WEBVTT 00:00:00.482 --> 00:00:07.925 - Hi, everyone. The meeting will now come to order. So first, let's do roll call. I'll start and then 00:00:07.925 --> 00:00:15.442 - we'll go to Gerard. So I'm Neda Delrahim, Chair of the Bloomington Arts Commission, and I'm present. 00:00:15.442 --> 00:00:23.109 - Gerard Ponacook, Co-Chair of the Grant Subcommittee, present. Rebecca Keough, Chair of the Public Arts 00:00:23.109 --> 00:00:28.542 - Subcommittee, present. Colin Dugger, I'm present. Austin White, present. 00:00:29.378 --> 00:00:37.703 - Paige Sharp, city staff. Crutch and Null, present. Betsy Stewart, present. Paul Anderson, present. Christina 00:00:37.703 --> 00:00:45.951 - Elam, city staff. OK, thank you, everyone. So next on the agenda is approval of minutes. So the secretary's 00:00:45.951 --> 00:00:53.589 - draft of the minutes of the July meeting was sent to you all, and a copy is in your meeting packet. 00:00:53.589 --> 00:00:58.782 - Are there any corrections to the minutes as distributed? OK, great. 00:00:59.074 --> 00:01:06.543 - If there are no corrections, I move to approve the minutes as distributed. Can I get a second? Second. 00:01:06.543 --> 00:01:13.795 - Thank you. All in favor say yes. Yes. All right. Those opposed say no. Great. Minutes are approved. 00:01:13.795 --> 00:01:21.264 - Next, we will go over to the city staff for updates. This has been the same budget that we have shared 00:01:21.264 --> 00:01:26.558 - at the last several meetings and that nothing has changed at this point. 00:01:33.730 --> 00:01:42.173 - It's like, one of the only times you'll have Paige be very succinct. You're like, thank god. Let's keep 00:01:42.173 --> 00:01:50.697 - it that way, Paige, and we'll give it a shot. Yeah, so any questions about the static budget? All right, 00:01:50.697 --> 00:01:57.598 - cool. All right. Do you want to just roll into it? I'll just roll into it. Yes, yes. 00:01:58.498 --> 00:02:04.710 - I just wanted to let you guys know about it, and maybe you were on the email string and I wasn't a presence 00:02:04.710 --> 00:02:10.807 - of mind to notice, but we did receive an email from Jan and Alexandra, who is a 2025 artistic advancement 00:02:10.807 --> 00:02:14.718 - grant recipient. You received that? Did everybody receive that? No. 00:02:15.106 --> 00:02:23.281 - So it's just one of those great testimonials of how valuable this program really is, because she learned 00:02:23.281 --> 00:02:31.067 - that her book of poems come from had been shortlisted for the 2026 Indiana Authors Award in Poetry. 00:02:31.067 --> 00:02:37.374 - And the finalists, the selected awardees will be determined August, I think, 19. 00:02:38.050 --> 00:02:44.328 - bookmarked it on my calendar so I would know but it was a book that she was able to publish as a result 00:02:44.328 --> 00:02:50.364 - of this funding so this would not have happened without the funding that this grant provided and so 00:02:50.364 --> 00:02:56.641 - I wanted to share that as part of our journey towards storytelling and also you know that the work that 00:02:56.641 --> 00:03:01.470 - you're doing is truly truly valuable when we grant out dollars even though it's 00:03:01.762 --> 00:03:08.061 - 800 or a thousand, it's still really impactful. I've always told people artists are amazing. They could 00:03:08.061 --> 00:03:14.177 - use like a stick of gum and a pencil and a glue stick and they can make incredible things happen and 00:03:14.177 --> 00:03:20.294 - because they're creative and they're amazing people. So fingers crossed that Shannon will be able to 00:03:20.294 --> 00:03:26.532 - cross that finish line. I had a wonderful conversation about her book. She was one of the participants 00:03:26.532 --> 00:03:30.590 - in the Gallery Walk exhibition program that opened up last Friday. 