- Hey, Chas. Yeah, I'm gonna go ahead and call this meeting to order. Thanks everyone for being here. In July, I feel like it's our first, usually, I feel like usually July is the month we take off, but this year is June. So thanks all for being here. Moving on to the next agenda item, BAC minutes and financials. So the minutes for the May meeting have been distributed and read. Are there any noted corrections
- for the May meeting minutes, if you can remember back that far. All right, fantastic. So I'm going to go ahead and motion to approve the minutes. Can I get a second? A verbal second. Wonderful. OK, all in favor of approving the minutes, say aye. Aye. Any opposed, say nay. All right, fantastic. The minutes are approved. Thank you, Betsy, again. 100% record.
- All right, next, the financials. Throw that over to Holly. Hello. We have 100. That's how much money we have. We have $167,537 to spend on grants. Technically, we've already spent $62,000 on our arts project grants. Waited on those contracts from legal. Hopefully, they'll go out this week.
- I think we're all experiencing just some scrutiny on levels we haven't experienced before across departments. And so that's what we're experiencing now. We also have an amazing new legal representative who is really getting up to speed and has been a lot more efficient than reps we've had.
- The past, everybody's very busy. But so we really appreciate that. And so what I've requested is to have a meeting with her just to kind of talk about how we can expedite the process for our next two grant cycles. So we know artistic advancement is going to be a heavy load. So we just want to make sure we can be a little more respectful of getting artist funds out in a nice, friendly time matter. But so we'll have roughly just over $100,000 to spend on our grant.
- artistic advancement and operations grant cycle this year. And then we haven't, although we have had workshops this year, we haven't had to tap into our $5,000 of funds this year because Chaz helped us wisely encumber funds for this year's workshops from last year's funds. Go Chaz.
- And then we'll have some conversations about potential options for using the funds in our public art and grants $16,500 budget line in our public art subcommittee meeting. That's where we are right now. Happy to answer any questions. All right, thank you, Holly. Moving on to agenda item number three, updates from the city. Back to Holly.
- I don't have many updates, although as you might have noted on our agenda, now all your names and term limits are listed. So the city of Indiana updated our open door policy to tell us we need to do a few more things when we're advertising public meetings. And one of those things is including all of your names and term limits on the agendas. So that's why you see that there. So do we expect to get
- controlled or something. We hope not, but it's there. And you'll also see the other requirement is, it's not on this version. We're done for, guys. We also have to look at the meetings that are available on CATS, not during a live meeting as we learned at the last meeting, but on a delayed basis.
- So you'll see that on the agenda in the future. I really don't have much else to report from the city's end right now. Chas, do you have anything you want to share arts-wise? I feel like we're just kind of in recovery, getting ready for fall. Yeah, I don't think there's anything. Yeah. Right, yeah.
- As the Convention Center has broken soil, it's always funny when they put a little sandbox out there and people are standing on their shelves. Is there a schedule for working with whatever their public art might be? Yes, there is. I'll let Natalie talk about that during the public art session, and then we'll talk about it more this Friday.
- Any other questions for the city? Moving on, agenda item number four, update from the Public Arts Upcoming Chair.
- Um, as Holly was saying, I actually don't, I don't have too many updates since we didn't meet, um, last month. Um, so it was traveling and we will be meeting this Friday. Um, and I think we'll kind of dive into the weeds and things. Uh, yeah, as Holly talked about, we're going to maybe have a little discussion on what to use our budget on, or just like some of, just kind of looking at that. Um, and then also, yeah, the, the convention center and what our role will be in that and when we will start to kind of have conversations with them, um, outside of that, everything
- else is still just moving along. I think at our May meeting, we were talking about traffic boxes being painted. Those look great. We've got the undulate install happening again in early fall. Fire Station 3 is moving along. And the public art database that we saw at one of our recent meetings, too, is also just we're going to start populating that and doing some things with that, I think. But yeah, nothing to your activating that.
- That's all I've got. I don't really have a lot. Any questions on any of that? Cool. And yeah, for everyone on that subcommittee, I'll see you on Friday. Actually, a number of those boxes, I haven't seen them all, but they're really quite tasteful. There's no radical art out there.
- Don't get me started. Ask me when the meeting's over. I'll let you know how I feel. Secret messages and all the flowers. Take the first letter of every flower. I actually do have a question. You all might not know about this, but there's a ground street mural on Allen and Fairfield. Does anyone know? Fairview. Fairview, yeah.
