HomeMy WebLinkAbout2006-05-25 Arts Culture Commission MinutesEdina Art Center Board Meeting May. 25, 2006
Members Present: Gene Andersen, Dolores Dege, Liz Eisenbrey, George Hadjiyanis, Heather Randall
King, Mike Kelly, Ken Rosland, Alexandra Sifferlin, and Jim Van Valkenburg
Members Absent: Linda Kieffer and Ruth Valgemae
Staff Present: Bradley Benn, Diana Hedges, and Phil Johnson
CALL TO ORDER
Meeting was calW to order at 4:00 p.m.
APPROVAL. OF MINUTES
The minutes of die. October 27, 2005 meeting were read and approved.
NEW MEMBER
George HadjiYanis was introduced
EDINA.PUELIC ART COMMITTEE — Linda Kieffer
Diana reported for Linda: Eddi Fesler will be showing at Jerry's Café. The Utility check off will be on the
next bill. Jennifer is working on advertising for it. Grandview Square sculpture will be going in in June.
REPORT ON FALL INTO THE ARTS — Ken Rosland
It will be Sept:' 9 & 10. Ken asked if the Art Center wanted to have the Tavern on the Lake again in 06.
Yes.
DIRECTOR'S,REPORT —
A huge thankyoti19 Sandy Clark for hosting our Volunteer Luncheon. It was a beautiful event! Put April 27, 2007
on your calendar now for our next luncheon at Sandy's!
ART FAIR . • . .
We have a.new space this year. We will be setting up tables in front of Bellesen's. Come help sell and also shop!
This is the pottery department's big fundraiser of the year!
TOURS
We have 20,people signed up so far for the France trip Celebrating the Year of Cezanne (August 21-31). Still have
room for five more so pass the word. The brochure is done on our trip to Senegal (January 2007) and we are
starting to get calls about it.
GIFT SHOP
(Repeat of,March/April report) If you are not already on a committee or have a specific Board area, this might be
your chance to get more involved! We are presently seeing if we can make use of our volunteers and staff to
continue this operation until the fall when the really busy season comes. Liz Genovese, a volunteer has taken over
the bookkeeping aspect and has been busy painting and renovating, but we still need people to:
Arrange items,..lielp Monica Sullivan with the organization of storage areas, Dust, contact artists, suggest items,
attend art fairs to get new items ideas.
Please call Mary of me if you have a few hours to donate or if you know of anyone who would like to help.
Heather suggested.we should still consider a gift shop manager although Liz has been doing a great job as a
volunteer.'
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CULTURAL EXPLORATIONS PROGRAM
We need Board Members to participate to make this year's Carnival a success! When is a good time for you to
meet? We did not have anyone from the Board attend the last meeting. Next Carnevale Delle Arti meeting is
scheduled for June 8 at 4pm.
October 8, 2006 '-- Carnevale Delle Arti This is one of our BIG events of the year and I hope you already have it on
your calendar! Asiyou know this activity is in conjunction with the Twin Cities Fine Arts Organization's Art on the
Town. We will have a planning meeting June 8 at 4pm.
We are presentblworking on details to host a workshop with Massimo Boldrin, an internationally-known
maskmaker from Venice at the end of July. He and his brother Sergio create one-of-a-kind commedia dell' arte
masks and have' been featured in international fashion design arenas as well as Shakespeare festivals worldwide.
We'll keep you'updated when we finalize.
ARTS TOWN HALL
First meeting will be May 25 at 6pm during the Student Show opening. Please attend if you can and meet some of
our Members. Someone suggested that Town Hall Meeting had some negative political connotations.
GALLERY'OPENINS
Discussion topic: How do we get more involvement from the Board at openings?
Ken suggested listing events on a calendar format to help the board members. Heather mentioned that she had
never been called to help at openings.
BOARD MEETINGS
Discussion topic: Because it is so difficult to get a quorum (a quorum is six) in the winter, the Board voted to
schedule Board Meetings on the third Thursday April through November and then just have Committee meetings
the rest of te. year unless a special meeting is called by the Executive Director and the Board Chair.
A list of volunteer opportunities including some of the above was passed out.
Mike congratulated Diana and the staff on progress on a business plan. It is expected that we can't operate at a
profit but the loss was reduced in 2005 and we are on track to reduce it in 2006.
Dee Dege expressed thanks for her volunteer award and said she would call a Juried Show planning meeting soon.
ADJOURNMENT -The meeting was adjourned at 4:50 pm.