00:03:30.946 --> 00:03:38.155 - this we will click on that and then also wanted to introduce Colin Dugger our new member. Thanks for 00:03:38.155 --> 00:03:46.006 - having me. Why don't you just share a little bit about yourself. Okay yeah so I'm from Bloomington originally 00:03:46.006 --> 00:03:53.143 - moved around a few times. We were talking about it earlier we're gonna dental office by day. I do a 00:03:53.143 --> 00:03:58.782 - lot of DJ gigs around the town on the weekends. I've actually known Austin for 00:03:58.882 --> 00:04:05.402 - quite a while. I have a bachelor's degree in music. So it's kind of like music-oriented. It's more of 00:04:05.402 --> 00:04:12.241 - my artistic stuff, I guess, I have to offer. But I have a lot of friends in the community that are artists 00:04:12.241 --> 00:04:18.888 - in all different sorts of facets. And yeah, just seemed like a good opportunity to kind of get involved 00:04:18.888 --> 00:04:25.152 - in the community and, yeah, learn a little bit more about it. So glad to be here. Great. Awesome. 00:04:25.152 --> 00:04:26.878 - Thank you, Colin. And hey. 00:04:27.042 --> 00:04:33.866 - He is going to serve on the grants subcommittee, which I'm really excited about. I'm really excited 00:04:33.866 --> 00:04:40.827 - about Colin. As a creative entrepreneur, we're really deepening our focus in the arts division around 00:04:40.827 --> 00:04:47.719 - creative entrepreneurship, which leads to my third and final topic for the staff report, and that is 00:04:47.719 --> 00:04:55.294 - the REDI grant, which is an acronym for Regional Economic Accelerated Development Initiative, really mouthful. 00:04:55.458 --> 00:05:02.958 - And the state has put in, at this point, a billion dollars into economic development through this program. 00:05:02.958 --> 00:05:10.108 - What came alongside was funding from Lilly for arts and cultural grants. So when I was consulting for 00:05:10.108 --> 00:05:17.258 - the city, I partnered with Indiana University's research division to put in an application with eight 00:05:17.258 --> 00:05:23.006 - other partners requesting 3.5 million. Hey, Rob. And that application was funded. 00:05:23.522 --> 00:05:35.233 - So the good news is we'll be building artist studios in the admin showers building. And then what other 00:05:35.233 --> 00:05:46.494 - key elements? There is funding that will go towards Switchard Park, infrastructure needs, regional, 00:05:47.394 --> 00:05:53.875 - website for an artist directory and also connecting artists across the 11 county region, which will 00:05:53.875 --> 00:06:00.357 - be really great, and many other things. So we're excited to participate in that funded application. 00:06:00.357 --> 00:06:07.033 - And we're already getting started on developing those studios. Any questions on that? All right, cool. 00:06:07.033 --> 00:06:13.774 - And that is it for me. Yes. I'm just going to interject and say, can we have our two commissioners that 00:06:13.774 --> 00:06:15.070 - just joined us just 00:06:15.426 --> 00:06:23.362 - say their names so we know that they're present. Bob Shakespeare, present. Lynn Hooker, present. OK, 00:06:23.362 --> 00:06:31.534 - thank you. And then just, I think you guys just missed it, but Paige introduced Colin, who's our newest 00:06:31.534 --> 00:06:39.391 - commissioner. Hi, Colin. I'm Bob. Nice to meet you. Great. Going to be joining a grant subcommittee 00:06:39.391 --> 00:06:44.734 - as well. OK. All right. So next, we will go to updates from grants. 00:06:45.026 --> 00:06:51.741 - I guess, yes. We have two grants on the agenda today. So first to grants. Great. Well, a busy agenda 00:06:51.741 --> 00:06:58.655 - for grants, busy report here today. The grants committee is hijacking this meeting a little bit to also 00:06:58.655 --> 00:07:05.303 - kind of have our own meeting. We're going to be voting on a couple of things because it's just been 00:07:05.303 --> 00:07:12.150 - difficult to get the group together. And this sort of matched the timeline for a couple of things that 00:07:12.150 --> 00:07:14.078 - we have coming up here soon. 00:07:15.650 --> 00:07:22.433 - First thing is we're going to vote on last meeting's minutes. This is just for the members of the grants 00:07:22.433 --> 00:07:28.957 - committee. And, Colin, I believe this includes you, but you're welcome to abstain since. Yeah. Yeah. 00:07:28.957 --> 00:07:34.964 - Yes. So the minutes from the last grant subcommittee meeting were distributed. Are there any 00:07:34.964 --> 00:07:41.811 - noted corrections from the grant? This is just, again, grants subcommittee members. Any noted corrections 00:07:41.811 --> 00:07:42.974 - to those minutes? 