Minutes

ESTACADA AREA ARTS COMMISSION

Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2008

www.estacadaarts.org

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

Commissioners Present: 

Gloria Polzin, Jami Berry, Kathleen Wyatt, Rob Gaskill, Angel Austin, Am Griswold and Janette Kirchhofer.

 

Guests:  Nancy Nye, Program Manager of the Clackamas County Arts Action Alliance.

 

The meeting was called to order at 6:35 pm.

 

Approval of Minutes

December and January minutes were approved.

 

Financial Statement

Kathleen brought an updated financial statement; the Arts Commission’s Administrative balance is $1051.85 and the EAAC’s Summer Celebration balance is currently $1,405.23.

 

Guest:

The Arts Action Alliance is an organization that supports artists and art organizations; develops livable communities by helping with cultural planning, public art, and exhibit programs; and they promote by having information resources and connecting people.

Nancy came this evening by invitation of Gloria as it is in her job description to visit arts commission to see how they are doing and if they are in need of any help in any areas.  Nancy reported that she was impressed with all that our commission was doing but suggests that our Arts & Culture Series be more defined in the future.  It’s a little confusing on who’s doing what and who’s who.  Jami will speak with Jane Reid of Estacada Together and work on that for the future.

 

Summer Celebration Update

The next S.C. meeting will be held Feb. 20th at 6:30 pm in the Flora Community Room in the Library.  Am, Jane, and Jami will be meeting on the 14th to work on the agenda.

 

Fundraising

Am has lined up a person to build the benches figuring it may cost approximately $12 - $17 per bench.  After a discussion, the commission decided to have 5 smaller ones built and 2 larger ones.  First come, first serve will be the decider for the artists. 

 

Community Relations

Brett Paschal at the Auditorium:

The Brett Paschal Marimba night (presented by Estacada Together) was very successful.  Jami volunteered to sell tickets that evening and reported that there was an audience of at least 100 people.  Considering it was the evening of the big snowstorm, it was a very good turnout.  Brett was very good and the audience loved him. 

Chamber Update:

Rob reported that the Chamber will no longer be in charge of the annual Christmas Bazaar held at the high school.  He was asking if anyone knew of any groups that would want to take this project on – it was suggested that perhaps the Fire Dept. may want to do it again or the Skip-A-Week Quilters. 

 

Rob also reported that it’s the Chamber’s goal to have Linda Bell of the Tourism Commission to come out and talk about parameters for grants.

 

The Chamber got the “Rural View” mailer started with Marissa Neldner doing the actual publishing.  It has now become apparent that the Chamber will not continue to be in charge of this publication as it is in direct competition with the local newspaper and the Chamber felt it wasn’t right.  So Marissa will continue on publishing under her own powers.

 

Rob will also be asking Randy about when the City will be holding their City Summit as it appears to be needed – there are so many groups in our community now, it would be nice to know what everyone else is doing and perhaps some consolidating could take place.

 

Rob announced that the Chamber now has a new Office Administrator, Connie Redmond, who works Mondays through Thursdays from 10 am to 3 pm.  Rob suggested Am ask Connie to help with the FOTA phone calling project.  Am agreed it would be very helpful.

 

Arts & Culture Series

A reminder of what is still coming up….

  • Fri, Sat., & Sun, Feb. 29 – March 2 and Fri & Sat, March 7th & 8th – PAGE will be performing “Harvey”
  • Friday, March 21 – Music Crawl III
  • Sat., March 29 – Sneakin’ Out
  • Sat., April 12th – Writer’s Night with Stevan Allred
  • Friday, April 18th – Larry Wilder and the Stumptown Stars (folk/bluegass/Appalacian music singer and his trio)

 

School Relations

Angel reported that Am had just given her start-to-finish photos of the Kinzy Faire Garden mural to add to her Mural Art Walk project.  It’s coming along nicely and should be available by spring.

 

Dates to Remember

Chris Chandler, nationally-known Folk Poet and Storyteller, will be appearing with acoustic guitarist/singer, Paul Benoit on Fri., Feb. 8th at 7 pm in the Flora Community Room.

 

The meeting was adjourned at 8:00 p.m.

The next meeting will be held Wed., March 5, 2008 at 6:35 pm in the City Council chambers.

 

Respectfully submitted,

Jami Berry, Secretary