WEBVTT 00:00:00.226 --> 00:00:09.892 - All right, I call this meeting to order. Thank you everyone for being here. Last meeting of 2025, 00:00:09.892 --> 00:00:20.446 - what a year. Okay, agenda item number two, moving on to the BAC minutes. The minutes have been distributed 00:00:20.446 --> 00:00:27.646 - and read. Are there any corrections that need to be made to the minutes? 00:00:27.874 --> 00:00:40.077 - I'm going to go ahead and motion to approve the minutes. Can I get a second? Second. Thank you. All 00:00:40.077 --> 00:00:53.257 - in favor of approving the minutes, say aye. Aye. Any opposed, say nay. Fantastic. The minutes are approved. 00:00:53.257 --> 00:00:57.406 - Holly, on the same agenda, point. 00:00:57.666 --> 00:01:04.351 - Take us through the finances, please. Money. I've got us pretty much reconciled for this year. 00:01:04.351 --> 00:01:07.166 - So four grants. We spent a total of one 00:01:07.298 --> 00:01:14.997 - $179,483. Woohoo! Oops, we went over a little. We went over, our budget was $167,537, and we spent an 00:01:14.997 --> 00:01:22.923 - extra $11,000 in mini change on budgets. And that overage just comes from my general fund. I just pulled 00:01:22.923 --> 00:01:31.075 - some money out of there. Again, I think we just all agreed that just given the nature of things, especially 00:01:31.075 --> 00:01:37.264 - for our 501C3s that are really feeling the cuts from the Indiana Arts Commission, 00:01:37.264 --> 00:01:44.091 - and other federal funders that they deserve that extra funding. Also, thanks to the Bloomington Urban 00:01:44.091 --> 00:01:51.051 - Enterprise Association, who gave us a little more than their $50,000 allocation this year to cover some 00:01:51.051 --> 00:01:56.606 - of those funds. So, yay. We will have the same amount of money to spend next year. 00:01:56.770 --> 00:02:05.375 - 167,537, and we'll talk about that more next year. The other funds we had for this year was $5,000 in 00:02:05.375 --> 00:02:14.148 - workshop expenses. For most of the workshops this year, we actually spent funds that we encumbered last 00:02:14.148 --> 00:02:17.438 - year. So what we did was we encumbered 00:02:17.666 --> 00:02:23.625 - $4,000 to go to Andrea Sterling, who does great professional development workshops. So she did a couple 00:02:23.625 --> 00:02:29.526 - of professional development workshops for the artists who will be going into our artist studio spaces. 00:02:29.526 --> 00:02:35.600 - Some of them are already there, and the rest will join before the end of the year. And we also encumbered 00:02:35.600 --> 00:02:41.329 - some money for her to be able to do a few more of those professional development workshops for more 00:02:41.329 --> 00:02:47.632 - members of our arts community in 2026. With the leftover $1,000, I gave it to Chaz so we can have a fun time. 00:02:47.632 --> 00:02:55.425 - at the party tonight. Okay, this $16,500 that we allocated for public art and grants, we have not spent 00:02:55.425 --> 00:03:03.142 - that. And I don't think we're gonna have an opportunity to get that out the door before the end of the 00:03:03.142 --> 00:03:10.710 - year. And I just wanna acknowledge that the committee that was assigned the task of deciding what to 00:03:10.710 --> 00:03:12.958 - do with that funds this year, 00:03:13.058 --> 00:03:19.832 - has been through a lot this year. We had an unexpected change in leadership and some other big public 00:03:19.832 --> 00:03:26.539 - art projects that kept us from having the time to do this. With your permission, what I would ask is 00:03:26.539 --> 00:03:33.179 - just allowing me to use that 16,500 to pay for some other arts expenses that I need to cover before 00:03:33.179 --> 00:03:35.902 - the end of the year. Would that be okay? 00:03:36.226 --> 00:03:43.496 - with you all. Do you want to ask questions and criticize me happily? No. No. OK. Awesome. Thank you. 00:03:43.496 --> 00:03:51.127 - And I'm happy to give you a tally of how that is spent in the new year. Before I stop talking, I realized 00:03:51.127 --> 00:03:53.502 - I shouldn't. What things are you 00:03:53.666 --> 00:04:00.237 - It will most likely be a couple of public art expenses, so money to pay vendors that helped us with 00:04:00.237 --> 00:04:07.006 - some of the traffic box art projects and other art projects. I will probably spend some of that money, 00:04:07.006 --> 00:04:13.643 - too, on grants, both for our BAC grants, but also we give pretty large grants to Constellation Stage 00:04:13.643 --> 00:04:20.478 - and Screen in the Buzzkirk Chumlee Theater to run our city-owned facilities every year. They can always 00:04:20.478 --> 00:04:23.632 - use a little kickback. It takes a lot of money. 00:04:23.632 --> 00:04:31.196 - to operate those facilities. We're very lucky to have them doing that work, so I would most likely give 00:04:31.196 --> 00:04:38.760 - some of that money to them as well. I realized... Was I gonna say something else about the arts grants? 