Meeting Information

Community_Arts_and_Education_Committee

COMMUNITY ARTS, EDUCATION, AND GRANTS COMMITTEE 
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
4:00 p.m.
25 Van Ness Avenue, Suite 70

1. Cultural Equity Grants Program Director Report
   Discussion
   Current administrative, budgetary and programming developments and announcements.
   
   Action
   Motion to approve recommendations to award seventeen grants totaling $333,750 in the 2009-2010 cycle of Arts & Communities: Innovative Partnerships grants to the following organizations and individual artists, and to authorize the Director of Cultural Affairs to enter into grant agreements with each for the amounts listed:
   Asian Women's Shelter, $25,000
   Chinese Culture Foundation of San Francisco, $10,000
   Chinese Progressive Association, $10,000
   Croatian American Cultural Center, $25,000
   Dance Brigade, $20,000
   Deanne Morizono Meyers, $22,500
   Fifth Stream Music, $10,000
   Flyaway Productions, $22,500
   GK Callahan, $20,000
   Intersection for the Arts, $18,750
   Kid Serve Youth Murals, $25,000
   Kulintang Arts Inc., $22,500
   Mary Jean Robertson, $25,000
   Out of Site: Center for Arts Education, $10,000
   Queer Cultural Center, $25,000
   Raissa Simpson, $22,500
   Ruby’s Clay Studio and Gallery, $20,000
   
   Supplemental Documents: Arts & Communities: Innovative Partnerships applicant ranking and project descriptions, summary notes of the application evaluation and bios of the grants review panelists.
   
   Motion to approve the following individuals as grant application review panelists for Cultural Equity Initiatives Level I:
   Julie Fry, Program Officer, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
   Renee Heider, Executive Director, Destiny Arts Center
   Roko Kawai, Dancer, choreographer and teacher
   An Lu, Program Specialist for Arts Council Silicon Valley
   Wendy Levy, Director of Creative Programming, Bay Area Video Action Coalition
   Rebeka Rodriguez, Photographer, Curator and Arts Administrator
   Jen Soriano, Communications strategist, musician and nonprofit consultant
   Shiree Teng, Independent Consultant
   
   Supplemental Documents: Cultural Equity Grants Biographies of Grants Application Review Panelists.
   
   
2. Community Arts and Eduacation Program Director Report
   Discussion
   Current administrative, budgetary and programming developments and announcements.
   
   
3. Cultural Center Report
   Discussion and review of the 2008-2009 cultural center final reports.
   
   
4. New Business
   
   
5. Adjournment

BLT 12/03/09

Notices
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