MILWAUKEE ARTS BOARD PUBLIC ART SUBCOMMITTEE

200 E. Wells Street City of Milwaukee Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53202 Meeting Minutes MILWAUKEE ARTS BOARD PUBLIC ART SUBCOMMITTEE POLLY MORRIS, CHAIR Tina Klose, Emilia Layden, Sandra McSweeney, and Tim Murphy Staff Assistant, Yadira Melendez-Hagedorn, 286-2775 Fax: 286-3456, Y.Melendez-Hagedorn@milwaukee.gov Tuesday, March 8, 2022 3:00 PM Virtual Meeting This will be a virtual meeting conducted via GoToMeeting. Should you wish to join this meeting from your phone, tablet, or computer you may go to https://meet.goto.com/301432677. You can also dial in using your phone United States: +1 (571) 317-3112 and Access Code: 301-432-677. Meeting convened at 3:05 p.m. 1. Roll call. Present 4 - Morris, Murphy, Klose and Layden Excused 1 - McSweeney Also present: Sally Svetic, DCD Terri Grote, DCD Vanessa Koster, DCD 2. Review and approval of the previous meeting minutes. The meeting minutes from January 11, 2022 were approved with clerical corrections. There was no objection. It was noted that there were no minutes from the February 8, 2022 meeting as that meeting did not occur due to a lack of quorum. 3. New Work Fund. a. Discuss PAIR department interest Ms. Svetic said that DCD was waiting for a response on its grant application made to the Greater Milwaukee Foundation to fund a liaison to manage and implement the PAIR program before progressing further with the program, the response may come in mid-May, inquiries were made to City departments, department responses have been City of Milwaukee Page 1 MILWAUKEE ARTS BOARD PUBLIC Meeting Minutes March 8, 2022 ART SUBCOMMITTEE positive thus far, and three departments had responded with the following great ideas: City Clerk's Office (workforce development, Common Council engagement, City Channel format), Fire Department (employee diversity recruitment and retainment), and Department of Public Works (reckless driving). Members discussed that the value of the program was to help citizens through art; that the reckless driving (DPW) followed by workforce development (City Clerk) seemed to be two worthy areas for the program; both topics have a sense of urgency, political and community support, concrete goals, defined outcomes, and would have broad buy-in; reckless driving should be a citywide issue; DPW should think to go beyond painting crosswalks; additional funding for reckless driving would be ad-hoc; and additional funding for workforce development would be more established. Chair Morris said that the program timeline would entail receipt of the funds from GMF, RFP issued for a program liaison, RFP issued for artists, selection committee established, artists chosen, and engagement with departments. Ms. Svetic added that Frank Cumberbatch of Bader Philanthropies had strong initial financial interest. 4. Conservation Fund. a. Consider application from Charles Allis Villa Terrace Art Museums Members discussed that the sculpture piece was indoors and not outdoors, the piece would not be accessible to the public 24/7, lack of funding from the Arts Board ($5,000 ask) would not break the museum's total project costs ($67,150), precedent should not be given for projects on closed premises and for private art, majority of applications for Conservation Fund came from museums, a conservation project at the Haggerty Museum of Art was possible, the MPS conservation project would not occur this year, there was not enough to move forward with projects at Lake Park, there were not many applications for the Conservation Fund, the Arts Board was not in danger to losing its Conservation Fund if left unspent, there was expectation that the Fund would be used for artist housing, and funding for the Welford Sanders Lofts' sculpture was under the New Work Fund. Greg St. Arnold inquired about applying for the Conservation Fund for a mural restoration project at the senior center on MLK Dr. Chair Morris replied that further information and application should be sent to the subcommittee when ready, the Arts Board would fund up to half of a project, and matching funds would be required. Further discussion was held until later in the meeting and continued. Member Layden moved denial of application from Charles Allis Villa Terrace Art Museums based on not meeting eligibility on full public accessibility. There was no objection. Members said that possible conservation projects would be the Brady Street sidewalk facade (snapshots in time) drawings and Friends of Brady Street bridge projection. Chair Morris said that the Brady Street BID may not have the capacity to pursue those City of Milwaukee Page 2 MILWAUKEE ARTS BOARD PUBLIC Meeting Minutes March 8, 2022 ART SUBCOMMITTEE projects due to turnover and lack of connections. 5. New business. There was no discussion. 6. Old business. There was no discussion. Meeting adjourned at 3:58 p.m. Chris Lee, Staff Assistant Council Records Section City Clerk's Office City of Milwaukee Page 3