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2012-07Richfield Arts Commission Meeting Minutes Thursday, July 5, 2012, 7 p.m. in the community center http://www.cityofrichfield.org/officials/Commissions/arts.htm Commission Members present: Judy Goebel, Kevin Klos, Willie Falwell, Debra Caserotti, Pete Dysart Absent excused: Ellen Stinger, Claire Plank-Gahler, Briana Eicheldinger, Ron Wilson, Jackie Mihalik Absent unexcused: Tomasz Majewski City Liaison present: MaryKaye Champa Guest: Megan Cassidy Agenda Item Presenter Discussion Action, if any June Minutes Kevin Klos Debra had two artists name-spelling updates for the June minutes. Kevin will make Updates. Report from City Liaison MaryKaye Champa • The RAC has about $360.00 left in our current funds. We will be able to purchase business cards. (We then voted for a final look of the card from 2 different designs) MaryKaye will order the business cards from staples.com. • Currently the Open House ads in the community book list our start times as 9am. MK will update the fall Open House times as 9:30am-11:30am. • This coming Tuesday (July 10th) is the RAC’s 2-minute presentation with the City Council. We will give them a short PowerPoint presentation and try and have a longer more detailed work session with them at a later time. MaryKaye will order business cards and update the times for the fall Open House listings. The Co- Chairs will see about setting up a work session with the city council in the future. June Open House Debra Caserotti The featured activities were making turtles and fish kites. Not as many visitors came as the May Open house but still a larger turnout than last year. Megan Cassidy (alphabet blog on patch.com) signed the artist registry – she has a self-published book that we may be able to help her promote. We received suggestions on how to use the Art Center during the Open House such as hosting Birthday parties and open studio time. If we did Birthday Parties, would we set it up where people could sign up for it like an Art class? Would we be considered Independent Contractors to get paid for hosting a birthday party? Could we partner with the mini golf/Bistro? MK will talk to Jim T. about it. MaryKaye will talk to Jim T. about hosting Birthdays at the Art Center. July 14 Open House Judy Goebel It will go from 9am-11:30am. The main activity will be (age appropriate) Mystery Bags. We have enough bags for 40-50 kids. Willie will also bring his Spin Art and supplies for Blotto prints and Pulled String prints. Judy, Debra and Willie will be there for sure. If anyone else can make it (for even part of the time) feel free to join them. Come help out if you can. Web Presence Debra Caserotti • Claire was out but Debra had notes from Claire that were passed around. One major improvement to the FB page would be adding more photos. MaryKaye brought up that we can’t have photos of kids inside the Arts Center without a release form from their parents. We’ll need to bring release forms to our events in the future if we want photos of kids’ activities. • Claire had several ideas for content (Meet a Richfield Artist, Meet a Commission member, Monthly Art Projects, etc.) that everyone was cool with. • Kevin suggested having a giveaway on our FB to Claire can start on content. Willie can decide what he may like to donate. Pete will see about Ordway tickets. MK will have release forms ready for the open house if a Richfield Arts Commission Meeting Minutes Respectfully Submitted, Kevin Klos, Secretary of the RAC increase the amount of likes. An idea would be to giveaway a piece of Willie’s Art (being the RHS Art teacher, a lot of Richfield residents know Willie and would probably like to have a piece of his Art). We’d do a detailed FB post about it and users would have to “like” it and “share” it on their pages to be entered in the contest. We’d then pick a random winner. • Pete added to Kevin’s idea saying he may be able to get a pair of donated Ordway tickets as a giveaway prize. photo opportunity arises. Meeting with Larry Couture Judy Goebel MK, Jim T. Debra and Judy had a meeting with Larry Couture, owner of EcoWater. We will be able to get the $1,000.00 donation from him. He asked what we would use the money for. A button maker is at the top of the list which Judy priced between $200-$300. We’d also purchase Polymer clay and tools. Debra mentioned the benefits for the clay are; other art centers are not using it, it doesn’t take up much space and it’s an all-ages activity. We could also get some drawing boards and/or easels to be used for open houses/studio space. If anyone thinks of other ideas how to use the money; bring them to the next meeting. Bring ideas on how to use the donation to next meeting. City Hall Art Display Debra Caserotti • Debra is in charge of booking for the art in the community center, city hall display case (and to a lesser extent, getting the artist in contact with) the Augsburg Park library. • MK will find out from Kristine when we need to get the application in for next year’s display case. • We’re starting to run low on Richfield residents to display art. Kevin suggested we tap non-teen art show public/private Richfield students/teachers. Willie can happily bring any student work, and Pete will ask Holy Angels teachers/classes about participating in our Richfield Art Display Circuit. • Debra found that the RAC Exhibit Policy & Application needs several updates. Kevin volunteered to make the updates and tweak the layout design so it reads better. MK will find out from Kristine when we need to get the application in for next year’s display case. Pete will make AHA teachers aware of the RAC Display Circuit. Kevin will make updates to the RAC exhibit policy & application doc. Adjourn The meeting was adjourned at 9:12 PM.