- I'm gonna go ahead and call the meeting to order. Thanks everyone for being here today.
- Moving on to the agenda item number two, BAC minutes and financials.
- So the minutes have been distributed in red. Thank you Betsy for your first contribution.
- Are there any are there any corrections or notes about the minutes? All right, excellent.
- So I motion to approve the minutes. Can I please get a verbal second?
- Thank you. All in favor of approving the minutes say aye.
- All right, any opposed say nay. All right, fantastic. The minutes are approved. Thanks again.
- Let's see. All right, and next to the financials.
- Hello. We haven't spent any money this year. No surprise there.
- We are meeting at the end of this month to do our allocation of the Arts Project grants.
- In the meantime, we have a total of 167,000 plus change to spend on our
- three annual grant cycles. Five thousand dollars to spend on our Emerging Artists
- Professional Development Grant or development workshops. Thanks, Chas. We've actually already
- had two of those this year. So that you'll definitely see a decrease in those funds,
- but they've been incredibly successful. We'll get paid soon. Yes. And then we're
- going to figure out something fun to do with our 16,500 dollars for public art.
- Maybe we'll talk about that a little on Friday.
- Any questions about financials?
- Thanks. And back to the city for updates and a presentation.
- So our main presentation and point of business this month is we have the amazing Elena Reid,
- who is a student in the O'Neill School. And for her practicum, for her degree program,
- she's working on revitalizing our public art database and has been working in our GIS department
- to do a map of public art in Burlington. And so we invited her here to talk to us a little bit
- about it tonight. And I know if you want to come over here so you can see the screen you can use
- this mouse to click between the public art inventory and then the public art. Thank you.
- Hello, my name is Elena. This is like a really exciting project that I've been doing this year
- with Holly. So back in September, I met Holly and learned about this really cool opportunity
- about the public art inventory that existed before which has a ton of information but was mostly
- used
- as like just a repository and wasn't terribly organized. So using this spreadsheet, the project
- is to create a more organized database and then hopefully with well not hopefully it is happening
- with the information in this database to create an online public art map that will be available to
- the public. So the hope is that this can serve as both like a more organized centralized place to
- like record public art data and then also the map can like help with accessibility and make
- learning
- about public art easier and more fun for people once it is published online. Yeah so first of all
- the spreadsheet everything has like an asset ID now for organization purposes and identification
- purposes. I've been like rewriting the descriptions because they are like pretty minimal. I don't
- remember where they are here. Oh yeah yeah it's these ones yeah pretty minimal. So like they do
- the job but as far as like engaging the public wouldn't quite have worked for a public art map.
- So I've been working on that and also filling out information with Holly's help for like internal
- purposes like service dates fabricators sources that kind of thing. So just for future reference
- as that information is needed. Yep so I've made what is this okay I'll just go like this. I've
- made the first several entries here last semester in this semester but as you can see this is a
- work in progress because I have 20 I think so far and there's like about 200 in here. So this will
- this is an ongoing project but the skeleton is there to continue to be filled out by other people.
- So there you go. So this with like the incredible GIS team here Max and Megan have been using that
- information to create the public art map. We took design inspiration from cities who already have
- like effective public art maps like Fort Wayne and Chicago and New York and other places. So
- that's where it came from. I believe there's nine or ten pieces so far but like every piece of art
- has a little thumbnail image that can be clicked on. If it will let me click on it. Oh it's just
- loading yeah and then it pulls up here so people can learn about it get some information know where
- it is and hopefully this will inspire them to learn more or go out and see it themselves.
- They can also just read it on the sidebar to the left.
- Yeah so super cool this is where it is so far. Next steps is hopefully it will be published
- sometime
- this month and I'm also working on creating a system with Holly to make it easy for volunteers
- probably y'all to add more entries to the database to be added to the map. So like as more entries
- get added this will just become like have more and more information and be more and more
- interesting
- for people to explore and look around in. So as you zoom in you get more details rather than them
- stacking on top of each other. Yep so you can zoom in as much as you want. That's great yeah and
- you'll let us know how we can help add. I absolutely will yes working on it now yeah yeah. That's
- fantastic. Cool. I have a couple questions. Absolutely. One of your columns had the artist
- home base and I'm wondering whether that is their current home base or the home base when
- the artists receive the grants or support. I had been going off of their current home base
- and I'm not sure if it would make sense to add where they were when they made the art.