00:07:44.610 --> 00:07:51.465 - Great. I'm going to motion to vote on those minutes. Can I get a second? Second. Thank you, Paul. All 00:07:51.465 --> 00:07:58.388 - in favor of the grant subcommittee meeting, say yes. Yes. Any opposed, say no. Okay, great. The grants 00:07:58.388 --> 00:08:05.108 - meeting minutes are approved. Thank you all. We have one more vote, but that will come a little bit 00:08:05.108 --> 00:08:05.982 - later. Okay. 00:08:06.498 --> 00:08:17.266 - Next quick report is on the artistic advancement grants. So that window closed earlier this week on 00:08:17.266 --> 00:08:28.356 - Monday, and I believe we received 82 applications. Yeah, which is a lot. Yeah, and so the plan is, and 00:08:28.356 --> 00:08:34.494 - I think Paige and I are gonna huddle a little about this 00:08:34.626 --> 00:08:41.253 - to discuss after this meeting, but in short, the plan is to put together the sort of like review committee 00:08:41.253 --> 00:08:47.756 - for that, which I hope will involve as many people here as possible, and most likely some outside guests 00:08:47.756 --> 00:08:54.383 - as well, just because of the size of the pool that we're looking at. We will distribute those applications 00:08:54.383 --> 00:09:00.762 - in the next week or two, and are hoping to review those in mid-September. And I will send out a doodle 00:09:00.762 --> 00:09:02.558 - poll shortly to kind of like 00:09:02.754 --> 00:09:09.958 - confirm dates and times for folks to meet. We'll likely do it in two windows again and we'll try to, 00:09:09.958 --> 00:09:17.377 - I think, we'll likely have the committee members at both of those meetings and then try to use up folks 00:09:17.377 --> 00:09:24.653 - to maybe either come to one of those meetings and kind of like how we did for the project grants. But 00:09:24.653 --> 00:09:31.358 - all in all, I mean, I think that's a really successful window to have that many applications. 00:09:31.522 --> 00:09:41.953 - and I look forward to reviewing them with you all. So the next thing, moving on, because Art doesn't 00:09:41.953 --> 00:09:52.487 - sleep, grants don't sleep, operations grants. That window is going to open up next week. Yes, Monday. 00:09:52.487 --> 00:10:00.542 - And with that were a couple of changes that we made to the application, Paul. 00:10:00.770 --> 00:10:08.503 - and Paige I think both lended their expertise into adjusting the guidelines and the application for 00:10:08.503 --> 00:10:17.009 - the operations grants. Just a quick review for folks that grant is for just for 501c3 nonprofit organizations 00:10:17.009 --> 00:10:23.582 - working in operating in Bloomington can apply for funds up to I believe it's $5,000. 00:10:23.746 --> 00:10:29.965 - And yeah, that one ends up being a much smaller pool, but the applications are a little bit longer and 00:10:29.965 --> 00:10:36.546 - more detailed because we're just reviewing more information. So yes, so those guidelines and the application 00:10:36.546 --> 00:10:42.825 - were included in the materials for today. And I am wondering if there were any, before we moved to vote 00:10:42.825 --> 00:10:49.406 - to approve those, if there are any comments or concerns or questions about the materials that were provided. 00:10:52.578 --> 00:10:59.777 - asking all of us or just the grants committee? Since they were included in the packet for everyone, 00:10:59.777 --> 00:11:07.551 - I'm open to hear comments from the group. I honestly cannot remember how different it was from the previous 00:11:07.551 --> 00:11:13.022 - years. Was there a lot of changes made or is it just the highlighted stuff? 00:11:14.498 --> 00:11:20.420 - I think there were a good amount of changes. There were a lot of changes. We streamlined it and removed 00:11:20.420 --> 00:11:26.114 - some of the redundant questions and aligned it with the criteria as effectively as possible because 00:11:26.114 --> 00:11:31.866 - it's only $5,000. And so try not to ask as much information except for more necessary information to 00:11:31.866 --> 00:11:37.959 - make a funding decision. And any of the things that were highlighted on the application were just optional 00:11:37.959 --> 00:11:43.710 - as opposed to being required. So that was for Jeremy, who puts the application in the online system. 