Minutes

ESTACADA AREA ARTS COMMISSION

Wednesday, January 2, 2007

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 were absent.

We welcome Rob Gaskill as our newest member!

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

Approval of Minutes

Due to the lack of a quorum, the December minutes will be reviewed and approved at the February meeting.

Financial Statement

Kathleen brought an updated financial statement; however, some updates need to be made. It is estimated that the Arts Commission has approximately $1,200 and the Summer Celebration budget has approximately $1,300.

Mail

A letter of notification from the Oregon Arts Commission that the Arts Commissioned received the “Art Builds Community” grant we applied for in the amount of $3,000. for Summer Celebration. Yay!

We also received notification from the Regional Arts and Culture Council awarded the Arts Commission a grant in the amount $5,485 which is also for Summer Celebration. Yay again. Thank you, Jane Reid, our resident grant writer!!

Summer Celebration Update:

Jane, Am and Jami are planning a budget meeting in the next week or so. Jami will report on this meeting at our next meeting.

Fundraising

No report due to Am’s absence.

Community Relations

The Oregon Symphony Christmas performance was a huge success. All tickets were sold. The community really seemed to enjoy it. Jane Reid wrote a nice letter in the paper.

Rob reported that the Chamber would be having their annual meeting on Jan. 19^th to go over their budget and to set goals. One of their goals will be to try and get a summit meeting together of all the local groups so everyone knows what everyone else is doing, and perhaps band together for some projects. He also reported that the Chamber would be trying to set up a meeting with Linda Bell of the Mt. Hood Territory TDC in February.

Gloria reported that Estacada Together was meeting on the upcoming Sunday. Gloria also reported attending the Arts Action Alliance Publicity Workshop early in December. She spoke with Nancy Nye after the workshop and Nancy will be attending one of the arts commission meetings in the upcoming months to offer support and suggestions if needed.

Arts & Culture Series

The following events are still set; however, Jami is waiting for PAGE to figure out the dates of their play. There is some confusion with the school. As soon as that is figured out, she’ll be getting out the mailers.

• Sat., Jan. 26 - Brett Paschal with Marimbas
• Fri, Sat., & Sun, Feb. 29 through Mar 2 – PAGE will be performing “Harvey”
• Fri, Sat., & Sun, Mar 7 through Mar 9 – PAGE
• Friday, March 21 – Music Crawl III
• Sat., March 29 – Sneakin’ Out
• Sat., April 12^th – Writer’s Night with Stevan Allred
• Friday, April 18^th – Larry Wilder (folk/bluegass/Appalacian music singer and his trio)

Public Art Opportunities

Dave Piper of the Wade Creek Park Project approached Gloria about the possibility of the Arts Commission using their 1% for Art monies to build a wall to display the “Bird Party” mural that no longer has a home. The rumors are that the building it was on prior to burning down will not be rebuilt. Artback would really like to see the mural stay near or in the park since that was it’s inspiration. The Arts Commission all agreed it was a good idea but would like to know about the details of what, where, and how much. Angel made a good suggestion for the other side of the proposed wall – the high school could take it on as an art project, perhaps with tiles.

The meeting was adjourned at 7:45 p.m.

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

Respectfully submitted,

Jami Berry, Secretary