July 12, 2005 SAS Meeting Minutes

July 12, 2005 SAS Meeting Minutes

SAS July 12 Meeting Minutes:

NO AUGUST SAS MEETING
NO AUGUST 2ND SAT SALON. The salon's will resume in September. Pam needs a volunteer to host the SEPTEMBER salon. Please e-mail Pam @ pam@pamelaheyda.com if you are interested in hosting the September 2ND Sat salon.
SEPTEMBER 12 SAS MEETING will be held at Rosa Agnost's @ 2131 Funston Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94116. Thank you Rosa!!!!

SAS is still looking for a permanent meeting place. Any suggestions please reply to this e-mail or bring them to the September 12th meeting. SAS would like to host guest speakers and a permanent meeting space would make this easier. Input on guest speaker topics or any volunteers for a presentation should also be brought to the September meeting.

Guest Speaker Topics discussed: "How do you photograph artwork?"

DeYoung Update July 2006 installation/public interaction (a copy of David's previous information follows the minutes): David, Tina, Adele, Delores, Cynthia Tom, will participate in a walk through of the DeYoung if it happens (not happening early August). David to report at the September Meeting. (Remember the DeYoung opportunity is not an SAS opportunity, this is a heads up just in case any of the SAS artists would be interested in writing a proposal and submitting it to the DeYoung)

Sunset Art Walk: Steve and Anna are working on this and will report at the September meeting if and what SAS can do to help with this endeavor. If urgent action is needed an August meeting or emergency SAS meeting will be called. Otherwise Steve will update us all at the September 12th SAS meeting.

VOTED and APPROVED: SAS Silent Auction Money; SAS raised $1900 at the HOF 2005 Silent Auction: the money was donated to the DeYoung Education Department. Sheila Presley of the DeYoung Artist in residency Programs (part of education) has requested that the money be made available to the De Young artists in residence. It was voted and approved upon by the SAS members present that the money be made available to the DeYoung artists in residency program.

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Original De Young Notes-6/10/05 David's meeting with Renee

The target date for Sunset and Richmond artists is July of 2006. We discussed four weekends of events of an interactive nature with the public.

The overall theme is culture in the Avenues, not limited to visual artists but including also poets, musicians, historians, perhaps actors, etc.

The month should include PPAA, either as an integrated group or as a separate group with their own weekend.

Some of Renee's ideas:
-Have artists work in groups for salon events to be viewed by the public. Her specific idea came from an art teacher who did a figure modeling class with his regular students as a 1-day residency at the Palace.
-A Surfer Sunday to celebrate the beach culture
-An Asian-American weekend to reflect the Asian culture.

The physical resources available are:
-The Kimball Gallery, where the month-long residencies will be, and is approx. 1000 sq. ft.
This gallery has three large video screens that we can use either for video art, or for pre-taped interviews with artists, or videos of artists working in their studios, or-?
-The sculpture court (outdoors)
-Children's Gallery (Enchanted Pond) (outdoors)
-An outdoor court adjacent to the Kimball Gallery.
-Two classrooms in the tower for prescheduled workshop type events

The financial resources available are:
- Museum: publicity, e.g., postcards & announcements in their member's events mailings.
-Our $2100 from the silent auction at HOF if we so designate it.
-Money we might raise from the Inner Sunset Merchants Assn. Or from grants

WHAT THIS OPPORTUNITY IS NOT
This is not a show of art. It is not an exhibition.

WHAT THIS OPPORTUNITY IS
This is a chance for artists to interact with the public in creative ways while promoting their particular artistic vision.
A chance to submit a proposal for an art project to a friendly institution that is very prestigious in our local art world.
A chance for the more professional and/or ambitious artists to make important contacts and pad their resumes.
An opportunity to do art on a scale you cannot in your studio because of space limitations.

THIS IS A JURIED PROCESS.
Staff at the De Young will jury the proposals that artists submit. SAS has no real influence over what is selected and what is not.

SUGGESTIONS FOR SUCCESSFUL PROPOSALS
-Think big. It is easier to scale a proposal down rather than up. If you have harbored dreams of doing a room-sized installation or workshop or event, this is the time and place it might be made real. Propose the project you really want to do, and let for the De Young to tell you that it's a great idea, but it needs to be scaled back a little to fit in their program.
-Propose a project that your portfolio will support. If you've always wanted to do a huge sand painting but your whole portfolio is made up of photo collages, you're chances are slim, simply because they will doubt that you can actually follow through your proposal.
-We will try to get a workshop scheduled that will help you write a proposal. If you don't already know how, cancel your other plans and attend it. Writing proposals is a specific skill with certain rules and standards that make your chances of acceptance much higher.
-Talk to your artist friends. Collaborative proposals can really work well in this setting. A proposal that includes several artists working in a coordinated way will be well considered.
-Think your proposal through. Some details are important. For example, if you want to hang a 1000 pound glass object from the ceiling, have an idea of how thick a cable you will need, how many bolts and of what size, etc. If you want five artists dressed in tuxedos and whiteface to sit in a circle on the floor and play dominos in slow motion, think about whether they will need pillows, if there should be rules about their conversation, whether they should keep score or not, what to do about bathroom breaks, what postures are acceptable, etc. If you want to do a mural with kids, think about how many kids, what their ages are, how many tables you will need, where they will come from, how big the mural will be, etc.
You don't need to know every detail. But you want to give the impression that you are experienced at and/or capable of planning your project out in detail if it is accepted and executing it effectively. Your proposal should include:
name (s)
address, etc.
artist statement
proposal
materials used
nature of community involvement
space requirements
multi media requirements

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