RAC 3.5.15Richfield Arts Commission Meeting Minutes
Thursday, March 5, 2015 7 p.m. in the Bartholomew Room at City Hall
http://www.cityofrichfield.org/officials/Commissions/arts.htm
Commission Members present: Alex Dahl, Quoc Tran, Linda Vigen, Larry Nelson, Dan Mlynarek, Anthony
Bradford, Sarah Nelson, Natalie Madgy
Absent - Excused: Pete Dysart, Kelly Johnsen, Lisa Rudolph
Community Service Commission Liaison present: Michele Thompson
City Liaison present: MaryKaye Champa
Respectfully Submitted,
Linda Vigen, Secretary of the RAC
Agenda Item Presenter Discussion Action, if any
Call to order Meeting called to order at 7:05 p.m.
New members Alex Introductions – Anthony Bradford and Natalie Madgy
February Minutes Alex Minutes approved
Report from City
Liaison
MaryKaye MaryKaye has booked the rest of our meetings except for
July and December at City Hall and will try to get Heredia
Room as Bartholomew was a little too big for our group.
MaryKaye will try to
arrive by 6:30 p.m.
she can be reached
on her cell 952-452-
6230.
Portland Ave.
Sidewalk Poetry
Project
Alex
Alex will meet with the Community Center’s Poetry Group
to see if they would like to be involved. The poems are
open to all – do not need to be original-340 characters max
no more than 8 lines.
Alex, Lisa, and Kelly
attended the February
public works meeting.
Mobile Art Display Alex The panels arrived and are being stored at the Community
Center.
April Health and
Wellness Expo
Alex Annual Exposition hosted by Richfield will be held on
Saturday, April 11th from 9 a.m.-noon. RAC will focus on
having activities for school age children 5-12, perhaps
vegetable art/spin art/clothes pin art.
MaryKaye to register
a spot for RAC/Alex,
Dan, Quoc, and Larry
will be able to
volunteer.
Report from CSC
Liaison
Michelle Michelle’s term has been extended thru January 2018 and
will continue to be liaison to RAC.
RAC at the Market
Alex Michelle presented a number of great ideas for us to
consider for future market events. It was decided that we
will come up with a member volunteer schedule for each
Farmer’s market Saturday. We will be deciding what to do
for June 13th Market event in our April RAC meeting.
Upcoming RAC
Market dates are:
June 13th, July 11th,
August 8th, and
September 12th.
RAC Art Circuit
Update
MaryKaye The Teen art show will be displayed at the Community
Center beginning in March. We need 3D artists for our
display cases.
Continue to recruit
future showings-Many
spots still open during
March and April.
Misc. Alex Discussion was held regarding additional T-Shirts or polo
shirts for RAC members. Does RAC want to be
represented in the Richfield Fourth of July parade? By-
Laws do we need/want to revise the by-laws? Keeping up
the Newsletter-good exposure in the community
MaryKaye to bring
samples of new shirts
to our April meeting.
Natalie to review
keeping up the
Newsletter.
Farewell Alex/MaryKaye We regretfully say goodbye to Constantina Watters who
resigned from the commission. We congratulate her on
the beautiful new addition to her family!
Adjourn The meeting was adjourned at 8:25 p.m.