Cultural Equity Grants: CAEG Committee Meeting on March 13, 2012 Presentations & Supplemental Materials for Funding Recommendations If you have any questions, please contact San San: 415.252.2565 or [email protected] There will be will be a brief presentation by CEG Staff Lucy Lin and Beatrice Thomas for the funding recommendations for Organization Project Grants. Because of the time constraints, no presentations By recommended applicants will take place. 1. Organization Project Grants (OPG) OPG support arts organizations in the presentation of professional arts activities accessible to the general public in San Francisco. OPG supports–in whole or in part–specific arts projects that have been determined to be of sufficient artistic quality, and benefit or interest to the community at large, or to specific segments of the community. All art forms will be considered. OPG-supported projects must be developed and presented in San Francisco, and must culminate in a local public presentation or a meaningful, accessible engagement of the public. They may be targeted at specific audiences, but they cannot be limited to “closed” audiences. Grant awards are up to $15,000. To be eligible, organizations must have 501(c)(3) status or use a fiscal sponsor. Organizations that receive CEI-L1 or CEI-L2 support cannot seek an OPG grant for the term of the CEI-L1 or CEI-L2 grant. 2. Grant Application Review Process OPG grant applications are clustered into 3 categories for panel review: 1) Visual, Literary and Media Arts; 2) Performing Arts – New Work; and 3) Performing Arts - Presenting. Panelists are artists, arts administrators, curators, and funders selected and assigned to a specific panel because of their expertise and experience in producing and presenting, organizational management, discipline and subject matter. Panelists are sent applications to review approximately 4 to 5 weeks in advance of the panel, and come together to evaluate the application at the panel meeting. 3. Supplemental Materials for OPG Funding Recommendations Attached you will find: Ranking; Panelists Bios; Project Summaries; Panel Comments; Guidelines Booklet. Additional Notes: • Each grant category has a unique set of evaluation criteria, which are rated with a numerical value (1-4- 7-10); the “Panel rating” indicates the average score of panel. In cases where the Recommended Grant is less than the Grant Request, there were insufficient funds to provide full funding. • Bios of the panelists who comprised each of the grants review panels. • Summaries of proposed initiatives or projects. • Evaluation Criteria are provided as sub-headers, with a summary of panel critique. • Official set of grant guidelines covering: eligibility, program objectives and goals, funding stipulations, deadlines, evaluation criteria and application and instructions. Panelist Biographies 2012-Organizational Project Grants Visual, Literary and Media Arts Joan Pinkvoss Executive Director, Aunt Lute Books Ms. Pinkvoss has over 28 years’ experience in the commercial publishing world and has a national reputation in the field of editing, having won two national publishing awards. Originally the sole proprietor of a smaller Aunt Lute Book Company, Ms. Pinkvoss, in 1990, successfully led the transition of Aunt Lute to a non-profit corporation, the Aunt Lute Foundation, encompassing a broader vision for the field of literature. Under her direct supervision the company has published a total of 62 titles, many of them receiving literary awards and distinctions. The mission of the Aunt Lute Foundation is to support and publish new writers from a variety of cultures and sub-cultures, both within the United States and from other countries. Choosing narratives that are relevant to pressing community issues, Ms. Pinkvoss, has spent major energy on outreach, networking with community members and hiring consultants from within communities to produce accessible literary programs, panels and performances. Ms. Pinkvoss has led several manuscript workshops and tutorials in the Bay Area. She has also sat on national and local symposium panels, advocating for the importance of non-profit literature in a democratic and socially just world. Suzanne Tan Executive Director, Berkeley Art Center Suzanne Tan was appointed Executive Director of the Berkeley Art Center in early 2009, and brings to her post over 28 years of experience in museums and cultural organizations throughout the Bay Area and Southern California. Most recently, she was Director of Institutional Giving at the Armory Center for the Arts in Pasadena, CA. Previously; she served as Director of External Affairs at the Santa Monica Museum of Art in Santa Monica, CA. In both institutions, Ms. Tan secured support for and led organization-wide strategic planning efforts, while