AGENCY ACCOMPLISHMENTS REPORT
SEPTEMBER 2008 COMMISSION MEETING
IMPORTANT DATES:
> CCAS Preview Exhibition opens at SMUD, Sept. 1st
> Envisioning the Arts in California Conference, Sept. 19th
> Sacramento World Music & Dance Festival, Sept. 20th & 21st
> CCAS Artist Studios Tour, Sept. 27th & 28th
> Prelude to the Arts, October 2nd!
> Art Day, October 3rd!
PLEASE NOTE: THE FOLLOWING REPORT IS ORGANIZED BY AREAS, NOT LEAD
STAFF PERSON. IN MANY CASES, STAFF HAS WORKED ON MULTIPLE ITEMS LISTED
HEREIN.
1) ART IN PUBLIC PLACES
Projects:
• Artwork by Lisa Deniz installed at Sacramento County Animal Care
• 91 applications received for Pocket Library, George Sim, and Valley Hi Public Art
Projects
Education
• Downtown public art tour given to 16 teachers.
• Public art tour given to Eskaton Adult group from Carmichael
Exhibition Program:
• Center for Contemporary Art: Studio Preview Show opens, September 1 at SMUD
Gallery
2) ARTS EDUCATION —
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Registration Open for MindAlert Workshop
o October 7, 2008; 8:30 a.m. — 4:00 p.m.
o Professional Development workshop for artists and professionals in the
aging field who want to learn how to develop effective arts experiences for
elders
o Partnership with SMAC and City Dept. of Older Adult.Services and funded
by MetLife Foundation MindAlert Project
o Staffed by Judith-Kate Friedman, master trainer with the Center for Creative
Aging in Washington, D.C.
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AE issued an Open Call for Poets to work with high school students for the national
Poetry Out Loud program this fall and winter.
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Roble School District Model Arts Program began its fourth year of integrated arts
education for all students in the school district. Four returning teaching artists, two
each in visual arts and theatre, are providing the instruction.
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3) GRANTS AND CULTURAL PROGRAMS
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CAA mid-cycle report, which determines 2009 funding, is due Sept. 15.
Twelve Microgrant applications were reviewed July, 2008 for funding by Senior Staff.
Eight were chosen to be funded. The following projects were approved:
1. First United Methodist Church, Sacramento, $600
• 5-week arts program targeting children transitioning from homelessness
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2. Cornrolls and the Jalapeno Chocolate, $600
• "Live at Carol's Books", an evening of jazz and poetry
3. John Morse Parent Guild, $600
• An artist residency with Taiko Drummer Anne Montgomery
4. BLOCK Gallery, $600
• An installation exhibition by Geoff Tuttle
5. Gale Hart/A Bitchin' Space, $600
• The 2nd Annual Circus Show & Other Atrocities
6. Sacramento Native American Health Center, Inc., $600
• • A 3-part film series featuring films that address Native American issues
7. Marian Kile, $600
• plan/implement a Storytelling Club at Woodlake Elementary
8. thirdeyewitness, $600
• A documentary film, "Stakin' Claim", about the arts movement on Del
Paso Blvd.
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Currently there are five Microg rants in line to be reviewed. Staff anticipates that the Committee
assigned to Grants & Cultural programs will review them in November at the latest.
4) ADMINISTRATIVE & AGENCY WIDE INITIATIVE including
ARTS MARKETING_AND CULTURAL TOURISM
Many accomplishments in this arena pertain to organizational issues of an ongoing
nature including budget and financial management, internal systems and processes,
personnel and human resources, program oversight, communications with staff within
City and County and elected officials, internal and external meetings, meetings with
community leaders, representation at community and arts events, etc. facilities,
contracts, staff reports, etc.
General SMAC Marketing:
Marketing RFP release and panel
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COMMISSION PRELIMINARY AGENDA
Long Lead Tentative Schedule
September 15; note date change!
Presentation: Experiences (Cultural Amenities Voting) Aguirre, 2 pm
UPDATE: Marketing Efforts (Halpern)
APPROVE: Poet Laureate ProgramChanges .
