Ogden City Arts Advisory Committee

MEETING MINUTES Ogden City Arts Advisory Committee Regular Meeting 2549 Washington Blvd. Room 310 Ogden, UT 84401 801-629-8718 In Attendance: Jan Hamer, Jake McIntire, Todd Oberndorfer, Jessica McCowin, Camille Washington, Susan Campbell, Joseph Blake, Brandon Long, Shane Osguthorpe, Deann Armes Stephanie Howerton Excused: Leon Araujo, Franco Cirilo Absent: Cam McLeod, Scott Patria, Kseniya Thomas Staff Present: Lorie Buckley, Beth Bell, Regina Esparza, Cat Taylor Tuesday, July 12, 2022 –8:30 A.M. Virtual Zoom Meeting • Welcome and Call to Order – Jake McIntire • Approval of June Minutes o Motion to approve – Susan Campbell • 2nd motion – Stephanie Howerton • New Poet Laureate Angelika Brewer o Angelika Brewer was unable to attend the meeting, so this item is moved to next month. • Marshall White Center Updates – Susan Campbell o Susan Campbell suggested doing a mural inside the center. There is $5,000 for the project. o Camille Washington said with the status of the Marshall White Center with possible renovation that the city council music approve/vote on, the inside wall mural might not be there for a long time. Washington proposed doing an outside mural on an exterior wall of the center could pay homage to the center as it passes its 50-year anniversary. o Lorie Buckley said Susan must first clear the idea of an outside mural through Edd Bridge first before moving forward. • Mayor’s Awards Nominations – Lorie Buckley o Lorie Buckley said there are a few nominations that have come through. November 3rd is when the Mayor’s Awards is. Nominations close on August 26th. Lorie encouraged  everyone to share Regina Esparza’s social media posts to promote nominations and to also nominate people they think of.  There are seven awards, and one is reserved, so OCAAC has six awards to review. o Brandon Long suggested putting $100 on social media for paid advertisements, promotions, and boosts. o Susan Campbell said she met with Camille Washington and Jake McIntire to discuss the idea of having a Mayor’s Awards task force.  This would be a subcommittee to help push the event, take lead on review, promote nominations, and nominate people themselves, etc. to make sure everything goes smoothly. o Todd Oberndorfer nominated Brandon Long to lead the group and Oberndorfer will help.  Brandon Long agreed and said he would be happy to pre-screen.  Joseph “jo” Blake and Jessica McCowin said they will also help. • Discussion of Presentation to City Council – Jake McIntire o Lorie Buckley suggests putting the presentation to city council with the Ogden City Arts, Culture and Events (ACE) annual report instead of doing the actual presentation in front of city council. • Buckley said Christy McBride is more inclined to share the five-year review OCAAC does with city council. o Lorie Buckley said the OCAAC report would be inserted in the ACE report and the committee would just not be there to present in front of city council and it would serve as more of an update on paper. o Camille Washington said if the work has been done and the presentation as made, it should be presented in front of city council. She said the committee talked about this presentation a few months ago and said it does not have to be robust. • Jake McIntire said the presentation could be something like, “Here is where we are. Here’s our progress. We will have a big 5-year review so stay tuned. In the future this will be in the ACE report.” • Ogden City Arts Grants – Lorie Buckley o Lorie Buckley said the new grant contract is still sitting in legal’s hands. She said she and Christy McBride contacted legal to give recipients their money. • If this takes a while, Buckley said they’ll use the Request for Release of Grant Funds document and table the new contract for next year. o Lorie Buckley also said to keep track of the thank you letters for city council. • Public Art Projects Update – Jake McIntire o Jake McIntire said he has no updates currently. o Lorie Buckley updated the committee on “The Bubble” redesign. • Buckley said she met with risk, legal, the mayor, Mark, and Brandon for the new sculpture design. Buckley said “The Bubble” is not happening – they selected one out of two designs created by the artist to use instead. The two designs included “Ridge” or “Gates”. • Lorie Buckley said legal and risk picked “Ridge” because it is much