- Well I asked because one of the things we would like to have happen is to let people know that
- this is mainly emerging from artists in this community and from the beginning dates of the
- collection we have a lot of these people may have moved and so listing them their home base
- as New York City it doesn't give quite the impression that we perhaps would like to have.
- Okay on the other hand I think it's really good to have people outside the community too. We need
- that both because then it gives sort of credibility to the whole project in a way that I think if
- we
- just keep it super local I mean because there already is a history of people from outside doing
- public art here so I think it's valid totally to support our artists here but we also have to I
- think put their work in the context of the larger world and that would do it. I'm also glad to see
- the cost column where we're able to do that. I think that opens people's eyes a little bit.
- Good reference. Gee they should have been paying more. Yeah it's good perspective. Yeah yeah for
- sure. Maybe a later stage if there's like a space for to your question about they used to live in
- Bloomington and New York would have a description section or if there's at some point you know
- bandwidth to put in like a short bio of the author
- of the artist. I was thinking just now even just like a link you know to their own site. Yeah yeah
- absolutely that's a better idea. It also sounds like maybe adding like current to the description
- like a current home base. Yeah it's a good mix of Bloomington and elsewhere. Yeah at least this
- part.
- Scroll again a little bit. Yes it looks like it includes like maybe some of these postcards as well
- like is it all city art assets or like specifically outdoor assets? It's ultimately we want it to
- be
- all. We made very deliberate choices about the entries we wanted to do first because the
- the version of this we started working with just didn't have the most recent
- pieces on it and we so we wanted to focus on getting those entries there as well as focusing
- on the ones that are most just most prominent that you know people tend to walk around most
- or like reference when you ask them what their favorite piece of public art is you know that's
- kind of what we were focusing on but then JS also encouraged us to think about some types of
- entries
- that would be more challenging to do and we thought the postcard project was a really good example
- of that just to kind of try to break the system but I think Delina came up with a really good
- solution for that as well. So what you were saying to Paul I'm wondering so yeah and Suzanne in the
- description like with that and what you're saying it makes sense probably is there a column that
- says like if is it in the description that it was like a one percent for the arts? I'm wondering
- I guess I'm just wondering if like that could also be like okay just because the artist is
- currently
- in New York City well if the source was from this was some sort of public call we did to Ken was a
- local artist at the time I don't know I'm just thinking that would lead to that's how we can
- like understand who the like what projects these are coming from yes so I guess and what like a
- private like entity like the graduate hotel might be more interested in commissioning like like or
- what kind of artist versus like something that we might be more interested in prioritizing yeah
- because I'm thinking of like we're gonna we have the public art calls with the bus stops and stuff
- that would go on here the source then could be but it was a call to local artists you know what I
- mean
- I guess that's where we can kind of get that info because I think that would be important and we've
- also included links to the press releases just and I think that also provides more information
- about
- the project and also like where the artists were and also like whether or not the call was intended
- to be local regional or national artists yeah so this may be a useless column but um you know where
- was the artist in residence where did they live when the art was made and then if we happen to know
- where do they reside and in a way um it might show we're incubating some artists and they're
- going off and doing things and living somewhere else instead of this is all inbred you know
- I think so I think the press releases would probably tell us wouldn't they whether people
- were they will yeah yeah probably the links to their their web pages maybe two might yeah say
- what's going on but if they still have them so when we um when we were deciding how to like assign
- these asset ids to it we kind of just did some elena did some research on like best practices
- for like what do museums do like what do other entities do so i wonder if there's also
- a best practice for like you know i'm thinking about when you go to a museum and you see
- you know the didactics and it's like artist name your birth statement like where where they are
- yes like i'm wondering if we could like just take a look and see what other institutions do about
- like noting yeah where they are now where they had been in the past yeah yeah let me ask you what
- about there's some i don't know how how anyone feels about this but there's some people that
- have some pretty amazing art privately owned that you can see from the street
