RAC_FEB_11_minutesRichfield Arts Commission Meeting Minutes
Thursday, February 3, 2011, 7 p.m. in the community center
http://www.cityofrichfield.org/officials/Commissions/arts.htm
Commission Members present: Judy Goebel, Kevin Klos, Jackie Mihalik,
Ron Wilson, Willie Falwell, Briana Eicheldinger, Pete Dysart, Debra
Caserotti, Michele Thompson
Absent Excused: Ellen Stinger
Absent Unexcused: Melissa Huybrecht, Marilyn Anderson
Guests: Matt Hamon, Jim Topitzhofer
City Liaison present: MaryKaye Champa
Agenda Item Presenter Discussion Action, if any
Approve January
Minutes
Kevin Klos Motion to approve minutes
Approved
Report from City
Liaison
MaryKaye
Champa
• MaryKaye reported that our group alone will sell
concessions for the summer “Concerts in the Park”
series. There will be 10 concerts, all Thursday nights.
• The Richfield Farmers Market satellite group asked
MaryKaye if we would like to hold activities during their
Friday Farmers Market that runs 2-6pm. After
discussing, we were not sure if that Farmers Market
would draw enough kids? Would that farmers market
allow us to work demos and sell art? If we did work a
children’s mural event, would they purchase the mural
paper?
• We have a booking problem with the Adaptive Rec.
dept for our April 1st movie night. Although we reserved
the room, they need to use the room for their movie
night (on the same night as ours) because of disability
needs. We decided to keep the date and movie night,
but switch to the room downstairs. We will post a sign
on the door for the public to go downstairs for RAC
movie night.
MaryKaye will
ask about selling
art and the mural
purchase.
City Council:
Promoting Richfield
Sculptures
Jim
Topitzhofer
• Jim spoke to our group to let us know that art
promotion was a recent topic at the city council. The
council likes the idea of a Richfield self guided
sculpture tour and would like us to create a printed
promotional piece identifying all the sculptures in
Richfield and give facts (artist, date, meaning) and
location of the sculptures. The budget for this project is
$1000. We need to decide what qualifies as a
sculpture, how many to include and we need to find
out how to get the info about each sculpture.
• The council discussed a want to add more sculptures
in Richfield. Can we help them attract more sculpture
building so Richfield can be known for their
sculptures? Jim and MaryKaye can help write grants.
Jim suggested we get in contact with local businesses
and identified Bremer Bank as an untapped resource
that supports the arts. Can we challenge businesses to
donate or buy a sculpture? Maybe we talk to the
Veterans memorial group for ideas on funding. We
need to come up with criteria for sculptures: visibility
from street, accessibility to public, etc. We can
recommend quality areas to add a sculpture to city
council.
Talk more on this
topic next
meeting.
Richfield Arts Commission Meeting Minutes
Teen Art Show Kevin Klos It is difficult in getting students to appear at the Optimist club
meeting because it conflicts with school (Wednesday morning).
Kevin proposed to Tom Rublien that maybe the Optimists
would be willing to come to the high school and meet some of
the students and see the art from the teen art show in Willie’s
classroom. If that is not possible, we can have some RAC
members come to the Optimist meeting, but it would most
likely be without any students.
Kevin will be in
contact with Tom
Rublien about
setting this up.
February Movie
Night
Judy
Goebel
The next movie night will be February 11th at the community
center, and we will screen Happy Feet. MK reported that it
does not look like there will be space to do the dance demo,
however, Pete suggested filming the dancers, and showing the
demo before the movie. MaryKaye will look into that. MaryKaye
has been posting and handing out fliers for movie night, and
Kevin has been advertising through our social media outlets
and the web.
MK will find out
more on the
dance demo.
Community Center
Art
Ron Wilson Nancy Rector will be the next artist to display work in the
community center. She will have an opening on March 19th
from 1:30-3:30pm.
Adjourn The meeting was adjourned at 8:27 PM.
Respectfully Submitted,
Kevin Klos, Secretary of the RAC