00:11:43.970 --> 00:11:50.380 - That's what those are about. And in terms of the guidelines, there were really very few changes other 00:11:50.380 --> 00:11:56.915 - than the evaluation criteria and I think removal of the 5% of the budget because that was just too much 00:11:56.915 --> 00:12:03.199 - of a layer of complexity. And so we were just going to fund by the request amount and budget bands. 00:12:03.199 --> 00:12:09.860 - And so we asked what their annual operating income and expenses were so we can help identify those bands. 00:12:09.860 --> 00:12:11.934 - I thought it looked really good. 00:12:14.082 --> 00:12:22.779 - I'd like to just add that there's been a big change in our approach to grants reviewing. Just less than 00:12:22.779 --> 00:12:31.477 - three years ago when I started on the committee, some of those grant programs, the reviewers would rate 00:12:31.477 --> 00:12:40.174 - each application a high, a medium, or a low without any specific criteria. Just kind of generally, this 00:12:40.174 --> 00:12:42.014 - is what seemed right. 00:12:42.498 --> 00:12:53.165 - And now there are, I think, excellent criteria for each of them. Oh, yeah. That's huge, what you guys 00:12:53.165 --> 00:13:04.146 - did. Paul did a lot of that mental work. So yeah, thank you, Paul, for helping. Are you patting yourself 00:13:04.146 --> 00:13:10.526 - on the back right now? Yeah. No. Sorry. Good job. Great. OK. 00:13:10.658 --> 00:13:17.859 - If there are no other comments, and I would like to, again, looking at just the grant subcommittee, 00:13:17.859 --> 00:13:25.132 - vote on the approval of those guidelines and applications with, what's the word? Minor changes. With 00:13:25.132 --> 00:13:32.981 - minor changes. So yeah, yes. So, well, first of all, can I get a second to, motion to vote on the materials. 00:13:32.981 --> 00:13:36.798 - Can I get a second? Second. From a committee member. 00:13:36.930 --> 00:13:50.921 - Okay so all in favor of the operations grant guidelines and application with changes say yes. This is 00:13:50.921 --> 00:14:03.678 - grants committee. Any opposed say no. Okay great the materials are ready to go those will be 00:14:03.778 --> 00:14:12.064 - Yeah, Paige and Christina, I think. Thank you for your diligent work on getting those. Well, then, yeah, 00:14:12.064 --> 00:14:20.114 - here we go. OK, so I have one quick thing. This is the worst thing on my list. I'm really, really sad 00:14:20.114 --> 00:14:28.084 - to be delivering this news, but Paula's going to be leaving the commission. She's going to be moving 00:14:28.084 --> 00:14:33.214 - to Washington. And so we're going to Washington. Yeah. Yeah. Oh. 00:14:33.570 --> 00:14:40.335 - Yeah, and so yeah, we'll obviously no longer be serving on the Grants Committee or the Arts Commission. 00:14:40.335 --> 00:14:46.970 - And yeah, I mean, I think that's certainly a major loss for the commission. But really, thank you for 00:14:46.970 --> 00:14:53.735 - everything that you've done on your time here and the thoughtfulness and care that you've put into both 00:14:53.735 --> 00:14:57.182 - public art and Grants Committee work, so. Thank you. 00:15:02.018 --> 00:15:09.693 - Those are all my items, Paul, did you? No, I think it, Gerard has always minimized his own role. He's 00:15:09.693 --> 00:15:17.217 - clearly the leader of these efforts. And I just kind of tag along as best I can. But thank you all. 00:15:17.217 --> 00:15:24.967 - It's been great working with you. One of the things that's interesting to me is that if we look around 00:15:24.967 --> 00:15:30.686 - the table here, I haven't, in January I would end my first three year term. 00:15:31.810 --> 00:15:40.251 - And right now, more than half the people around this table were not here when I started less than three 00:15:40.251 --> 00:15:48.610 - years ago. So it's been a tremendous turnover and also a wonderful transfer of the baton, because such 00:15:48.610 --> 00:15:57.213 - great people have come in to take places of other people who were also great. So it's a great commission. 