00:04:38.760 --> 00:04:46.252 - No, nevermind. Okay, that's it. I'm happy to answer any questions. I do have just a couple looking for 00:04:46.252 --> 00:04:52.798 - updates. What's happening with Anjulite? And there was gonna be a, we were working with a 00:04:53.410 --> 00:04:59.595 - I think towards having a piece of art down on the Miller Showers property. What's happening with those? 00:04:59.595 --> 00:05:05.662 - Yes, great question. Thanks for asking. So the Anjale project, which is over at the Hopewell Commons, 00:05:05.762 --> 00:05:12.152 - That piece has actually been fabricated. It's just sitting in storage right now. It took a little work 00:05:12.152 --> 00:05:18.356 - to find a concrete contractor. And by the time that contractor was selected and under contract, the 00:05:18.356 --> 00:05:24.685 - concrete would have had to sit for 30 days before we could do that installation. And what we realized 00:05:24.685 --> 00:05:31.013 - was by the time the concrete was set for that piece, it would have been too cold to be able to do the 00:05:31.013 --> 00:05:35.728 - actual installation. So we agreed with the artist to do that in a spring of 00:05:35.728 --> 00:05:43.610 - 2026. And I've promised the funders of that project that I will keep close tabs on the artist in 26 00:05:43.610 --> 00:05:51.571 - to make sure that we get a timely install. For Miller Showers, I would like to turn to that in early 00:05:51.571 --> 00:05:59.690 - 2026. I think we'd like to kind of get the work on the convention center selection process done before 00:05:59.690 --> 00:06:05.680 - we start a new artist selection process. But I am anticipating that we kick 00:06:05.680 --> 00:06:12.214 - that off pretty early into 26, and we will still have $150,000 for that project. What ever happened 00:06:12.214 --> 00:06:18.749 - to the fire station? The fire station, we are negotiating the funding for that right now. And I can 00:06:18.749 --> 00:06:25.545 - say, let me, I'll say, I don't want to get too much in the weeds about this, but I think one thing I've 00:06:25.545 --> 00:06:32.210 - realized about the One Person for the Arts project is, you know, our ordinance gives a lot of leeway, 00:06:32.210 --> 00:06:34.366 - you know, and it's kind of like, 00:06:34.754 --> 00:06:41.534 - The one person for the arts projects right now they're kind of at their discretionary right it says 00:06:41.534 --> 00:06:48.314 - in the ordinance. It is recommended that you do this right and some people take this very seriously 00:06:48.314 --> 00:06:49.534 - and other people. 00:06:50.018 --> 00:06:55.616 - just forget about it. And I think that one thing that I am probably with your support next year could 00:06:55.616 --> 00:07:01.489 - do a better job of is just tracking all of those projects because all of those projects like these smaller 00:07:01.489 --> 00:07:07.196 - ones like the fire station just aren't making it onto my radar simply because I think folks at the city 00:07:07.196 --> 00:07:12.685 - don't know that this policy exists. And we also have an opportunity with this ordinance. It doesn't 00:07:12.685 --> 00:07:18.502 - have to necessarily be site specific work. So for example, just because a fire station is being renovated 00:07:18.502 --> 00:07:19.984 - doesn't mean we have to do 00:07:19.984 --> 00:07:21.182 - an art project. 00:07:21.378 --> 00:07:27.348 - at the fire station. We also have the opportunity just to create a fund where we take that 1% of the 00:07:27.348 --> 00:07:33.494 - funds and just let that grow so we could focus somewhere else. So one thing I'd like to spend some time 00:07:33.494 --> 00:07:39.523 - doing in 26 is just exploring the option to creating that fund and working with you all to decide how 00:07:39.523 --> 00:07:45.552 - we're prioritizing things. And also, I think folks like the fire station, and I love this about them, 00:07:45.552 --> 00:07:51.344 - they see that, oh my gosh, there's disordinates. And they reach out to me and they need something 00:07:51.344 --> 00:07:57.146 - And I think there's also some like misunderstanding of like we can't do that. You know, we can't give 00:07:57.146 --> 00:08:02.891 - them a good piece of art. Like we need time to like prioritize everything for each year to make sure 00:08:02.891 --> 00:08:08.636 - something good happens. So I think it's just gonna be kind of a matter of working with colleagues in 00:08:08.636 --> 00:08:14.381 - other departments to just give ourselves a longer runway to make these things happen. And we're very 00:08:14.381 --> 00:08:18.078 - lucky we now have somebody in our department whose title is just 00:08:18.210 --> 00:08:26.019 - capital projects manager. So they're responsible for overseeing things now like the entire development 00:08:26.019 --> 00:08:33.676 - of Hopewell. And she's offered to help me work on this a little. So having that extra staff capacity 00:08:33.676 --> 00:08:41.333 - to help me on this will be a big help for next year. So can we, I guess maybe as individuals, can we 00:08:41.333 --> 00:08:42.622 - as a commission, 00:08:43.234 --> 00:08:49.163 - help address that ordinance to tighten it up. I would love you to do that, yes. And I do think we should, 00:08:49.163 --> 00:08:54.756 - because again, the way it's written now, it's like, we actually are supposed to do an annual report 00:08:54.756 --> 00:09:00.461 - on this, but I don't think this is something that's ever been done. You know, I don't think nobody at 00:09:00.461 --> 00:09:06.110 - this table has, Lola, I think you've been here the longest. That's specific to Anna, 1%. Yeah, yeah, 00:09:06.110 --> 00:09:11.703 - we always go brag about ourselves, but we're never like, this is where we're focusing this year for 00:09:11.703 --> 00:09:12.766 - public art, right? 