APPROVE: Airport Phase 1 Design Approval for Christian Moeller
APPROVE; Elkhorn Water Tower Art Plan
APPROVE: South Natomas Community Center Direct Purchase
APPROVE: Bassoff/Community Garden
APPROVE: Donation of artwork by Melissa Chandon
Update: Governance/Committees
October 20; note date change!
Presentation: Annual Report (Oncken/Halpern)
UPDATE: Stabilization grants
Approve: Pocket Library Design
Approve: George Sim Design
Approve: Valley Hi Design
UPDATE: Report on the State of the APP Collection,
Presentation: APP Flow Chart
UPDATE: New directions in Public Art Symposium
Presentation: SPA Building (Warner) tent
Presentation: City's General Plan, Teresa Haenggi
Commissioner photos - tent
November 10
Approve: Phase II Airport Artists Designs
DISCUSSION: APP Policy and Procedures, APP Ordinances and SHRA MOUs
Presentation: ARI artists-in-residences
Presentation: Lial Jones, Crocker's remodel
December 8
Site Visit: 621 Capitol Mall lead by Phil Hitchcock / Elle Warner (7 pm — 6:30 pm)
(Pay parking available at site: 621 is on Capitol Mall, south of Macy's and just east of 555 Capitol
Mall, and west of the Capitol.)
Presentation: World Music and Dance Festival (von Bruggen)
Presentation: Artist Studios Tour (CCAS)
January 2009 cancelled unless time-sensitive topic requires meeting.
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UNSCHEDULED:
ACTION: APP Policy and Procedures
ACTION: K Street Art Plan (Willis)
APPROVE: Hart Center Art Proposal
APPROVE: Midtown Parking Garage Art plan
UPDATE: Fellowship Program (Aulenbacher)
UPDATE: Online Grantmaking (Aulenbacher)
Presentation: Jazz Festival (Jill Harper)
Presentation: Short Center (Skalisky)
Presentation: SCSO (McCormick)
Presentation: Perfo ming Arts Venue Study Update (ERA)
Presentation: Race or the Arts (Sally Rice)
Presentation: Arts i River Park (Brenda Waters)
Presentation: Sojourner Truth Multicultural Center (Shonna McDaniels)
Presentation: CAC/Sac Poetry Center Ray Tatar, Bob Stanley
Presentation: 15th Annual Meadowview Jazz & Cultural Festival, CM Pannell's
Office
ANNUAL REVIEW OF COMMISSION MEETING TIME, DAY, PLACE
ATTENDANCE REVIEW (Biannually)
Workshop: Parliamentary Procedure and Brown Act info 2
UPDATE Friends of the Arts Commission (Geiger)
Abbreviations
AE=Arts Education
APP=Art in Public Places
GCP=Grants & Cultural Programs
STAB=Stabilization
ED=Executive Director
CT=Cultural Tourism
CAA= Cultural Arts Awards
AIS=Artists in Schools
TIG=Teacher Incentive Grant
NAP=Neighborhood Arts Program
VAC=Visual Arts Committee
CTTC=Cultural Tourism & Travel Coalition
PL=Poet Laureate
Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission
Marketing Update
January 2006- June 2008
Marketing Objectives (2006):
• Create a culture of marketing within the organization
• Create a marketing plan that is structurally and fiscally supported
• Create a SMAC brand and consistent look and feel in print and on web
• Centralize marketing administration
• Develop marketing initiatives that use technology to bring SMAC into
21st century
• Improve SMAC stakeholder's awareness and understanding of
programs.
• Expand SMAC's name recognition in the community through
partnerships and collaborations.
• Build working relationships with media and others in preparation for
major marketing campaign.
