WEBVTT 00:00:00.386 --> 00:00:07.625 - Hey, everyone. I'm gonna go ahead and call this meeting to order. Thank you all for being here. I am 00:00:07.625 --> 00:00:14.935 - very excited to introduce you all to Lynn Hooker, one of our new commissioners. What I would like for 00:00:14.935 --> 00:00:21.887 - folks to do here is first I would like Lynn to, if you could introduce yourself, give your name, 00:00:21.887 --> 00:00:29.054 - what you do, and your background connection to the arts, and then we'll introduce ourselves to you. 00:00:30.690 --> 00:00:41.641 - Hi, so my name is Lynn Hooker. I was on the IU faculty for a number of years. I think that Rob Shakespeare 00:00:41.641 --> 00:00:50.238 - actually sang at my wedding. We knew each other from choir at the Episcopal Church. 00:00:50.754 --> 00:00:59.892 - I'm a musicologist. I went away to that other large public institution in the state for a decade, and 00:00:59.892 --> 00:01:09.298 - now I'm returning to the IU faculty in the School of Music this time. I was in the Department of Central 00:01:09.298 --> 00:01:16.286 - Iteration Studies before. My connection to the arts is chiefly through music. 00:01:16.834 --> 00:01:26.365 - I was trained as a singer and a viola player, and I'm a music researcher. My chief research interest 00:01:26.365 --> 00:01:35.895 - is in Hungary. I work on the role of Romani musicians in Hungary. But I'm interested in all kinds of 00:01:35.895 --> 00:01:46.558 - music. I've taught about all kinds of music, and I'm very interested in the role of music in community building. 00:01:49.122 --> 00:01:55.679 - Fantastic. Thank you, Lynn. So I'm wondering if we could go around here. And everyone, same sort of 00:01:55.679 --> 00:02:02.367 - information. Give your name, what you do, your connection to the arts, but then also the subcommittee 00:02:02.367 --> 00:02:09.317 - that you're on, if you could. OK. Hi, Lynn. And I'm Nadeb Delrahim. I'm an assistant librarian at Indiana 00:02:09.317 --> 00:02:16.137 - University Libraries. I work mainly in our creator commons, which is our maker space and creative space 00:02:16.137 --> 00:02:18.366 - for students, faculty, and staff. 00:02:18.626 --> 00:02:26.586 - I'm on the grant subcommittee. Is that it, Jared? Okay. Oh yes, my connection to the arts. I have personal 00:02:26.586 --> 00:02:34.100 - interest in bookbinding, artist books, and that's also something that I do in my work. And so, yeah, 00:02:34.100 --> 00:02:41.836 - that's my connection. And other things, but fine. Christina Hagelin, so I do public art consulting with 00:02:41.836 --> 00:02:48.606 - the city of Bloomington. My connection to the arts went through public art and then music. 00:02:48.738 --> 00:02:57.413 - visual arts background. So yeah, so I am the Public Arts and Community Chair for now, so yeah. 00:02:57.413 --> 00:03:06.636 - Rob Shakespeare. Hi. I'm a lighting designer. I work both in architectural, a little lot of art, and 00:03:06.636 --> 00:03:15.858 - a lot of museums, and some very large scale public art installations recently. And I'm on the public 00:03:15.858 --> 00:03:17.502 - art subcommittee. 00:03:19.810 --> 00:03:30.507 - Hi, I'm Paul Anderson. Welcome. I am retired and my connection to the arts has been most intensely working 00:03:30.507 --> 00:03:40.804 - in Cincinnati with artists with disabilities, helping to establish a studio there for them and finding 00:03:40.804 --> 00:03:47.902 - a place for them in the community. And I am on both the subcommittees. 00:03:48.226 --> 00:04:01.370 - Hi Lynn, I'm Betsy Stewart, I'm the former director of the Grunwald at IU, Grunwald Gallery at IU, and 00:04:01.370 --> 00:04:10.302 - I'm an artist in Bloomington now, and I am on the grant subcommittee. 00:04:10.402 --> 00:04:17.314 - earlier, but I'm Chaz Moddinger. I am one of the staff liaisons along with Holly Warren, the Director 00:04:17.314 --> 00:04:24.294 - for the Arts. I'm Special Projects Manager in the Economic and Sustainable Development Department, and 00:04:24.294 --> 00:04:31.409 - I'm a photographer as well, but yeah, I help to our arts initiatives and programs. Yeah. And then, yeah, 00:04:31.409 --> 00:04:39.134 - Lynn, I know we've met over email. I'm Gerard. I'm the current chair of the Bloomington Arts Commission, and then 00:04:39.458 --> 00:04:48.032 - During the day, I work with the IU Arts and Humanities Council and do a lot of arts programming there. 00:04:48.032 --> 00:04:55.774 - And yeah, as chair, I also kind of sit on both subcommittees. So yeah, so Lynn is one of our 00:04:55.774 --> 00:05:04.182 - new commissioners, and then not here virtually as well, also traveling for work. But Brandy McDonald 00:05:04.182 --> 00:05:08.094 - has filled in the other open slot that we had. 00:05:08.322 --> 00:05:17.741 - I'll let Brandy give a more detailed introduction of herself, but she is currently the executive director 00:05:17.741 --> 00:05:27.516 - of the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. And yeah, so we have two fantastic additions to the commission 00:05:27.516 --> 00:05:31.870 - here. Okay, moving on to agenda item number two. 00:05:32.514 --> 00:05:40.403 - BAC minutes and financials. Really sorry about not sending the folder about linking just the agenda 00:05:40.403 --> 00:05:48.608 - and not the folder, but hopefully you had a minute to quickly look through it. So the minutes have been 00:05:48.608 --> 00:05:56.577 - distributed and read. Are there any noted corrections to the minutes? All right, Betsy, great. Yeah, 00:05:56.577 --> 00:05:57.918 - I know that was. 00:05:58.018 --> 00:06:06.313 - Another tough meeting to record, but yeah, right. Yeah, we're going to keep it nice and easy today. 00:06:06.313 --> 00:06:15.188 - So I'm going to go ahead and motion to approve the minutes. Can I get a second, please? Second. Fantastic. 00:06:15.188 --> 00:06:24.478 - All in favor of approving the minutes, say aye. Aye. Any opposed, say nay. Fantastic. The minutes are approved. 00:06:24.706 --> 00:06:32.919 - Ches, are you going to give a financial update? Okay, excellent. So a financial update. Nothing has 00:06:32.919 --> 00:06:41.625 - changed from last month. We're hoping that the artistic advancement grants will go out soon. So nothing's 00:06:41.625 --> 00:06:50.084 - changed since you last saw this. Any questions can be directed to Holly. Yeah, so pretty simple, easy, 00:06:50.084 --> 00:06:51.070 - no changes. 00:06:53.634 --> 00:07:02.405 - Okay, and then what's next? Well, our next agenda item will be updates from the city. I think before 00:07:02.405 --> 00:07:11.263 - I introduce our presenter, Chaz, do you have any updates? Okay, great. Yes, just a couple. All right, 00:07:11.263 --> 00:07:17.950 - so the 2026 budget is on the council agenda to be approved later this month. 00:07:18.498 --> 00:07:25.686 - We don't anticipate any changes to the arts budget at this point, which is good. If you remember, we 00:07:25.686 --> 00:07:32.944 - didn't get cut on our funding, so knock on wood, it should be good, but it'll get approved later this 00:07:32.944 --> 00:07:40.630 - month. And then the second thing is the artist studios are coming together. For a reminder, the feasibility 00:07:40.630 --> 00:07:41.982 - study said that we 00:07:42.562 --> 00:07:48.987 - We need some more community spaces and art studios. And so we're doing our first kind of test run with 00:07:48.987 --> 00:07:55.661 - this empty warehouse that is turning into six studios for some artists. You'll be invited to that. There's 00:07:55.661 --> 00:08:01.898 - a lot more coming up with that. But we're starting to get it together and move the artists in later 00:08:01.898 --> 00:08:08.385 - this month. So it's really exciting. That's a big project that we're doing. So just your FYI. Any other 00:08:08.385 --> 00:08:12.190 - questions? Anything? Good? Great. That's all we have, Jared. 