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MEETING AGENDA – January 17, 2023
5:30 PM – 6:30 PM
City Hall, Room 135
Commission Members: Erica Briest (Chair), Armaan “Guppy” Gupta (Vice-Chair),
Kyle Hauswirth (Secretary), Oakley Cadogan (Treasurer), Angie DeWaard (Past
Chair), Taylor Carlson, Sahar Kaissi, Joseph Merchant, Brian Phillips (Interim City
Liaison), Mohammad Rashid, and Candace Zwank
Guests:
I) Call to Order (Erica)
II) Consent Agenda - Monthly Items (2 mins)
A) Approval of December 6, 2022 Minutes (Kyle Hauswirth)
B) Treasurer’s Report (Oakley Cadogan)
C) Commission Committees Reports and Comments
1) Outreach ( Erica Briest Chair; Oakley Cadogan, Joe Merchant, Candace
Zwank)
(a) Neighborhood Art (Erica) –Applications closed December 16th
and a subcommittee will go over the applications in January to
choose sculptures.
(b) AAOSE (Erica) – Call for Artists is out and closes January 17th.
There is a maximum of 3 entries per artist with a $2,000 honorarium
for each of the 8 chosen artists and an additional $1,000 stipend for
the “Best in Show” winner.
2) Public Relations (Taylor Carlson Chair; Erica Briest, Guppy)
(a) Digital frames or felt frame display for festival and events? Need
to decide. Wind is a huge problem at our booths!
3) Collection Management (Kyle Hauswirth, Sahar Kaissi Co-Chairs,
Mohammad Rashid)
(a) Solar lighting for existing sculptures (Sahar)
III) Public Forum / Guests
IV) Chair’s Report and Comments (Erica Briest)(5 mins)
V) City of Ames Liaison Comments/Updates (Brian Phillips)(10 mins)
VI) Status Updates - No Action Needed Today
A) Art in the Parks (Angie, Joe, Candace, Kyle)(5 min)
1) Joe and Angie have contacted Keith Abraham to see what our options
(if any) are at Hira Park and discuss other options
B) “What To Do With Public Art” features on social media (Taylor/Kyle)(5
mins)
C) Solar lighting of existing sculptures (Sahar, Candace)(10 min)
1) Bid is in for about $80,000 to light up all the sculptures around Ames in
the PAC inventory. This amount means it requires much higher
approval and calls for bids than just PAC getting an estimate.
2) PAC voted to decide which group of 10 sculptures needs to be lit up at
night the most and do those first to see how well they handle Iowa
weather. If things seem to go well, PAC may decide to purchase more
lighting in groups of 10 due to cost.
3) Lots of confusion about this project. Should PAC table this project for
now and focus on Collection Management instead?
1) Kyle is creating a Google Document to enable PAC members to
monitor art pieces within the collection we manage. Each member
would be assigned pieces to monitor throughout the year.
D) Ice Arena Mural (Angie)(1 min)
1) Taylor Bassett, Ice Arena Manager, has requested a mural
potentially be put in the stairway at the arena if funding becomes
available.
2) PAC discussed classifying the ice arena as a park so money could be
shuffled around to provide funding from the Art in the Parks budget
line. The Ice arena is operated by the parks and recreation
department of the City of Ames (jointly with ISU).
3) Awaiting input from Taylor, as she is looking at project internally.
4) Angie suggested taking this item off the Agenda, but Joe requested it
be left on so if not a mural at the Ice Arena…then something at
another indoor park. This item continues or ends at THIS meeting!
Taylor has not responded to the Chair’s efforts for an answer on this
item.
E) Decommissioned Fire Hydrants (Angie)(3 mins)
1) The fire hydrants have all been painted, sealed and installed at the Dog
Park.
2) Should PAC continue this program even before the other designs rotate
out? It would get more community involvement in art (we are the
PUBLIC art commission)
VII) New and Continuing Business – Action Needed
A) Roundabout Subcommittee (Candace, Joe, Mohammad, Erica, Michele)(10
min)
1) Monolith has been deaccessioned. How is PAC going to replace the
sculpture? Working in collaboration with others on this undertaking.
2) Met via Zoom on November 28th and need clarity on what the budget is
so PAC can plan how we want to proceed.
B) AMES (Accessible Map-Envisioning Sculptures)(Joe)(5mins) Sculptures of
different animals/objects at each CyRide transfer point for people/drivers
to refer to when directing people around the transit system. Ames gets a
lot of visitors and out of country students that have a hard time when they
first get here. Simple sculptures would help not only them, but also the
visually impaired community. (Joe)(5 min)
C) PAC Booth items for festival appearances (also needs Council approval)
1) New tent
2) Chairs
3) Banners/table display (wind proof)
4) PAC tchotchkes to give away (pens, stickers, etc)
D) Problem Pedestals (Erica)(5 min)
1) Safety issue for anyone using anything with wheels such as a bike,
skateboard, roller-skates, or stroller. Also, a safety issue for anyone
with any visual or mobility issues and their related devices.
2) Like a lighthouse that is about to be swallowed by the sea, the solution
proposed is for the pedestals to be moved away from the intersections
a bit, so they are not blocking the pedestrian pathway for the
crosswalk. Note: not all the pedestals need to be moved, only some of
them.
3) An example of a particularly bad placement for the pedestals can be
observed at 5th and Kellogg. There are 18 pedestals in all and they’d all
have to be located to see how many would need to move. The Chair
will try to do this before the meeting.
4) Asking for PAC to request (from City Council) that the pedestals be
moved out of the pedestrian pathway for the crosswalks
E) Neighborhood Sculpture
1) Need a subcommittee to go over the applications
2) It’s exciting, but harder than one might think to pick what
neighborhood is getting what sculpture from this year’s AAOSE
F) Discussion of next project (time permitting)(5 min)
1) These are just some ideas that have come up
1) Adopt-an-Intersection (Art in the center of (approved) intersection)
2) Decals for AAOSE (pending Main Street approval)
3) Mural contest in Ames Parks
4) Possible tattoo festival tie-in for “Modern Art Festival”
VIII) For the Good of the Order – Group Discussion / New Ideas (5 min)
IX) Adjournment (Erica)
Next Scheduled PAC Meeting: Tuesday, February 7, 2023 at 5:30 pm
Upcoming/Recent Dates of Note:
• Happy New Year!
• January 16th Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
• January 17th AAOSE applications close
• January 28th International Reducing CO2 Emissions Day