- you mean private yeah works that they purchased
- well it's not technically public art though no but you can see it from the street
- yeah should that just remain private yeah yeah there's some there's some cool stuff
- but i don't know well i don't think that we would list that in a public art database
- no i'm wondering if there are i feel like there might be steps down the road like i keep promising
- everybody this um publicly available like artist resource platform where anybody can post things
- right and we definitely talked about linking to this on that and i wonder if that might be a more
- appropriate right you know place for folks who have private art right well just share that stuff
- yeah like empire quarry for instance yeah that kind of they've got killer carvings out there
- yeah yeah that's true i mean that that would be like you know sometimes they have those gallery
- weekends or art weekends where people would go to these different sites and see stuff not just
- public
- art but yeah things in private collections and all that yeah um and you know depending
- if the collector wants to have people knowing about what they have because that's also a risk
- right there's also like the bowling ball statue out in the country you know what i mean
- ross like no
- that's what i'm saying no one knows
- i didn't know about that all right
- i'm wondering whether you encountered any pieces of art that we that we have supported
- that are have retired that are no longer available like no longer um existing no longer existing or
- just no longer there there are some like in this spreadsheet that um like their location says in
- storage or not available anymore yeah so um so um i haven't added any of those here yet i think
- probably eventually they should go here but maybe not on the map
- mm-hmm
- is campus going to be involved all the art on campus or not this is just not campus
- you don't want the three adam and eve's
- i think also like also i think yeah public art right yeah i think i i use been working on one
- forever right public art list or something i'm not sure if it exists we've been linked to their
- site
- yeah and this is the way we would like link to like any other like private collection yeah like
- this
- other web platform that we're building i think that might be appropriate and and again i think like
- the main point here was really just to do anything because it's been active for so long
- yeah i think it's great super cool yeah yeah so is uh is this um apologize if i miss this are you
- coming back or is this your one semester working with esd um this is the only year that i'm getting
- like credit for working here but like i'd be happy to keep working on it next year though okay okay
- yeah because i'm wondering about the the the life of it after yeah online at least and like is this
- it sounds like this is this database is like owned by esd but it's done in partnership with gis or
- they create the map yeah okay okay gis okay okay yeah and and that's what we are working through
- now and like going forward you know i think you know obviously we're gonna let elena work
- with us as long as like she's willing to but i think you know eventually there will be turnover
- right and so one thing elena is doing is creating like an sop that includes like you know that's
- great yeah like just like she's put together just great guidelines for like what to think about
- when
- you're crafting a description how long it should be based on like you know whether you're looking
- at a description or the map on your phone or on a laptop so it'll include all of those things
- but we're also working with gis now to understand like okay say we invite you all as volunteers or
- others in the community to help us continue to grow the space to capture every piece of public art
- what is the communication between the volunteers us as city staff members and gis to make sure that
- all the work that like others in the community are doing is like making it onto the publicly
- accessible website so that was my next question yeah that's what we're working on okay yeah yeah
- it's just it's kind of like a like a wikipedia kind of thing yeah what do they call it like moderators
- or whatever yeah yeah exactly yeah this would be a super cool link when it's done to put on
- visit bloomington yeah oh yeah yeah i have people on my air bb's all the time that want it like
- where's the art what's happening what's going on it's like yeah here go walk around ride your bikes
- yes uh well it'll be on the bloomington arts commission webpage and then it will also be on
- this new web platform we're developing um i i i do agree it should be on visit bloomington i think
- i
- have like a yeah they they have a it's it's not it's not this they have like a list of yeah public
- art right now that they recently yeah yeah but um i think that um why don't you just let me know
- well the city is going through it's going to take a year but the city as a whole is going to have a
- new website in like a year a new branding process so we can so that's it's gonna hopefully would be
- more prominent in the new website all of that stuff i mean i don't want people to dig too much
- right exactly that's the problem and that's why they're redoing the website i think about that
- african-american history walking tour yeah that literally the people on the commission didn't even
