Richmond Public Art Advisory Committee

MEETING AGENDA Tuesday, December 8, 2020

7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. ZOOM invitation

COMMITTEE CHAIR COMMITTEE MEMBERS CITY COUNCIL LIAISON Phillip Mehas Siobhan Hayes Ben Choi Tom Herriman Emily Leighton STAFF LIAISON VICE CHAIR Winifred Day Deborah Dyer RACC Representative: Tom Lyon Thomas Omolo

Guests: Natalia Lawrence

ALL COMMISSION MEMBERS WILL PARTICIPATE VIA VIDEO OR TELECONFERENCE CORONAVIRUS DISEASE (COVID-19) ADVISORY Due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, Contra Costa County and Governor Gavin Newsom have issued multiple orders requiring sheltering in place, social distancing, and reduction of person-to-person contact. (See, for example, March 31, 2020 County Order extending the shelter-in-place order until May 3, 2020 & March 19, 2020 statewide shelter-in-place order.) Accordingly, Governor Gavin Newsom has issued executive orders that allow cities to hold public meetings via teleconferencing (Executive Order N-29-20). Both https://www.coronavirus.cchealth.org and http://www.ci.richmond.ca.us/3914/Richmond-Coronavirus-Info provide updated coronavirus information.

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Richmond Public Art Advisory Committee

MEETING AGENDA Tuesday, December 8, 2020

7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. ZOOM invitation

Guests: Natalia Lawrence

I. WELCOME/CALL TO ORDER/ ROLL CALL (Chair Mehas) 7:00 P.M.

(Chair - Welcome guests and Tom Lyons - RACC Rep)

II. ACTION ITEM: APPROVE AGENDA (ALL) 7:03 P.M.

III. ACTION ITEM: APPROVE MINUTES (ALL) 7:05 P.M. November 10, 2020

IV. PUBLIC COMMENT 7:07 P.M. Individuals who would like to address the Richmond Arts and Culture Commission (PAAC) on relevant matters not listed on the agenda may do so under Public Comment. Public comments cannot result in discussion/action at this meeting.

V. INFORMATION /DISCUSSION ITEMS: 7:10 P.M.

1. San Francisco Art Commission Signage Graphic Design Standards

2. Public Art Ordinance Policies and Procedures - Write document for January City Council

VI . Staff Report: (Day) 8:10 P.M.

1. Hacienda Heights Housing Public Art RFQ - Lynne Baer, Art Consultant, Norma, David - Mercy Housing Project Mgr. update

2. Moody Underpass installation complete, Park Naming and Private Blessing Ceremony

VI . Staff Report: (Day) cont’.

3. 1% Fee Collection update

4. Neighborhood Public Art Mini Grant update

5. PAAC Recruitment - on hold until Policies and Procedures are adopted by City Council

6. Art Consultant Roster RFQ for Private Developers - distributed

VII. NEXT STEPS (ALL) 8:20 P.M.

Public Art Program Policy and Procedures research assignments

VIII. ADJOURN (Chair Mehas) 9:00 P.M.

NEXT PAAC MEETING: Tuesday, January 12, 2021

Attachments:

1. Agenda for December 8, 2020

2. Minutes for November 10, 2020

3. San Francisco Art Commission Signage Graphic Design Standards

4. NPA Mini Grant Award Summary

5. Public Art Program description

Richmond Public Art Advisory Committee

MEETING MINUTES Tuesday, November 10, 2020

7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. ZOOM invitation

Present: Chair Phillip Mehas, Vice-Chair Deb Dyer, Siobhan Hayes, Tom Herriman, Emily Leighton

Absent: None (Two positions vacant)

Staff: Winifred Day Guests: Natalia Lawrence 1. Chair Phillip Mehas called the meeting to order at 7:07 p.m. and conducted Roll Call.