00:09:13.154 --> 00:09:22.584 - So, yeah. Well, let's keep that on the radar. Yeah. Yeah, that's definitely on my list of things to 00:09:22.584 --> 00:09:32.202 - address. Yeah. Great. Moving along to agenda item number three, city updates. I guess we can continue 00:09:32.202 --> 00:09:41.726 - if there are more questions for the city. Yeah. City updates and questions. We're just winding down. 00:09:41.858 --> 00:09:49.473 - the year right now, trying to get our last batch of contracts out the door and just trying to wrap the 00:09:49.473 --> 00:09:57.014 - year. Again, I'm going to do some work at the end of the year just kind of trying to do some planning 00:09:57.014 --> 00:10:03.742 - for 26. I think one thing we've discussed at these meetings is I think sometimes there's a 00:10:03.742 --> 00:10:05.886 - lack of transparency of like 00:10:06.626 --> 00:10:13.500 - what I am working on as the city arts person that you might not be working on as arts commissioner. 00:10:13.500 --> 00:10:20.718 - So I'm going to spend some time thinking about that at the end of this year and next year. And hopefully 00:10:20.718 --> 00:10:27.660 - in February 26, I'd like to just report out on how I'm thinking about that now. So yeah, that's what 00:10:27.660 --> 00:10:34.878 - I'll be working on. But I'm happy to answer any more questions. You haven't seen anything from Lynn yet. 00:10:42.946 --> 00:10:55.208 - It feels quieter than usual. Agenda item number four, update from public art interim chair. So the exciting 00:10:55.208 --> 00:11:06.562 - thing is the convention center. So since we last met, we were able to close out the applications. I 00:11:06.562 --> 00:11:12.126 - think we received 180 for the call through Holly 00:11:12.322 --> 00:11:19.043 - like doing a first sweep, she was able to get that down to 16, the public arts subcommittee, Betsy, 00:11:19.043 --> 00:11:26.099 - thank you, looked through these applications. And then we were able to kind of narrow it down even more. 00:11:26.099 --> 00:11:32.954 - And so today we were able to meet with, I guess, the CIB recommendation board and kind of get it down 00:11:32.954 --> 00:11:39.742 - to like eight or whatever. So that's pretty exciting. There's a lot of talented artists that was not 00:11:39.874 --> 00:11:46.793 - And we're still finalizing things, making sure that we're confident about the people that are going 00:11:46.793 --> 00:11:53.850 - to be moving on to the final round. So that's pretty exciting. Yeah, I think that's pretty much it as 00:11:53.850 --> 00:12:01.045 - far as the convention center and what the progress is there. We should finish that on Monday. Oh, yeah. 00:12:01.045 --> 00:12:04.574 - I'm going to meet again on Monday to wrap that up. 00:12:04.770 --> 00:12:12.292 - And then you'll be extending invitations to the, it's five finalists or no? Yeah, so the way we wanted 00:12:12.292 --> 00:12:19.741 - to break it down is to have five finalists and then we'll have up to three alternates. So that's kind 00:12:19.741 --> 00:12:27.336 - of where we're landing there. And I'll reach out to all of them before the end of the year. We're gonna 00:12:27.336 --> 00:12:33.982 - hit that goal. Can we see who you've got down here? Is there a list somewhere of the eight 00:12:34.562 --> 00:12:40.871 - Yeah, I will so what I'm gonna do so we kind of like today we looked at the top applicants and it was 00:12:40.871 --> 00:12:43.902 - actually really cool. I think there was a lot of 00:12:44.770 --> 00:12:51.066 - alignment between what the recommendation committee was gravitating towards and what the arts commissioners 00:12:51.066 --> 00:12:56.955 - gravitated towards. So that made it easier. And so what we kind of agreed on, Christina, Rob, and I, 00:12:56.955 --> 00:13:02.901 - we've seen each other many times today. And what we agreed on was we took that group and we asked the 00:13:02.901 --> 00:13:08.731 - recommendation committee today to kind of categorize people as A, B, or C. So A being like definite 00:13:08.731 --> 00:13:14.736 - finalists, Bs being maybes or alternates, and Cs being like we love y'all, but this is not the moment. 00:13:14.736 --> 00:13:21.212 - I'm going to share that list back with the CIB recommendation committee just so they can have and be 00:13:21.212 --> 00:13:27.688 - prepared for a discussion on Monday, but I'd happily share that with the public arts subcommittee as 00:13:27.688 --> 00:13:34.485 - well. That makes sense. There were some names much further down the list that were called up and reviewed 00:13:34.485 --> 00:13:39.166 - again. It was a very productive meeting and a lot of good synergy there. 