- know existed you know like it's it's great but it's so far in and it's really hard to find and
- yeah i one thing we've talked about and again i think like we're trying to do this baby steps
- because i think if we do it all at once we talk about it's a lot we're just going to be all
- overwhelmed and nothing's gonna happen i feel like that's kind of what has happened up to this
- point
- nobody was just taking the time to say let's let's do this in small pieces but like one thing we're
- talking about doing is like even doing like qr codes on like on signage for every piece of public
- art because another thing that we need to deal with that we haven't even begun to get to yet is
- the fact that so many pieces of our public art need actual signage and so being able to incorporate
- something like a qr code that would link directly to this will just make it accessible to anybody
- who's out in the community another thing we're talking about doing is potentially a public art
- tour so elena might build the first one of those and i think that'll be and the idea is it would
- start someplace very popular yeah yeah we would start someplace like the farmer's market because
- so much of like the first pieces of one percent for the arts project are right around here you
- know but we also now have this like international piece of public art that's right behind the
- building so that's what we're thinking about doing yeah i think that's awesome from the map it
- looks
- like you search by category or something and you can just create your own that yeah exactly my goal
- like what yeah my hope i think we've talked about this before is this is just like the ultimate
- dream would be we developed through this like a cohort of like docents who do their personalized
- tour of their favorite 10 pieces of public art they make a personalized tour they take turns giving
- them but then we also are creating a group of stewards who we know will have eyes on these
- specific pieces of public art so if they get vandalized they can tell us because we can't
- have our eyes on everything right now so um your your database is basically in excel uh right now
- it's in google sheets okay i thought i saw excel popping up up the top at one point okay
- so it's stuff that we know is not going to suddenly become obsolete i mean that's just
- the before you invest in it we are we are trusting it and just out of what's the oldest piece we
- have
- record of i don't know no it's probably oh there we go um let's see it's 98 47 great good okay it's
- a zoning map that's cool there's some cool art in like rose hill cemetery you know and all
- different
- kinds of places 18th century oh that just means it's mystery stuff
- yeah i think these are actually in my office at this point
- yeah we your chest and i both have bases at this point though yes i like you're like alice
- a legend what a great job yeah
- hope you get anything else from the city
- um all right yeah thank you thank you for your work and for coming here today
- moving next to agenda item number four an update from your public arts subcommittee chair nat
- everyone um yeah we are really excited for tomorrow as a big reminder we've got the ot
- 987 opening that i know holly chas and everybody at the city have been working really hard to
- make happen even with the weather and stuff going on this week um so just as a reminder
- will be uh the artist party will be tomorrow uh as will the opening um and is the opening sorry
- it's the same thing one in the same um and it starts at uh we're at seven six six sorry we're
- at six um and marked at 615 so if you can please get there at six so we got 85 chance of rain
- is it just like brain umbrellas it is rain or shine okay we're gonna have a tent but um okay i
- don't think everybody's gonna fit under it okay so some rings we'll have a we'll have a box of
- garbage bags and we'll just like is there is the forge also being used or no yes the forge is also
- so the idea is um we're going to kick off with remarks at 615 on the sculpture site which is
- outdoors we'll have a tent there um just for the folks speaking and for as many other people who
- can fit under it and then the reception itself which will include music drinks and food will be
- if it's raining inside the forge if something changes and it's beautiful and lovely we'll do
- the setup on the patio i think we're just going to kind of play it by ear but then we'll keep the
- tent up the entire time because i assume a lot of people are going to want to talk to the artists
- and they'll probably be on site so if you want to spend some time on site looking at the work with
- the artists you'll be able to shelter under that tent so yeah so that's tomorrow um hope to see you
- all there and we are going to be um yeah we'll we'll be celebrating that tomorrow um the other
- piece of news that we've been working on is we've been meeting for a few different of the smaller
- public art calls that have been happening um we met maybe two fridays ago or friday ago all the
- days are blurred together in my head um to review the bus shelter um applications that we got and
- we
- did some selection with the um with holly's intern drew and i'm forgetting your other colleague who
- is shawn maya yeah who's the director of sustainability in our department who's