- Is that something like how did I just like notice it when they was like, where did that come from? Yeah. That happened. That was a city project that started last year and Holly, Christine and I worked on it. Um, we had a Canadian paint day and that was by artists. Yeah. And it happened in June.
- Yeah, okay, I did notice, it's really nice. It's close to where I live, so I was passing. Oh cool, awesome. It's actually nice, it's just in the middle of the intersection. It's so grand, I was like, it's cool. We could show them the picture.
- Oh, yeah. We could show them the video. Do you want to see the drawing video? Yeah. So we're trying to really document everything. I'm actually going to do it. I finally got the photos back from Garrett Walters, who is great. And so I'm going to do an Instagram post about it. But we are trying to document the art more, especially because we have our public art map.
- know we're working on for like the art tours and stuff so we had Caleb who works in parks do a drone video and get some drone photos and he did a really excellent job and he got some stills from above of the mural and then yeah we have community paint day. Is there a reason like that particular intersection was chosen? It's supposed to be a traffic colony intersection based on an intern we had previously
- Right, Holly, it was just getting us those. Yeah, so there's a- They're supposed to be on there. This is, okay, we're both- Yeah, I was struggling with that anyway. I was like, I put them on there. Yeah. People think twice before they run over the flowers. I agree. I think this is, this is the good one. There's already speed-up to it.
- Located at the intersection of West Allen Street and South Fairview Street in Bloomington, Indiana, 47403. Oh, that's fun. Nice to meet you. My line's in the road, and you're going to be part of it? Yeah, they did it because they don't have the pedestrian crossings there, so we just asked them to paint them in.
- more of that. Get more money, Holly. It's not a question of money. Street mirrors are hard, man. There was a lot of issues with cars still trying to get around the barriers while Rachel was literally working. It was not necessarily unsafe, but it was very concerning, I suppose.
- I think I said to Chas and Christina when we were done with this, I never want to do a street mural again. But everybody had so much fun. And as grumpy as some of the folks trying to plow through the intersection, trying to get to other places, on a road that is specifically designated to make car traffic think about taking an alternative route,
- We involved the neighborhood from the very beginning. And so neighborhood residents were out the entire time we were out there in excruciating heat, just telling us it looked great, helping to paint. And so it was just a really heartwarming experience. And one of the reasons why we chose to do this project is because there's, what's the group that did the study that says when you do art on streets, there is
- statistical evidence that there are less traffic accidents. And so, and we actually, there's an intersection just west of where we put this, which is a crazy intersection, it's Allen and Patterson, and Polly Terricone, who was our neo-fellow who suggested this project, used to ride his bike through that intersection and was almost hit several times. And he was like, can we do something here? And so that's when we started having a conversation with transportation and planning. And they were like,
- We think this sounds interesting. You have our blessing. You just can't do it at a major intersection. You have to choose a neighborhood-oriented intersection. So I think it was definitely, at the beginning, it was a hard negotiation with transportation and planning. I think their mind just goes quickly to all the things that could go wrong. But I think with the success of this project,
- we could potentially do more in the future. And I know Bloomberg is the one who put out this study. They've also been doing grants for larger scale street murals. I think it's just finding the time and capacity and right site to do one. Thank you for bringing it up. I was like, there had to be something. Can't say we couldn't have just done it randomly. Yeah, I guess. Is there anything else we've done that we might not be aware of?
- Yeah, we did traffic calming mural like murals on the traffic calming circles on 6th and 7th Street on the near west side. Yeah, that was finished last year. That was last year, oh my gosh. Yeah, that was last year. Was there community painting?
- in like June, like early June, mid-June? Did I make that up? That was for the Fairview and Allen Street. Oh! Oh, okay, okay, okay. It's all coming together now. And then we did the community paint day for the Duke mural, was that October? September? September, October.
- And we also did the bus shelters. So we commissioned three artists, including Rachel Cavatti, to do art designs that were installed on the top level of six bus shelters. But those haven't been installed yet because that's just a negotiation with 20 different departments to get those where our director of sustainability who commissioned the bus shelters for very hot places in Bloomington to go.
- Thank you. Okay, agenda item number five, an update from the grants subcommittee chair, Leila. Hi everyone. We have a lot of grants to read for, too many grants to read for our artistic advancements. Great, lots of interest is lovely. I might be pulling on some people outside of the grants committee
- on the commission to help pitch in to read, if you can. So I will email you all. Do you want to tell them how many we got? More than 100. Wow. 106. 106. Wow. Yeah, it's insane. So it's great. It's great. What's like the typical number? Like last year, what number did we have? Last year, we had 70 something. The year before that, we had 90. Yeah, 90 is the number.
