Minutes

ESTACADA ARTS COMMISSION

Wednesday, June 4, 2003

 

Present: 

Commissioners – Jane Reid, Jami Berry, Barbara Mattson, Katinka Bryk, Mimi Near, Gloria Feider Polizn

 

Absent:  Dwight Douthit

 

Guests: Randy Ealy, Mark Heimann

 

The meeting was called to order at 7:05 pm. 

 

 

Minutes

The copy of last month meeting minutes were read and approved with no corrections.

 

 

OLD BUSINESS

 

Outreach

Barbara Mattson attended the Chamber of Commerce Luncheon, and read and handed out flyers regarding the Summer Celebration.  Katinka suggested the commission make a packet explaining what exactly the Arts Commission does for the community.  She is also planning on attending a one-day workshop by “Americans for the Arts,” entitled “Mining Your Community for Funds.” 

 

Cultural Forum

On June 17th at City Hall, the Cultural Forum will take place at 7 pm.  Jane will contact the Philip Foster Farm, MJ Cody, and Cada Corner.  Jami will email all artists.  It was agreed more would be discussed about details over the phone later.

 

Grant Workshop

Jami read Cheryl Snow’s email regarding the Grant Writing Workshop that will be held June 26th, from 7 – 9 pm at City Hall.  Jami agreed to email artists, etc., and make sure it was in the CCN.

 

Summer Celebration

The next planning meeting will be June 11th at Barbara Mattson’s house at 6:30 pm.  Jane spoke with Brent Dodrill regarding the gospel groups for Sunday a.m.  and learned he was unable to find a group from a Portland church that could come out, though there are several individuals and ensembles who will be performing.  Mimi stated she had a friend in Portland who is part of a gospel group and would contact him. 

 

Centennial Mural

January 31, 2005, is the official centennial, not 2004, which is commonly and mistakenly considered the date. After a discussion about which year to have the mural painted for this event and it was decided to wait until 2004 to begin planning for a mural to be painted in the summer of 2005.

 

Spring Arts & Lecture Series

A suggestion was made that since the basket raffles were so successful we have one at each event next year.  Another suggestion was not to have a “May” event, but to keep them more in the winter months.  We also thought that “Spring” should be taken out of the title.  There was a brief discussion about having a film festival in the new auditorium, but it was decided to wait until after the Summer Celebration to make those decisions.

 

NEW BUSINESS

 

Elect New Officers

Miriam Hunt submitted her application to join the Arts Commission.  Mimi Near has decided to leave the commission, but will continue through the Summer Celebration.  Dwight has also resigned.  After voting, the new Chairperson is Katinka Bryk, the Vice Chair is Gloria Feider Polzin, and Jami Berry is Secretary.

 

Policies and Goals

It was decided our goal was to utilize more of Cheryl Snow’s mentoring through the Clackamas County Arts Action Alliance.. 

 

 

 

The meeting was adjourned at 8:05 pm.

 

Respectfully submitted,

 

 

Jami Berry, Secretary