00:08:12.482 --> 00:08:19.672 - Who's getting the studios? Because it's just a super test run, we don't have the official program in 00:08:19.672 --> 00:08:27.005 - or anything, and it's literally just a raw space. We picked some artists that we knew were looking for 00:08:27.005 --> 00:08:34.622 - a studio, and we had worked with before or knew. So it was just kind of our test run with them. So they're 00:08:34.622 --> 00:08:38.110 - already picked and are already going to move in. 00:08:41.026 --> 00:08:48.365 - We will eventually have an official program that people can apply for and that will be open to all to 00:08:48.365 --> 00:08:55.415 - apply and have more studios hopefully. We're just waiting on a few grants and a few other things. 00:08:55.415 --> 00:09:02.754 - But yeah, this will be an official program that will be open to folks hopefully in two years or less. 00:09:02.754 --> 00:09:07.934 - So we'll see. OK. OK, great. I think I see someone in the waiting room. 00:09:11.330 --> 00:09:23.165 - Oh. Hi, Brandy. Can you hear us? Hi, I can't hear you. Thank you. Wonderful. Thanks for being here. 00:09:23.165 --> 00:09:35.829 - So, yeah, not to... Well, I guess to put you on the spot a little bit, would you mind introducing yourself 00:09:35.829 --> 00:09:38.078 - to the commission? 00:09:40.930 --> 00:09:48.212 - Donald, what would you like me to share? Your name, what you do currently, and then your connection 00:09:48.212 --> 00:09:56.149 - or interests in the arts. Sure, and so I am currently the executive director at the IU Museum of Archaeology 00:09:56.149 --> 00:10:01.246 - and Anthropology. I'm so grateful to be a part of this group. I think 00:10:01.698 --> 00:10:09.203 - are the heartbeat of a community, that it's deeply connected to cultural community values, it's connected 00:10:09.203 --> 00:10:16.425 - to the health of a community, that art tells a variety of different stories and practices. And so I'm 00:10:16.425 --> 00:10:23.576 - just really eager and excited to be a part of this group that supports arts in Bloomington and finds 00:10:23.576 --> 00:10:31.294 - ways to continue to help grow and help artists thrive and tell the stories of the community. Thanks, Brandy. 00:10:31.554 --> 00:10:38.471 - We have another new commissioner here as well. Lynn is also joining us remotely. And then we already 00:10:38.471 --> 00:10:45.388 - did a round of introductions. So if it's all right, I'll just have everyone just say their name. And 00:10:45.388 --> 00:10:52.305 - then I'm sure we'll get a chance at the next meeting to have some conversation and some more details 00:10:52.305 --> 00:10:59.291 - there. So can everyone go around again and say their name for Brandy? Nia. Hi. I'm Neda. I'm Dorothy. 00:10:59.291 --> 00:11:00.318 - I'm Christina. 00:11:01.026 --> 00:11:09.874 - Bob Shakespeare. Paul Neverson. Betsy Stewart. Chaz Monninger and staff liaison with Holly Warren, not 00:11:09.874 --> 00:11:18.463 - on the commission. And you know me, I'm Gerard. Yeah, so yeah, again, thank you both for joining us 00:11:18.463 --> 00:11:24.734 - remotely today, and I look forward to having you in person. OK, so well, 00:11:24.898 --> 00:11:31.752 - Just introduced to new commissioners, about to introduce a former commissioner, Nick Blanford is here 00:11:31.752 --> 00:11:39.010 - and he is going to give a presentation about the work currently being done with the Community Collaboration 00:11:39.010 --> 00:11:45.797 - Grant, also known as the CCC Grant, and some of the programming work associated with that. So, Nick, 00:11:45.797 --> 00:11:52.651 - thanks so much for being here. Thanks for having me. Welcome home. Do you want to click through or do 00:11:52.651 --> 00:11:53.726 - you want me to? 00:12:11.138 --> 00:12:21.229 - Click the projector screen. It'll make it both there, I think. I'm just making sure they can still see 00:12:21.229 --> 00:12:31.320 - it. Yeah, OK. That's all right. I'll see what I need to see. OK. Hey, everybody. As mentioned, my name 00:12:31.320 --> 00:12:39.550 - is Nick Blanford. I was previously on the Arts Commission for six years, two terms. 00:12:39.906 --> 00:12:46.857 - spent some of that time as the chair of the Public Art Committee since April. I have been working for 00:12:46.857 --> 00:12:53.740 - the city as a project manager for the College and Community Collaboration Grant. My counterpart with 00:12:53.740 --> 00:13:00.554 - IU, Patricia Frank, is sitting here in the back of the room. And so we both wanna be available just 00:13:00.554 --> 00:13:06.142 - in general, but I'm gonna run through a little bit of background about the grant. 00:13:06.530 --> 00:13:15.286 - Some of what we're trying to accomplish with it, but also talk specifically about the arts elements, 00:13:15.286 --> 00:13:23.262 - make sure everyone understands the process and has a chance to answer or ask any questions. 00:13:23.262 --> 00:13:33.406 - There we go. So if you're not familiar with the trades district, it is directly north of us here, contains the mill, 00:13:33.602 --> 00:13:43.153 - co-working and incubator space, which was renovated in 2018. Adjacent to that is a building called the 00:13:43.153 --> 00:13:52.796 - Kiln, which was renovated by the Kiln Collective and features four key business partners located there. 00:13:52.796 --> 00:14:02.718 - And then also the Forge, which is Bloomington's latest tech center, which was completed earlier this year. 00:14:03.042 --> 00:14:09.373 - I think this is an area that a lot of commissioners will be familiar with, as it contains the OT987 00:14:09.373 --> 00:14:15.767 - sculpture installation by Stefan Reiss, which we dedicated earlier this year. And there are a couple 00:14:15.767 --> 00:14:22.224 - open plots that are going to be developed in the future through part of this project. So I think just 00:14:22.224 --> 00:14:28.934 - overall, I want to give a little bit of background on the grant itself. This is part of a Lilly Endowment 00:14:28.934 --> 00:14:29.694 - initiative. 00:14:29.826 --> 00:14:39.763 - The grant which IU and its partners received is one of 13 handed out to college and educational institutes 00:14:39.763 --> 00:14:49.422 - within the state. There's a previous cycle. There's six other academic entities which received funding. 00:14:49.422 --> 00:14:53.694 - Overall, the grant awarded about $16 million. 00:14:53.826 --> 00:15:00.764 - The core partners with this are Indiana University, the city, and the mill. Included in the proposal 00:15:00.764 --> 00:15:07.840 - for that were additional leveraged funds. This includes things like previous federal and city funding, 00:15:07.840 --> 00:15:14.710 - private development funds, including those from the Kiln Collective I mentioned previously, Indiana 00:15:14.710 --> 00:15:19.038 - University, and the city. So talking a little bit about goals. 