RAC_APR_11_minutesRichfield Arts Commission Meeting Minutes
Thursday, April 7, 2011, 7 p.m. in the community center
http://www.cityofrichfield.org/officials/Commissions/arts.htm
Commission Members present: Ellen Stinger, Kevin Klos, Jackie Mihalik,
Debra Caserotti, Pete Dysart, Claire Plank, Willie Falwell
Absent Excused: Judy Goebel, Briana Eicheldinger, Ron Wilson
Absent Unexcused: Marilyn Anderson
Guests: Kimberly Kuhens, Sue Sandahl
City Liaisons present: MaryKaye Champa, Michele Thompson
Agenda Item Presenter Discussion Action, if any
Approve March
Minutes
Kevin Klos Motion to approve minutes
Approved
Report from City
Liaison
MaryKaye
Champa
• Nancy Rector is the artist featured in the community
center. She had about 30 people attend her opening
on Saturday March 19th from 1-3pm.
• 22 people attended the March RAC Movie Night. Age
ranges of those who attended were diverse. The
winners of the Twins tickets and the DVD were both
young boys. We sold $23.25 worth of concessions so
we are now -$12.66 overall, but have plenty of
concessions to sell at future events. We need to get
the building reserved for dates by June 1st. We need to
get our dates in by July to be published in the fall book,
which covers Sept-Dec.
Get future movie
night dates in by
June 1st.
Richfield Farmers
Market
Ellen
Stinger
For the May open house event, we will have a “painting flower
pots” activity as the main attraction. Ellen will get the key to
open things up. Volunteers for this event are: Ellen, Claire,
Deborah, Jackie. If anyone else can make it, they are welcome
to. Can Pete get music for this event? Did Judy talk to Cheryl
about the Friday Farmers’ market? The idea for that location is
to have an artist there to demo/sell work. Can they can provide
a table for us?
Ellen will get key.
MK will bring
flower pots/paint
to Art Center.
Pete will get
musicians. Judy
will talk to Cheryl
for additional info
on Friday’s
Market.
Art in Richfield
directory
Ellen
Stinger
• Sue Sandahl from the Richfield City Council stopped
by to discuss the directory. She thought we should
approach Richfield businesses about adding
sculptures and also asked us where in Richfield are
good places to add new sculptures. Ideas from
brainstorm included: Portland Avenue towards east
Richfield and on the Holy Angels property. She wanted
to know if Richfield has more sculptures than
Minneapolis? She likes the idea of having a sculpture
crawl and wants us to start thinking more on specifics.
Can we have an event for the crawl? She pointed out
that San Antonio, Texas has a lot of public art and that
is how they market the town. Can Richfield eventually
do that? The city council will promote this with new
developers. Can we supply them with ideas?
• Claire brought in some examples of different kinds of
maps we could use to plan our directory. MK also
brought in a map of Richfield we can use. Kevin and
Jackie will bring concepts for the directory at the next
meeting. We will decide on a design and start adding
Kevin and Jackie
will bring
concepts for the
directory at the
next meeting.
Everyone will
bring in
information on
the sculptures
they were
assigned to at the
next meeting.
Richfield Arts Commission Meeting Minutes
information from there. In the mean time, we split up
gathering information for each sculpture – year it was
created, medium and any other information we can
find. We also decided not to include advertising in the
directory since the space is already limited and the city
is handling the printing.
Lyndale Gardens
Complex – art
space
Ellen
Stinger
The new development at the Lyndale Gardens complex will
have an art space. We don’t know any additional information
about this yet, but keep it on the radar.
Adjourn The meeting was adjourned at 8:35 PM.
Respectfully Submitted,
Kevin Klos, Secretary of the RAC