2012-03Richfield Arts Commission Meeting Minutes
Thursday, March 1, 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, Briana Eicheldinger, Ron Wilson, Claire Plank-Gahler,
Debra Caserotti, Pete Dysart, Tomasz Majewski
Absent excused: Ellen Stinger, Jackie Mihalik
City Liaison present: MaryKaye Champa
Agenda Item Presenter Discussion Action, if any
February Minutes Kevin Klos Vote to approve the February meeting minutes
Approved
Report from City
Liaison
MaryKaye
Champa
• Portland sign to Veterans Park is going up. The Art Center
has first billing, then mini golf and Farmers Market
• The Teen Art Show pottery will be removed and replaced
with the first wave of wearable art. Shelves will be cleaned
first.
• Jason Eisold will be handling the Concerts in the Park
series, as Kelly Mertes has resigned. There will now be a
staff person that will be handing the chairs/signs set up for
Concerts in the Park, so we can focus all of our energies
on selling concessions
• New flooring will be installed at the Art Center. MK
brought samples of flooring to pass around and get our
opinions
RAC co-chairs’
meeting with Jim T.
Debra
Caserotti
and Judy
Goebel
The co-chairs met with Jim Topitzhofer, the director of city
recreation services. Jim said there is going to be renovations this
spring including a patio out in front of the mini-golf/Art Center area
that will also include a bistro style café selling coffee and ice
cream during the summer.
The latest brainstorm on adding security to the Art Center is
creating a sculpture with bicycles over the open crawl space. The
bike sculpture would serve its purpose as security (people could
not get through it), but it also has an art aesthetic. We really want
something that wows and makes the art center stand out. MK was
directed to call Richfield sculptor Norm Holen to see if he could
help/give suggestions on what to do. Norm was busy and told MK
he would call back. If we did use old bikes as part of the design,
we could get them free from the city; we’d just need to have
someone to put the sculpture together. MK will set up a meeting
with Norm. Ron and Willie asked to be part of the meeting.
MK will set up
meeting with
Norm and
include Ron
and Willie
RAC Public Art Tour Tomasz
Majewski
Debra, Judy and Tomasz brainstormed a way to connect the RAC
public art tour brochure to an event. The result; A public art tour
using rented bicycles from Veterans Park. The tour would start at
the Art Center, go to the community center to see the mural, and
end up at Kirshbach park to see several of the sculptures.
Different RAC members could be at different staging areas to talk
about the art or guide the tour. It could be an open event from
noon to 4pm, but also provide a structured large group tour at
2pm. We could run the tour on back streets to avoid busy streets,
and possibly ask the Richfield police to provide an escort, but that
may cost money. Other questions: Could we invite the residents
of the Pines and Village shores and could they provide bussing for
their members? Is Kirschbach park considered private property or
“Bike
Committee”
will
coordinate
schedules
and start on
event
logistics
Richfield Arts Commission Meeting Minutes
a public park? Can we use this as a Do-Town event? Could they
provide publicity? Would Richfield Ambassadors want to be part of
the event? Would Dave Gepner’s biking group be interested in
helping? Would city council be interested? We decided a smaller
group should work together as a “Bike Committee” to further this
event and get some of the questions answered. Tomasz, Claire,
Ron, and Pete will coordinate schedules and keep Judy and
Deborah posted.
Community Center
Art Display
Ron Wilson The Teen Art Show will be on display through March. Sandra
Nelson’s acrylic paintings will go up in April.
Adjourn The meeting was adjourned at 8:17 PM.
Respectfully Submitted,
Kevin Klos, Secretary of the RAC