less risky and does not look climbable. o Buckley also said the artist is considering changing the colors to “Ridge”. o Buckley said the distance of the bars/lines in “Ridge” design was checked and measured to ensure children cannot get their heads stuck in them.  o Jan Hamer said she thinks having a pre-review with risk management early on, so it prevents this situation again. Hamer said she would be happy to work with the public art committee through this because of her legal background. • Discussion and Decision of Decommissioning the Welcome Center Artwork – Jake McIntire o Jake McIntire said the Zephyr Café with a 1950’s style sign is in bad condition. He said the train car is being restored to run a café inside. He said the committee needs to decide whether the art on the train car is decommissioned or place it in storage and look into the cost of installing components of it somewhere else. o Jack McIntire said the general census is the public art committee recommends reinstalling pieces of the installation (put into storage, investigate cost to restore and then look at reinstallation). o Lorie Buckley said she will provide OCAAC with a work sheet where the committee checks the public artwork reviewing if it is to be decommissioned and what to do with the installation. o OCAAC discussed taking the full piece – sign and figures – to be stored. o Motion to remove artwork and store until further notice • Jan Hamer • 2nd motion: Susan Campbell o Group Vote of motion to remove artwork and store until further notice • OCAAC members are all in favor • Approval of Decommissioning Public Art Policy o Motion to approve Decommission Public Art Policy with a section added to include covering the sale, exchange, trade/exchange with anyone, gallery, auctioning, resale and bidding. • Jan Hamer • 2nd motion: Camille Washington o Group vote on motion to approve Decommission Public Art Policy with a section added to include covering the sale, exchange, trade/exchange with anyone, gallery, auctioning, resale and biding • OCAAC members are all in favor • Sub-Committees • Executive – Jake McIntire o Jake McIntire said Todd Oberndorfer has left the sub-committee, Susan Campbell is now past chair, and Camille Washington is the new vice chair. o McIntire said he and Washington had a standing meeting where they discussed the OCAAC’s relationship with city council. o Camille Washington shared the idea of the vice chair’s responsibility to develop relations with the city council to informally keeping OCAAC in city council conversations and will be a good step. • Nine Rails Creative District – Leon Araujo • Leon was unable to attend this meeting. • Lorie Buckley said the Nine Rails Creative District meeting was in person and was about assets, tools, arts grants, and availability for programming. Buckley said The Dumke Arts Plaza and the Ogden Amphitheatre events are mostly small in attendance and lost momentum. She said everyone to share out event opportunities to these interested in the creative district.  • Buckley said the meeting is open to the public and OCAAC members are invited to attend. Lorie suggested connecting during the Town Hall ODA meeting Wednesday, July 13th at 8:30 a.m. MST in the ODA office. . • Literary – Jan Hamer o Brandon Long said the new poet laureate Angelika Brewer is great and Brewer has proposed new projects that could use grant money. o The sub-committee also shared exploring opportunities to celebrate authors who get published to inform the public. Deann Armes talked about how to celebrate and highlight through Ogden City Arts, Culture and Events and their own accounts. • Public Art – Jake o Jake McIntire said he and the sub-committee are reopening the conversation on an art piece to examine. • Arts Grants – Shane Osguthorpe o Shane Osguthorpe said all the grants final reports have come in and now with the new cycle of grants it is time to sit back and let the new grantees do their thing. • Public Questions & Attendance • n/a Adjourn Time o Motion to Adjourn – Jan Hamer o 2nd – Shane Osguthorpe • 10:05 a.m. MST – meeting adjourned. NEXT REGULAR OGDEN CITY ARTS COMMITTEE MEETING August 9, 2022 OGDEN MUNICIPAL BUILDING Minutes prepared by: _______________________________________ Cathy Taylor (Aug 11, 2022 16:06 MDT) Cat Taylor – Ogden City Minutes approved by: _______________________________ Jake McIntire, Chair