00:15:57.213 --> 00:16:01.758 - And we have a little thing for you from the commission. 00:16:02.466 --> 00:16:17.473 - Thank you so much for everything you've done for us. We appreciate your work. So thank you so much. 00:16:17.473 --> 00:16:32.030 - We're really sly about it. That concludes the Grants Committee Report. I see there's two grants. 00:16:32.354 --> 00:16:38.567 - related stuff on the agenda, do you need the second one, Gerard, or is that all you needed to do? I 00:16:38.567 --> 00:16:44.905 - don't know why there was two, but. I think that was just an error on our part, perhaps, so let's just 00:16:44.905 --> 00:16:47.390 - skip it. All right, so we'll skip that. 00:16:47.682 --> 00:16:54.423 - Oh, yeah, that's done for now. I can be done talking today, so. Can I give you the second thing? No, 00:16:54.423 --> 00:17:01.697 - I'll go ahead, yeah. Check back. All right. Well, thank you so much for the updates and the grants committee 00:17:01.697 --> 00:17:08.371 - for voting on a couple of things today. We will now go to me, I guess. And I don't have any updates 00:17:08.371 --> 00:17:13.310 - or anything to share. So then we'll now go to Rebecca for public art. OK. 00:17:13.474 --> 00:17:22.067 - Yesterday we met as a public art subcommittee, so I'll just try to move through just some updates that 00:17:22.067 --> 00:17:30.660 - we shared at our meeting yesterday. So a couple of, a few things from the DBI initiative, the Downtown 00:17:30.660 --> 00:17:35.582 - Bloomington, Inc. initiative. So there's the Uptown mural. 00:17:35.970 --> 00:17:43.231 - The one that's called Christina? Yeah. The Uptown Mural, there's a call out for RFP. So it's open until 00:17:43.231 --> 00:17:50.561 - the 21st of August. So that's open now. The traffic boxes, the first one of five is completed. So that's 00:17:50.561 --> 00:17:57.752 - by the Constellation stage and screen. The next one is set to start on the 10th, so actually just this 00:17:57.752 --> 00:18:03.966 - week. Earlier this week, that's at the corner of College and Six, so by Social Pantinia. 00:18:04.130 --> 00:18:12.420 - So that one will be heading getting underway. And then the third one of five by in front of the bus 00:18:12.420 --> 00:18:20.959 - station to be complete to start by the 17th or the 17th. So I made a typo on the agenda before that'll 00:18:20.959 --> 00:18:26.430 - be in front of the bus station. So third and walnut. Right. Yeah. 00:18:26.530 --> 00:18:34.161 - And then World Foods Market, they're installing a mural on their building, so they've selected an artist, 00:18:34.161 --> 00:18:41.504 - and so they're gonna be in the design phase of that. So those are all the DBI initiative updates. And 00:18:41.504 --> 00:18:49.135 - then we had Drew Collins, the Cox Scholar intern, give a little mini presentation yesterday to the public 00:18:49.135 --> 00:18:55.614 - art committee. He's back for his senior year, I think, right? Yeah, working for the city. 00:18:55.714 --> 00:19:02.350 - And he's made significant progress on the GIS public art map. It's up on the website. I'll have some 00:19:02.350 --> 00:19:09.184 - minutes that I can share for the public art committee for next month about all of that. But he's making 00:19:09.184 --> 00:19:15.951 - significant progress. So I don't know if Christina or Paige, you want to share a little bit more about 00:19:15.951 --> 00:19:22.522 - that, what he shared yesterday? Oh, yeah. I'm sorry. I was spacing out a little bit. The public art 00:19:22.522 --> 00:19:25.150 - inventory is so important to us because 00:19:25.922 --> 00:19:32.156 - documentation so that if anybody leaves, we actually know what the inventory of public art is, but also 00:19:32.156 --> 00:19:38.389 - including the values of the pieces so that we can get them insured, which is super helpful. And so he's 00:19:38.389 --> 00:19:44.503 - done so much recon. Drew's just done a great job. And the condition assessment that he's put