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RAC_OCT_13_minutesRichfield Arts Commission Meeting Minutes Thursday, October 3, 2013, 7 p.m. in the community center http://www.cityofrichfield.org/officials/Commissions/arts.htm Commission Members present: Jackie Mihalik, Kevin Klos, Willie Falwell, Lisa Rudolph, Claire Gahler, Chad Patterson, Alex Dahl, Dan Mlynarek Absent excused: Pete Dysart City Liaison: MaryKaye Champa Agenda Item Presenter Discussion Action, if any September Minutes Kevin Klos Minutes approved Report from City Liaison MaryKaye Champa We have 327 dollars to spend. 672 dollars have been spent. Planned on saving money for the teen art show and possibly new signage. RAC at the market event (September 14th) Kevin Klos • A lot of kids came to paint the bikes, there was a line at times showing interest in the activity. • The welder and sculptor showed up to see the bike sculpture. • Spin art went over well, lot of kids enjoying the activity. •   Penn Fest (September 15th) Kevin Klos • Spin art was very popular; took lots of good photos for our facebook page. Sugar art was very busy. 176 sugar vessels were used. Sticker art didn’t fair well. It was too windy. • Penn Fest, overall, was busy. The group considered it a success. There was lots going on, seemed really busy in the main area. • RAC had a volunteer face painter. The face painter was really busy, and was happy to be at the RAC booth. • “Free Little Library” design contest: there was a poster board with all of the design entries for the design a free library contest. Attendees to Penn Fest were allowed to vote for their favorite design. The top three vote getters would be considered for a final voting by the RAC. Interest was good as a 106 people voted! We ran out of ballots twice. The Mayor attended the RAC booth and voted for her favorite library. The Mayor even requested one for her yard. The Mayor thought we should sell them. That is something to think about as a means to raise money. • Willie held a pottery lottery. Some winners didn’t stick around to claim their pots, so Willie was thinking of calling the winners and delivering pots to them. MK suggested that the winners could come to the Art Center at our next event and pick them up there. Little Library Contest Kevin Klos Kevin announced the top 3 free library contest contestants. RAC voted secret ballot and chose a winner. RAC discussed having the library painted by the teen art show. Willie to have RHS students paint the library. The winner will be announced at the teen art show and the Little Library will be unveiled. Richfield Gateway Kevin Klos Kevin went to a Richfield Gateway meeting. At the meeting a Richfield Arts Commission Meeting Minutes Meeting designer was showing concepts for signs to be put up as people enter Richfield. The designer showed 3 concepts with differing options for a, “Welcome to Richfield” sign. The eventual finished signs will be placed, possibly, at Penn, Nicolet and Portland Ave. Heredia Sculpture Kevin Klos Kevin talked about the Heredia sculpture. He gave some background on the Heredia sculpture plan. He discussed the possibility of the Heredia artist making a mold and shipping that as a way to defer the cost of shipping a heavy sculpture made of metal. Lisa mentioned that if the artist could make a smaller cast, possibly, we could sell the smaller sculptures. Kevin said the sculptor was going to start work on the sculpture. Posters On Board Mural Kevin Klos • Posters On Board, on Penn, has a big blank wall on the side of their building. People from Posters On Board contacted Kevin and sent him some images of ideas for the mural. They were 3D-illusion designs. The mural space is 16 x 16. • POB were open to suggestions and Kevin asked RAC members to think about possible ideas for the mural. POB suggested nothing that resembled a skate park or a senior center for the design. • The group was thinking about painting it this coming spring/summer. • Jackie suggested that we try and draw in famous poster images. Group thought it could be a person looking into a store with famous paintings inside. Jackie to spearhead painting as she noted earlier in the evening that, “she really wanted to get back into painting.” It’s fate! Bring ideas on what the wall design could look like to the November meeting. Art in the Community Kevin Klos • Kevin read a list of all the Richfield groups the RAC has worked with in the past six months. It was a lengthy list and highlighted the amount of group effort the RAC has put in with the city of Richfield. • Claire asked what the RAC can offer Richfield residents. Really thinking about, “what we have, what they want, and what they see as opportunities.” This could be something we think about going into fall and winter. This initiated a group discussion about possibilities such as what RAC can offer Richfield residents, what Richfield can realistically offer the RAC and artists in the city, and the possibility of having corporate sponsors. • One idea the group seemed excited about was having corporate sponsors that would donate prizes/gift cards in exchange for some publicity. One suggestion was a person could take a picture with a Pizza Luche napkin or a pizza box in front of a Richfield sculpture. Each photo would be a chance in a drawing with the winner receiving the gift card. • Other contests/publicity could center around re- Richfield Arts Commission Meeting Minutes Respectfully Submitted, Dan Mlynarek, Richfield Arts Commission tweeting images or facebook posts/likes. • The group also talked about trying to get started with art showings for exhibitors at the Richfield Community Center. RAC seemed enthusiastic at possibly hosting more art events at the Community Center and working on building that into something impressive. Adjourn The meeting was adjourned at 9:15 PM.