- really spearheading the bus shelter initiative yeah we reviewed we got some incredible applications
- and we um i don't know if it's public knowledge yet who was who was good for those but yeah we've
- got three artists i'm sorry i don't have their names right in front of me um but we picked three
- artists to do um essentially two bus shelters each because those felt uh to those felt like
- they were the most viable options um and there were some other really great folks in there that
- we didn't necessarily pick but can definitely tap for some other exciting opportunities soon um so
- we did that um we are kind of doing a review over email of the um hand trailer um there's some some
- things moving with that i'll have more updates at our friday meeting um but then yeah i'll just be
- a
- fun conversation to put it yeah that's a fun update with that um oh yes so the housing and
- neighborhood development um department is they they have this like big trailer i think gretchen
- you were the one that called it the party trailer um but it like kind of shows up to different
- events right and it's something that just holds holds things for events yeah so the idea yeah
- like any like not a big fan show no no no but a literal like trailer yeah with like with like big
- games and seating so if you're in a neighborhood association you want to have like a block party or
- something like that you can reserve this truck for free to come to your block and it's actually
- quite clever yeah yeah it's really cool yeah we put out a call for an artist to like make the like
- wrap essentially that goes on that um but so we'll have an update on that that was something that
- we
- kind of reviewed over email and then on friday we're reviewing the traffic boxes which is very
- exciting i think gretchen is going to be on that and prasima you were the one that helped with the
- hand trailer stuff so yeah just a few committee members we have we've been just kind of dividing
- and conquering with that um that's friday at 12 15 it's one one it's immediately following the
- public
- art subcommittee meeting so we do have one on friday okay because i've got a cancellation on it
- okay oh did we cancel it uh no it's on my calendar you might have an old invite
- i've got bloomington arts and i got canceled so i don't know okay fine it's on yeah at 12 15 yes
- 12 15 on friday um yeah that was my that was my last piece of that's here it'll be here 12 15 um
- 12 15 to one o'clock 45 minutes and we'll just kind of chat about all those updates but that's
- the most i'll give for tonight i think that's what the most recent info anyone have any questions
- and then at one game you're reviewing the traffic box yes yes and that uh traffic box review will
- cool i think i'm good cool any other notes there are questions or comments
- fantastic all right moving on to agenda item number five an update from the grants committee chair
- leila hey so we have 38 applications for the um arts projects grants so a good amount less than
- we've gotten in the past but still a healthy amount so it looks like we're only probably
- going to need about two maybe two and a half hours tops for each shift um and i have identified
- some
- time slots on friday the 25th and saturday the 26th um i will be emailing you all um those times
- lots confirming your availability and um yeah so it's going to be a little bit less of a lift than
- the sort of four-hour intensive marathons that we have in the past so um so that's good news and uh
- i know we can hang out right yeah yeah we can hang out it's really fine we don't have to
- you know when business is done we can still just bring your biggest most complicated questions to
- those two yeah yeah we can just we can do eight minutes per grant instead of five right yeah forget
- about the shot clock yes i do basketball is my one sport all right um uh yeah so that's really it i
- apologize i've been traveling i just got back so i don't have the um exact times but i'll get those
- to you by the end of the week yeah and we should be able to um get like an assignment and
- everything
- and chas will be reaching out to those of you um who are reviewing just to do an overview of the
- review software and you should have all gotten invites to oh is that already gone yeah yeah so
- again because it's new software and we're christine's favorite phase learning together we're
- learning
- together uh yes okay it's a little yeah yeah it's we'll get there i think i think we should limit
- the
- word count i think this is a great idea that might have just been something we didn't trust
- it is limited is it it used to be maybe we're just too should tighten the word count yeah yeah
- yeah okay wow i mean it is limited if you take too many it's it's not it's just not a perfect
- reviewing software yeah yeah yeah it might feel like a lot but if you put it into the pdf it looks
- a lot better yeah and then it doesn't look like there's a crazy amount but if you're just using
- this whole it looks insane yeah yeah yeah and this might also just be the blessing of you know if
- you
- want to spend more time together we can just kind of enumerate you know questions what can we do
- better yeah i mean what tweaks we can make yeah having filled out one of the grants i felt like
- the the length but you know the word count seemed commensurate with other grants it seemed fun but