together 00:19:44.503 --> 00:19:45.342 - is based upon 00:19:45.442 --> 00:19:51.165 - you know, models around the country. And so he's, and we just had a blast working on this. You'd think 00:19:51.165 --> 00:19:56.722 - like collecting data, wow, that's really fun. But it's great to know that we have this available to 00:19:56.722 --> 00:20:02.723 - us. And he's almost, I think he's only got like maybe 20 more pieces to go and then we'll have it completed 00:20:02.723 --> 00:20:08.724 - so that we can understand what kind of maintenance needs that we have so we can start fixing the collection 00:20:08.724 --> 00:20:09.502 - that we have. 00:20:09.698 --> 00:20:15.316 - I'm really excited about that work because next up we're all working towards policies because he calls 00:20:15.316 --> 00:20:21.098 - pages policies because I'm policy obsessed because I like to have policies so we know what the guidelines 00:20:21.098 --> 00:20:26.661 - are and from which we're going to operate. So this is a great strategic direction for that. So super, 00:20:26.661 --> 00:20:32.116 - super appreciative of all his efforts. And so yeah, that concluded our meeting yesterday and we did 00:20:32.116 --> 00:20:37.625 - adjourned. So that's all the updates I have. Oh, I did want to add how much I appreciate Rob and all 00:20:37.625 --> 00:20:38.334 - of his help. 00:20:38.434 --> 00:20:44.636 - with OT 987, which I just feel like is a great name for a little robot that's going to get up and like 00:20:44.636 --> 00:20:50.777 - leap. But it's that sculpture in the trades district. It's really colorful. I love these like sticks, 00:20:50.777 --> 00:20:57.159 - I guess, for lack of a better word. But it's supposed to be lighted, and it's supposed to do these really 00:20:57.159 --> 00:21:01.374 - cool things. And Ram has just really gotten out of his way to help me 00:21:01.442 --> 00:21:07.287 - and the city identified what the issue is and finding somebody to help us get it fixed. So thank you 00:21:07.287 --> 00:21:13.248 - for all your help. It's not working. No, it's really not. I didn't know. No. I'm surprised. I've heard 00:21:13.248 --> 00:21:19.383 - from so many people it's not working. So we really want to get it to work. It's so disappointing, because 00:21:19.383 --> 00:21:25.170 - it's pretty new. It's really good for a short time, and then it's not applying to work anymore. And 00:21:25.170 --> 00:21:28.990 - so then we fixed it for a lot of money, and then so we are again. 00:21:29.090 --> 00:21:35.973 - We'll find a solution. Thank god we have Rob, because he's super smart. We went on the hottest day of 00:21:35.973 --> 00:21:42.856 - the year with a big black box in the sun drenched. I sent Henley to go get an umbrella. So while he's 00:21:42.856 --> 00:21:49.738 - tinkering in there talking to his friend in Colorado to try to diagnose the equipment, it was really, 00:21:49.738 --> 00:21:54.462 - talk about above and beyond. It was a mess. But he was able to do it. 00:21:54.722 --> 00:22:02.282 - So we're getting so close, you guys. It's very exciting. That piece is awesome. But man, is it just 00:22:02.282 --> 00:22:09.993 - like the piece that just keeps giving. It was such an effort to get there in the ground. And then I'm 00:22:09.993 --> 00:22:17.553 - like, whew, man. It makes you think about how you select things. That's what it does. All of it has 00:22:17.553 --> 00:22:20.350 - to be considered from the beginning. 00:22:20.546 --> 00:22:27.821 - Including wait for it maintenance. Oh, and I guess our other final update is that Betsy is new. She's 00:22:27.821 --> 00:22:35.026 - transferred from the grants to the Public Art Committee. So yeah, she's joining us to the Public Art 00:22:35.026 --> 00:22:42.515 - Committee. So we're looking forward to helping. Yeah, looking forward to helping her on there. So that's 00:22:42.515 --> 00:22:47.294 - it for Public Art. Thank you, Rebecca. And then Grant's jarred has 00:22:47.746 --> 00:22:54.989 - told us everything that we need to know. We're from Grant, so let's get the agenda item number seven. 00:22:54.989 --> 00:23:02.374 - Next on the agenda is upcoming events and important dates. I just looked at it, and it's pretty sparse. 