- Most. Yeah, we broke a record. Or was it 95, or was it 90? A couple years ago we had, I want to say 96, with a few that weren't really eligible. Yeah, we got rid of, because people didn't, yeah. And there may be a few in this batch. Yeah, I suspect there might be a few that are not eligible.
- If you have not filled out the doodle I hate these things because they're really janky and they have terrible like pop-up ads But it's still the only thing that works to do this. Yeah as far as I know So if you haven't filled it out, Nia, fill it out
- And I may open it up to a few more of you to see if we can find more available times in late July and early August so we can meet our self-imposed deadline of announcing these in July, which is to say as late as August 30th or whatever. Yeah, we said we'd announce in August. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, so end of August. Yeah.
- That's all. I am to take as little of your time right now in compensation for the future time I have. So yeah, so that's all. I canceled our regularly scheduled meeting. I will try to hold the next one so that we can just have some kind of off-review conversations about grants. I know that's harder for us to do just because of the time commitment we put into the evaluations. But any questions, I'm happy to answer them. But if you're not on the committee,
- commission, whatever it's called. Look for my email. I'll be tracking you down. When will we get the applications? Are we still doing the folders this time, or are we going to use the system, the website? We'll use the system. And I think we can probably, I would love to be able, I think first we're just trying to get a grasp on when folks can review so we can assign
- first and second readers to everything and then we'll share everything. Yeah, we want to try to establish availability because although I'm usually there all the time and Gerard and Holly are, everyone else takes a shift, so that depends on how we assign the grants to each person at each shift.
- But ASAP is the answer. I just don't want to be forgotten. No, you won't be forgotten. Your email now auto-populates. So I can support everyone. Don't worry. But feel free to have me about that in case. Yes. I'll remember now that if it's a week before it was supposed to be and I haven't got anything that I won't be reaching out exactly. We won't come to that. Like I said, you're a part of my
- The computer has figured out that you're a part of that group now. Yeah, all right. That's all I got, so thank you. Yep, thanks a lot. Okay, agenda item number six from your chair. I'm gonna reiterate a couple things I said in the midpoint email. I mean, the first one being that
- As you may have noticed, and as you probably read, Suzanne's term, well, I shouldn't say her term, but she's no longer able to be on the commission because she has sold her house in Bloomington and is no longer a Bloomington resident, which is great news for her and her family, but definitely, definitely bad news for the commission.
- Yeah, and it's all the more of a bummer that we weren't able to formally say goodbye to Suzanne in June. I have been in touch with her. She is going to be back in town in mid-September. I think the weekend after, I didn't look exactly when our September meeting is, but the weekend after our September meeting. And so my hope is to try and organize some sort of an informal get together around that time. This would be September, sometime between September 12th and 14th.
- just to give her a chance to thank her for her years of service to the commission and just hang out and have a good time. She served an important audience bringing
- her world of music. Yes. Which leads me to my next point. There is a slot open on the commission. We are definitely taking note of that sort of vacancy with relation to the understanding, not just of music in general, but early music as well and things like that and plugged into those respective scenes.
- So I mean, yeah, there is no direct replacement for Suzanne. But yes, if you have recommendations for folks who might fill a couple of those niches that she had experience and perspective on, please let me and Holly know. And we can either connect with them or we can send you the stuff to connect with them and encourage them to apply for the spot. So, but yeah.
- maybe put a tentative hold on or a note on your calendar for September 12th, 13th, 14th. We'll be maybe getting together around that time. And oh, a quick note to the folks. I mean, this can be
- for the broad commission, but also for the task force folks. I know we've been, I've been a little quiet this summer between, I think, not being able to sort of like, not being able to manage summer schedules and like grandfaloon and everything like that. The task force on the sort of strategic guidelines that we're going to be putting together hasn't met for a minute, but I'll be checking in with folks about that shortly to kind of get that train rolling again.
- Okay, and those are all the notes that I have. Holly, would you mind pulling up the upcoming events and important dates? That's sweet. Yeah, a couple things coming up here. I think they're also, I think on Saturday. Yes. Is the. Bad news. Bad news day. Yeah, do we, is that a BAC supported?
- I think so, but they're selling art, right? I wouldn't be surprised if there are vendors. Claire Pendray is playing. She's an emerging artist, grant recipient. OK. So yeah. OK. We have some booths there with art artists who have been... OK, gotcha. So adjacent friends. Friends of the art scene here in the Arts Commission. But yeah, OK. For some reason, I think I'm conflating that with the press. Probably with the hideout press. Right, which was in that.
