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NAME OF COMMISSION: Boulder Arts Commission
DATE OF MEETING: October 17, 2012
NAME/EXTENSION OF PERSON PREPARING SUMMARY: Gregory Ravenwood (x4113)
MEMBERS: Brandy LeMae, Linda Haertling, Anna Salim, Ann Moss, Richard Turbiak
STAFF: Greg Ravenwood, Mary Wahl Haan, Mary Fowler, Valerie Maginnis
COMMUNITY MEMBERS: Carla Selby, Mary Horrocks, Annette Coleman, David Dadone, Marda Kirn, Amanda Berg Wilson,
Katharine Noll, Carol Garnand, Maria Stachelek
TYPE OF MEETING: REGULAR
SUMMATION:
Call to Order & Approval of Minutes: The meeting was called to order at 5:32 p.m. The September 19 minutes were approved.
Matters from the Department: Maginnis reviewed the Arts and Culture Grant budget allocations for 2013.
Information and Discussion Items: Maginnis reviewed the memorandum submitted to the City planners for the Civic Area Plan,
and Commissioners provided feedback. Maginnis also reviewed the registration component of the digital application process and
noted that the system would be live online in early November.
The Commissioners discussed the issue of availability of major grant funding and agreed to a one year wait for major grant
recipients before regaining eligibility. Commissioners reviewed the 2013 calendar of business and made recommendations for
the schedule.
Arts in Education Grant Proposals: Proposals from Blue Moon Dance Company - Dance Is a Lifetime Activity ($3000); Boulder
Museum of Contemporary Art - Art Stop on the Go ($3000); the Catamounts - Songs of China 2013 ($2400); Colorado Music
Festival & Rocky Mountain Center for Musical Arts - 2013 Education and Outreach Program ($3000); the Dairy Center for the
Arts - Artful Bridges to Community ($3000); Downtown Boulder Inc. - Downtown Student Banner Project ($2890); EcoArts
Connections - Stories for a New Future ($3000); NoBa Art District - Scholarship for NoBo Art District PaintAbout Workshops
($3000); and Parlando School for the Arts - At-Risk Music Class Educational Collaborative ($2755 were approved.
Mini-Grant Proposals: Proposal from the Boulder Blind Cafe - Youth Outreach ($1000); Evolving Doors Dance - SKIN ($1000);
Patricia Gassaway -SECRETS ($860); and Out Boulder- 8 ($1000) were approved.
Grant Budget Reports: Grant reports and extension requests from these grant recipients were reviewed: Boulder Asian Pacific
Alliance, 2012 Major Grant - Asian Aloha Festival; Boulder International Fringe Festival, 2012 Theater Rental/Marketing
Assistance Grant -August Theater Shows at the Dairy and a request for extension on 2012 Major Grant- Poetry in Motion;
Boulder Samba School, 2012 Mini-Grant - Colorado Brazil Fest 2012; Elisabeth Bowman, 2012 Theater Rental/Marketing
Assistance Grant - ONE ACT; Ecoarts Connections, 2012 Major Grant - the invisible connectedness of things; Interweave Dance
Theatre, 2012 Mini-Grant - Love Stories; Blythe Massey, request for extension on 2012 Major Grant Soul Stories: Women of
Boulder County Documentary; NoBo Art District, 2012 Mini-Grant PaintAbout Mini-Workshops for Seniors; Joanna Rotkin, 2012
Arts in Education Grant & Mini-Grant-Some Kind of Weather (title changed to Let Them Eat Cake); Gemma Wilcox, 2012
Theater Rental/Marketing Assistance Grant - The Unfinished Animal; Kirsten Wilson, 2012 Theater Rental/Marketing Assistance
Grant- Rocks Karma Arrows; and Village Arts Coalition, 2010 Mini-Grant- 2010 International Festival. LeMae motioned to
approve all of the grant budget reports and extensions. Haertling seconded and the motion carried unanimously.
Adjournment: The meeting was adjourned at 8:16 p.m.
ATTACH BRIEF DETAILS OF ANY PUBLIC COMMENTS:
TIME AND LOCATION OF ANY NEXT MEETINGS:
5:30 p.m., Wednesday, November 28, 2012 in the North Meeting Room, Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Avenue.