- you're reading it on the screen yeah and then i think i could show you yeah let's let's do it
- in the wait let's do it in the thingy thing sorry yeah
- um do do we need guest readers um for this for the cycle you think yes we do okay and i will get on
- that okay well i i can i can if we're recruiting i can help me and i didn't respond oh you're fine
- i can i can help recruit okay cool all right let me yeah let me when i get back to my like
- metaphorical desk tomorrow i will follow up with you on that okay great um make a note for myself
- right um any other questions on grants or that's great a lot of money to give out this year
- okay notes notes from your chair um
- well i'll start off by saying that uh yesterday natt and christina killed it at soltongue
- yeah there there was an event there was an event at the blockhouse um soltongue which
- was a collaboration between the blockhouse which does their sort of like weekly honky tonk the
- neal marshall cultural center which had been doing like a black um honky tonk black tonk event
- there
- and then uh arts and humanities council grand fallon kind of like bringing in um
- into the influences for this year's grand fallon like maverick staples these sacred souls and do
- the soltongue um yeah yeah and it was it was um it was it was awesome it was amazing yeah and
- nathalie and christina both sang and they were here they're awesome what'd you sing christina
- did we hear you at first um they were great they were so good like everything needs to be if we
- need a bac mc yeah if we if we need one it was good but it didn't feel too much which was which
- was yeah it was good it was great it wasn't like as crowded as like queer talk sometimes i feel
- like they're sometimes at capacity i remember there was like one point towards the end of the
- night where the mcs looked out and they were like whoa there are so many people here y'all it was
- that's great this was a special event that's cool um just reiterating what nadalie and holly and
- chaz have all said um it would be great to see as many people as possible out tomorrow um i know
- it's gonna be a rainy cold and gross day um but this is uh this is six plus years in the making
- um i think it i mean it really is based on like the the sort of twist and turns of the story that
- holly and i will get into a little bit in our remarks um it's it's it's a it's a testament to
- our strong will that this piece is going up mostly mostly the work of holly and folks at the city
- um
- and it looks gorgeous yeah and it looks it looks in the wait have you all seen the lights yet no
- just wait the piece just wait it's really freaking cool so yeah um
- uh and then an update from uh from the task force that the the strategic guidelines task force
- uh has met now we had our first meeting a week or two ago and we sort of like had a nice broad
- discussion about kind of like you know what what sort of uh what language and documents and things
- we've had previously done and kind of like what what what the timeline and like what our scope is
- um and sort of next steps are going to be doing a little bit more benchmarking kind of like looking
- at other commissions in the city looking at what other art commissions do um and start kind of like
- drafting up some um some early versions some uh initial language for for for some of the goals
- i think some some of the things that we identified are that we want to um uh we don't want to we
- don't
- want a lot we want i think um you know i think we um yeah well like like i mean i think in the
- previous in the previous strategic plan there was something like 10 or more i think sort of like
- goals or outlines that were like good but a little vague and i think what we want to do is
- is focus that a little bit more really look like maybe just like two maybe three years down the
- road but also make sure that the language in those um you know is not is not so specific that it's
- like inflexible but like there are pieces of it that are quantifiable in some way where we can
- assess like hey did we did we achieve what we were trying to do um which i think looking back on
- the
- on the previous document it's a little that's a little bit more opaque um so that's so yeah
- we had a great discussion we're off to a good start and i think just reiterating our plan is to
- i think by by the fall to have something to share with the group so we're we're taking it nice and
- easy um but i think we we plan to give you all something uh something great so that notes from
- there um and then also just uh just a reminder i think i said this last time um elena's report
- and presentation was great today we would love to hear from for more folks going forward if
- anyone has any suggestions for other folks we should bring in to um to report on things um but
- how did i know happy to to to schedule those um as part of the bac meeting so that is all that i
- have
- for today um from your chair um any other well actually i'll save that for i'll save questions
- for the announcements and comment section um can we turn quickly to perfect uh the upcoming events
- um so let's see here yeah obviously we have the um the artist party tomorrow um got some exciting
- exciting things coming up next week um i feel like there's definitely more things going on
- yeah i um i feel like i about a week ago i tried to go through the calendar and see what was