00:15:19.138 --> 00:15:27.304 - Really, this is about accelerating the growth and transformation of the trades district. This is something 00:15:27.304 --> 00:15:35.088 - that well aligns with one of the mayor's major priorities, which is economic development. So a few of 00:15:35.088 --> 00:15:42.720 - the goals here are to further build the trades district as an innovation neighborhood. Part of that 00:15:42.720 --> 00:15:46.078 - is developing business resources, workforce 00:15:46.178 --> 00:15:52.816 - workforce housing. Workforce housing is one of the targets for development with one of the open plots 00:15:52.816 --> 00:15:59.519 - in the trades. Another major piece is accessible infrastructure and art. I'll talk about that a little 00:15:59.519 --> 00:16:06.417 - bit more. Gateway and wayfinding initiatives. I think we recognize that while we want this to be a unique 00:16:06.417 --> 00:16:12.925 - and brandable, identifiable district, we also wanted to feel part of the community. We wanted to be 00:16:12.925 --> 00:16:14.942 - a space that community members 00:16:15.138 --> 00:16:23.854 - whether they live or work in the district or not, feel welcome in, can get a coffee, sit down, enjoy 00:16:23.854 --> 00:16:32.915 - the sunshine. That's actually part of our broader community fabric. And then a lot of practical upgrades 00:16:32.915 --> 00:16:42.494 - to things like lighting, sidewalks, connectivity, that goes again to welcoming people into the space, but also 00:16:42.882 --> 00:16:49.775 - Making sure it just doesn't feel isolated and so I think we're going to be looking at both street and 00:16:49.775 --> 00:16:56.601 - pedestrian entries. The inner action with the beeline as it enters the district. But I want to focus 00:16:56.601 --> 00:17:01.534 - on talking about art selection and sort of the development as a project. 00:17:02.114 --> 00:17:09.550 - Prior to my starting, Holly Warren has been connected to the project. And since I've come on, we are 00:17:09.550 --> 00:17:17.059 - both working with staff from IU and an arts planning committee. One thing I do want to acknowledge up 00:17:17.059 --> 00:17:24.716 - front, this is operating differently from the BAC's traditional 1% for the Arts program. So referencing 00:17:24.716 --> 00:17:30.974 - your master plan's own set of definitions, we would consider this a private project. 00:17:31.074 --> 00:17:39.503 - As I mentioned, everything is funded by the endowment. IU specifically is taking lead on curating the 00:17:39.503 --> 00:17:47.766 - arts and leading conversations with artists. Right now, a lot of the artist conversations have been 00:17:47.766 --> 00:17:54.046 - engaged with IU faculty, people who have experience with major public arts, 00:17:54.210 --> 00:18:01.026 - The goal, even though this is privately funded, is to still make this art fully accessible. That is 00:18:01.026 --> 00:18:07.843 - one value that fits with the commission's mission that we want to try to honor as much as possible. 00:18:07.843 --> 00:18:14.659 - The city's primary responsibility with this, since IU is really taking the lead on the creative, is 00:18:14.659 --> 00:18:20.862 - I'm looking a lot at site feasibility, working pieces of art go, working to be accessible, 00:18:20.994 --> 00:18:28.029 - Where is it physically realistic to place it within the district? And then in addition to a couple major 00:18:28.029 --> 00:18:34.728 - public art elements, we're also going to be looking for opportunities to incorporate other artistic 00:18:34.728 --> 00:18:41.696 - elements in the environment into things like the wayfinding gateways that I discussed. So it's not just 00:18:41.696 --> 00:18:46.654 - straight signage. There's artistic consideration throughout the district. 00:18:47.522 --> 00:18:54.844 - So the kickoff for this in a public sense is we are hosting a trades district block party, 00:18:54.844 --> 00:19:03.374 - November 7th, which neatly aligns with Gallery Walk and the Mills Innovation Week. And I'll just mention, 00:19:03.374 --> 00:19:11.742 - too, that while there's going to be a staggered approach to installing these pieces, we are hoping that 00:19:11.742 --> 00:19:17.214 - installations of the major pieces will begin at some point in 2026. 00:19:17.442 --> 00:19:26.315 - So, going back to the block party for a second, we are starting to send out invitations for this now. 00:19:26.315 --> 00:19:35.100 - The IU staff tabled at first Thursday on campus last week. I personally, and perhaps some folks from 00:19:35.100 --> 00:19:36.318 - the Milan IU, 00:19:36.418 --> 00:19:44.109 - We'll be tabling the farmers market on October 18th. Starting to send out invites to people, starting 00:19:44.109 --> 00:19:51.800 - to put flyers around. But just wanted to sort of highlight this for everyone. We're gonna have bands, 00:19:51.800 --> 00:19:59.341 - we're gonna have some artist performances, including one by Windfall Dancers. There'll be some tech 00:19:59.341 --> 00:20:02.206 - and maker demos, lots of food trucks. 00:20:02.338 --> 00:20:09.095 - Upland, Cardinal, Oliver Winery, serving drinks. It's all free. It's open to the public. And so this 00:20:09.095 --> 00:20:16.253 - is really the first opportunity we want to invite people into the space. While there are not final designs 00:20:16.253 --> 00:20:23.144 - or final concepts for some of the major public art pieces, we are going to have a couple artists there 00:20:23.144 --> 00:20:30.235 - on site to talk about the concepts they're trying to develop. And so I think there will be an opportunity 00:20:30.235 --> 00:20:31.038 - to not just 00:20:31.490 --> 00:20:38.969 - hear from them about their vision, but I think for folks to give their feedback and shift this from 00:20:38.969 --> 00:20:46.673 - purely a curatorial conversation to one that listens to more folks in the community. So those are sort 00:20:46.673 --> 00:20:54.675 - of the headlines. I didn't want to spend too much talking just myself, but wanted to open up opportunities 00:20:54.675 --> 00:21:01.182 - for questions, feedback, anything. Exciting to see a private investment of this scale. 00:21:02.594 --> 00:21:12.453 - I understand using the funds to create initial installations. As you said, sidewalks, lighting, blah, 00:21:12.453 --> 00:21:22.409 - blah, blah. Who's responsible for maintaining it, and is there a budget for it? Yeah, so I think these 00:21:22.409 --> 00:21:30.238 - conversations are ongoing, but we have shared the city's template for art calls. 00:21:30.402 --> 00:21:38.609 - And so part of that discussion has been making sure that funds are built in for maintenance. I think 00:21:38.609 --> 00:21:46.897 - that the specifics of that plan will depend a little bit on where the pieces are located. If they are 00:21:46.897 --> 00:21:55.591 - on certain private properties, ultimately, responsibility for maintaining that will go to property owners, 00:21:55.591 --> 00:21:59.166 - as you see with a lot of public art pieces. 00:21:59.266 --> 00:22:09.615 - But yes, maintenance plan is very much part of the discussion. Part of the budget. Yeah. So could you 00:22:09.615 --> 00:22:20.166 - be more specific about the role that we might play? Yeah. I mean, I think the honest answer is in terms 00:22:20.166 --> 00:22:22.398 - of selecting the art, 00:22:23.010 --> 00:22:30.068 - there is not a formal role. And this is where I wanted to make sort of the direct line comparison to 00:22:30.068 --> 00:22:37.196 - other private art projects in the community. I think that the way we look at this is whether it's the 00:22:37.196 --> 00:22:44.325 - mural on the side of the Graduate Hotel or some others, we want to start from a point of sharing with 00:22:44.325 --> 00:22:49.566 - you what we're doing. It was very important to me when I talked with Holly 00:22:49.666 --> 00:22:56.745 - that we have this conversation before the block party. So a public event wasn't the very first moment 00:22:56.745 --> 00:23:03.963 - that you were hearing some of this. And so I think we look at it similar to some of those other private 00:23:03.963 --> 00:23:11.181 - projects where we want to put it in the public space. We want the community to engage with it. And what 00:23:11.181 --> 00:23:17.566 - we hope, just like everyone else, we'd love if you're available to come to the block party. 