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HomeMy WebLinkAboutCultural Resources Board - Minutes - 07/23/1986CITY OF FORT COLLINS CULTURAL RESOURCES BOARD CULTURAL RESOURCES BOARD Wednesday, July 23, 1986 4:45 pm Lincoln Center Present: Ruth Hornberger, Christine Jones, Michael Griffith, Alyce Milton Staff: David Siever, Mark Breimhorst, Edwina Echevarria, Cindy Ryk, Brian Moroney, Ellen Martin Guests: Jack Curfman, Pat Dice I Call to Order - 4:50 pm II Consideration of Tonight's Agenda - add Discussion on Visual Arts Display under Other Business III Consideration of Minutes - delete Michael Griffith from members present; accepted with change IV Staff Reports David Siever - Lincoln Center -Introduction of new staff members; Cindy Ryk and Ellen Martin. -Cindy Ryk, Scheduling Coordinator - Mrs. Ryk worked with the City at the Senior Center and also set up the books and scheduling process at Raintree Adult Community. -Ellen Martin, Assistant Director of the Mariana Gallery on the UNC campus for five years with a turnover in exhibits every two weeks. Ms. Martin also taught classes at UNC. She passed around the schedule for the art exhibits for the rest of the year and spoke briefly about the current exhibits. The major upcoming exhibit will be Claes Oldenburg, from the John Powers collection. -Board members introduced themselves to the new staff members. -Theatre Tour - there will not be a New York trip this year since the conference that Mr. Breimhorst and Mr. Seiver attend is too to Christmas. There will be a London Theatre Tour offered instead with Mr. Curfman helping with suggestions. This tour will be over Spring Break, 1987. -Mr. Breimhorst and Mr. Siever will be attending the WAAA Booking Conference in Seattle this September. Funds for their travel come from donations from the New York trip and other trips offered. -Rates - there has not been a meeting concerning the rates. The staff is looking at all the rates to submit a new proposal to Council. Mrs. Ryk will be working on this and a draft will be Brian Moroney - Museum -Skookum Day, the previous Saturday, was a great success with about 2200 people, the largest crowd ever. Musical presentations added a lot, and staff is to be congratulated on their efforts. -The "Artist on the Bucking Horse" exhibit is up and this is the first design by Mr. Curfman since his return. Brian complimented him on the show. -Anniversary Celebration on August 20th will have a military theme and presentation of Museum items. A noon presentation will be offered. -Agnes Dix attended a workshop on the Museum's role with the school district and came away with some good ideas. We actually have a very good working relationship with the local school district. -Karen Eberhart and Mr. Moroney have been working on a collections policy that will be presented to the Board when complete. This is part of the accreditation process. -Mr. Moroney and Jane Davis have been working a a system of retrieval of items that have been moving back and forth between the Museum and the Library. There will be an offical listing of what is in each area and where it came from in order to keep track of all items. Historic Preservation - Christine Jones commented on the project that the Historic Preservation Office has started. Edwina asked the Board to send additional comments to their office. Sculpture Garden - David Siever Mr. Siever presented the final design for the sculpture garden. This project will be done entirely from donated funds with the Junior Women's League helping with the fundraising. The Design Committee has already approved the design. The Parks Department, who take care of the grounds, has also been involved in the project. There will be a committee of both artists and community people who will review and schedule the sculpture shows. VI Historic Preservation - Old Fort Site Signage- Edwina Echevarria Mrs. Echevarria gave a presentation on her research into signage for the old fort site. After considerable discussion, it was decided to form a committee to review the recommendations. The committee will consist of Michael Griffith, Jack Curfman, and Christine Jones. Mr. Moroney will come up with a proposal for wording for the signs. VII Other Business A. Pat Dice - Ms. Dice presented the Board with a proposal concerning a mural for the City. The Board decided that since it is primarily an advisory board without direct funding, they were unable to help her with the project. Several suggestions were made as to possible alternatives. The Board thanked Ms. Dice for taking the time to speak to them on the project. B. Discussion of Art Display Idea - Ruth Hornberger- Mrs. Hornberger updated the Board on the proposal as discussed at the last Board meeting. Due to circumstances, see attached letter, the project has been cancelled. The people involved will now devote their energies into a show for next year. Mrs. Hornberger thanked the Board for their interest and expressed hope that they would help next year. C. General - Mr. Siever announced that a liaison to the Board from the Council has not as yet been appointed. He will advise next month. Mr. Burkett, the new City Manager, has expressed willingness to come to a meeting. Mr. Siever will advise as to a convenient time. The meeting was adjourned at 6:30 pm. Respectfully submitted, Linda Green Secretary NOTE FROM LINDA: Please bring your goals and objectives sheets to next meeting. I will also have a few extras on hand. Please call me by Tuesday, August 26 at 221-6735 if you are unable to attend. If I don't hear from you, I assume you will be there. We need