2. Agenda review and acceptance by Dyer and second by Hayes.

3. Minutes from September 15 reviewed and accepted by Dyer and seconded by Herriman.

4. Public Comment: No public comments.

5. Information Item:

a. Richmond Country Club / Parchester Village Public Private Partnership In lieu of project was presented by Richard Salazar, Stephanie Ny in partnership with: Paul Manyisha Richmond Country Club representing the developer, MLC Holdings LLC

Project Description. Sound Barrier Wall Mural lead designer and artist Richard Salazar – this will be a community collaborative effort with a paint by number approach for 88 sound barrier wall sections.

Budget update: After working with staff and stakeholders, the artist developed a more reasonable budget that aligns with a construction schedule over 18 months for a sum over $410,000. 10% or $41,000 will be allocated to project administration fees and the developer will commit an additional $250,000 for road and sidewalk repairs, sound wall repair and painting primer prep. $410,000 + $41,000 = $451,000 + $250,000 = $701,000 estimate

b. Nevin Terrace Housing Project Mural presentation by AMG developers, Kim Calica, Andrew Wheeler, Gene Broussard

This project was permitted in 2017 before the 1% Public Art Ordinance was established. Today we reviewed and provided comments for a mural component on 23rd Street side. The developer has engaged a Modesto based mural artist and we viewed and made suggestions

to the mural concept design. Suggestions included integrating the pipes into the design to camouflage the exposed utility pipes and consider celebrating multi-cultural leaders in Richmond including Betty Soskin.

There will be a meeting between the Mayor, DRB, PAAC and RACC to clarify confusion about who ahs the authority to make art related approvals.

6. Staff Report: (Day)

1. Update: Hacienda Heights Housing Public Art RFQ – Deadline extended, 21 applicants 7 from Richmond, PAAC member for the art selection panel – Siobhan Hayes.

2. Moody Underpass art installation complete: PAAC inspection November 19, 2020 approved.

3. Aspire School 1% inspection approved.

3. New member recruitments are all on hold until further notice per Mayor Butt.

4. Art Consultant Roster RFQ for Private Developers – RFQ out until February 2021

5. Allocation of 1% Funds

a. Richmond Art Documentation Project proposal (Asset Management) RLO

b. Art of Encouragement Mini Grant proposal - RLO

6. Maintenance Escrow Account (5%) Repair existing signage, art reframe Mari Marks, City Hall City of Richmond insurance?

7. Next Steps:

a. Ohlone Park signage, didactic signage, benches, trash containers, street paving, lighting

b. Richmond Country Club Mural project (Mehas) begin Invitation Only RFP

c. RAAC / Public Library Poet Laurette project (Lyons and Lawrence)

8. Chair Mehas adjourned the meeting at 9:17 p.m. until Tuesday, December 8, 2020

Chris Johanson American, b. 1968

Self-taught artist and musician Chris Johanson calls his paintings “neighborhood” or “documentary” pictures, which capture the mental climate and tensions of the contemporary moment. From his early days of making cartoonish markings on the streets of San Francisco’s Mission District, Johanson’s practice has expanded to include paintings, sculptures, and installations that address complicated social, political, and environmental themes through simplified figurative forms and exuberant abstraction, with an approachable and ironic wit.

Collection of the City and County of San Francisco

Alicia McCarthy American, b. 1969

Alicia McCarthy’s paintings are driven by material and repetition. She interlaces ribbons of spray paint, latex paint, crayon, and pencil that are reducible as parts, but expansive in their totality. With roots in the Bay Area’s graffiti and punk scenes, McCarthy’s paintings are an exercise in resisting the impulse to control. Her splatters, smudges, and imperfect lines signal an embrace of variation, disruption, and the limitations of both materials and the hand that wields them.