00:23:17.666 --> 00:23:24.009 - We'd love for you to be able to interact and hear more from the artists themselves. And ultimately, 00:23:24.009 --> 00:23:30.479 - in the same way that we want this to be a community space, and we know that the commission has a long 00:23:30.479 --> 00:23:36.885 - history of supporting any form of art, broadcasting that support, no matter what its funding source. 00:23:36.885 --> 00:23:43.291 - I think we'd love for you all to be advocates, knowing that any time a piece of art goes up in town, 00:23:43.291 --> 00:23:46.526 - I think the average person's natural questions are 00:23:46.914 --> 00:23:54.006 - Who decided to make that? Who paid for it? Why is it there, right? And so I think it's kind of giving 00:23:54.006 --> 00:24:01.098 - you all enough background so that while you are not ultimately responsible for it, you can say, we as 00:24:01.098 --> 00:24:08.191 - the commission did not select the piece. We did not have a formal role in that process that you're at 00:24:08.191 --> 00:24:15.422 - least able to articulate the basics of how it worked and then also be in a position to direct questions 00:24:15.778 --> 00:24:22.906 - to myself and Patricia. And so I think it was important that we shared our contact information here, 00:24:22.906 --> 00:24:30.316 - it's available to the public. I think that I just encourage anyone who has follow-ups, including members 00:24:30.316 --> 00:24:37.302 - of the public who may be viewing this or reviewing minutes later to know they can reach out to us. 00:24:37.302 --> 00:24:44.571 - And yeah, I think the commission's serving as a connector and advocate in a lot of ways. So one of our 00:24:44.571 --> 00:24:45.630 - goals has been 00:24:46.050 --> 00:24:56.117 - to involve the public in decision making and in development as the pieces were developed. And so I'm 00:24:56.117 --> 00:25:06.882 - wondering what role does the public have in development? Yeah. I mean, I think that there's a few different 00:25:06.882 --> 00:25:12.862 - pieces to this. I think first, just like some other private 00:25:13.026 --> 00:25:19.647 - Commitments to art, you know, there's not necessarily going to be a an extensive committee review process 00:25:19.647 --> 00:25:25.893 - that sort of thing But I do think we want to give an opportunity again not to take a community vote 00:25:25.893 --> 00:25:32.264 - But to give an opportunity for people to interact with the artists at the block party To to recognize 00:25:32.264 --> 00:25:38.884 - those faces to recognize that, you know, they're going to be people who have been active in the community 00:25:38.884 --> 00:25:40.446 - for a while and not just 00:25:40.706 --> 00:25:51.686 - you know, coming in suddenly from outside of the city and IU community. But I think that the other component 00:25:51.686 --> 00:26:02.564 - I'll mention is that early on in this process we did bring a few consultants to town to tour the districts, 00:26:02.564 --> 00:26:07.198 - doing a public art tour around town, not just 00:26:07.330 --> 00:26:14.696 - around trades, you know, we drove them around campus, took them down to Switchard Park to really try 00:26:14.696 --> 00:26:21.989 - to give them a wide scope of some of the cultural elements in town. And they provided some feedback 00:26:21.989 --> 00:26:29.574 - to us, but part of that too were some stakeholder sessions. I think at that really early stage, knowing 00:26:29.574 --> 00:26:37.086 - that we didn't have specific art concepts, we didn't necessarily have individual artists on board yet, 00:26:37.282 --> 00:26:45.044 - those stakeholder meetings were focused particularly on people working in and around the trades district, 00:26:45.044 --> 00:26:53.025 - whether they were mill members, whether involved with the kiln collective, some people working in businesses 00:26:53.025 --> 00:27:00.641 - sort of in near neighborhoods and adjacent to the trades district. So it's been sort of a tiered thing, 00:27:00.641 --> 00:27:06.206 - but I think with this block party, that's where we're hoping to open it up. 00:27:06.498 --> 00:27:17.149 - to the public more thoroughly. Will there be a named committee? It's dangerous otherwise. Yeah, I mean, 00:27:17.149 --> 00:27:27.799 - again, I think that this is the important distinction between private investment and sort of the really 00:27:27.799 --> 00:27:33.534 - thorough but important process that the commission has. 00:27:34.146 --> 00:27:42.795 - Again, just using the Graduate Hotel as an example, there wasn't a broad committee or commission for 00:27:42.795 --> 00:27:51.872 - that. I think that the way it's gonna be working within the project is there's currently an arts planning 00:27:51.872 --> 00:28:00.606 - committee, which includes myself, Holly, as I mentioned, and a couple folks from IU. The idea is that 00:28:01.250 --> 00:28:07.960 - After we have this block party and there's a little bit of an opportunity for the community to interact 00:28:07.960 --> 00:28:14.540 - with the artists, we're going to ask artists to submit a final proposal that comes into us later this 00:28:14.540 --> 00:28:21.186 - year so we can give some feedback on it based on the experience of the people in that initial planning 00:28:21.186 --> 00:28:24.734 - committee. And then there will be a broader discussion 00:28:24.962 --> 00:28:33.622 - with a larger placemaking committee that's involved in the grant. That will include some more stakeholders 00:28:33.622 --> 00:28:41.877 - from the mill and the university. And that's going to be a group of people who are going to advise at 00:28:41.877 --> 00:28:50.295 - multiple stages of the grant, not just art elements. Considering that it involves the city, it involves 00:28:50.295 --> 00:28:53.694 - groups. It's not like this hotel who just 00:28:53.922 --> 00:29:01.919 - happens to drop a building in the middle of Birkwood and have their walls adorn the way that they choose 00:29:01.919 --> 00:29:09.534 - it to be. And we're dealing with more public space here and more involved. I suggest at some future 00:29:09.534 --> 00:29:17.759 - point that that committee be named. Who from the School of Architecture, there's some very good placemakers 00:29:17.759 --> 00:29:20.958 - there, who represents the fine art world. 00:29:21.058 --> 00:29:28.775 - So that you're getting voices and it's not just, I'm not saying that you shouldn't just hire your favorite, 00:29:28.775 --> 00:29:36.062 - but find some way to make it a little more robust. Yeah. No, I think that's totally valid. And again, 00:29:36.062 --> 00:29:43.279 - I think to avoid too much of that insular group think, that was part of the logic in bringing down a 00:29:43.279 --> 00:29:46.494 - few consultants. And we're not just talking. 00:29:47.138 --> 00:29:55.070 - landscape architect consultants or design consultants, people with a broad sort of cultural background. 