00:13:39.330 --> 00:13:46.619 - Yeah, yeah, yeah. Maya was there. Yeah, Maya Michelson is part of that committee. Yeah, so it felt really 00:13:46.619 --> 00:13:53.908 - good. I think Galen, who's technically the chair of that committee, he's also the owner of Uptown. Galen? 00:13:53.908 --> 00:14:00.923 - Yeah, he had some really thoughtful feedback, I thought. That's fantastic. Yeah, it was really great. 00:14:00.923 --> 00:14:06.974 - Great. Yeah. Great. Well, yeah, thank you all for being a part of that and updating us. 00:14:07.202 --> 00:14:13.163 - It's exciting. It's really exciting. It's exciting. I'm nervous, of course, you know? Because it's like, 00:14:13.163 --> 00:14:19.068 - we've talked a lot about, OK, we have to make sure we select the best lighting artists who have applied 00:14:19.068 --> 00:14:24.859 - and the best installation artists have applied. And we have to make sure that we're going to get five 00:14:24.859 --> 00:14:30.707 - fantastic proposals and no duds. There's a lot of pressure, but I think, yeah. It is tricky. Yeah. But 00:14:30.707 --> 00:14:35.646 - I just want to say one thing. I was on the committee way back in the day when Maya was 00:14:36.994 --> 00:14:45.055 - charge of the Daly and Knox piece that ended up at the end. And so I just want to tell you that it's 00:14:45.055 --> 00:14:53.036 - hard. All of this is hard. And you end up maybe with something you didn't really ask for. So that's 00:14:53.036 --> 00:15:01.575 - all. That's all I'm going to say. There have definitely been a lot of conversations about, well, someone's 00:15:01.575 --> 00:15:05.566 - going to be mad. And I think that's also, though, 00:15:05.890 --> 00:15:16.384 - It's part of public art. If everyone was happy, I think that would be a failure. I just... I just swore 00:15:16.384 --> 00:15:26.979 - I would never be involved with public art again. That's a great project. Any other comments or questions 00:15:26.979 --> 00:15:29.502 - for the public art crew? 00:15:34.018 --> 00:15:44.541 - agenda number five update from grants chair meeting on the 19th is canceled yeah no hundred and eighty 00:15:44.541 --> 00:15:55.166 - thousand dollars that's crazy it was great it's been fun it's been a good four years thank you everyone 00:15:55.426 --> 00:16:00.931 - Gerard, you're taking over in some interim capacity, or no? We'll discuss it today, but I think Paul 00:16:00.931 --> 00:16:06.437 - and I. Oh, cool. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's awesome. So it's been fun. Thank you all. Thank you. Well, 00:16:06.437 --> 00:16:11.997 - everything. Yeah. Are you planning to be in January? Technically, we still have one. Yeah, you've got 00:16:11.997 --> 00:16:17.611 - one more. Yeah, I was wondering about that. Is that, do I, I can, yeah, of course, yeah. And then I'll 00:16:17.611 --> 00:16:23.117 - be here. I just need to review all the guidelines. OK, I probably actually, it will be helpful to us 00:16:23.117 --> 00:16:25.406 - to talk about the schedule for next year. 00:16:25.506 --> 00:16:39.688 - Yeah, it's some sort of transition as a full subcommittee or leadership. So, stay tuned for that. Any 00:16:39.688 --> 00:16:48.030 - other questions or notes for? Great. Okay, from your chair. 00:16:49.346 --> 00:16:58.205 - A couple quick things. One, all right, the task force. It's happening. Things are moving along. We met 00:16:58.205 --> 00:17:06.891 - after the public art subcommittee meeting in November, and we really pushed through some stuff. Paul 00:17:06.891 --> 00:17:15.492 - and Christina and Gretchen brought some really great feedback, and we've kind of taken what the old 00:17:15.492 --> 00:17:17.470 - strategic plan was and 00:17:17.634 --> 00:17:24.760 - diving into it, kind of like maybe taking up parts that were redundant or not necessary or maybe didn't 00:17:24.760 --> 00:17:31.749 - fully accurately reflect on what we're doing, adding in sort of like new language, but then also kind 00:17:31.749 --> 00:17:38.944 - of like we've assessed sort of like the private, like done a good job, I think, of identifying realistic 00:17:38.944 --> 00:17:46.138 - goals for the next three years. And I think we're on track to present something in January to the group. 00:17:46.138 --> 00:17:47.166 - So stay tuned. 00:17:47.298 --> 00:17:58.376 - Okay. The next leadership team. I'm so thrilled to announce that I think we have a leadership team that 00:17:58.376 --> 00:18:09.135 - we need to vote on today to start on February 1st as I announced in the midpoint email. We are going 00:18:09.135 --> 00:18:13.822 - to sort of go through position by position. 00:18:13.986 --> 00:18:26.032 - and we have to do sort of a, we have to do a vote on them. And then, and then we'll just feel great. 00:18:26.032 --> 00:18:38.078 - And go party, pretty much. So, okay, I'll go ahead and start with Cher. I always feel, I always get, 00:18:38.210 --> 00:18:46.825 - You said it right. I said it right. Okay, fantastic. I second-guess myself. As someone whose name also 00:18:46.825 --> 00:18:55.189 - gets mispronounced all the time, has volunteered to take on the role of chair, starting on February 00:18:55.189 --> 00:19:00.542 - 1st, taking over for me. Super appreciative of that. Thank you. 00:19:00.802 --> 00:19:11.471 - So yeah, real quick, I'm gonna ask for a motion to approve Netta as the upcoming chair. Can I get a 00:19:11.471 --> 00:19:22.461 - second on that? Second. All in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed say nay. You didn't vote. I don't think 00:19:22.461 --> 00:19:25.982 - I'm allowed to. Any abstentions? 