Minutes

ESTACADA AREA ARTS COMMISSION

Wednesday, December 5, 2007

www.estacadaarts.org

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EstacadaAreaArtsCommission/

 

Commissioners Present: 

Gloria Polzin, Jami Berry, Am Griswold, Janette Kirchhofer, & Angel Austin.

Kathleen Wyatt was absent due to illness.

 

Guests Present:  Rob Gaskill

 

The meeting was called to order at 7:00 pm.

 

Approval of Minutes

The November minutes were read via email prior to the meeting and approved.

 

Financial Statement

No report at this time.

 

Mail

No mail at this time.  

 

Meeting Time Change

It was decided that the Arts Commission meetings will be moved up ½ hour to begin at 6:30 pm. 

 

Summer Celebration Update: 

§         Gloria will mail a thank-you card to the Library Foundation for the use of their storage unit for the Summer Celebration.

§         Gloria reported that the Arts Commission did not receive the NEA grant of $10K this year.  It is definitely a disappointment but it was to be expected.  It is unusual to have received the grant as many times as we did.  We still have two pending grants that equal $10K not heard from yet.

§         Jami reported that Cherie Lingelbach would be taking the place of Catherine Kumlin in running the Arts Fair this year. 

§         The next big SC meeting will be Feb. 20th at the library.

 

Fundraising

As reported last month, Am will be working on the “chairs/benches created by artists for auction” idea after the holidays.  She will, however, bring up the idea at the next Spiral Gallery Co-op meeting.  It was suggested from Angel that we ask the high school for the wood blanks as a donation.

 

Community Relations

The Oregon Symphony performs at the Estacada Auditorium on Tues., Dec. 18th  at 7:30 pm.  Tickets are on sale at Figaro’s, the Artsmith, and the high school.  They are also available online at Estacada Together’s website:  www.estacadatogether.org.   It was suggested that the commission bring the summer celebration cd’s to be available at the concession stand.  Am volunteered to bring them from the gallery.

 

School Relations

Angel brought sample pages from her Mural Art Walk project.  They were very well done and everyone liked them.  Her plan is to have one binder for every school, one for the gallery and one for the library.  They would be “checked out” for use.  They will also include the “Who’s Who in Estacada” page, the mural brochure, and information on how a mural is created from start to finish.  Am volunteered her photos and information from the Kinzy Faire mural. 

 

FOTA (Friends of the Arts)

Gloria brought Am a volunteer list to begin the database, which she’ll do after the holidays.

 

Arts & Culture Series

After a bit of discussion, a motion was made and passed to include the Music Crawl to the Arts & Culture 2008 series, which would include financial support in the form of matching funds not to exceed $200.  The Music Crawl is also part of the Summer Celebration.  Am abstained from voting as she is on the Music Crawl committee. 

 

It was also suggested to us by Estacada Together that we include in our Arts & Culture lineup, a musical event being sponsored by the Veterans Memorial folks to take place in April at the Auditorium.  The commission agreed to add this to our line up. Estacada Together has again changed their line-up for their events.  So including P.A.G.E., this is now how it has shaped up:

 

 

Jami will ask Steven Allred about Sat., April 12th for Writer’s Night.  She’ll also start work on the mailers. 

 

The meeting was adjourned at 8:15 p.m.

The next meeting will be held Wed., Jan. 2, 2008 at 6:30 pm in the City Council chambers.

 

Respectfully submitted,

 

 

Jami Berry, Secretary