00:29:55.070 --> 00:30:02.925 - Were they involved in the selection of artists, for instance? Not specifically, but they did get a lot 00:30:02.925 --> 00:30:10.628 - of feedback in terms of what they thought were sites that might work well for art and I think public 00:30:10.628 --> 00:30:13.374 - access to them, I think identifying 00:30:13.666 --> 00:30:21.488 - spaces that were natural entry points, spaces that as further development goes in, whether it's the 00:30:21.488 --> 00:30:29.780 - hotel and the workforce housing, understanding how people's interaction with the space is going to change 00:30:29.780 --> 00:30:37.836 - and evolve. And again, I think identifying what would potentially work well in this space. And I think 00:30:37.836 --> 00:30:43.390 - that part of this, too, is we don't just want a series of objects that 00:30:43.970 --> 00:30:50.799 - again, are sort of dropped in out of nowhere, right? You know, I think that we've had a lot of conversations 00:30:50.799 --> 00:30:57.440 - about, you know, the themes of innovation with the district, how those ultimately tie back to the history 00:30:57.440 --> 00:31:03.893 - of the district with the Showers Furniture Company, and just sort of that long path of the work that's 00:31:03.893 --> 00:31:10.408 - been done around there. So these are urban planning people. The consultants. Like Van Der Waal, a bunch 00:31:10.408 --> 00:31:13.854 - of them. More broad than that, I think that, you know, 00:31:14.370 --> 00:31:21.168 - In some cases, you know, we're talking about people who've done very deliberate placemaking and like 00:31:21.168 --> 00:31:28.100 - cultural planning work, you know, and also, you know, consulting on things like communities developing 00:31:28.100 --> 00:31:34.898 - public art tours and public art inventories and, you know, activating spaces in temporary ways, even 00:31:34.898 --> 00:31:42.302 - when there's not permanent physical infrastructure like an auditorium or a band shell or something like that. 00:31:43.618 --> 00:31:51.564 - If I understand correctly, the title of the grant is College and Community Collaboration. Yes. And so 00:31:51.564 --> 00:31:59.355 - I would urge that you look for more opportunities right along after the block party for interaction 00:31:59.355 --> 00:32:07.457 - of the community. It seems, as you presented things, I understand this at the beginning of the project. 00:32:07.457 --> 00:32:13.534 - It sounds like you're coming on the block party for being a very key element. 00:32:13.666 --> 00:32:19.850 - the project's gonna go on, it's fast. That's true. And there must be ways to help publicize it and let 00:32:19.850 --> 00:32:25.854 - the community become engaged, which would be a benefit to everybody. Yeah, no, I fully take that on 00:32:25.854 --> 00:32:31.979 - board. And, you know, I think, again, while I've talked a lot about the Block Party, a lot of that is 00:32:31.979 --> 00:32:38.163 - considering that this is sort of a big moment to really engage the public, invite them into the space, 00:32:38.163 --> 00:32:42.846 - and talk about some of those for the first time. You know, really aside from, 00:32:43.202 --> 00:32:49.804 - the announcement of the grant being awarded last year. It's been a case of assembling the team and hiring 00:32:49.804 --> 00:32:56.469 - folks like myself and Patricia who are really working on managing and administering it and kind of getting 00:32:56.469 --> 00:33:02.822 - us all on the same level. So we were working well practically together while also serving the purpose 00:33:02.822 --> 00:33:10.110 - of the grant. And so I think now that we've done some of that level setting, yeah, this is the opportunity to really 00:33:10.338 --> 00:33:15.929 - kick that conversation off in an earnest way, starting to talk about some specifics. Yeah. Yeah, 00:33:15.929 --> 00:33:21.694 - I was like, in terms of area that we're going to be looking at installing stuff, is that that whole 00:33:21.694 --> 00:33:27.573 - field that hasn't been developed yet? It could be anywhere in there? Or are we talking about just the 00:33:27.573 --> 00:33:33.395 - plaza that's already been built? Or the road that's been built? Because it's hard for me to imagine. 00:33:33.395 --> 00:33:39.390 - I know I should just come to the blog party. I don't know if I would be able to, because I have a thing 00:33:39.554 --> 00:33:45.870 - and I have another first Friday thing. I'll try to step by though. So I can actually like look at it, 00:33:45.870 --> 00:33:52.063 - but I'm just like, yeah. I mean, get a good coffee shop, you know, get a good, get some nice, get a 00:33:52.063 --> 00:33:58.131 - nice garden in there, you know? Yeah. I mean, I, some that like almost like think about like, uh, 00:33:58.131 --> 00:34:04.510 - like the, um, what's it called? The, uh, the wonder lab garden on a bigger scale, more, more, not just 00:34:04.510 --> 00:34:09.278 - like geared towards like kids or something. Yeah. No, I think, I think that, 00:34:09.378 --> 00:34:15.057 - actually fits well with a lot of the feedback that we receive from consultants and other people in the 00:34:15.057 --> 00:34:20.626 - stakeholder meetings. I think that right now, yeah, I think just to be honest is there's kind of two 00:34:20.626 --> 00:34:26.360 - sorts of spaces in the district right now, those that are sort of more fully developed and you can look 00:34:26.360 --> 00:34:32.039 - at and say, here's a space here and here's a space here and here's a space here. And then these larger 00:34:32.039 --> 00:34:37.608 - open plots. And so I think with those open plots, part of how we're looking at it is you need to get 00:34:37.608 --> 00:34:39.262 - a developer on board and then 00:34:39.714 --> 00:34:45.573 - you know, have some conversations with them, you know, are there concepts that could be integrated into 00:34:45.573 --> 00:34:51.377 - what they're doing, you know? And so that conversation, you know, we've already had that sort of thing 00:34:51.377 --> 00:34:57.180 - with the hotel. That doesn't necessarily mean something is or is not going to be on the hotel grounds, 00:34:57.180 --> 00:35:02.926 - but, you know, once that sort of partner is in place, you can have that sort of conversation in a way 00:35:02.926 --> 00:35:06.814 - that's not, you know, purely theoretical. But yeah, I hear you 100%. 00:35:07.202 --> 00:35:13.520 - I just think it's such a big area, like a lot of potential there. So it's kind of exciting, actually. 00:35:13.520 --> 00:35:19.962 - Yeah, it's cool. So a lot of these larger scale things are out of the 64 million. So I mean, 60 million 00:35:19.962 --> 00:35:26.281 - ultimately doesn't go that far when you're talking about development. Yeah, so I think just to expand 00:35:26.281 --> 00:35:31.422 - on that figure, yeah, the grant award is the 16. The leverage funds, some of this, 00:35:31.522 --> 00:35:38.693 - federal and city funding. Part of that includes like an EDA grant from a few years ago that helped fund 00:35:38.693 --> 00:35:45.864 - the completion of the forge. Some of this private development funds, you know, that's the work the Kiln 00:35:45.864 --> 00:35:52.966 - Collective has already done to redevelop their space. But also, you know, the commitment of the hotel. 00:35:52.966 --> 00:35:57.310 - There is not yet a development plan for the workforce housing. 