00:19:26.146 --> 00:19:35.087 - All right, fantastic. Thank you all, Linda. Thank you so much. Our next chair. Okay, moving on. 00:19:35.087 --> 00:19:44.867 - Vice chair. Rob has offered to take up the role of vice chair. We'll be taking over for Christina, who's 00:19:44.867 --> 00:19:52.318 - served on that role for, I believe, two, three years. Oh my gosh, I hope, yeah. 00:19:53.026 --> 00:20:01.490 - So yeah, thank you so much for that, Rob. Yeah, look forward to it. Looking forward to getting to know 00:20:01.490 --> 00:20:09.871 - you. Definitely, working hard together. So yeah, can I get a motion to vote on Rob Shakespeare as the 00:20:09.871 --> 00:20:18.335 - next vice chair? Can I get a verbal second on that? Second? All right. All in favor, say aye. Aye. Any 00:20:18.335 --> 00:20:22.526 - opposed, say nay. All right, fantastic. Thank you. 00:20:23.778 --> 00:20:32.672 - Betsy is going to stay on as secretary. I don't think we need to vote on that today. Thank you for, 00:20:32.672 --> 00:20:42.278 - yeah, just keeping on batting 1,000. Okay, moving on to the subcommittee chairs. We didn't scare Christina. 00:20:42.278 --> 00:20:51.438 - She wants to stay on as the public art subcommittee chair in a non-interim capacity, in full capacity. 00:20:51.438 --> 00:20:53.662 - Thank you for Christina, 00:20:53.762 --> 00:21:02.423 - doing great work so far and very much looking forward to see you continuing on in that role. I'm gonna 00:21:02.423 --> 00:21:11.167 - go ahead and motion to vote that Christina moves into the public art subcommittee chair role. I second. 00:21:11.167 --> 00:21:19.912 - Fantastic. All in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed say nay. All right, we're doing great. Okay, and last 00:21:19.912 --> 00:21:22.014 - but certainly not least, 00:21:22.562 --> 00:21:32.317 - for the grant subcommittee Paul and I are going to I think work as as co-chairs on that committee just 00:21:32.317 --> 00:21:41.977 - based on the sort of the Yeah, the the consistent volume of work that that that committee has to work 00:21:41.977 --> 00:21:48.606 - through and also I think upcoming procedural changes with sort of the 00:21:50.690 --> 00:21:57.891 - The new landscape both in the city and in the state, I think there's just gonna be sort of a lot, a 00:21:57.891 --> 00:22:05.236 - lot sort of take on in the coming year. And so Paul and I are gonna work together on that along with, 00:22:05.236 --> 00:22:12.509 - of course, with the subcommittee. So yeah, I'm gonna motion, I guess, yeah, a motion to approve Paul 00:22:12.509 --> 00:22:19.134 - and I as co-chairs for the grants subcommittee. Second. Second, all right, thank you Betsy. 00:22:19.362 --> 00:22:32.331 - All in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed say nay. Okay, we did it. We have, we have, yeah. All right. 00:22:32.331 --> 00:22:45.170 - And that's, yeah, that's all for agenda item number six. Again, thank you to everyone stepping up. 00:22:45.170 --> 00:22:48.542 - Thank you, I think, yeah. 00:22:50.114 --> 00:22:58.605 - Lou is the only one that's like, I guess, formally leaving a leadership business because Christine is 00:22:58.605 --> 00:23:07.429 - staying on and I'm moving on into another capacity, but yeah, thank you for your work. Agenda item number 00:23:07.429 --> 00:23:15.919 - seven, upcoming events and important dates. It's the holidays, y'all. Party tonight? Yeah, of course, 00:23:15.919 --> 00:23:19.582 - party tonight. I hope to see you all there. 00:23:19.682 --> 00:23:27.172 - The Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology is our Commissioner Brandy McDonald's event on the 11th. 00:23:27.172 --> 00:23:35.037 - There's a holiday market at Orbit Room tomorrow night. Okay. Yeah. There's one everywhere. Yeah. There's 00:23:35.037 --> 00:23:42.602 - one at the wall. Oh, shoot. Oh, the wall-room one is cool. Has anybody? I saw that Sarah did a great 00:23:42.602 --> 00:23:49.118 - job. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think is it the one that was open on the Friday gallery walk? 00:23:49.570 --> 00:23:55.879 - That makes sense. That's cool because instead of just like a pop-up market that happens only for like 00:23:55.879 --> 00:24:02.187 - three or four hours once, this is an invitation to artists just to have their work for sale all month 00:24:02.187 --> 00:24:08.805 - long. And it's also going to be open during like the most popular theater show of the year at the Waldron. 