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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