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Home My WebLink About~Master - PAC Meeting Agenda 06/07/22AMES PUBLIC ART COMMISSION MEETING AGENDA – June 7, 2022 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, Claire Kruesel, Tom Lockhart, Joseph Merchant, Aspen Pflanz, Brian Phillips (Interim City Liaison), Elias Simpson, and Candace Zwank Guests: I) Call to Order (Erica Briest) II) Consent Agenda - Monthly Items A) Approval of May 3, 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, Elias Simpson) (a) Neighborhood Art -- Pieces awaiting installation (Erica, Aspen, Claire) (b) AAOSE – New sculptures are installed! Go check them out if you haven’t already! 2) Public Relations (no Chair; Erica Briest) (a) Digital frames for festival and events (Elias Simpson) - document from Elias with research (No action needed immediately, for future discussion) 3) Collection Management (Angie DeWaard, Aspen Pflanz Co-Chairs; Kyle Hauswirth, Claire Kruesel,) (a) Glowforge Laser Cutter (Candace Zwank) (let’s take some action on this) III) Public Forum / Guests IV) Chair’s Report and Comments (Erica Briest) V) City of Ames Liaison Comments/Updates (Brian Phillips) VI) Housekeeping A) Assigning people to serve on sub committees VII) Status Updates - No Action Needed Today A) Storm Drain Intake Artwork Contest (Elias Simpson) 1) Art is being painted now B) Revamp / Revise Art in the Parks (Claire Kruesel) 1) Claire met with Keith about potential options 2) Olivia will remain on subcommittee in ex-officio status C) “What To Do With Public Art” features on social media (Aspen Pflanz) D) Ice Arena Mural request (Angie DeWaard) 1) Taylor Bassett, ice arena manager, has requested a mural potentially be put in the stairway at the arena if funding could become available. (a) 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). (b) Awaiting input from Taylor, as she is looking at project internally. E) Flo-esque Sculpture at Gilman Courtyard (Claire Kruesel) 1) Claire found a sculpture that looks a lot like Flo in the cordoned-off courtyard at Gilman. Photo at bottom of agenda. Wondering about rejoining the two. 2) University Museums reports that this is not in their collection, so Claire will ask around. 3) Members expressed interest, also, in state of piece. VIII) New and Continuing Business – Action Needed A) Glowforge Laser Cutter (Candace Zwank) (let’s take some action on this) B) Storm Drain Intake Artwork Contest (Elias Simpson) 1) Art is being painted now 2) Additional artist submitted artwork (Erin Quinn) C) Priscilla Sage Pieces in City Auditorium (5 min) 1) Message received on City website from Tom Jackson originally inquiring about lighting for pieces. 2) No information found in archives, so inquiries were made by Olivia and Aspen. No information from either, but Aspen received information from Auditorium management. Pieces are beyond repair. 3) Olivia was getting ready to write up deaccession request for all five pieces in January and they are all gone? Olivia and Brian are trying to track them down. 4) Carly sent deaccession notice on Feb. 16, 2022 5) Tom Jackson attended meeting on March 2, 2022 (a) Priscilla Sage to be contacted to review state of pieces. If they can/should be repaired, we will look for alternate locations for hanging (b) Brian to review city auditorium paperwork for verbiage on renters removing artwork (c) We are looking at internal processes on how to improve information on how to care for pieces. If pieces need unique care long -term, we need to look at either maintaining them as a commission or hiring individuals (within City or outside) to care for them. We will want to consider this when purchasing new pieces. 6) Artist that Priscilla Sage recommended to repair the pieces has not responded to our requests for repair estimates, so outside estimates were sought to determine if the pieces will be repaired or deaccessioned. D) Decommissioned Fire Hydrants (Angie DeWaard) (5 min) 1) Angie is in discussion with Dale Weber of Public Works and Keith Abraham of Parks & Rec about placing these at the dog park (both inside and outside of fence) and animal shelter. 2) We will need to figure out a program and how it will look. E) Discussion of next project (10 min) 1) Aspen going to send email with call for ideas, and poll (a) Please feel free to email ideas, but a last call will be made 2) Several items from previous poll were provided/discussed (a) Adopt-an-Intersection (b) Decals for AAOSE (pending Main Street approval) (c) Mural contest in Ames Parks (d) Possible tattoo festival tie-in for “Modern Art Festival” – other ideas? (e) Olivia mentioned commissioning a piece from Priscilla Sage to replace the decommissioned items IX) For the Good of the Order – Group Discussion / New Ideas (5 min) X) Adjournment (Erica Briest) Next Scheduled PAC Meeting: Tuesday, July 5, 2022 at 5:30 pm Upcoming/Recent Dates of Note: • Thurs., June 2, 2022 – 5-8pm: Art Walk PAC Booth (to talk about what PAC does and allow people to vote on their favorite AAOSE entry) • Sun., July 10 2022 – 10am-4pm: Reiman Garden Art Fair PAC Booth (to talk about what PAC does and allow people to vote on their favorite AAOSE entry)