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MEETING AGENDA – October 4, 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), Mohammad Rashid, and Candace Zwank
Guests:
I) Call to Order (Erica Briest)
II) Consent Agenda - Monthly Items (2 mins)
A) Approval of September 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 -- Pieces are damaged! (Erica/Brian)
(b) AAOSE – Last booth for voting to award “Best in Show”
2) Public Relations (Taylor Carlson Chair; Erica Briest, Guppy)
(a) Digital frames for festival and events? Need someone to take
this on to move forward. 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) Self Introduction of Newest Member: Mohammad Rashid(3 mins)
V) Chair’s Report and Comments (Erica Briest)(5 mins)
A) Octagon Art Fair: Bad then Awesome
VI) City of Ames Liaison Comments/Updates (Brian Phillips)(10 mins)
VII) Status Updates - No Action Needed Today
A) Revamp / Revise Art in the Parks (Erica)(1 min)
1) Claire met with Keith about potential options
Outreach took over as the lead on this project at the June meeting
B) “What To Do With Public Art” features on social media (Taylor/Kyle)(5
mins)
C) Solar lighting of existing sculptures (Sahar)(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.
D)
VIII) New and Continuing Business – Action Needed
A) Select Location for “Riding High”
B) Ice Arena Mural request (Angie DeWaard)(1min)
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 intern ally.
C) Decommissioned Fire Hydrants (Angie DeWaard) (5 min)
1) Winners have been selected and are receiving their hydrants.
2) Hydrants will be dropped off at winners’ homes to be painted and then
picked up to be brought back in and properly sealed before being
installed at the Dog Park.
3) PAC needs to select a new deadline for the painting to be complete, as
the original deadline is not feasible (October 5th) because of the delay
from receiving them due to the sandblasting process.
D) Damaged art (everyone)(10 min)
1) Monolith has been deaccessioned. How are we going to replace the
sculpture is the thing that remains open for discussion.
E) Sculptures of different animals/objects at each CyRide transfer point for
people/drivers to refer to when directing people around the transit
system. We get 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)
F) Discussion of next project (5 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”
IX) For the Good of the Order – Group Discussion / New Ideas (5 min)
X) Adjournment (Erica Briest)
Next Scheduled PAC Meeting: Tuesday, November 1, 2022 at 5:30 pm
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