HomeMy WebLinkAboutMinutes Arts And Cultural Commission - 01/15/2013 - SpecialARTS & CULTURAL COMMISSION
Special Called Meeting, January 15, 2013, 4:00 p.m.
Basement Training Room, City Hall, 1201 Leopard St., Corpus Christi, Texas
CALL TO ORDER - The regular meeting of the Arts and Cultural Commission was called to order at
4:15 p.m. by Joe Schenk.
II. ROLL CALL - The recording secretary called roll, announced quorum.
III. APPROVAL OF MINUTES
a) Regular Meeting December 11, 2012
Cathy Harrison made a motion to approve the minutes as amended. Stephen Rybak seconded.
Minutes were approved.
IV. PUBLIC COMMENT — None
V. OLD BUSINESS (DISCUSSION / POSSIBLE ACTION)
Public Art Updates
Photographs of the installed Wind Dancer sculpture were passed around and Reba George gave a brief
update on the successful installation and the remaining finishing details that are still taking place.
Patricia Mondragon led a discussion on the Mel Chin sculpture that had been vandalized in December
2012. City Staff will contact the artist to determine how the sculpture can be repaired. Then Reba
George gave an update on the Jack Gron installation at the Police Department.
Arts Grants Program 2013
The scored results for the Art Museum grant were distributed and reviewed. Brad Kisner made a motion
to accept the results and to fully fund the Art Museum's grant proposal. Patricia Mondragon seconded
the motion. Motion passed.
Packets including conflict of interest forms, scoring sheets and grant applications for the following groups
were distributed for review: Corpus Christi Concert Ballet, Corpus Christi Ballet, K Space Contemporary
and The Cathedral Concert Series. Commissioner's completed the conflict of interest forms and will
submit the completed packets by Monday, February 4, 2013 so that staff can compile the scoring results
for the next ACC meeting.
ACC Membership letter to Mayor
Patricia Mondragon led discussion on the merit of writing a letter to the Mayor regarding the
Commission's desire to have a more ethnically diversified membership. To aid in a discussion on
recruiting, staff will update and distribute the ACC membership list for review at the next meeting. By
general consensus it was decided that rather than a formal letter Patricia Mondragon would mention the
ACC's desire to diversify in a conversation with the Mayor.
VI. NEW BUSINESS (DISCUSSION / POSSIBLE ACTION)
Public Art Maintenance
Discussion began with acknowledging that there has been no funding for public art maintenance in the
past two plus years and that the ACC will have to be very proactive in conveying the importance of art
maintenance to City Council. Several Commissioners expressed their concern that the deteriorating
state of our public art has a very negative effect in multiple areas: visitor's perception of our city, lack of
care or concern leading to further vandalism, and possible liability as pieces in precarious conditions
could lead to bodily harm.
In order to aid in protecting the city's major financial investment in its public art the Commissioners
discussed several ways to aid in promoting Council member's ownership of public works of art such as
bringing to attention art located in Council members District in hopes that they would advocate for their
`own' art, or creating `Art Angels' to adopt a piece of art to maintain. By general consensus it was
decided that staff will email an inventory list of the public works of art to ACC and at the next meeting
members will divide up the art for personal inventory of each piece.
Brad Kisner suggested that the ACC use every opportunity to promote the importance of public works of
art through good public relations, such as having press coverage at a reception for those awarded the
2013 Arts Grant and hosting receptions for the upcoming art installations. Reba George suggested the
ACC try to get on City Council's February Agenda and Joe Schenk suggested that if we tried to get on
the end of February then the ACC may have had time to review and approve grants for the last four
applications.
VII. IDENTIFY ITEMS TO BE PLACED ON THE NEXT AGENDA
• Division of the public art for inventory by Commissioners
• Public recognition of 2013 Arts Grants recipients
• Reception for Jack Gron Installation
• ACC presentation to Council in April
VIII. ADJOURN
Brad Kisner made a motion to adjourn. Patricia Mondragon seconded. Motion passed. Joe Schenk,
adjourned meeting at 4:50 p.m.
Tess Allan, Management Assistant
Parks & Recreation Department