City
of
Meeting
Minutes April 12, 2006
Member
Present:
Marlene
Merrill
Sandra
Wiechert
Elizabeth
Hatchett
Liz
Kowalchuk
John
Reeves
Mary
Kennedy McCabe
Dave
Loewenstein
Evie
Rapport
Judi
Geer Kellas.
Member
absent:
Margaret
Morris
James
Schaefer.
Staff
Liaison:
Michael
Tubbs
Meeting
was called to order at 6:40 PM by Marlene Merrill, Chair.
Approval
of minutes of last meeting:
Recommended
with amendments to minutes of March 2006 meeting; misspelling of Commissioner
Schaefer's name; Trent Flory's name; traditionally replacing traditional.
Wiechert moved to approve with amendments; Loewenstein seconded. Motion carried
unanimously.
Regular
Agenda Items:
1)
Announcements from the Chair:
Welcome
to newly appointed Arts Commissioner John Reeves; John has lived in
2)
At the City Commission meeting of April 25th Comm. Merrill will present the
Arts Commission Grant recipients with the award money.
3)
Loewenstein announced the opening of Eastside Pride Art Show, a two-weekend
event to showcase the artistic character of
4)
Guest Kelvin Shartz asked about art being installed in the roundabouts; queried
if Percent for Art would apply. Liaison Tubbs will investigate funding
possibilities.
5)
Budget 2006-2007: Merrill plans to ask for a $1,300.00 increase in LAC funding
with $300.00 used for web hosting and $1,000.00 increase for grants. She plans
to argue that we are "fostering art" to the community & need the
proposed increase. Kennedy McCabe volunteered to investigate the possibility of
matching grant monies for the ODSE.
6)
Committee Reports:
ODSE:
Geer Kellas reported that she, Kowalchuk & Tubbs met with juror Terry
Oldham April 7 to consider placement of the 8 accepted sculptures.
%
for Art: Kowalchuk reported the Fire Station #5 had chosen 6 finalists (2 local
& 4 national); these 6 will make a presentation to the committee. There
will be a small honorarium paid to the artists for the presentation &
maquettes. The public will be able to view the finalist's maquettes.
Grants:
all Commissioners were asked to send additions &/or corrections for the
Grant Application form to Morris. It was suggested that there needs to be a
longer time period for the applications & that the time should not overlap
the December Holidays.
Web
Site: Asst. Professor of Design, Andrea Herstowski, will begin work with Trent
Flory of Flory Design in June.
7)
New Business:
Kowalchuk:
thinks money can be raised to support the Arts Commission; suggested a
foundation.
Kennedy
McCabe: announced that the Kansas Arts Commission has a new director, Llewellyn
Crain.
Kennedy
McCabe: ask if we could have a calendar with all deadlines recorded. That way
we could track committee events by date. Tubbs will check into doing that.
Geer
Kellas-ODSE: will have images of the 8 sculptures for the May meeting. She
asked about having selling prices on ODSE sculpture in the brochure. The
discussion among commissioners was generally against any active participation
of the Arts Commission in selling the sculptures.
8)
Meeting adjourned at 8:25PM
Respectively
submitted by
Secretary
for April Meeting (Judi Geer Kellas)
Judi
The
19th
Annual Outdoor Downtown Sculpture Exhibit Opens May 27th 5:30 PM with Juror's
Walking Tour Reception follows Meet us at the Lawrence Arts Center at 5:30PM www.geerkellas.com