HomeMy WebLinkAbout~Master - PAC Meeting Minutes 10/04/22PUBLIC ART COMMISSION, CITY OF AMES
MEETING MINUTES – October 4, 2022
AMES CITY HALL, ROOM 135
Present: Erica Briest, Saahar Kassi, Mohammad Rashid, Kyle Hauswirth, Aarman, Candace Zwank, Joseph
Merchant
• Meeting Commenced at 5:38
• Consent Agenda:
o Move to accept the Consent Agenda- Kyle
o Second- Candace Zwank
o Motion Approved
• Guests- None
• New Member Introduction- Mohammad Rashid
• Chairs Report
o Octagon Art Festival-
▪ Bad- Booth almost didn’t happen, due to chair-described sabotage.
• Former member of PAC spoke for PAC when they shouldn’t have.
• Mentioned we didn’t have the staff to run a booth.
• Location due to this wasn’t optimal, and traffic flow wasn’t great.
• As such we weren’t able to educate the public as to what PAC does.
▪ Good-
• Set up a time to count votes so we can call best of show and the city can
get the stipend out to the artist.
• Thank you to Joe, Sahar, Candace for helping run the booth
• City Liason’s Report
o Priscilla Sage works
▪ Waiting on the frame shop for the Priscilla Sage work.
▪ As soon as we get the information from them we will get that work going
• PAC Concerns- Sahar-
o PAC needs some ways to display ourselves better than what we have, so people know
who we are.
o Question was asked if we can coordinate with Octagon better for the festival next year.
o Erica is going to ensure PAC is well represented at future events.
• Current Projects
o What to do with Public Arts-
▪ Check out the document that went out to the commission for edits or ideas for
next meeting.
o Solar Lighting-
▪ Circle Around for next meeting
• Continuing Business
o New location for “Riding High”
▪ 3 locations not in use suitable for the piece
▪ Hauswirth Motion to place riding high on Pad 6 on Main Street
▪ Second by Zwank
▪ Vote passed unanimously
o No new information on Ice Arena Mural
o Decommissioned Fire Hydrants
▪ Winners are currently painting
▪ Motion by Hauswirth to move Fire Hydrant Deadline to October 28th,
▪ Second by Merchant
▪ Vote passed unanimously
o Damaged Art
▪ Replacing Monolith
▪ Candace will do some research and circle back on this next meeting.
▪ Question was raised if we want to utilize all of the roundabouts on that area to
use art to tell a story.
o Sculpture/Art representation at bus stops
▪ Joe mentioned in Seattle that there is artistic representation of transfer points
to make things easier for tourists. Thought this might be a cool idea to bring
forward to Ames.
▪ Tactile art might make it also easier for accessibility.
o Extra Projects
• Motion to Adjourn- Hauswirth
o Second- Merchant
o Meeting Adjourned at 6:45