- going on i just haven't had time to capture more but right yeah uh based on what's what's here
- anyone want to shout anything out or or quickly add anything gretchen um may 16th from two to eight
- secretly canadian is going to have a big party in their parking lot
- two to eight may 16th i don't know what it's called yet but it's going to be bands and
- is this the the um 213 south rogers okay and then friday
- 18th um the buzzkirk chumlee is showing um breaking away and we're bringing in a young
- filmmaker that won the women's little five two years ago record speeds her name is grace williams
- she's awesome okay and i sponsored the winning team melanzano so she made it she's a documentary
- filmmaker now and she's also a professional bicycle racer and she made a film about the women's
- race and it's going to be shown on the same night at buzzkirk chumlee theater so i think
- it's going to be really cool and i really hope people come it looks really cool and
- breaking away is so awesome everyone's seen it right it's like it's so good it's so good
- so friday the 18th chumlee theater i think it's i think the documentary it's called sana
- z-a-n-a short for melanzano i think that's showing at six and then breaking away is after
- what are the dates of
- lots of dates oh is burning couch up there yeah burning tickets are only 13
- dollars for that oh wow culture shock is this weekend yeah we're gonna get tickets yeah we're
- gonna go for sure yeah it's so much more suitable than you yeah yeah i'm excited for it oops oops i
- just messed up oh you're good i think that was i erased somebody oh there it was wow
- oh grunwald uh mfa exhibition opening the second one is this friday yeah um it includes at least
- one of our emerging artist grant recipients uh andrea elune oh she's graduating this friday
- yeah yeah i think it's from six to eight yeah
- i just feel like everything is happening
- dump it all into abril yep
- isn't there some big thing at bowlery mill on saturday is it the craft beer fest beer
- fest is that this saturday i think so yeah on the 12th i don't know if that counts as arts
- probably not
- i think it's two to six or something saturday i think an american dance company are you putting
- the film i am if i can spell i can't spell today and saturday thundersoul's two words
- i am actually excited for this alternate dimension mill a futurist yeah salon um this is a um uh
- public
- arts uh grant recipients master plan grants and yeah and they um they've just gotten a bunch of
- like really interesting bloomington personalities together just to talk about their vision for the
- future given wait where's this going on this is uh it's april 19th it's at the public library
- so it's all right yeah but um they have emily jackson is that her name from wfhp
- steve volan they've just got a really crazy lineup of people who are going
- to come talk about the future of bloomington it's going to be fun
- oh and the african-american concerts bring bring this the 50th anniversary yeah the dance the dance
- dance company yeah yeah i'm gonna um we um we're anticipating delete the opening celebration for
- the football one percent for the arts piece sometime during the summer forgot about the
- exact dates tba um natalie reminded me next oh my god sorry i've been out of next weekend
- uh far gallery is hosting a kind of um a small semi halibut exhibition uh samia did um leave a
- few artworks in this town over the years that she was here and uh brett volt has managed to track
- some of them down uh stuff that i didn't even know was in town so they're doing a thing i've
- i'm gonna give a talk with samia that's gonna be wait is she hybrid zoom oh that's great that
- she's zooming in yeah but she'll be there when where uh that i didn't know it was that early
- friday april it is also on friday yeah we had a conversation with him he was yeah so it's it
- conflicts with the bct event of course i did not schedule this event at all i'm just participating
- so i will take no responsibility for that schedule yeah you weren't even supposed to be here
- i actually wasn't supposed to be here so yeah you don't remember off the top of your head what time
- it is oh five to eight five to eight great thank you i'm looking at the website so maybe you can
- hit up the beginning of it and then run over to bct it's not that far away so
- so that's that far yeah yeah is the exhibition just open for one day it's open for like the long
- weekend i think so like four or five days because it's easter weekend something like that it says
- the work will be on view 415 through 418 oh okay so maybe this is the last day okay and it also
- says november 19 that cannot possibly be right oh i'm looking at you know i i did sometimes i'm
- like i did not use to work there do you see 11 19 from 11 a.m to 1 p.m maybe they meant
- one day in november yeah it's coming back
- weird and the bloomington poetry slam is on friday oh my god this friday yeah this friday
- too much going on our uh operations they have also gotten the grant today oh yeah yeah they do
- i think there's another player pedigree weeping trees show up the bct at some point i just don't
- remember when there we go what's going on yeah we did it all right great we'll go hope to see you
- out and about oh man so much of you everyone knows it's graduation weekend may 9th right