00:35:57.442 --> 00:36:06.374 - that is very much the target for that other open tract, specifically on the southwest corner of 11th 00:36:06.374 --> 00:36:15.395 - and Rogers. So yeah, I think, again, I wanna sort of be realistic about what is a firm concept versus 00:36:15.395 --> 00:36:24.062 - what are future conversations once we know the people we can have them with, if that makes sense. 00:36:28.034 --> 00:36:40.507 - Any more comments or questions for Nick or for the group? I appreciate it. And again, I work here. I'm 00:36:40.507 --> 00:36:52.738 - around the hall all the time. We know where to find you. Hi, thanks. I want to preface this question 00:36:52.738 --> 00:36:56.734 - with I've been away for a while. 00:36:57.250 --> 00:37:06.718 - But how does this whole district integrate with the Fairview neighborhood? Yeah, I mean, that's a good 00:37:06.718 --> 00:37:16.278 - question. I think that one thing that we've spoken with the artists and consultants about a bit is some 00:37:16.278 --> 00:37:25.470 - of the historical background, not just of the district itself, but also the adjacent neighborhoods. 00:37:25.730 --> 00:37:33.084 - Fairview in particular, also the Near West Side neighborhood, which not only being a historically 00:37:33.084 --> 00:37:40.889 - African-American neighborhood with a couple churches located there, but also those sort of neighborhood 00:37:40.889 --> 00:37:48.393 - dynamics with the history of the workforce of the Showers Furniture Company back in the day. And so 00:37:48.393 --> 00:37:54.622 - one thing in particular that we're looking at with programming for the Block Party 00:37:55.138 --> 00:38:04.225 - not just this year, but in the future, is how to engage students, whether through performance, whether 00:38:04.225 --> 00:38:13.312 - through working with MCCSEs, STEM, MakerBus, things like that. Not all of these ideas are gonna happen 00:38:13.312 --> 00:38:22.488 - in year one. We're gonna have some other events in the future, and we wanna save some of those for down 00:38:22.488 --> 00:38:24.958 - the line, but yes, I think, 00:38:25.826 --> 00:38:32.826 - whether it's adjacent buildings or businesses rather, or organizations or just residents in 00:38:32.826 --> 00:38:40.510 - these neighborhoods, those are people we're gonna wanna continue to engage as we move down the line. 00:38:40.510 --> 00:38:48.118 - I just wanna mention one person and unfortunately, I have not been in touch with her for quite some 00:38:48.118 --> 00:38:51.390 - time and I think that she's, the last time 00:38:52.130 --> 00:38:58.527 - I was kind of in touch with her was a zoom conference during the pandemic so that just to give you a 00:38:58.527 --> 00:39:04.670 - sense of the time but Melanie Burnham who's a retired faculty member in ethnomusicology has also 00:39:04.898 --> 00:39:11.773 - done some work as a music director. I want to say it's at the Baptist Church right around there, but 00:39:11.773 --> 00:39:18.648 - I don't remember and I don't remember its name. It would be nice to talk to figure out who's working 00:39:18.648 --> 00:39:25.590 - with that church choir and maybe if they could get involved in not this event because it's coming too 00:39:25.590 --> 00:39:33.214 - close, but another time. I think that's fantastic. As much as we are trying to consider all the angles on this, 00:39:33.890 --> 00:39:39.973 - Again, it's part of why the contact information's up there. It's part of why we really invite as many 00:39:39.973 --> 00:39:46.055 - people into this block party as we can. We want our team to be accessible. We know we're not going to 00:39:46.055 --> 00:39:52.078 - think of everything. And so whether it's, what about this organization? They do this. They've worked 00:39:52.078 --> 00:39:58.042 - with these sort of events before. They've done these sort of collaborations before. Or whether it's 00:39:58.042 --> 00:40:01.918 - individual introductions. I think anyone like you're mentioning, 00:40:02.882 --> 00:40:10.828 - Feel free to give them my email address. Feel free to introduce us one to one. Even if you don't quite 00:40:10.828 --> 00:40:18.698 - know what the angle is, but you just think they're a good person to talk to, or it's good for them to 00:40:18.698 --> 00:40:26.644 - know what's going on with this, I'm open to ending all of those conversations. Thank you. Cool. Thanks 00:40:26.644 --> 00:40:30.270 - for having me. Appreciate it. Thank you, Nick. 00:40:37.602 --> 00:40:45.315 - Moving on in the agenda, agenda item number four, an update from the public art chair, Christina. Yes, 00:40:45.315 --> 00:40:53.252 - I don't have a lot of updates today. Just a reminder that we will have our subcommittee meeting on Friday 00:40:53.252 --> 00:41:00.740 - at 12, 15 here. And then also the strategic goals task force, we will have a meeting at 1pm in this 00:41:00.740 --> 00:41:05.982 - room too. And then I also wanted to talk about the convention center. 00:41:06.114 --> 00:41:14.147 - There was a public feedback input like run last month. And so we got a lot of great feedback. And so 00:41:14.147 --> 00:41:22.101 - now we're kind of synthesizing all of that for the call. So I just want to kind of give a status on 00:41:22.101 --> 00:41:30.054 - that. So that turned out really well. Yeah, I'll quickly note for our new commissioners that we, in 00:41:30.054 --> 00:41:31.486 - addition to this, 00:41:31.778 --> 00:41:39.162 - Monthly meeting, we have monthly subcommittee meetings. This Friday is the public art subcommittee meetings. 00:41:39.162 --> 00:41:46.004 - I don't think either of you have been explicitly placed on a subcommittee yet. If you are interested 00:41:46.004 --> 00:41:52.913 - in the public arts subcommittee and would like to attend that meeting, you're welcome to join us here 00:41:52.913 --> 00:42:00.094 - at City Hall, or I believe there is also a remote option for that meeting. Again, that's 12-15 on Friday. 00:42:00.866 --> 00:42:08.354 - And then a quick note about the Convention Center project. So one of the big initiatives of the Arts 00:42:08.354 --> 00:42:15.842 - Commission is the 1% for the arts, which is, I mean, in very simplistic terms, basically, when there 00:42:15.842 --> 00:42:23.627 - are big projects, big capital projects around town, 1% of that budget is sort of- Public. Public, sorry. 00:42:23.627 --> 00:42:28.446 - Yes, public projects, yeah. 1% of that budget is- To be changed. 00:42:28.578 --> 00:42:37.254 - Yeah, I know. Yeah, there are definitely some nuances and whatnot to pick out in there. But 1% of that 00:42:37.254 --> 00:42:45.762 - budget is set aside for the arts. And usually that presents itself as a public art piece, but it can 00:42:45.762 --> 00:42:54.859 - be used in a lot of different ways. And with the Convention Center expansion, I think, if I'm not mistaken, 00:42:54.859 --> 00:42:55.870 - this is the 00:42:56.002 --> 00:43:02.864 - Biggest yeah, the largest 1% for the arts sort of opportunity that we have I believe if it's a half 00:43:02.864 --> 00:43:10.275 - million dollars. Okay. Yeah, so yeah a five hundred thousand dollar project here. So Christina is obviously 00:43:10.275 --> 00:43:17.206 - involved in that both as the public art subcommittee chair, but also as sort of a consultant for the 00:43:17.206 --> 00:43:22.078 - for the city and so has been leading some public feedback sessions and 00:43:22.434 --> 00:43:36.997 - about the use of those 1% funds. Cool. Any questions or comments or notes about that? Okay. Similarly, 00:43:36.997 --> 00:43:52.126 - I will be doing the update for the grant subcommittee. Normally, this would be done by Layla. Layla is not 00:43:52.354 --> 00:44:03.128 - Was not able to attend this meeting today. She is in her on her way back from New York City so our operations 00:44:03.128 --> 00:44:13.020 - grant cycle, which is the third and final cycle in our For our annual our annual grants program that 00:44:13.020 --> 00:44:19.582 - recently closed and we had 20 submissions 20 applications which is 00:44:19.682 --> 00:44:27.097 - Yeah, around what we normally get, it's three more than last year. And Leila wanted me to tell 00:44:27.097 --> 00:44:34.981 - the subcommittee that she will be sending out information about those applications shortly and about 00:44:34.981 --> 00:44:39.742 - a review session. Lynn or Brandy, if you have any questions, 00:44:40.162 --> 00:44:50.027 - If either of you are interested in being a reader or a reviewer for the operations grant cycle, please 00:44:50.027 --> 00:44:59.892 - feel free to shoot me an email and let me know. Or if you would just be interested in observing those, 00:44:59.892 --> 00:45:09.086 - let me know as well. And that's all I have from the grants committee. No meeting coming up yet? 00:45:09.250 --> 00:45:16.382 - the Layla is going to send out information about the review sessions. But yeah, but there's no, like 00:45:16.382 --> 00:45:23.796 - that will be our- Just waiting for that. Yeah, that will be our target together. And then I think after, 00:45:23.796 --> 00:45:31.069 - probably after those, before the end of the year, before Layla leaves, we will have a, I think a final 00:45:31.069 --> 00:45:37.918 - meeting to sort of like talk about next year plans and kind of review this past year as a whole. 00:45:40.418 --> 00:45:51.675 - There's some things in the chat. I think you have to check for that. It doesn't come up. That's just 00:45:51.675 --> 00:46:03.043 - Holly spamming us. It is. I think we just had a question about dates. I think that she asked what the 00:46:03.043 --> 00:46:07.390 - dates are again. Yes. Oh, for the, OK. 00:46:08.482 --> 00:46:17.496 - Great question. Those dates have not been set yet. So what Layla will do is typically for those review 00:46:17.496 --> 00:46:26.597 - sessions, we do them over one or two sessions over a weekend or sometimes like a Friday. But we usually 00:46:26.597 --> 00:46:35.873 - have to kind of like find everyone's availability, see what works, because we're organizing. It's usually 00:46:35.873 --> 00:46:37.886 - somewhere between four 00:46:38.146 --> 00:46:49.029 - eight people to review the grants. So those dates haven't been set yet, but will likely be end of October, 00:46:49.029 --> 00:46:55.742 - one of those weekends, maybe early November for a review session. 00:47:08.194 --> 00:47:20.529 - Okay, perfect. Okay, back to me for notes from your chair. Okay, so last meeting we talked a little 00:47:20.529 --> 00:47:33.110 - bit about some concerns we had over just conflict of interest with serving on the commission and also 00:47:33.110 --> 00:47:34.590 - issues with 00:47:35.490 --> 00:47:45.199 - folks who live in the county, but work and do a lot of engagement in the city. I have not heard any 00:47:45.199 --> 00:47:55.200 - updates from either the city or the council on how those conversations are going. I didn't receive any 00:47:55.200 --> 00:48:03.550 - questions or notes from any of the commissioners. I will continue to follow and track 00:48:03.778 --> 00:48:12.785 - Those conversations, if you all have any sort of thoughts or concerns that you would like me to specifically 00:48:12.785 --> 00:48:21.296 - present beyond what we've already discussed, please feel free to send those to me. So they are ongoing 00:48:21.296 --> 00:48:25.758 - conversations? Or are they just part of it? We think. 00:48:26.370 --> 00:48:35.550 - Yeah, is she possibly going to be back on the commission again? No, that is not the conversations that 00:48:35.550 --> 00:48:44.642 - we're having. The conversations are, there was a conversation at the council meeting about whether or 00:48:44.642 --> 00:48:54.179 - not it was a good idea to have one or two seats on the commission that could possibly be filled by someone 00:48:54.179 --> 00:48:56.318 - who lived in the county 00:48:56.866 --> 00:49:03.939 - but had sort of, you know, substantial meaningful connections. Yeah, so that is a thing that the council 00:49:03.939 --> 00:49:10.742 - is considering, not just for us, but for boards and commissions sort of across the city. Well, yeah, 00:49:10.742 --> 00:49:17.613 - I just want to also remind, there's also a way for someone who lives in the county who has this level 00:49:17.613 --> 00:49:24.685 - of expertise to be like an advisory commissioner so that they wouldn't be able to vote, but they'd still 00:49:24.685 --> 00:49:26.302 - be able to like kind of 00:49:26.402 --> 00:49:33.782 - They would be in an advisory role on it. So that's kind of what it's called an advisory role. They just 00:49:33.782 --> 00:49:40.877 - can't vote, but everything else would be. Because also just to be clear, just to say the facts, why 00:49:40.877 --> 00:49:46.270 - we have to be within the city of Bloomington limits is because of taxation. 00:49:47.490 --> 00:49:56.390 - those who do not live, do not pay city taxes, and that's why we need to be for the people who pay the 00:49:56.390 --> 00:50:04.940 - taxes, and that's why county exists in the state. So just wanna say those facts. Thank you. Okay, 00:50:04.940 --> 00:50:13.753 - but yeah, those conversations are ongoing to my knowledge. Yeah, and so, yeah, if you have any notes 00:50:13.753 --> 00:50:15.934 - or updates or questions, 00:50:16.386 --> 00:50:27.196 - Please send those to me and I will continue to add those to those conversations as they evolve. And 00:50:27.196 --> 00:50:38.115 - then the last note that I have is just a reminder that in a few short months, we will no longer have 00:50:38.115 --> 00:50:45.790 - a grant subcommittee chair and presumably we'll also not have a chair. 00:50:45.922 --> 00:50:53.824 - I have served three years on the commission. Layla will no longer be allowed to serve on the commission 00:50:53.824 --> 00:51:02.106 - as she has served two terms, six years. So we'll be stepping down. And so I would like to strongly encourage 00:51:02.106 --> 00:51:09.931 - everyone to consider stepping up into a leadership role. This would be starting in February. So, yeah, 00:51:09.931 --> 00:51:15.326 - if you have any interest or questions or concerns, also, yeah, you can 00:51:15.490 --> 00:51:25.727 - email me, check in with me, and I'd be happy to tell you all about the joys of commission leadership. 00:51:25.727 --> 00:51:36.064 - All right, moving on to agenda item number seven, upcoming events and important dates. Jazz, would you 00:51:36.064 --> 00:51:43.390 - mind pulling up that document for us? We've got a couple things on here. 00:51:48.162 --> 00:51:59.958 - Would anyone like to make a note or add anything or put anything on the commission's radar for important 00:51:59.958 --> 00:52:11.530 - or interesting art events that are going on? I'm doing a gallery talk on Sunday at the Waldron for the 00:52:11.530 --> 00:52:18.046 - forest exhibit. That's the 12th. And where is that again? 