overseeing development and marketing initiatives. Ms. Tan was also the Executive Director of the Richmond Art Center and returned in a year-long interim capacity in 2005. Other positions held have included Director of Development at Kala Art Institute in Berkeley (2003- 2006), Director of Marketing and Development at the Museum of Craft & Folk Art in San Francisco (1999), Exhibitions Project Manager at the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles (1996-1998), and Program Coordinator for the Art Tours and Travel program (1989- 2002) and the SECA curatorial program (1993-1996) at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Suzanne received her MA in Museum Studies from JFK University, Berkeley/Orinda. She is an adjunct professor at JFK University (Berkeley) and has taught classes in JFK’s MA/MBA Museum Studies graduate program. Jack Walsh Executive Director, National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture Before joining NAMAC, he worked as the Phase 1 Capital Campaign Manager for the 9th Street Independent Film Center, an innovative cross-sector collaboration where he raising $2.6 million of the $6.5 million building project budget from private foundations, corporations, and government agencies. In addition to work as an administrator, Jack is an independent filmmaker whose credits include Producer, Hope Along the Wind: The Life of Harry Hay (2001); Executive Producer, Girl Trouble (2004); and Producer, Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton's Cafeteria (2005). These productions were all broadcast national on PBS. For nearly a decade, Jack work as a national producer at San Francisco PBS station KQED, first as Series Producer for the Living Room Festival (1993-96) and later as an Executive Producer. His Executive Producer credits include t: The Making of Dead Man Walking (2002), which received a National Emmy Award Nomination for Outstanding Cultural and Artistic Program in 2003; Independent View (2001-02), and Season by Season (2001). Additionally, Jack worked as Station Manager of the City of Oakland's government access channel KTOP from 1996-98, and he taught at San Francisco State University, City College of New York, and the University of California, San Diego. Maysoun Wazwaz Program Manager, Mills College Art Museum Maysoun Wazwaz has recently joined the Mills College Art Museum Program Manager. Prior to working at Mills she served for five years as the Exhibitions Program Manager at Southern Exposure in San Francisco where she had the opportunity to work with over 500 artists through solo, group and juried exhibitions as well as through public art projects and fundraising events. In 2010, Maysoun curated Extended Play, a new and exciting series of live art performances and workshops by multidisciplinary artists workingwith sound, light, video, voice, installation, sculpture, dance and new technology. In her capacity as exhibition program manager at SoEx, she curated, organized and produced over 100 exhibitions, events and projects of local, national and international artists. In addition, Maysoun served on Visual Aid’s Exhibitions Committee for five years curating exhibitions whose focus was to support artist with life threatening illnesses. She has also served on two San Francisco Arts Commission public art panels, has participated two years in a row in the San Francisco Art Institute’s MFA Studio Visits as an outside curator, and has been a visiting lecturer at California College of the Arts numerous times. She is excited to be co-teaching the Senior Exhibition class at Mills College this year and hopes to have more teaching opportunities at the college in the future. Wazwaz has a BA in Art History from Bard College, Annandale-on- Hudson, NY. She is from Chicago and has lived in San Francisco for the past 10 years. Deborah Steinberg Director of Artist Services for WomenArts Ms. Steinberg is responsible for editing the WomenArts Network profiles, as well as writing and editing other on-line content and the monthly funding newsletters. Deborah holds a B.A. in Creative Writing and Literature from Bard College and an M.A. in English Literature from the University of Bordeaux. She is the founding editor and events coordinator of Louis Liard, a Franco-American magazine of creative writing and art, and she has over eight years of experience as a freelance editor and an instructor of English as a Second Language. Deborah writes fiction and has sung in musical projects in France and the U.S. FY2010-2011 ORGANIZATION PROJECT GRANTS - VISUAL LITERARY MEDIA RANKING Panel Rating Organization Name Grant Request Grant 118.2 Intersection for the Arts $15,000 $11,850 117.6 3rd i South Asian Independent Film Festival $15,000 $11,260 111.6 San Francisco Transgender Film Festival (Tranny