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Home My WebLink About01.28.26 BAC PresentationBoulder Arts Commission Meeting January 28, 2026 Public Participation Guidelines •The city has engaged with community members to co-create a vision for productive, meaningful, and inclusive civic conversations. •This vision supports the physical and emotional safety for community members, staff, and council as well as democracy for people of all ages, identities, lived experiences, and political perspectives. •For more information about this vision and the community engagement processes, please visit: bouldercolorado.gov/services/productive-atmospheres Public Participation Guidelines The following are examples of rules of decorum found in the Boulder Revised Code and other guidelines that support this vision. These will be upheld during the meetings. •All remarks and testimony shall be limited to matters related to city business. •No participant shall make threats or use other forms of intimidation against any person. •Obscenity, racial epithets, and other speech and behavior that disrupts or otherwise impedes the ability to conduct the meeting are prohibited. •In-person participants are asked to refrain from expressing support or disagreement verbally or with applause. Traditionally, support is shown silently through American Sign Language ‘applause’ signal. Public Comment Public Art Experiments in Public Art: BVCP Update Project #5: Mural Project #5: Mural Project Details •Designed for digital projection in addition to printing/painting. •Sized for interior display no more than 10’ high by 50’wide. •Printed/painted on one or more panels designed to be moveable for temporary exhibition and at outreach events. •Some elements of the design may be used in digital and printed materials related to the complete Comp Plan. •Consider the breadth and depth of the Comp Plan. Can people see themselves in it? It is both a representation of Boulder now and a future Boulder? •Budget $20,000 Project #5: Selection Panels Technical Review Committee Vivian Castro-Wooldridge,Community Engagement Brenda Ritenour,Community Engagement Chris Ranglos,Planning & Development Services Emi Smith,Communications Program Manager Standing Selection Panel Maria Cole Steven Frost Niki Eways Aaron Winston Howard Rubin Project #5: Mural Timeline & Process Technical Review Committee Reviewed 100 artists Recommended 5 artists Standing Selection Panel Reviewed 5 artists Added 1 artist Request for Proposals Invited 6 artists Received 3 proposals Standing Selection Panel Reviewed 3 proposals Recommends 1 artist Arts Commission Approval 1 artist (you are here) September November Nov – Dec January Project #5: Aiko Szymczak Project #5: Android Jones Project #5: Liz Maher Project #5: Recommendation Project #5: Questions and Discussion Project #5: Recommended Motion "I move that the process was properly conducted and the selected artist for the Experiments in Public Art: The BVCP Update Mural Project, Android Jones,be recommended to the City Manager for approval.” Experiments in Public Art Comprehensive Plan Series January •Muralist contracting February •Mural design begins (projection first) March 10 •Temp exhibition at the Comp Plan Celebration party April – May •Mural fabrication completes June – July •Group show at the Canyon Gallery, Main Library •Additional events TBD Grant Program Matters Grant Reports •Adriana Paola Palacios Luna, Studio Art Associate of Arts program, Front Range Community College, $8,000 •Dance with Georgia, Brown Sugar Nutcracker, $3,000 •Georgia Schmid (Dance with Georgia), Brown Sugar Nutcracker, $5,000 •Motus Theater, What Love Requires: Stories by Parents of Gender-Diverse Children, $10,000 Grant Reports At the meeting Commission members will vote on the approval of the reports. Commissioners have the options to: a.Approve all reports b.Approve individual reports while submitting specific questions, c.Postpone approval of individual reports pending the answers to specific questions, and/or d.Not approve the reports and cancel the final 20% payments. Grant Reports Vote Recommended Motion Language: “I move that we approve the grant reports from Adriana Paola Palacios Luna, Dance with Georgia, Georgia Schmid, and Motus Theater." Grants Program Updates •Panel training 1/14 with new panelist •Grant Writing Workshop – 23 attendees •76% of first come, first serve awardees were first time applicants, compared to 10% last year •Tracking demand: 40 inquiries since the grants closed (primarily for professional development and rental assistance, with a few for artist hiring) Feedback on Changes •Make portal process more clear •Concern from previous applicants (all current GOS grantees) •Suggestion from grantees about budgeting •Staff recommendation •Joy from first-time applicants •Pre -application a success!! Commission Liaisons to Panel Meetings •General Operating Support new applications, March 25, 4:00 – 6:00 pm •Boulder Vision Grants for Organizations, April 22, 4:00 – 5:30 pm •Boulder Vision Grants for Individuals, May 27, 4:00 – 5:30 pm •Arts Education Project and Lifelong Learning Grants, June 24, 4:00 – 5:30 pm Next Steps •Cultural Organizations Summit: Your Frequently Asked Questions Answered (February 11 at 4pm at Penfield Tate II Municipal Building) •Spring Accessibility Summit (details TBD) For organizations: •GOS reports due February 1 •New GOS applications due February 12 (submit pre-application by February 4) •Suggestion that the timeline for new GOS applications be pushed back in future Fin