RAC 4.2.15Richfield Arts Commission Meeting Minutes
Thursday, April 2, 2015 7 p.m. in the Heredia Room at City Hall
http://www.cityofrichfield.org/officials/Commissions/arts.htm
Commission Members present: Alex Dahl, Linda Vigen, Larry Nelson, Anthony Bradford, Sarah Nelson, Pete
Dysart, Lisa Rudolph, Kelly Johnsen
Absent - Excused: Natalie Madgy, Andrew Tran, Dan Mlynarek
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 7:00 p.m.
March Minutes Alex Minutes approved
Report from City
Liaison
MaryKaye MaryKaye has confirmed that the rest of our meetings will be
held in the Heredia Room EXCEPT for June 4th as it was
already booked. Budget information: Our yearly budget is
$2,000 and as of April 2nd our balance was $1,455.15.
Marykaye will add
budget report
information to her
staff report for all
future meetings.
Portland Ave.
Sidewalk Poetry
Project
Alex
Alex met with the Community Center’s Poetry Group and
received positive feedback from them. The sub-committee
reported that there will be a $46k budget for this project and
will be creating a flyer to enlist entries.
Alex, Lisa, Marykaye,
and Kelly attended the
March public works
meeting.
April Health and
Wellness Expo
Alex Annual Exposition hosted by Richfield will be held on
Saturday, April 11th from 9 a.m.-noon. It was decided that
RAC will have clothes pins/cotton ball caterpillar creatures to
make.
Alex, Dan, Quoc, and
Larry will be able to
volunteer.
RAC at the Market
Alex We have been asked to participate in the 25th anniversary of
the Richfield market – we discussed maybe having a
drawing or photo contest that would be displayed at the Art
Center – this may be our activity for July. We are thinking of
having a sequel to last year’s Hat’s Off to Dad theme for our
June Market event. Perhaps fishing hats….
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 and April. May and June will be
the Farewell to Farwell display. July and August we have
Marlene Miller’s art. We are also booked September thru
December. HOWEVER – we still need 3D artists for our
display cases.
Continue to recruit
future showings-
perhaps some
literature regarding
the poetry project?
Misc. Alex Cracked Walnut will be performing at the Community Center
on May 5th at 7p.m. Shakespeare in the park will be
performing June 21st at 2 p.m. at Augsburg Park and June
25th at 7 p.m. at Veteran’s Park
RAC is hosting
Cracked Walnut.
Misc. Alex Andrew Wiig from Sun Current reached out to us and is
interested in doing an article. We may mention the Portland
poetry project as part of the article.
Adjourn The meeting was adjourned at 8:10 p.m.