Collection of the City and County of San Francisco

Barry McGee American, b. 1966

Barry McGee, a native San Franciscan, earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1991. McGee oftentimes works under such aliases as Ray Long and Lydia Fong. His works are inspired by the urgency of contemporary street culture and his background in letterpress printing lends itself to a zen-like understanding of composition, context, pattern, line, and color. Echoing the graffiti, skate, surf, and punk traditions in which he is rooted, McGee paints the characters he observes on materials he collects from the edges and hidden corners of the city.

Collection of the City and County of San Francisco

MISSION SCHOOL

In his 2002 cover story for the San Francisco Bay Guardian, writer and critic Glen Helfand coined the term “Mission School” for a group of artists that included Chris Johanson, Margaret Kilgallen, Alicia McCarthy, and Barry McGee. The name defined a Bay Area art movement that was tied geographically to the neighborhood in which many of these artists lived, worked, and cultivated their creative practices.

Mission School artists worked collaboratively as much as independently, expressing a range of disciplines and styles. They, along with other cultural producers in the neighborhood, initiated and participated in alternative exhibition spaces, independent publications, acts of creative resistance, and many other community-making endeavors that nurtured a self- supporting cultural network

Margaret Kilgallen American, b. 1967–2001

After graduating from Colorado College in 1989, Margaret Kilgallen moved to San Francisco, where she fell into orbit with a loose group of artists that would later become known as the Mission School. She worked as a conservator at the San Francisco Public Library and was an avid surfer and bike-rider. Killgallen had a keen interest in the literary arts, typography, hand-lettering, print-making, sign painting, hobo culture, and folk art. Touchstones in her work are the monikers and images that stand in for the unsung heroines of overlooked subcultures, women whose triumphs were on the fringes of the mainstream.

Collection of the City and County of San Francisco

Jason Jägel American, b. 1971

In The Author & Her Story, the viewer is invited to join a colorful cast of characters from around the globe. The scene is set for conversation, a bite to eat, a costume change, and other activities to pass the time. By way of the artist’s imagination, the airport and air travel are transformed into a theatrical production where interpersonal connections are center stage and individual journeys may cross paths and intersect with others. [1/4” flat]

Collection of the City and County of San Francisco NPA Mini Grant Applications 20-21 W. Day 11-12-20 SCORING SUMMARY SHEET High Low score order 24

Request Flo Lynson Michael Nava Joshua Melissa Tom Total Score Meighann 8. Amanda Eicher - NIAD and Main St. $8,000 0 24 22 24 24 20 22 136 23 3. CiCi Jevae-Gordon - RYSE Poets $8,000 24 22.5 23 17 23 20 22 151.5 22 6. Yvonne Rogers - Seneca Mural $8,000 21 24 22 19 12 23 23 144 21 7. Robin Lopez - photographer/video $4,936 19 24 20 17 23 19 23 145 21 14. Rasheed Shabazz - Photo Doc $7,590 22 24 22 16 18 22 24 148 21 23 2. Mark Anthony - Youth Music $7,780 21 23 23 14 18 22 22 143 20 10. Melinda McCrary $6,524 20 21 21 12 22 20 23 139 20 15 Richmond Museum of History 13. GRIP - Interfaith Mural $8,000 22 18.5 23 18 21 19 20 141.5 20 18 11. Amy Spencer Richmond Art Ctr. $8,000 15 22 23 15 23 16 19 133 19 13 $66,830

5. Jorge Liceaga - Spanish music kids $4,700 24 24 24 18 12 8 23 133 19 12. Tiffany Conway - fashion masks $6,525 20 24 18 11 14 19 19 126 18 9. Stephen Bruce - Science Art Ed $5,000 24 24 14 14 12 22 14 124 18 $16,225

4. Erin McClusky Wheeler - collage $2,750 17 13 15 11 24 19 19 118 17 15. Alexander Peter, Rich City Rides $5,275 13 15 17 15 21 12 20 113 16 1. Lauren Ari - fire stones $4,494 10 23 13 7 9 13 12 87 12 $12,519

$95,574 ($65,000) $30,574