At least meeting, everyone received a packet that was all the paperwork which explains the program Youth Art for Healing, an established program on the east coast. Taking art that is made by high school students; the art is guided and directed under the auspices of the program. The program directors work closely with artists to meet needs of the medical institutions where the art will be displayed; the only issue is whether or not we want to consider becoming a chapter. Do we like the idea of working with young people to make art to put in medical institutions to facilitate healing? Can we accept an offer as a chapter? We need to decide how to proceed; FH: what would our role be in this? NN: we would be a chapter; the person running it on the east coast is a friend of Polly Chandler which is how the idea came to us; very successful program and an intriguing idea; should not minimize the power art has as therapy; program is working with people who are studying this and know what is soothing and what makes us feel good. VF: what is our responsibility? NN: depends on what we want to do; everything would be run through the program. AM: could not understand why we would change our role to become a chapter for an organization that is doing very well; we have other roles here; to become a chapter; you need to pay money to a very established organization when we are here to do what we can in this town. FH: is there a cost? NN: yes, initiation is 10K JE: Initiation is very expensive; it is a lot of work; do not think we have that much time to put into this; lovely idea; do not think we have the manpower to do it even if we had the budget; timing is hard; for it to be successful needs a lot of time. KN: is 10K negotiable or can we have a different sort of chapter? NN: it is their initiation fee; I assume anything is negotiable; the overall issue is that it is going to take work; that is why you are paying 10K so we don’t have to do it. KN: I like the idea that they have already done it; not sure we could get that approved. NN: This begs the question of if we want to do it at a different scale, just ourselves. AM: We could do ourselves on a small scale; does not make sense to me for us to become a chapter of an established organization. JE: I agree VF: I agree with the others; it is difficult to make time; seems overly organized for a group like ours; the 10k is 5x our annual budget; Nora has done a lot of work and thank you; it is a great program but we need to decide if we want to be a chapter or if there are other ways to explore a similar project. JE: against this MOTION: To pursue becoming a chapter. M/: Nora No second MOTION: To not be a chapter and explore other means; to revisit this to see if we want to do something similar to this on a modest scale, possibly working with Marin General. Motion: NN SECOND: FH VOTE: Unanimous 5. Walking Guide Update The group reviewed the final copy of the walking guide; everyone was impressed; VF said distribution would wait a few days until Patti returns. 6. New or continuing project updates – VF: In my meeting with the Town Manager, I asked if we could put a photo of our current laureate by the art gallery; he agreed and I will work with Patti to figure out dimensions etc. VF: The artists doing our shows do not seem to know about the Heritage & Arts commission, mission, project, etc.; maybe we need to have some awareness. JE: Need a brochure about who we are and what we do for the shows; a permanent announcement about the H&A commission and what we actually do in the galleries. AM: I don’t think we can just put it there upstairs; has to be upstairs that each time there is a reception or we can distribute when they sign up with a packet of things; JE: met with R Rozen; He has a fantastic idea of these scultptures and he has me talking to the library expansion designers to put in alcoves; probably his final project will be sculptures in the library; he is excited about it; encouraged him to start introducing himself to the community; suggested he make holiday greeting card workshops or something similar to show some of his sculptures around town. VF: Did mention to the town manager should to be sure to include the commission for any possible public art in the new plaza with the expansion of the library; Nora: if public art gets stole, what happens? VF: We probably need insurance and we will have to learn from other places that have public art; this will give us plenty of time to work on that. KN: Landmarks has workshops frequently; we could coordinate with them so there is not overlap and competition. JE: She also mentioned he likes someone to talk about how important it is to have public art in the community; agreed to follow up with Richard 7. Confirmed next meeting date: October 23 ADJOURNMENT – 7:10PM