00:23:02.374 --> 00:23:09.616 - Yeah. So I don't know if it's just nothing's happening, or we've all kind of just slacked a little on 00:23:09.616 --> 00:23:14.942 - putting in some of the events. But does anyone know of any events? Please. 00:23:15.042 --> 00:23:22.923 - Feel free to put them in. You can give us some of them now, and then we can put them in later. I know 00:23:22.923 --> 00:23:30.803 - on our side, through Arts in a Minute, things will start up in September, like October and stuff. But 00:23:30.803 --> 00:23:38.839 - I think right now, the first Thursday's festival will start up. Or is that what you're putting in right 00:23:38.839 --> 00:23:42.238 - now? Yeah. Just because we both work at IU. 00:23:42.338 --> 00:23:49.708 - Things will start up again in September, but I think right now it's pretty dead just around town. It 00:23:49.708 --> 00:23:53.502 - is like we're technically on summer vacation. Yeah. 00:23:53.666 --> 00:23:58.867 - Yeah. I don't think much is happening. Things will start up when students come back here in a few weeks. 00:23:58.867 --> 00:24:03.820 - But if anyone thinks of anything or has any. Is there a date for the Forest Creek Festival yet? Oh, 00:24:03.820 --> 00:24:08.475 - that's a good question. And that's such a repeating thing. Is that happening? There was talk. 00:24:08.475 --> 00:24:13.726 - I think it is. But there was talk about it not happening for a while. But I'm pretty sure it's happening. 00:24:13.726 --> 00:24:18.778 - I believe it's happening. And I think it's typically on Labor Day weekend. So that would be my guess. 00:24:18.778 --> 00:24:23.582 - So immediately following the first Thursday. September 5th and 6th. Maybe September 5th and 6th. 00:24:23.874 --> 00:24:31.457 - And this is a little further out, but Lotus is October 1st through 4th. Yeah, that's right. Well, 00:24:31.457 --> 00:24:39.194 - as you know, you hear of or anything comes up, just make note of an event. And you can either email 00:24:39.194 --> 00:24:46.931 - us if it's kind of hard for you to get it on the sheet or on the Google Sheet, or you can put it in 00:24:46.931 --> 00:24:52.734 - yourself if you want. But it's always good to see what's going on in town. 00:24:53.986 --> 00:25:01.266 - There's Duran Jones and the indications, the grand saloon concert series at Switchard Park, and that's 00:25:01.266 --> 00:25:08.758 - August 29th. Yeah. Is that the only thing that's up there? Yeah. That's awesome. Way to go, Paige. August 00:25:08.758 --> 00:25:15.897 - 24th, there's a Lotus Blossoms concert in the Lotus Fire Bay with David Greeley and Amelia Buren. Is 00:25:15.897 --> 00:25:23.742 - that thunder or lightning? I'm not sure. I hope so. I hope so, too. Gosh, I hope somebody didn't just like it. 00:25:24.578 --> 00:25:35.404 - Bloomington has been found. Uh-oh. That would be so great. I've been waiting for it to happen. Clearly. 00:25:35.404 --> 00:25:45.918 - That could be trash. Maybe it's a trash can. Oh, I don't know. Oh, yeah, like a loud trash can going 00:25:45.918 --> 00:25:54.558 - on. OK. We won't spend too much time on this, but yes. Next thing on the agenda is 00:25:55.298 --> 00:26:03.535 - Any commissioner comments or announcements? Anyone want to share anything, make us aware of anything 00:26:03.535 --> 00:26:12.098 - going on? I actually have a quick question for Christina and Paige. I think it could be an announcement, 00:26:12.098 --> 00:26:20.497 - but I'm wondering how the gallery and event went related to the artistic advancement grant show at the 00:26:20.497 --> 00:26:23.678 - Waldron. So first Thursday on the 7th, 00:26:23.874 --> 00:26:31.476 - Walden put a gallery show of the 2025 Artistic Advancement Grant recipients. I think it was like 56 00:26:31.476 --> 00:26:39.762 - recipients total. We emailed everybody. Around like 18 were able to participate, and it was across different 00:26:39.762 --> 00:26:47.440 - mediums. So they had the Miller Gallery, which is that main gallery, and then downstairs was full of 00:26:47.440 --> 00:26:52.990 - art. And then we had three performances. It was a dance and performance. 