to make sure we have a quorum. THANK YOU! July 24 86 Ruth McKee Hornberger President P.V.A.L. I701 Dale Ct. Ft. Collins, Colorado, 80521 Mr. Will Huitt President Fort Collins Arts and Humanities and Board Members Avery House Mountain Avenue Ft. Collins, Colorado, 8052I Dear Mr Huitt and board members, P.V.A.L. wishes to thank Ft. Collins Arts and Humanities,on behalf of our membership and the two hundred area artists that had planned to participate in the proposed September Art Exhibition and sale that was to take place in Old Town Square and neighboring Streets. We thank you for your encouragement, vision, and the hard work, on our behalf,as shown by Mrs. Catherine Garcia. We had hoped that by featuring only Fine Art,no crafts,in a large Open Art Exhibition , and using catagories for specification of artists works, to offer Fort Collins mass citizenry the opportunity to begin an involvement with local artists and local art, that woulO serve as the basis for starting a profit making art and tourist center in Northern Colorado. 2 • We had also hoped that by scheduling this exhibition in September which would focus citizenry attention on Fine Art, that the F.C.A.H. fund raiser and art exhibit in October would benefit by this focus. Nhich as repeated messages through advertizing is used tnOay, to focus the attention of a very busy public on an event or proc'uct. As you know, P.V.A.L. volunteered to pay for the costs of the exhibition, with the artists help. And the artists themselves volunteered to work with P.V.A.L. to make this evening outdoor first --a true grand event. Eighteen committees have been ready and rarin to go since June 24. This letter cannot begin to discuss all of the work, effort, meetings, that have already happened.Novel, new ideas for posters, advertizing, promotion . Letters already sent, to ether areas, other institutions to get those citizens in those areas, interested and looking forward to this planned event. (Upon approval of this proposal, by city, business, and artists.these letters would have been followed by invitations to this first outdoor evening art event). We needed several things from city, business and represenatives from Old Town Square, in order to get city, business and the mass public involved. We are very happy to say that the city, through it,s staff Mrs. Mackafee in particular, and the goon' will and interest of many council members, ...We were able to solve the problem of lighting. We are also happy to say that every person we . � 3 40 contacted within the city structure from the mayor to secretaries mere enthusiastic and saw the merits of our proposal. We are also happy to say that Mrs. Victoria Hilton director of '?ld Town Square was enthusiastic and offered us the full use of Old Town Square,plus pre -registration areas,plus the full use of a building in the event of rain,plus a hundred and one little solutions to needs and problems that such a large show entails from lavatory facilities to parking facilities to storage overnight space for artists paintings. She was indeed a pleasure to work with. So many dedicated people took time, out of very busy schedules to try to help us make this event happen. Mr. David Seiver director of Lincoln Center was most helpful.He worked closely with city staff to solve the lighting problem and offered use of the T,incoln Center for the many,many, committee meetings that would have had to be held between July 2I and Sept. 5. In truth, every need for the proposed Art Exhibition was met within the necessary time frame, but one. We had ap proached Mr. Bill Harper, representing the Chamber of Commerce with our proposal, several months ago. We talked at some length regarding the need for the purchase prize awards and the need to begin to collect art by local artists, that would be owned by the citizens of Fort Collins. He was most enthusiastic and delighted with the idea of having the Chamber and the citizens of Fort Collins 4. • choose the art that would someday represent the artists artists living and working here in this year of 1986. rdr. Harper stated he forFaw no problems with the Chamber purchasing the three paintings,..value of purchase prizes to be $200. each for the citizens of Fort Collins, to be hung in public buildings, until some time in the future when they would be permanately housed in a Fort Collins museum of Art. He was to get back to us before the third week of July. Unfortunately, Mr. Harper went on vacation, and we die not receive confirmation from the Chamber of Commerce,regarding the purchase prizes. This made it necessary to cancel the proposed Art Exhibit. This is most unfortunate,.Creating a viable profit making Art and tourist market, takes much time,hard work and dedication.In the end however, business, artists,city and community citizens all benefit in real economic ways. We sincerely hope that all of the planning and programming will not be wasted. It has already been suggested to us, that we now use this information, in the programming of events for fine art in the proposed Arts Festival for next year. We think this has much merit. We believe that a large, OPen evening, Fine arts exhibition would do much to enhance, the interest and atmosphere of the proposed Arts Festival for 1987. We will work towards having more purchase prizes for the artists, and more artists participation. We hope that F.C.A.H. will support us and work with us to make this Fine Arts outdoor exhibition an important part of 'a I98^ Arts Festival. Sincerely Ruth McKee Hornberger President P.V.A.?,. Board member Cultural Resources Board Member F.C.A.H. d