Minutes
ESTACADA ARTS
COMMISSION
Wednesday,
November 6, 2002
Present:
Commissioners – Jane Reid, Gloria
Feider Polzin, Jami Berry, Katinka Bryk, Karen Veselik, Barbara Mattson, and
Dwight Douthit.
Guests
– Randy Ealy, Robert Austin, Nina Hamilton, Nina Bradford, Irene Adams, Kate
Bast, and Jane Troeh.
The meeting was called to
order at 7:00pm. The October minutes
were read and approved.
Financial
Report
Although
there was not actual financial report available, Katinka reported that Traci
had recreated the report by adding more columns with better explanations.
Irene
Adams - Guest
Irene
brought an idea board, which was created by Nina Bradford, that depicts Broadway
Street with a color scheme. Irene spoke
about the different ideas she had on what improvements she would like to see
take place such as enclosed courtyard patio for the City Hall and perhaps some
city street benches. She had also
brought some great designs drawings of wildlife sculptures. She also suggested
perhaps redoing the sidewalks adding a river and/or wildlife to become a
walking path through town. She spoke
about completing these projects in different phases. She used Canby as an example and how they used volunteers.
Randy
Ealy stated that it could possibly cost the city $30,000 per year, but would be
spending hopefully $90,000 with grants.
Karen
Veselik’s two designs for Estacada signs were brought out and discussed. They are designs for large signs for the
highway and would be done in tile mosaic and Brent Lawrence would provide the
steel lettering. Jane stated that these
signs would have to be satisfactory by ODOT standards. Randy said that ODOT was ready to review our
designs and that we would just have to present them.
OLD BUSINESS
Percent
for Arts Policy Update
Katinka stated she would be
revising according to some suggestions made by the city council. The concern from the city council meeting
was that if the one percent was part of a bond, would the citizens be paying
for it with interest for thirty years?
This brought up the question of whether art was necessary at all in
public places. Katinka reminded us that
the library (which most would like to see some art added in) would not be under
a bond at all and so would not cost the taxpayers. It the City Hall were to be remodeled (for example) for $50,000,
the art budget would only be $500. She
also reminded us that basically if the city did not support the arts, it would
be really difficult to get grants in the future for art projects.
Katinka spoke with Dean Baker, an
accountant, about the issue of paying 30-year interest on the $500 and he said
that was ridiculous. The art would be
paid for the in the six months.
She will update and present it
again at the next city council meeting.
Gallery
Update
Jami stated that everything was
going well – wished there were more visitors from outside Estacada. She will be working on that by getting a web
site going and creating a larger database for the sending of the 1st
Friday postcards.
Janice Packard will be the
December featured artist.
The issue of the unjuried EAC
Winter Exhibit came up. Jane stated
that there would probably not be enough artists to make up a separate exhibit
and perhaps we should concentrate on the summer exhibit to coincide with the
Summer Celebration.
Katinka made a motion to skip the
Winter Exhibit this year and it was seconded and passed.
Auditorium
Committee Update
Jane
reported that they have chosen someone to do the seat covers and it came in
$20,000 less than first expected. Jane
met with Education Director with the Oregon Symphony for her work. She asked him about the chances of the symphony
coming to play in the auditorium once it was completed and he said they would
be very interested as they are trying to connect with the communities through
their outreach program outside of the city of Portland. The auditorium’s expected completion date
would be August 2003. They haven’t
heard about their grants yet, but will be doing one last push to sell more
seats.
NEW BUSINESS
Arts and Lecture Series
1st Event - Katinka
stated she spoke with Carlos Reyes about a Poetry night in January. He stated the cost to be $200. He would read his poems for 45 minutes and
then the students that will be chosen would read for 45 minutes. A suggestion for an ESC donation pot was
made. Katinka will check to see if
Choir Room at the high school is available for this event.
2nd Event – Chautauqua
Quilts at the Garfield Grange on Wed., Feb. 5, in connection with the
Skip-A-Week quilting club.
3rd Event – Art
Abrahms Swing Dance at the High School March 7. Another meeting for finalization of event will be held on Thurs.,
Oct. 21st with Art and his wife.
4th Event – Local
Writers Night on Friday, April 11, from 7 – 8:30 pm. Local writers include Ron Cogdill, Amy Schutzer from WeMoon,
Steven Allret, Kate Bast, and MJ Cody.
Jane will contact MJ to see if she’s available. The rest have agreed to read. We discussed a location for this event. A suggestion of the Choir Room was made –
Dwight will check about the availability of this room.
5th Event – Acoustic
Night was suggested. Karen spoke with
several artists who would be interested.
Not all of the commissioners agreed that an Acoustic Night would be the
right thing. It was suggested that we
think more about this event.
6th Event – Artists
Repertory Theatre – Suggested time was February 21st of 28th
or in May in the Choir Room. Will
discuss more about this event at next meeting, and Jane will check with the
dates they are available.
It was discussed that advertising
is the biggest problem every year prior and things didn’t get done in
time. Gloria suggested that we have
someone in charge of a timeline for all projects. Gloria volunteered for this detail.
Dwight suggested we need to bring
to Jami all emails and addresses to create one large mailing database. We decided to use last year’s poster, and
Katinka has access to it.
It was decided to have the
decision made during the next meeting and have the mailings go out the first
week of January.
We decided that each of us needed
to bring at least 3-5 bodies to each event.
The meeting was adjourned at 8:50 pm.
Respectfully submitted,
Jami Berry, Secretary