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Home My WebLink About2-1-24 PAAC Agenda PacketPublic Art Advisory Committee Thursday, February 1, 2024 3:30 PM Emma Harvat Hall City Hall, 410 E. Washington AGENDA 1. Call to order 2. Public discussion of any items not on the agenda 3. Consider minutes of the January 4, 2024 PAAC Meeting 4. Presentation & discussion on Johnson County’s Lulu Merle Johnson exhibit 5. Determine direction on the Lucas Farms Neighborhood Association Indigenous history art project 6. Outreach & Engagement Subcommittee Update 7. Staff updates 8. Old or New Business 9. Adjournment If you will need disability-related accommodations in order to participate in this program/event, please contact Rachel Kilburg Varley, Public Art Coordinator at 319-356-5014 or rkilburg@iowa-city.org. Early requests are strongly encouraged to allow sufficient time to meet your access needs. Draft, p.1 Public Art Advisory Committee Mtg, 1/4/2024 Minutes Public Art Advisory Committee January 4, 2024 Emma Harvat Hall Public Art Advisory Committee Members Present: Scott Sovers, Steve Miller, Anita Jung, Nate Sullivan, Jeremy Endsley, Juli Seydell Johnson Members Absent: Andrea Truitt, Nate Sullivan Staff present: Rachel Kilburg Varley Public Present: N/A Call to Order Miller called the meeting to order at 3:34 p.m. Public Discussion of Any Item Not on the Agenda None. Consider minutes of the December 7, 2023 PAAC meeting. Seydell Johnson moved and Jung seconded that the minutes from the December 7, 2023, meeting be approved with edits. Motion passed (5-0). Discuss 2024 Public Art Matching Grant Program Kilburg Varley introduced a Public Art Strategic Plan progress update document, which is attached to the meeting minutes, and reviewed the status of each action item listed. The Committee discussed and provided comments and feedback: • It would be helpful to see a breakdown of public art installations by neighborhood and/or geographical/demographical distribution. • Consider offering an inventory of recommended locations or areas of the community for applicants who are responding to public art opportunities to consider. • Increase outreach to non-profit agencies, particularly those with overlap with arts and culture initiatives; the Downtown and South of 6 business districts; and the school district. Also, look for new opportunities to incorporate Public Art goals in other City projects. • Committee members would like to see consistent annual reports and more consistent and regular engagement with local arts and culture organizations and stakeholders. Miller asked the Committee for suggestions regarding an arts and culture stakeholder meeting, and Jung suggested sometime this Spring before FY 2025 budget priorities are established would be helpful. Miller also asked about the timing of the Strategic Plan and Kilburg Varley explained June 2025 would be the final year of the current plan, and Draft, p.2 Public Art Advisory Committee Mtg, 1/4/2024 preliminary planning for an updated strategic plan will need to take place over the next year. Kilburg Varley summarized takeaways of the discussion, which included: focus on outreach and re-engaging key stakeholders, plan a stakeholder meeting in Spring 2024, and conduct some analysis of past projects and expenditures to understand gaps. The Committee decided to establish a subcommittee to work on planning a stakeholder meeting. Members interested in serving on the subcommittee should contact Kilburg Varley. The Committee will continue this discussion at a future meeting in order to set budget priorities based on strategic priorities. Staff Updates Kilburg Varley provided an updated on the Lucas Farms Neighborhood Indigenous Art project. A Request for Qualifications (RFQ). Kilburg Varley noted that very few applications had been received. Jung shared she received feedback from several Indigenous artists who were not Meskwaki/Sauk that they did not feel comfortable pursuing this opportunity on behalf of another tribe. Kilburg Varley mentioned that if not enough viable applications are received, the Committee can revisit the project parameters with Indigenous feedback and the Neighborhood Association’s input. Next, Kilburg Varley provided an update on the art restoration work the City had contracted with Dave Dennis, Inc. Dennis is nearing completion of his restoration of One’s Reality, which was previously located at Riverside & HWY 6 but will be re- installed at a new location near the Public Works Facility along S. Gilbert St. in the spring. Public Art Matching Grants are scheduled to be released on January 12th and will remain open through mid-March. Finally, Kilburg Varley shared that Johnson County is working on a sculpture to honor Lulu Merle Johnson (the toponym of the county), and the project team would like to present to the Committee at the February meeting to receive input. Adjournment Sovers moved to adjourn at 4:24 pm. Jung seconded. Motion passed (5-0). Draft, p.3 Public Art Advisory Committee Mtg, 1/4/2024 Public Art Advisory Committee Attendance Record 2023-2024 Name Term Expires 1/5/23 2/2/23 4/6/22 5/4/22 6/8/23 7/6/23 8/3/23 9/7/23 11/2/23 12/7/23 1/4/24 Ron Knoche X X X* X X X X X* X X X* Juli Seydell- Johnson X* X X X X X X X O/E X* X Steve Miller 12/31/23 X X O/E X X X X X X X X Eddie Boyken 12/31/24 X O/E X O/E O/E O/E O/E O -- -- -- Andrea Truitt 12/31/25 X X X X X X X X X X O/E Anita Jung 6/30/23 X X X X X O/E O/E X X X X Jenny Gringer 12/31/23 X X O/E O/E X X X O/E O/E X -- Jeremy Endsley 12/31/25 X O/E O/E X X O/E X O X X X Nate Sullivan 6/30/26 --- --- --- --- --- X X X X X O/E Key: X = Present X* = Delegate attended O = Absent O/E = Absent/Excused --- = Not a member