00:24:08.805 --> 00:24:15.361 - This is the first year in many years that Constellation has done their holiday performance at the Waldron 00:24:15.361 --> 00:24:19.134 - versus the Buskirk Chumley Theater. So they're going to have 00:24:19.330 --> 00:24:29.899 - Hordes of people coming in and out and so this is a great opportunity to showcase and sell a lot of 00:24:29.899 --> 00:24:40.468 - work by our local artists It's a great awesome idea. Yeah That's a great question There's a balance 00:24:40.468 --> 00:24:48.606 - between rental costs and being in-house but then there's the balance between 00:24:48.770 --> 00:25:00.245 - a cast, and when you have a bigger audience, obviously, they can get paid more easily. So, yeah. It's 00:25:00.245 --> 00:25:12.058 - a juggle, as I understand it. Yeah, I think in the space of those performances, there are some Christmas 00:25:12.058 --> 00:25:16.670 - movies, I think, being shown at the VCT. 00:25:16.770 --> 00:25:26.582 - Looking to see some holiday class. I think they had Gremlins was one of them. Gremlins, Elf. Yeah, some 00:25:26.582 --> 00:25:36.205 - unconventional Christmas films, but then also some more conventional Christmas films. Okay, yeah, any 00:25:36.205 --> 00:25:46.206 - other notable events? On a similar note, any announcements? Yeah, things that people are excited about or 00:25:48.930 --> 00:25:57.223 - to or just want to share with the group. Elliot and I just saw Stefan Rees in Amsterdam. Oh yeah, so 00:25:57.223 --> 00:26:05.844 - Stefan Rees is the artist who did OT 987, the installation that happened in April in the trades district 00:26:05.844 --> 00:26:11.838 - and he was accepted to be one of the, I don't know how many artists, 13? 00:26:12.034 --> 00:26:18.752 - 13 artists to have a temporary light installation as part of this year's Amsterdam Light Festival. So 00:26:18.752 --> 00:26:25.535 - we got to go see him and his piece and some other really cool temporary light installations around the 00:26:25.535 --> 00:26:32.121 - different canals in Amsterdam. And he's doing really great. And it was fun to catch up with him and 00:26:32.121 --> 00:26:39.102 - just also see what other types of work folks are doing out there. So, yeah. I just saw John Resick today. 00:26:39.426 --> 00:26:56.862 - I'm going to be like, yeah. Okay, great. Well, and as far as I can tell, there is no public. 00:26:57.186 --> 00:27:19.422 - I'm gonna call a timeout here. I'm gonna make everyone here 00:27:20.514 --> 00:27:30.304 - share a memorable moment from 2025. When you think about this past year and a special arts moment that 00:27:30.304 --> 00:27:39.905 - you had. Yeah, anything. Does it have to be good? Nope, it could be good. It could be. It have to be 00:27:39.905 --> 00:27:49.790 - here? Nope. No, just a little bit of reflecting on the year. A special moment in the arts that you had. 00:27:53.698 --> 00:28:03.880 - I have nothing but bad news I'm getting kicked out of my rental for my gallery so that was a terrible 00:28:03.880 --> 00:28:14.062 - moment that happened literally the day before my birthday and yeah so but the whole year was great it 00:28:14.062 --> 00:28:21.150 - was a great year you know so it's just we weren't supposed to do shows 00:28:22.018 --> 00:28:29.561 - In the space. Well, thanks for all your work. Roses was just such a... It's one of the only all-ages 00:28:29.561 --> 00:28:37.253 - spaces in Bloomington. I want to try and find something new. It's a loss to the community. I'm working 00:28:37.253 --> 00:28:44.722 - with one of the primary organizers of events in that space to think through other options. It's not 00:28:44.722 --> 00:28:51.518 - easy right now, but I'm happy to talk with you about that too. But it sucks and I'm sorry. 00:28:51.682 --> 00:28:57.314 - Yeah, it's just, no, I mean, it's just the rent-sinking behavior, you know, and then you have to, 00:28:57.314 --> 00:29:03.232 - you know, adapt to that. And then it's just, you have to please a landlord and, you know, you have to, 00:29:03.232 --> 00:29:09.151 - that's a whole balance. You know what I mean? It's just like, it's like, if you want to do big events, 00:29:09.151 --> 00:29:15.013 - you know, there's so much that goes with that. And it's just like, I love that there's so many people 00:29:15.013 --> 00:29:17.886 - willing to take on that work, but it's just like, 00:29:18.242 --> 00:29:27.906 - the landlord wasn't willing to see any value in that for some reason. So. It's a Bloomington issue, 00:29:27.906 --> 00:29:38.054 - you know? Yeah, yeah. The landlords, I don't know. It's just they, you know. Yeah. Maybe landlord. Maybe 00:29:38.054 --> 00:29:46.558 - seeking the rent. I have one good positive thing. It was the tending night in the house 00:29:47.106 --> 00:29:53.755 - gallery, an event that happened, and I don't know if anybody went to it. Did you go? No. It was the 00:29:53.755 --> 00:30:00.538 - one put on by Faye last year. Oh, yes. I was there very late. Really? Okay. Yeah. I was there, and it 00:30:00.538 --> 00:30:07.254 - was a great event. It was in a house, and it was, luckily, the person who owned the house allowed it 00:30:07.254 --> 00:30:14.302 - to happen, so we didn't have any problems with landlords or anything, but it was a really positive thing. 00:30:14.594 --> 00:30:23.843 - It was also a fundraiser for SNAP. So it solved a couple of things, not just art, but it was lovely. 