00:26:53.346 --> 00:27:00.099 - Two people were singing like folk music and then they performed in that sitting area that's in the Waldron 00:27:00.099 --> 00:27:06.537 - and then we had another musical performance at the very beginning. It was very well attended. It was, 00:27:06.537 --> 00:27:11.838 - it was good and it was nice. I got to just even like get a good shot of the dancer. 00:27:12.386 --> 00:27:19.021 - First of all, the dancer was dancing everywhere. She just kind of went to different rooms. But also, 00:27:19.021 --> 00:27:25.853 - she got a really good shot of them right in front of all the recipients' names. So we're going to share 00:27:25.853 --> 00:27:32.883 - all our pictures on social media. But yeah, so that's kind of where I went. So is it still in the gallery? 00:27:32.883 --> 00:27:39.518 - Yeah, so it'll be there until the 28th of this month. So definitely go check that out. Thanks, Lucy. 00:27:40.802 --> 00:27:50.865 - I have one other announcement. So I know that the Indiana Arts Commission, their fall fiscal year 27 00:27:50.865 --> 00:28:00.929 - arts project support grant is currently open. And that, I think, is open for another couple of weeks 00:28:00.929 --> 00:28:10.494 - or so. And that's a $4,000 grant that can be used toward, that's awarded to arts organizations, 00:28:10.594 --> 00:28:18.075 - not individuals, but arts organizations. Is it arts or non-arts? It's organizations in general. Yeah. 00:28:18.075 --> 00:28:25.555 - Yeah, I think it's organizations in general. So it's five on T3. Five on T3. Two organizations for an 00:28:25.555 --> 00:28:33.036 - arts project. And yeah, so feel free to share the word. If you are part of an organization or know an 00:28:33.036 --> 00:28:37.950 - organization who's looking for support for an arts project, that's 00:28:38.594 --> 00:28:46.751 - one way to get it, and Nat Almanza, former commissioner, is the sort of region eight, which is the region 00:28:46.751 --> 00:28:54.523 - that Boomington's in, the representative, or what's called the regional arts partner, a sort of like 00:28:54.523 --> 00:29:02.526 - liaison between the IAC and a region, and so for questions or things like that, they can email her. No. 00:29:03.042 --> 00:29:10.455 - So the IAC like contracts people who are in like different regions and so we're like we're... Nat still 00:29:10.455 --> 00:29:17.726 - holds her position at the Arts and Humanities Council but our office has been contracted to do Region 00:29:17.726 --> 00:29:25.282 - 8 and Region 12 and so I'm the Region 12 rep which is in southeastern Indiana and that is the... I didn't 00:29:25.282 --> 00:29:32.766 - want to do both like Bloomington grants and like Region 8 grants. I was like I'll take the other region. 00:29:32.930 --> 00:29:41.392 - Yeah, it's true. I had one other thing. So just a reminder about commissioner training. I know I keep 00:29:41.392 --> 00:29:50.185 - saying that. I'm still looking for mine. Yeah, I emailed her. She'll reach out to you guys. So basically, 00:29:50.185 --> 00:29:58.564 - she's saying that for people who haven't been able to do their training, there's going to be another 00:29:58.564 --> 00:30:02.878 - date coming up soon. So be on the lookout for that. 00:30:02.978 --> 00:30:08.835 - They are keeping track of this, so they're going to hound you until you do it. But yeah, it's something 00:30:08.835 --> 00:30:14.580 - that you do once a year, and it's required by all commissioners. So even if you're cycling off at the 00:30:14.580 --> 00:30:20.606 - end of the year, you still are required to do it. So just be able to look out for the next training dates. 00:30:29.186 --> 00:30:37.543 - So next on the agenda is public comment. I don't see anyone here. Is there anyone on Zoom? I don't think 00:30:37.543 --> 00:30:45.661 - so, but we can check. No. OK, so no public is present. So that means there being no further business, 00:30:45.661 --> 00:30:53.619 - I move to adjourn the meeting. Can I get a second? Second. All in favor say yes. Yes. Those opposed 00:30:53.619 --> 00:30:57.758 - say no. OK, meeting adjourned. Thank you, everyone.