 Make sure you have your red or blue sided paddle with you We're gonna allow plenty of time to go back to the stations and really that's the main event of what we're here for I'm Jimmy LaFleur I'm the public art manager for the city of San Antonio in the department of arts and culture I'm not a real loud talker. So let me know if I'm getting quite active We're doing K-PASA-PASA to help plan projects and We're really excited to come out to the neighborhoods to be able to talk about our process and then introduce ourselves to you So I appreciate you coming out. We can come to this as well as the next two Workshops. They're very similar except we'll be talking about a little bit different regions at each meeting I'm gonna start by turning it over and introducing Our director We're gonna evening everybody Welcome You guys came out tonight to talk about public art in this area This is the public art meeting that we're going to talk about Districts one and seven so We're not in a series of community meetings and it is in conjunction with our culture plan and our culture plan has Six components. We've already completed several of them including a film strategic plan a plan for our center They are this gallery, which has been down to Market Square We're underway and think that happened if you haven't gone it's free and we should go see the exhibit of Alberto behind those lights of work He's a very famous San Antonio artist and then The next thing that we did we worked with our agencies to look at arts funding and some equity issues and that's ongoing and we'll be going to the council soon and then we Right now we're talking about public art. We'll be talking about music to come and other things including potentially cultural districts See what you guys think about that. So tonight we want to focus on public art and We're gonna get your opinions about public art. We're gonna tell you about public art that you are already Paid for as residents of San Antonio and what's already there You're gonna get to vote on some things And Jimmy can tell you how to do that So you get to do some interactive things and we have all these different interactive stations that you get to go to and Learn and tell us what you want. Where do you want public art? So I also want to introduce if you don't already know your councilman for district 7 Anasandamal and I want to thank her very much for coming out to this event so Thank you Debbie for the introduction We're very close to it right now we are in district one Just a few blocks of the way sister seven where some of you live. I'm glad to see my my neighbors out here So I'm not exactly an artist, but this is still very meaningful to me So I like I like to paint. I prefer oils to Acrylics and but I keep those all very personal to myself. Nobody looks at them. Nobody sees them They're in my own home But I do appreciate public art the most recent installment we've had in district seven is the one that I live on Lane as far as as I can remember but I You know a lot of what we do as As council people is we say we want to improve quality of life for our residents And what does that mean and in many senses that means infrastructure right and sidewalks and making sure the streets work But that alone doesn't create a neighborhood or a sense of place there has to be character to that and that's why It's fundamental to think about how we do that and art is absolutely one way we can do that And I'm so glad that my predecessors on the council decided to dedicate part of every Every bond package to public art But it wouldn't mean anything if you didn't have a voice in what that art looks like and where it went And it didn't reflect the community that it was in so that's what's important about tonight's meeting And I hope you you enjoy it and it's very looks great. I love the interactive Go ahead and enjoy it sounds like this is a About having fun Thank you very much So we are going to go through some slides I'm going to try to keep pace so that doesn't slow things down too much But I want to add some some information and I also want to have some interaction So I'll go through quickly and explain You know who is it also so we're going to ask questions through this presentation What we're going to be telling information, but who are we? I've been the manager for some time I've worked on a number of projects, and I have a great I've settled with a really great team My project managers are here tonight. Becky Johnson Right here, I'm sorry So they they implement projects they work not alone though what they work with arts commissioners Those are appointed by The mayor council and we have a process and a lot of information that can be found on our website Get creative san Antonio.com public art going to try not to make this an information heavy Presentation that there's a lot there on our website And if there's something you can't find you can talk to one of us and we will tell you we can also put more onto our website so real quickly there's going to be some segue slides that are kind of interactive tonight and We're using these panels for lots of purposes They may be used for cooling you down, but they also Are a way to go so if you like we're going to show some artwork if you like it like it like we were in an auction house You can hold up and we're going to take pictures and see what do you like red the reds happy The blues a little bit less happy There's also information to put on you know public art is with collecting these at the end of the night and Stamps at each station cover the different dots and that encourages you to finish these stations So that we can give you a prize for completing everything on your way out two of the stations are outside You may have seen already So this is the first of the slides that have public art These are award-winning public artworks that were done through the Americans for the Arts And your review and so this one I'm going to ask if you like but don't like this is a Janet Necklman temporary installation of the Beijing Hold them up. Got some likes. We're going to get purple sometimes It's a divided crowd Another piece. This is all power to all people by a close Thomas This is a series of pieces done in Philadelphia through Monument Lab and trying to understand the The best way to handle some spaces that were previously installed Confederate monuments likes and dislikes More books of the feather Dixie friend great. This was done over in the Houston, they're city of Houston. She also has a piece in District 10 at this age Likes and dislikes Thank you All right, next question who makes it happen that staff that works really hard on all the projects works with a lot of people the Arts Commission 15 members Those members break down into a smaller committee for a public art committee These individuals were in need To try to help us with all of our work We do an open call annually We pull in artists from all over at every level of experience. We also pull in vendors and Businesses then such as art handlers Collaborative partners the intent here is to represent the largest field we can File and when the project comes up, we need to work with you. We