Marketing Initiatives Accomplished from 2006 To present:
Structural:
• Reviewed and evaluated agency's past marketing efforts
• Reviewed and evaluated programs' short term marketing needs
• Secured CAC grant for marketing of ap. $15,000
• Hired consultants
O Uptown (REP 06)
O Roberta McClellan (07-08)
O Current RFP in progress for up to 5-year contract
Collateral Materials:
• Updated SMAC logo
• Created new business cards, letterhead, and envelopes
• Created first-ever agency brochure
• Carried its look to Business Plan, Spring 08 Arts & Culture Insert
• Decreased use of printed brochures in favor of postcards that drive
users to SMAC website
Technology:
• Changed URL from sacculture.conn to SacMetroArts.org
• Created SMAC Enewsletter
• Created SMAC Database
O Sent postcard to 10,000 names for updating SMAC database
• Redesigned SMAC Website
• Created digital APP online collection
• Loaned PSM footage to KVIE for creation of arts-oriented station IDs
• CA Cultural Data Project partner (with Irvine; Pew, Hewlett, CAC, local
arts agencies throughout the state)
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Transition to online grantmaking with cutting edge software that will
increase our ability to serve the arts community
Created inclusive online Sacramento event calendar:
Sacramento365.com using ARTSOPOLIS platform
Increased SMAC visibility at community events including:
o Experience the BOU evard
o CA Capitol Passport to Summer Youth Fair
o Jazz Jubilee
• H St. Arts Festival
o CSUS Job Faire
o CA State Fair
o CSUS Arts Resource Faire
o Get Creative Events (turn clothing into art):
• Del Paso Blvd.
• 2 nd Saturday/ Midtown
• Rancho Cordova
• Elk Grove
• Oak Park
• (Citrus Heights, Carmichael, Folsom were contacted and
although interested, ultimately declined)
Convened the following commun ity seminars, workshops and gatherings that
resulted in visibility for SMAC:
o Hewlett Foundation (07)
"Youth Involvement in the Arts and Generational Succession,"
with the California Arts Council
o CA Cultural Data Project (07-08)
o Fairytale Town mixer for arts community (07)
o New Performing Arts Studio Arts Education group
(CMT/SPO/Opera/SBC) (AE)
o Co-Chair Task Force for Visual & Performing Arts Education for
new Twin Rivers School District (AE)
o Irvine grantwriting seminar (08)
o Irvine focus group (08)
o CA Arts Advocates (in progress)
Public Speaking Engagements (Partial):
• Rotary Club
• Retired Teachers Union
• Symphony League
• • Sac County District 4's four community cabinet meetings
• League of Sac Theatres
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APP public presentations
APP receptions
GCP town hall meetings
Arts Ed presentations, CCSESA Arts Leadership in Education
Conference '08; San Juan and Folsom/Cordova School
District Principals Meetings
• Envision California, CA Policy Institute's annual conference
o Lead participant in Hewlett Foundation Study, An Unfinished
Canvas;
o Lead Participant in Planning Task Force for State Seminars on
Teaching Artist Training Programs, 07 & 08.
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Special Public Relations Programs:
• Poet Laureate "Think Postcard" Mail Art 2006-07 (30 workshops
over six months resulting in over 900 postcards received, with
curated exhibits at several locations throughout Sac County)
Press: KCRA, SacBee, SNR
Cards archived at SAMCCArts Day: Ticket Give A Way (04-06)
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Arts Day
o Ticket Giveaway celebrations (04-06)
O at Capitol with the California Arts Council (07)
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Developed Resolution Program honoring artists, arts groups, arts
advocates, arts supporters, art critics with resolutions at City
Council and/or Board of Supervisors.
o Those honored to date:
• Artists/Poets: Jorjana Holden, Joyce Odam, Pat
D'Allesandro, Pat Beach Smith, Dennis Schmitz, Viola
Weinberg, Julia Connor, Jose Montoya, Michael Morgan;
Arts groups: Sacramento Choral Society and Orchestra,
Sacramento Taiko Dan, Hmong Cultural Arts, Short Center
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2007 30th Anniversary Celebration: October 07 Reception, July 07 Blvd
event, 30th anniversary logo created
Created Art Billboard in CM Cohn's district (07)
Cultural Tourism:
• Produce Sacramento Visitors Guide Arts & Culture Insert (twice yearly)
• CTTC (CA Tourism and Travel Consortium)- print and web based
initiative for promoting cultural tourism with emphasis on cultural
heritage, in four major cities and the parks throughout the state.
• Helped secure Sacramento with Federal Preserve America designation
status
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Arts Festival (collaboration with Convention Center) development (on
hold)
Attended 2-day California Heritage and Cultural Travel Conference
Support 'destination' events:
• Sacto World Music and Dance Festival (07, 08)
• Artist Studio tours - free event this year!
