MILWAUKEE ARTS BOARD

200 E. Wells Street City of Milwaukee Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53202 Meeting Minutes MILWAUKEE ARTS BOARD ALD. NIK KOVAC, CHAIR Polly Morris, Interm Vice-Chair William DeLind, David Flores, Donald Fraker, Marcela Garcia, April Heding, Vedale Hill, Tina Klose, Diane Kosarzycki, Emilia Layden, Sandra McSweeney, Tim Murphy, Paula Phillips, Kantara Souffrant, and Oscar Tovar Staff Assistant, Yadira Melendez-Hagedorn, 286-2775 Fax: 286-3456, Y.Melendez-Hagedorn@milwaukee.gov Legislative Liason: Tea Norfolk, 286-8012, tea.norfolk@milwaukee.gov Staff to Arts Board: Sally Svetic, ssveti@milwaukee.gov Tuesday, April 12, 2022 4:00 PM Virtual 1 Roll Call The meeting convened at 4:05 pm Members present: Mc. Sweeney, Flores, DeLind, Kosarzycki, Fraker, Morris, Layden, Heding, Tovar, Klose, Kovac, Hillard, Morris, Phillips Members excused: Souffrant Members absent: Hill and Garcia Ms. Svetic and Ms. Grote were present as well. 2 Review and Approval of Previous Meeting Minutes Ms. Morris moved approval with the amendment on the date on the last paragraph of item 5. There were no objections. 3 Public Art Subcommittee Report a. Recommendation of PAIR department placement Ms. Morris said that they have been reviewing the requests and that are two that stood up: the Workforce Development Center and the Reckless Driving, which has many stakeholders who are involved in this issue. Ms. Svetic read the document with the recommendations from the subcommittee, which included the statements from the City Clerk’s office and the Department of Public Works. Ms. Morris said that they have selected the Reckless Driving. Mr. Flores asked how many applications were received in total. Ms. Morris said that a total of five. Ms. Svetic said that they only asked for state of interest of the department interested in hosting an artist and that there was no rubric for evaluation in reference to Mr. Tovar’s question. Mr. Fraker asked how much the budget is. Ms. Svetic said that it is $25,000 per year and that those funds have been stacking up to $90,000 City of Milwaukee Page 1 MILWAUKEE ARTS BOARD Meeting Minutes April 12, 2022 Ms. Morris explained that this program is very goal oriented and that those goals are tackled through a development process, working with the community creating solutions and that we need to keep it open ended. Ald. Kovac agrees on that the Reckless Driving it is a public safety matter and that the Department of Public Works has been working hard on the subject as well. Ms. Morris explained that the other project is from the Workforce Development, which she thinks is a little abstract. Ms. Layden said that she was thrilled about the proposals from five different departments and thanked the Public Arts Subcommittee and Ms. Svetic for putting together that work that has definitely paid off. Ms. Morris made a motion to adopt the recommendations from the subcommittee. There were no objections. Ms. Klose said that she wanted to share a link about walking communities in Japan where toddlers can walk around their neighborhoods. https://www.yahoo.com/video/old-enough-japanese-tv-show-212926658.html Ms. Klose asked Ald. Kovac if some art programming could be scheduled in the City Channel. Ald. Kovac said that he thinks so but that they will need to evaluate the resources 4 Grants Report Ms. Svetic said that the panel will be held on April 28, 2022 from 10 am to 12 pm, and that the notice will come out next week. 5 New Business a. Awards nominations and vote Ms. Svetic made a power point presentation and said that the applications are presented in the order that they were recieved. For the Mildred L. Harpole Artist of the Year Award: CK Ledesma – visual artist, performer. Graphic artist and community organizer. Nathaniel Stern – aesthetic activism, arts thinking, design pedagogy and engineering processes. Nirmal Raja – Interdisciplinary artist. Donna Kummer – quintessential boots on the ground, grass roots musicians for the 21st century whose career goes back a couple decades into the 20th century. Ms. Heding left at 4:44 pm Friends of the Arts: Cynthia Henry – Owner, Ayzha Fine Arts Gallery & Boutique Nakeysha Roberts Washington – Founder, Genre: Urban Arts Rayhainio Boynes (aka Ray Nitti) – musician, filmmaker and activist Sara Daleiden – MKE <> LAX Ms. Heding left on the chat the following message: For my nomination, I just wanted to add that Ray wanted to acknowledge the following individuals/artists for their involvement in the project. Jeff Cannady - PWR FWD Media. (heading live streaming and digital) Jade Charon - "By Jade Charon Dance & Technology Studio" Letasha Smith - Feisty Impressions will be over the art therapy City of Milwaukee Page 2 MILWAUKEE ARTS BOARD Meeting Minutes April 12, 2022 Kevinn Vann - "Brothaz Bond" will be over the male mentorship program Biko Baker - RenderTech Lanisha Martin - Black Men Build Monique Bateman - Marjani house Andre "BiznessBoi" Robertson - Multi-Platinum Producer From Milwaukee Larry Sanders - Former Milwaukee Buck Sean Adams - Music Engineer / Producer Ms. Svetic said that members could give her a call in case they do not finish the ballot and that they can give up to two votes on each category. 6 Old Business a. Updating the MAB Ordinance Chris Hillard from the Legislative Reference Bureau was present. Ms. Svetic said that back in March everyone was leaning more to option 1A: OPTION 1A (incorporating the language from Americans for the Arts): c. Promote the formation and growth of artistic projects or programs that are administered by and responsive to the needs of this city's communities who have been historically underrepresented based on race/ethnicity, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, socioeconomic status, geography, citizenship status, or religion. Mr. Flores said that few people suggested that might have some tweaks but did not received any. Added that he wanted to make a suggestion: to insert the words “or underserved” after underrepresented. Ms. Svetic took Mr. Flores suggestion, which reads as follows: c. Promote the formation and growth of artistic projects or programs that are administered by and responsive to the needs of this city's communities who have been historically underrepresented or underserved based on race/ethnicity, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, socioeconomic status, geography, citizenship status, or religion. Mr. Hillard shared another option: c. Promote the formation and growth of artistic projects or programs that are administered by and responsive to the needs of historically underrepresented and underserved communities that have been excluded from the arts on the basis of race or ethnicity, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, socioeconomic status, geography or citizenship status. Mr. Flores said that he would like to change the word “and” for “or” Ms. Morris and Mr. Fraker agreed. Mr. Hillard shared another suggestion: on the basis of race or ethnicity, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, socioeconomic status, geography or citizenship status. Mr. Flores suggested changing the or for a coma after the word “race”. Ms. Svetic shared the final paragraph as follows: c. Promote the formation and growth of artistic projects or programs that are administered by and responsive to the needs of the city's communities that have been historically underrepresented or underserved based on race, ethnicity, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, socioeconomic status, geography, or citizenship status. Mr. Flores read the final paragraph and asked for any other revisions or something to propose and then he moved to adopt the language seconded for Mr. Fraker. There were no objections. 7 Announcements City of Milwaukee Page 3 MILWAUKEE ARTS BOARD Meeting Minutes April 12, 2022 Regarding the vote: Ms. Svetic announced that CK Ledesma and Nirmal Raja are the winners for the Mildred L. Harpole Artist of the Year Award and Cynthia Henry and Rayhainio Boynes (aka Ray Nitti) are the winners of Friends of the Arts. The meeting adjourned at 5:20 pm Yadira Melendez-H Staff Assistant. City of Milwaukee Page 4