00:30:23.843 --> 00:30:33.001 - And it was just the kind of thing we need more of in Bloomington. I love what you're talking about. 00:30:33.001 --> 00:30:43.166 - So how can we do that? I don't know. I don't know how to do it. I have one. My wife and I like to see theater. 00:30:43.714 --> 00:30:54.521 - And it was good theater this year, but when it stood out particularly was the Jewish theater production 00:30:54.521 --> 00:31:05.535 - of Arthur Miller's The Price, which was just so well done. Mine is more so just like a concept in general 00:31:05.535 --> 00:31:07.198 - from this year. 00:31:07.682 --> 00:31:15.442 - my partner, he's never really been exposed to this whole public art world. So it's just like, what? 00:31:15.442 --> 00:31:23.513 - What? So just seeing his reaction, because we went to OT 987 and him seeing that, and then we went back 00:31:23.513 --> 00:31:31.507 - later when it was dark, and he was like. Or when we went to AAAI when they had their puppery. And just 00:31:31.507 --> 00:31:36.318 - seeing his reaction to things, because he's just never really 00:31:37.410 --> 00:31:44.960 - You know, he's from construction, so it's just like two different worlds. But just like to just see 00:31:44.960 --> 00:31:52.511 - that reaction of like, he's like, wow, I didn't know all this kind of existed. And it's just really 00:31:52.511 --> 00:32:00.136 - cool that you're introducing me to a lot of things, so. Yeah, that's a good feeling. That's so cute. 00:32:00.136 --> 00:32:05.950 - I've got a selfish one. There was a game I developed for South Bend in 2000. 00:32:06.146 --> 00:32:14.565 - 1415, where there's maybe 160 yards across the river and there's towers on either side. When you wave 00:32:14.565 --> 00:32:22.819 - your hands this way and it sends a ball of light across the water and if somebody on the other side 00:32:22.819 --> 00:32:24.222 - catches it, like 00:32:24.674 --> 00:32:31.950 - they're just sensors that are watching your hands, then the whole place bursts into like rainbows. And 00:32:31.950 --> 00:32:39.155 - we had a lot of interference with it because of giant bugs that are near the water. And we can't tune 00:32:39.155 --> 00:32:46.360 - it out. So we developed a new game that opened this last year, actually in September, where there are 00:32:46.360 --> 00:32:51.870 - a series of towers where it's a color mixing game. So there's three stations. 00:32:52.002 --> 00:33:02.298 - public can get out there and mix the secondary colors of light. But it's really explosive at times. 00:33:02.298 --> 00:33:13.005 - So that's been a great success. And we got yet another contract to do it yet another bridge this coming 00:33:13.005 --> 00:33:20.830 - year. So yeah, there's a lot of light in South Bend. I guess my good thing. 00:33:21.058 --> 00:33:28.281 - getting involved with the commission honestly it's been I've been able to meet a lot of people and learn 00:33:28.281 --> 00:33:35.435 - about a lot of the art spaces here so I feel like I it wouldn't have taken me longer to do that without 00:33:35.435 --> 00:33:43.070 - this commission so happy to think that's my one good 2025 I'm sure there's many more but I just can't remember 00:33:44.162 --> 00:33:53.271 - That's a lot of art this year. I actually just found out a few weeks ago that I got an Andy Warhol artist 00:33:53.271 --> 00:34:02.036 - writers grant to write about the censorship of art concerning Palestine in the United States. So it's 00:34:02.036 --> 00:34:07.966 - a grant to commission an article to write about that. It's exciting. 00:34:08.066 --> 00:34:18.813 - Yeah, it's cool. That's huge. Yeah, so I'm really excited about that. So project for next year. Yeah, 00:34:18.813 --> 00:34:29.665 - yeah, there's a lot I could recap from this year. I think that if I'm thinking of 2025 when I two sort 00:34:29.665 --> 00:34:36.830 - of like selfish thing and then one kind of like, I don't know, like 00:34:36.962 --> 00:34:46.226 - I mean, the one thing I'll mention is Natalie and sort of like the disruption midpoint in the air that 00:34:46.226 --> 00:34:55.489 - was like, I think, yeah, that was just a really big blow to the commission and something that's still, 00:34:55.489 --> 00:35:04.933 - I don't, I mean, I know we've moved on, but I don't think it's like solely been fully sort of like fixed 00:35:04.933 --> 00:35:06.462 - in a sense. And, 00:35:07.298 --> 00:35:14.537 - So, but I, you know, it was really heartening to kind of see the way that we all responded as a commission 00:35:14.537 --> 00:35:21.505 - and also see the way that the public responded as well and then kind of like how we support each other 00:35:21.505 --> 00:35:28.811 - and stand up for each other. So there was, you know, there was some, a silver lining there. My own personal 00:35:28.811 --> 00:35:29.758 - sort of like, 00:35:30.178 --> 00:35:37.486 - artistic experiences this year. I'll think of performing in Buffy Prom. I got to play as part of a Killers 00:35:37.486 --> 00:35:44.657 - cover band, which is a ton of fun. And then going to Soul Talk. Oh my god, Soul Talk. Just like totally, 00:35:44.657 --> 00:35:50.462 - like just blew my mind. So yeah, those are I think some of my highlights from there. 