- Correct, in the same spot. Gotcha, cool. I'll be at the WFHB concert tomorrow along with Nat. Yeah, it's a fundraiser too, so if you like WFHB, buy a ticket to go because they are under attack.
- station and they're very much community supported and they potentially could lose like 20% of their funding because that's federal money they might not get. So anyway, it's Wishy Splane if you like that band they're really good. So think about going or at least buying a ticket. On that note, the first hour the six to seven my understanding is it's not like there's not music but they will have like
- booths and like pop-ups that kind of like talk about the anniversary. I believe it's their 50th anniversary. It is, yeah. So yeah, they'll have some information on that. So yeah, that's which I'm excited to go see and look at that stuff. I got one. Sorry, wait, we're on date, right? Yep. First Friday at Rose is August 1st.
- is like sound sculpture and like noise. Yeah. Awesome. I think that's five and five. Yep. No, I'm sorry. I'm so sorry. It's seven. All good. Cool. All right. Yeah, any other notes, questions, updates, events coming up?
- folks to be aware of? Saturday, the 19th is the Girls Rock Showcase, camp showcase. There's 45 campers this year. I know that they have been supported in the past, which is really exciting. And we are moving out of Maxwell and into the Banneker Center for the showcase this year. So there's going to be a big sale. This is Girls Rock Girls Rocks.
- Oh my God, there's too many F's in that. This is their main fundraising time too. So, fake sale, merch, all of that kind of stuff will be available if you want to support. And yeah, a lot of bands, a lot of kiddos, it's gonna be a lot of bring earplugs. Yeah. As you mentioned, the radio station, and I haven't been here in a couple of months, is it inappropriate for me to ask what further discussions went on
- Regarding the cutting of funding to a number of organizations that are have a connection to art Yes, we discussed that at the main meeting, okay, and I should go read the minutes. Oh, okay. Yeah and
- Yeah, I think there were some good ideas presented on what to do, and then I think the summer kind of, at least in terms of doing anything, but I think with IU coming back and maybe some of, I think there'll be maybe a second wave of frustration at sort of the,
- the current state of things where if we wanted to, as a commission, to reach out and sort of present, yeah, I guess, a statement or something like that. We might love to do that. I think we should. Times are changing so quickly, too. Yeah.
- And I know, Holly, you sent me back edits and I didn't finish making them. But we talked about making like a funding loss survey to send out to folks that was just like gauging what people lost. I started it and then Holly sent me some edits and I've got to make those and then we'll have something. I can share it with folks too if we want to talk about maybe using that. But it was just a way to get info on what people are losing and
- how maybe that can impact some of our allocation. We can serve in that sense as a collecting agency. You don't give it to the HG and anybody else. Here's some facts. Here's how you can help. For sure. I'll make a note to make some of those things and see how we can use that. Yeah. Thanks for mentioning that, Rob.
- I think in the last couple of months, things certainly haven't gotten better in the last few months. Okay, moving on to agenda number eight, commissioner announcements. Anyone have anything they want to announce or share? Either on past events or upcoming events or
- Yeah, thoughts or questions? Things coming up? I'll quickly note that it's been a month, but Grand Faloon, we survived it, it went well. We had to move the concert inside. Because of the rain, which was difficult, but we learned it was possible. But as far as the day went, I mean, we heard from the handbag market that they had one of their best
- best years ever, sort of being out there. So there was certainly no shortage of people that came out, both for the concert and for the arts market. So yeah, it was still a great kickoff to the Bloomington summer art calendar. Awesome. It was very fun, and it seemed very seamless for my part.
- Not, but I get it. Any other? Great. Yeah. And then I see we have a member of the public here. Any public comment? Hey, Jeff. Oh, sorry.
- No comment. I'm Jeff Jackson. I work with Holly and Chaz at ESG. Transportation demand manager. I'm just attending. I have a goal of attending all the commission meetings this summer, just kind of learning what's going on. So I'm just trying to see what's up and see how my role might need to be better in our face with certain commission meetings. So we have a new transportation commission, which I'll certainly be involved with. Anyway.
- Okay, great. Those are all the notes. Anyone have anything else? Otherwise, I think I will go ahead and motion to adjourn the meeting. Can I get a second? That was short. Yeah, I know. Summer meeting. Can I get a second? Second. All right, the meeting is adjourned. That's all.