- yes so leave town if you had a perfect time to leave are you graduating i'm not i have another
- year good yes yes you don't ever hire a senior
- they leave sounds like there's a sounds like there's a story there
- all right yeah thanks all for helping helping fill that out plenty to do so much to do art never
- sleeps that's why we love this town how can we get the copies or access it oh in the in the midpoint
- email that i send out there's a there should be a link to it there's also a link that you should be
- able to access every in every month's agenda and since it's a living document you can go back to
- any agenda okay commissioner announcements um i'll kick things off here kind of related to the
- to the events although it's it's maybe a little bit more humanities than arts specifically but
- next week we have the iu arts and humanities council as part of my balloon has a unique event
- um where uh provides a little bit of a little bit of explanation so uh cur vonnegut released his
- first book didn't do very well he's like well i guess i'm not gonna be an author um so he designed
- a board game uh uh tried to bring that to market people didn't really like it so he's like well i
- guess i go back to writing and then the rest is history um and uh i think the the lily library
- has the had the papers of of this board game that he he had designed and created um and there were
- sort of like rumors about like people who were really in the Vonnegut had like heard about it
- but they couldn't um i don't know there was just like sort of these like throwaway lines and
- interviews here and there but uh a game designer um by the name of jeff engelstein um like uh
- contacted the lily and asked like hey do you by chance have these archives and they they did um
- and so he um he was able to get the designs for the game and in partnership with um uh when the
- curve finally gets children um like recreated the game i think to the um kind of in in the best way
- that they could that was true to the original vision and brought it to market and now it's
- game it's called ghq general headquarters um it's kind of like a simple like checkerboard type
- board
- game and um uh you can you can yeah buy it online but uh jeff is coming next week next wednesday to
- the lily library to give a talk um sort of on on his experience kind of like going through these
- archives designing the game um talking a little bit about the game and his work and we'll have
- some copies of the game out there to play um and and uh so the from four to six p.m. is like a
- reception with with some of that gameplay and jeff will be there to kind of like walk people
- through how to play it uh self-titled catering will be will be there providing some some some
- yummy treats um and then the talk is at six p.m. about six to about six thirty with with with a
- little bit of q a and i don't know i just think that story is really cool it ties it ties in really
- nicely to to grandfaloon to the archives that we have there too just i think people doing
- interesting work out in the world um and uh yeah so that's that's next next wednesday um you guys
- should tell the game preserve yeah yeah we're getting the word out for sure are you working
- is drew actually drew introduced us to jeff so yeah my friend drew whirly him and his brother
- of really good games and they they're how they make a living is designing board games and they're
- there's here in bloomington so he heard about this all and they got in touch yeah and actually
- we owe drew i mean drew is the one who connected us with jeff and i think they're having like
- dinner
- the night before or something like that so yeah true story and chas connects us with drew oh oh
- yeah um yeah so that's my one little i think and i i'll also shout out next week um there's uh at
- the back door on that thursday i think it's the 17th um uh grandfather is also doing in partnership
- with cicada cinema a documentary called break the game which is about a um there's a type of
- video game playing called speedrunning i think where you just try to complete a game as quick
- i'm i'm being very general and broad here where you try to complete a game as quickly as you can
- um and there's a documentary about a very good speedrunner um who came out as trans and um uh
- drama ensued um and um the the the documentary kind of highlights their journey their transition
- and um i i think they're like quote unquote redemption um uh and after so there's going to
- be um there's going to be a screening and then afterwards a zoom q and a with the director and
- i think one of the subjects of the film and then um my good friends dr dr dance uh dr zan smith
- is giving me introduction and sort of moderating and they um they have their phd in oh my gosh um
- uh basically like yeah like gender and avatar use in uh in in video games so like like yeah very
- much kind of like in um connected to the the subject of the film what time is it that's eight p.m
- on
- thursday at the back door so those are my two announcements anyone else got anything they want
- to announce
- all right uh i don't think we have any public today
- you said your piece all right fantastic okay um all right fantastic well then i will go ahead
- and call this meeting to adjourn um can i please get a second second all right fantastic the
- meeting
- is adjourned thanks all
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