00:52:18.274 --> 00:52:33.162 - at 4 p.m. You said artist talk? Yes. I can never remember. Is that right? You could put forest talk. 00:52:33.162 --> 00:52:47.166 - Oh, okay. That might be easier. Forest talk. Forest talk. Perfect. Okay, excellent. Thank you. 00:52:50.850 --> 00:52:57.505 - Brandy. Sorry, I don't know if I should jump in or just raise my hand, because I don't know if anyone's 00:52:57.505 --> 00:53:03.904 - talking or not. If we're just events in general, I'm very new. Please forgive me. Is that going on? 00:53:03.904 --> 00:53:10.495 - Yeah. Well, as long as it's like- We'll give you an event at the museum. That's fall festivals. That's 00:53:10.495 --> 00:53:16.958 - tomorrow night that we're working with a variety of different community partners, both on campus and 00:53:16.958 --> 00:53:20.350 - off. But it is Thursday, tomorrow from 5.30 until 7. 00:53:20.770 --> 00:53:30.311 - And it's at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. And that's the Night at the Museum? Yeah, it's 00:53:30.311 --> 00:53:40.130 - Night at the Museum, and this month's theme is fall festivals. So it features Dia de los Muertos, Diwali, 00:53:40.130 --> 00:53:49.022 - Halloween, and a couple of other different festivals throughout different cultural communities. 00:53:50.658 --> 00:54:05.280 - Yes, that's a perfect plug. Thanks, Brandy. Any other notable events or? I just wanted to mention the 00:54:05.280 --> 00:54:19.902 - Ghost Walk is on Friday. Fantastic. Can you give a little bit more info about the Ghost Walk? This is 00:54:20.706 --> 00:54:29.734 - Faculty, staff, and students from the Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology telling spooky stories 00:54:29.734 --> 00:54:38.674 - unique to IU Bloomington's campus on this walking tour. That's the, I just put it through it into the, 00:54:38.674 --> 00:54:47.615 - it's 7 p.m. starting on the, at the 803rd Street classroom and office building. It is not free though, 00:54:47.615 --> 00:54:49.438 - it is three dollars. 00:54:51.330 --> 00:55:03.382 - All right, yeah, perfect. They always come and promote that at First Thursdays, but I've never had the 00:55:03.382 --> 00:55:15.083 - chance to go. It seems like a really cool event. One more thing is that it's Indigenous Peoples Day 00:55:15.083 --> 00:55:19.998 - on October 13th, so I think First Nations 00:55:20.450 --> 00:55:27.979 - Cultural Center is doing some things at the IMU, and they're working specifically with the tutor room 00:55:27.979 --> 00:55:35.729 - to have native community-specific dishes in honor of Indigenous People's Day featured at the tutor room. 00:55:35.729 --> 00:55:43.332 - They may have artists and performers, I'm not entirely sure, but I do know they're partnering with the 00:55:43.332 --> 00:55:50.270 - folks. Also, City Hall will be closed, just so you all know, in observance of Indigenous Day. 00:55:53.442 --> 00:56:03.374 - Fantastic. Perfect. Great. Oh, there is also, I do want to add one, sorry. Let's do it. Just real quick, 00:56:03.374 --> 00:56:13.117 - the Orbit Room, which is, you know, it's a bar, restaurant, but it's also a music venue and just venue 00:56:13.117 --> 00:56:19.454 - for arts in general. It's going to be celebrating its seven years. 00:56:19.842 --> 00:56:24.984 - next week, and so they're going to have a bunch of special events. I can put it. I've actually already 00:56:24.984 --> 00:56:30.076 - got it on there. Well, you do? Yeah. Wow. OK. Let's knock it on there. Sorry. No, all good. All good. 00:56:30.076 --> 00:56:35.069 - But yeah, I would highly recommend people going, because I think they're going through a little bit 00:56:35.069 --> 00:56:40.411 - of a rough time right now. And also, these smaller venues like that are really important to the community. 00:56:40.411 --> 00:56:45.453 - So we should support them. So I just want to shout that out. Are they not getting enough business? I 00:56:45.453 --> 00:56:47.550 - think they just can have some rough times 00:56:47.682 --> 00:56:55.328 - everything goes up every year yeah and like if you're on the square you're just there's or anywhere 00:56:55.328 --> 00:57:03.050 - downtown really but like you know like yeah that's that's what it is it's just the it's like yeah we 00:57:03.050 --> 00:57:10.696 - making up this year but next year they raise the rent and it's like it's not enough his exact thing 00:57:10.696 --> 00:57:12.990 - I just know I think sometimes 00:57:13.314 --> 00:57:19.855 - business can be slow or like if they have events sometimes people don't buy things there so they'll 00:57:19.855 --> 00:57:26.396 - have a packed place and people don't buy anything and like they'll only get so many from the ticket 00:57:26.396 --> 00:57:33.133 - most of the ticket goes to like the artist or you know so I think that's kind of a problem too but I'm 00:57:33.133 --> 00:57:40.000 - sure that's part of it as well yeah so I guess just a reminder in general to support the smaller locally 00:57:40.000 --> 00:57:41.374 - owned places as well 00:57:42.466 --> 00:57:53.148 - Because we're lucky we have them, and I think sometimes we take them for granted, just speaking. I've 00:57:53.148 --> 00:58:03.830 - also experienced, so. OK. Well, moving on to, I will also quickly note for our new commissioners that 00:58:03.830 --> 00:58:10.846 - in the agenda that upcoming events doc that I had, it is, I think, 00:58:12.034 --> 00:58:20.445 - if I've done it right, it should be shareable and editable by anyone on the commission. And so if something 00:58:20.445 --> 00:58:28.466 - pops up, you're more than welcome to add that information to the doc as well. Okay, agenda item number 00:58:28.466 --> 00:58:36.877 - eight, commissioner announcements. Yeah, anything sort of in addition to the events that we just mentioned, 00:58:36.877 --> 00:58:40.382 - anything that folks wanna mention, announce? 00:58:45.730 --> 00:58:55.212 - recently opened this like museum or like their shop and they're like featuring artists like local artists 00:58:55.212 --> 00:59:04.246 - so I think they had their opening in the most recent first Friday gallery walk. Do we have an end of 00:59:04.246 --> 00:59:14.622 - the year celebration with our awardee? We don't know dates yet. I know the Waldron is looking for artists for their 00:59:15.394 --> 00:59:29.728 - Christmas market. So if anybody knows anybody who does that, if they could send them their way. 00:59:29.728 --> 00:59:44.062 - Linda Brandy, any commission announcements? All right, agenda item number nine, public comment. 00:59:44.898 --> 00:59:52.342 - Any comment from the public? Hey, as the only member of the public, I think. I'm sure I'll make a comment. 00:59:52.342 --> 00:59:59.994 - Yeah, and just say your name, please. I'm sorry. Joe Meyers. Christina, I was in attendance of the convention 00:59:59.994 --> 01:00:06.951 - center kind of public discussion period. And I just want to give you kudos. You and your team did a 01:00:06.951 --> 01:00:13.630 - great job. Very well attended and very spirited discussion. So thank you. Thank you for coming. 01:00:14.818 --> 01:00:22.472 - Yeah, and thank you. Thanks for being here today. You bet. Yeah, thank you. I just want to say thank 01:00:22.472 --> 01:00:30.278 - you for coming, because none of us could do what we do without the members of the public coming in and 01:00:30.278 --> 01:00:37.856 - supporting. So thank you for being here. You're welcome. Tell your friends to come. OK, and I don't 01:00:37.856 --> 01:00:44.222 - think anyone's online. That is the public, so. Yeah. OK, great. Well, on that note. 01:00:44.482 --> 01:00:50.367 - I will go ahead and motion to adjourn the meeting. Can I get a second? Second. Second. All right. Meeting 01:00:50.367 --> 01:00:53.310 - is adjourned. Thanks, Brandon. Thanks for having me.