know who you are and we have a relationship We pull artists who are in the local version category. We do mentorship each year I know Ryan is with us back here and he was on our mentorship program and we have an exhibit about our mentorship program It's out in art craft, which is really brilliant and has some interactive things to be brought to kids I wanted to tell us to say what we do through Debbie's introduction We've been through a cultural planning process We've developed a vision statement mission statement And we're you know the most important one in terms of the vision statement is opening up the landscape to the first voices to create engaging public art and What we want to do is try to think about how we can improve public art and not just necessarily do more of it Get quantity going, but how do we reach more artists that maybe haven't had opportunities before how do we elevate artists? So that they can be made just like artists have been made in other cities And we do that using public dollars. And so there's a public connectivity to every project we do through engagement like this too And they get to spread out through a number of ways through bond projects Which we find ways to connect to the street stream infrastructure projects And sometimes through non bond projects that could also be grants, but it also Ties into a lot of improvements that are done to facilities like the airport and conventions This is some of what we've done just this year. So all of these projects represent through july Completed projects that have been in the works for some time But you made a concerted effort to try to have a lot of public art works Dedicated in 2018 and some of them are out in neighborhoods that you might be familiar with Some are downtown somewhere on gateways that intersect between two neighborhoods or two districts Major facilities like the car rental facility if you haven't gone out there, please see it in great interactive kiosks there that explains all about the mural It works such as out at Elmendorf Lake and Pionic Long Island Not very far from here in district one on Blanker Road near Nimitz elementary. It's a great work. We work with students Okay, three more slides. We're going in Utah. This was just an award winner convergence by Blumberg Just likes In louisville a metro project along the rail system upriver downriver by mark greebel And then in west hollywood as part of a cultural arts plan a sidewalk display created with artists and infographics three cloud by shone whites Great So where does all this go? We place artwork throughout the city a lot of that of course is going to be centralized around Resources like the river and downtown we know that You'll be surprised to see how much public art is really out into the neighborhoods and out to the extending neighborhoods All of this is on an online map on get creative san Antonio.com. You can click on it and you can find a lot of details about the project we'll see As you look at the 2017 fund We have cool dollars in each of these propositions that we are going through this process right now to figure out How to best divvy that up into the best possible projects? So all of our projects do get spent in in the connection to the Of that one new really centrally located project is the san Antonio t And this is a project to try to connect all of the city's public art that we're doing with this bond program And also Bring it to downtown and so we have a station here So i'm not going to go into too much detail because we can talk to you about it through at the station but the intent is to Make this into a really signature arts anchor location public art anchor location right in the center of the city And when do things happen every project will have its own cycle its own start and stop But essentially you're seeing us at the beginning of the cycle We're having these community workshops That are going to lead to a series of projects That will then bring in artist selection and curatorial process Every project will have designs developed and those have opportunities for public presentation A rigorous approval process to make sure we have a missed anything we're likely moving out And then we begin fabricating and building them and bringing them back to celebrate them Okay See her this is a mural done in boston by artist and chigars angus Lights and displays Edmonton arts council in canada has a resonant progression by roiden mills who's an example of maybe a little more on about prairie life setting Rustitioned by carl unash in city of melton video everyone likes tractor So lastly why we do it We're we're working with our committees and with our cultural clients to establish some good criteria For what will make a good project We want to connect these projects to what's interesting and one of those existing resources We want to advance that community in the way we place artwork in a way to hire artists They should be transformative They should meet our feasibility requirements. We don't want to start a project that's going to run into problems Or that may over tax our programmers and in PR delivery So that's something that will be part of our rigorous project selection process and then as artworks and artists are selected We're going to look through kind of curatorial criteria to understand if we really understand what these things mean And we're not just giving in to the lip service So the last of these three slides I'm happy to say they had some award-winning passionately recognized projects art crowds Through the east point public art and artist residencies which was funded with a PNEA grant Just won a year review award just a few months ago So I want to get your feedback likes and dislikes here before Buster Simpson's project at Pure Cell Park, Midden Mountains also Won an award. There are two of these sites on mountains that were formed from landfills And this was a really kind of difficult project to get the natural basic visit This kind of protected area to allow the public art, but it's it's amazing if you haven't gone out there and views are incredible I won't be aligned to this bunch because it's so little hard Then the uh The last of the year before we also won an award for so-to-web. This was out in the north side Panther Springs Park and this artist John Isherwood Created these out of granite and they're based on the forms of the seed pods of the plants that you will find So how do we get started? Tonight, that's kind of the process. We're going to be talking about artist selections and how we get the concepts going In very short order, but first we want to hear from you. There's a station about knowing the community mapping arts and culture Prop in the back we discuss with you art opportunities in the center Outside the art craft and reaction lab experience So I'm around and so is all the staff just take your questions one on one. We'd rather have conversations with you So that's all for us. We want to have any wrap up. We have drinks and refreshments in the back And we'll get some music going and get you all started Come up if you have any questions come up to any one of us and we'll take your questions Thank you