HomeMy WebLinkAbout~Master - PAC Meeting Agenda 07/05/22AMES PUBLIC ART COMMISSION
MEETING AGENDA – July 5, 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, Joseph Merchant, 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 June 7, 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, Candace Zwank)
(a) Neighborhood Art – Pieces are installed! (Erica)
(i) Riding High Sculpture Location (Staff Memo)
(b) AAOSE – New sculptures are installed! Go check them out if you
haven’t already!
2) Public Relations (Taylor Carlson Chair; Erica Briest, Guppy)
(a) Digital frames for festival and events (Elias Simpson) - document
from Elias with research
(No action needed immediately, for future discussion)
3) Collection Management (Kyle Hauswirth, Sahar Kaissi Co-Chairs; Angie
DeWaard)
(a) Deaccession Policy Amendments
III) Public Forum / Guests
IV) Chair’s Report and Comments (Erica Briest)
A) Garden Art Fair: Sunday, July 10 from 10am-4pm
V) City of Ames Liaison Comments/Updates (Brian Phillips)
VI) 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 (Erica)
1) Claire met with Keith about potential options
Outreach took over as the lead on this project at the June meeting
C) “What To Do With Public Art” features on social media (Taylor/Kyle)
VII) New and Continuing Business – Action Needed
A) Glowforge Laser Cutter (Candace Zwank) (let’s take some action on this)
B) 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.
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) We will need to figure out a program and how it will look; Angie is the
lead on this project.
E) Discussion of next project (10 min)
1) These are just some ideas that have come up
(a) Adopt-an-Intersection (Art in the center of the 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”
(e) Solar lighting for sculptures
VIII) For the Good of the Order – Group Discussion / New Ideas (5 min)
IX) Adjournment (Erica Briest)
Next Scheduled PAC Meeting: Tuesday, August 2, 2022 at 5:30 pm
Upcoming/Recent Dates of Note:
• 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)
• Sat., August 13 OR 20 – 9am-12pm: Farmer’s Market PAC Booth