• "Free Theater Night" with the League of Sacramento Theaters
Media and Public Relations:
• Standardized press releases and advertisements
• Updated media list
• Created ads: Think Postcard, Business plan, Arts Day, committee
recruitment, and 5 generic SMAC ads for grantees' program booklets,
Art Limited
• Participated in CCL's ad campaign promoting Sacramento Treasures
including all eleven divisions of the department
• Developed media relationships: Sac Bee (editorial board, advertising,
technology, Ticket); SNR, SCVB, Sac Mag, Midtown Grid, Valley Vision,
KVIE, CPR, Runyon, Salzman, Steve Weiss, Metro Chamber, SACTO,
Downtown Partnership, SRCF
Planning Meetinci
• Met with electeds officials offices and department directors
• Met with staff from arts commissions in contiguous counties for
opportunities for partnership on arts marketing, especially webrelated: Placer, Folsom, Yolo, Roseville, El Dorado Hills
• Communicated with ED's of California's local agencies re marketing
• Met with stakeholders in Folsom, Rancho Cordova, Elk Grove, citrus
Heights
• Served on Performing Arts Facility Study steering committee
• - Served on Prelude panel for arts awards
• Continue to contribute to regular CCL newsletter
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Artist Selection Panel (Art and Gardens Committee)
• Council Member Rob Fong
• Lisa Nava, District Director, Council Member Fong's district
• Evan Smestad, Fremont Garden
• Bill Maynard, Community Garden Coordinator and Southside Garden
• Geoffrey Ross (SHRA)
• Virginia Guadiana, Parks and Recreation Commission
• Diane Garcia, Southside Garden
Bob Fleming, Parks Manager, City Parks and Recreation Department
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• Janet Baker, Operations Manager, City Parks and Recreation Department
• Randy Will, Recreation General Supervisor, City Parks and Recreation
Department
• Ann Bailey, CADA
Attachment 2: Artist Proposal
Solomon Bassoff: Southside Community Garden
About the Artist:
Solomon Bassoff has created public art projects at Hummingbird Park in Sacramento;
Woodland Park in Seattle, Washington; and the Sundial Bridge in Redding, California.
His work has been exhibited at the Fort Mason Center in the International Mosaic Show.
His work has been featured in two books about mosaic art including Mosaic Art and
Style by JoAnn Locktov and Creative Concrete Ornaments for the Garden by Sherri
Hunter.
Description of Artwork:
Using handcrafted and colored cement and steel, Basssoff will create at least two giant
sculptures of vegetables. Natural mineral pigments will be utilized to permanently color
the cement as well as additives that enhance, and strengthen the surface.
Maintenance:
Spray wash sculpture annually
Timeline:
Weld steel armature
Sculpture cement and complete snake
October 2008
November 2008
Artwork Budget:
Artist Fee
Materials
Engineering
Insurance
Installation
Contingency
Total
$4,700
1,250
400
500
2,150
1,000
$10,000
Date: September 2, 2008
To: Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission
From: Governance Ad Hoc Committee
The Governance Ad Hoc Committee met on August 19, 2008 and
recommends the following:
1 That the two Commission standing committees, on Art in Public
Places (APP) and Arts Education/Grants & Cultural Programs
(AE/GCP), consist of three to five Commissioners each.
Commissioners shall be appointed by the Chair in or about July of
each year based on their expertise and areas of interest The Chair's
appointments shall be subject to approval by the Commission.
2. Because of the current vacancies on the Commission, expected to be
filled by the Board of Supervisors and the Sacramento City Council
by October of this year, the Chair will submit his appointment
recommendations to the Commission for approval in either October or
November. The standing committees will take effect as soon as the
appointments are approved by the Commission.
3. That a new ad hoc committee be formed to draft revisions to the
Commission's Bylaws and Handbook, and City and County
ordinances. This committee will consist of three Commissioners who
will work with SMAC staff and the City Attorney. This ad hoc
committee will begin work no later than November and complete a
draft for review by City staff and City Attorney in the spring of 2009,
Commission and public review in the summer of 2009, and submittal
to the City and County elected bodies by September 2009.
4. That the APP policies and procedures be updated concurrently and
submitted to the Commission for approval. This could be done by the
new APP standing committee or a subcommittee of it, based on their
specific expertise. The Commission should consider the appropriate
way to proceed.
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