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2012-01R i c h f i e l d A r t s C o m m i s s i o n M e e t i n g M i n u t e s Thursday, January 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, Michele Thompson, Marilyn Anderson, Briana Eicheldinger, Ron Wilson, Claire Plank Gahler, Jackie Mihalik, Debra Caserotti Absent excused: Ellen Stinger, Pete Dysart City Liaison present: MaryKaye Champa Guest: Sara Maaske (field director of do.town campaign) Agenda Item Presenter Discussion Action, if any Oct/Nov Minutes Kevin Klos Vote to approve the October 11 and November 11 meeting minutes Approved Report from City Liaison MaryKaye Champa • The Richfield Public Art Walking tour brochure made it to the printer at the deadline of December 31, 2011 • The RAC movie night has a generic ad in the latest Richfield newsletter so we can ad-lib what movie we want to use • We were able to move $100.00 from our concession money into our 2012 budget • The new sign at Veterans Park that labels the Richfield Arts Center has been put on hold for now as the city needs to rethink the placement of it • There were 5 applications for new/renewing RAC members for 2012 Do.town campaign Sara Maaske Sara Maaske, is the field director of the do.town campaign; a community initiative that seeks to make the healthy choice the easy choice. She’s working on a do.town pilot program in Richfield to identify things people are interested in to become healthier. She’s looking to the RAC to help create buzz and excitement in the community for the campaign. Can engaging people with art in the community help in these goals? The program will use chalkboards as conversation starters. The program will collect info from the community from the chalkboards, which will feed into the do.town website. The chalkboards will be portable. Sara wanted to know where are the best places to put these portable boards? We felt that outside the Arts Center at our open house events during farmers markets was the most prime time and location. Second was during concerts in the park during the summer next to the concession stand. Sara mentioned we could use ‘do.town approved’ stickers we could place on different items to advertise . MK suggested adding them to the RAC public art tour brochure. If we have any other ideas where to put chalkboards we should talk to MK who will talk to Sara RAC Public Art Tour brochure Kevin Klos Kevin and MK went through the list of missing permission forms and were able to connect with some of the missing artists and gain permission to use photos of their work. Kevin finished the layout design and got it to MK who was able to get the brochure printed by the December 31st deadline. We should have printed brochure at the next meeting in February. These brochures will be available at City Hall and the Richfield community center. Ron suggested we bring some to the Pines senior community since several art sculptures are nearby. Teen Art Show Kevin Klos The teen art show opening/ceremony went well. We had a Moving the R i c h f i e l d A r t s C o m m i s s i o n M e e t i n g M i n u t e s Respectfully Submitted, Kevin Klos, Secretary of the RAC good turn out, not as many parents/students as the year before but still stronger than prior years. Ron and Willie will move the teen art show 2D pieces to the community center on Saturday January 14th around noon. Judy, Deborah and MK will coordinate moving the 3D pieces to the City Hall. winning work to the City Hall display case and the community center will take place on and around January 14th. RAC Donation Judy Goebel We discussed further what we could spend the $1,000.00 donation on. Deborah brought in some print outs from the Palia website that included: Deluxe square risers, business card holders (to use as small display info mounts for the art), easels, acrylic head/hand for wearable art. Judy brought up that Vuitts Gallery is closing their Richfield location and they will be having two online auctions where up for bid is a lot of different art furniture/accessories we could use at the Art center. We went through the list and told MK what we are interested in. She will bid for us on the day of the auction. MK will bid on online auctions. RAC movie night Judy Goebel After discussing the low turnouts for RAC movie nights in 2011, and since we are busy with so many other projects, we voted and decided to cancel the movie nights for 2012. Movie nights cancelled Adjourn The meeting was adjourned at 8:22 PM.