00:35:50.818 --> 00:35:58.465 - Yeah, definitely agree about Natalie. And I think also just the community showing up for her at that 00:35:58.465 --> 00:36:06.112 - meeting was really impactful. It just shows it goes beyond this room. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I took 00:36:06.112 --> 00:36:14.138 - up line dancing this year, which is something. As someone who grew up hating country music and everything 00:36:14.138 --> 00:36:20.574 - affiliated with that culture, the 13-year-old version of myself is very angry at me. 00:36:20.738 --> 00:36:27.362 - So much fun. And it's just such a cool community. And it's right upstairs from Honky Tonk at the block 00:36:27.362 --> 00:36:33.921 - house every Tuesday night. So that's been super fun and completely unexpected. And the other thing is 00:36:33.921 --> 00:36:40.545 - my dad and I got tattoos together this year. So he's always been like super anti-tattoo. But he's also 00:36:40.545 --> 00:36:46.718 - he's a bug scientist. So this is what reminded me of it, Rob. It's like that. And his favorite. 00:36:46.978 --> 00:36:53.247 - Bug is the mayfly for reasons that are too subtle for me to understand. And so he decided he wanted 00:36:53.247 --> 00:36:59.578 - to get a tattoo of a mayfly. So I went and visited him last winter. And I was like, dad, we're going 00:36:59.578 --> 00:37:05.972 - to do it. And I found an artist that specialized in black and white line designs of nature. And so my 00:37:05.972 --> 00:37:12.304 - dad and I found this really cool rendering of a mayfly in an old insect book and sent it to him. And 00:37:12.304 --> 00:37:14.686 - he made this awesome rendering of it. 00:37:14.786 --> 00:37:21.799 - And we both went and got them when I was there. And it was just like super cool. My dad finally like 00:37:21.799 --> 00:37:28.743 - opened up to the artist about why he loved Mayflies. And so I finally got to find out like why. And 00:37:28.743 --> 00:37:35.895 - it was just this whole new experience of my family that I didn't expect. So it was very cool. But your 00:37:35.895 --> 00:37:36.798 - first thing. 00:37:37.634 --> 00:37:48.311 - Maybe you'll go to the demolition derby at this state. The whole extension of that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, 00:37:48.311 --> 00:37:58.780 - yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I think we'd also be remiss if we didn't mention OT six. Finally getting in 00:37:58.780 --> 00:38:06.526 - the ground. I would say the minute, you know, until that first double arc 00:38:07.010 --> 00:38:19.220 - went into the ground. I was just like, boy, I'm going to get run out of town. And the moment it went 00:38:19.220 --> 00:38:32.638 - into the ground, I was like, oh. What? Six years. Six years. Did it go away? Oh. Wait. Helen, can you hear us? 00:38:36.450 --> 00:38:52.538 - Oh, there she is. Hold on. It might just be how I have to do this. There she is. Oh, wait, you're muted. 00:38:52.538 --> 00:38:56.062 - I'm so sorry I'm late. 00:38:56.482 --> 00:39:05.482 - It took me a while to figure out where I had put the meeting link. I'm so sorry. We're just wrapping 00:39:05.482 --> 00:39:14.482 - up. And actually, your timing is perfect. We're just sharing a highlight or two in the arts from the 00:39:14.482 --> 00:39:23.482 - past year. Is there a particular event you attended or artistic thing that you did or just a special 00:39:23.482 --> 00:39:26.334 - artistic moment this past year? 00:39:27.330 --> 00:39:37.922 - Well, I don't know. Well, two things. I was fortunate enough to be able to attend the Adventures of 00:39:37.922 --> 00:39:48.725 - Cavalier and Clay at the Met in New York, which was really amazing. And so I'm very, very lucky to be 00:39:48.725 --> 00:39:50.526 - able to do that. 00:39:51.554 --> 00:40:01.779 - Aver Bush of the School of Music invited me and my husband, and we were able to go. And I also just 00:40:01.779 --> 00:40:11.902 - was lucky enough to go with a friend at the movie theater to see Sondheim's Merrily We Roll Along. 00:40:12.098 --> 00:40:22.481 - which was great fun and I still have it in my ear. And I'm looking forward to IU Theater presenting 00:40:22.481 --> 00:40:32.864 - that, I think, this spring. That'll be great, yeah. Great. Cool, well that, yeah. Cool, well, yeah, 00:40:32.864 --> 00:40:39.198 - that's, yeah, that's, I think that's the end of the meeting. 00:40:39.362 --> 00:40:57.949 - No public comment. I'll check in about getting in touch sometime soon. Okay, great. I'm going to put 00:40:57.949 --> 00:41:06.782 - this link somewhere where I can find it better. 00:41:08.514 --> 00:41:17.718 - Yeah, we can also make sure it's included in that email. Yeah, sorry about that. But thank you for letting 00:41:17.718 --> 00:41:26.492 - me join you right here at the tail end. Yeah, of course. It's good to hear from you. Good to see you. 00:41:26.492 --> 00:41:36.126 - And yeah, I'll just... Yeah, I wish everyone a happy holiday season. Thanks for being here. Thanks for sharing. 00:41:36.322 --> 00:41:42.334 - your moments from the past year and yeah let's go party.