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124MASTER VISIOn125PUBLIC ART• Also: • If you have not been to an Art Center Open House, I would encourage it to see some of our impact on the community. We now get about 500 to 700 people in a weekend visiting our artists’ studios. We will be a part of the Artist Holiday Open Studios on Dec 2nd & 3rd. It’s a quirky space, but we make it work. • To Ro’s point of checking in with the San Mateo Arts Commission, we are wondering if they could be a funding resource for that staffer for Chris? • non-arts non-profits seem to be reaching out for art more? • Box.com has discounted access to non-profits for file sharing and collaborating through TechSoup. Upgrading to the business level gets you unlimited collaborators. Could this be a grant request of the county? Make our stakeholders all collaborators? • Box.org might be able to get behind a big arts push should we have an employee sponsor. • I keep hearing “Cultural Center” and “Art Center” used interchangeably, but I feel they serve different populations. We have artists at the Art Center who are more interested in making, learning from other artists, and working collaboratively, but who are not interested in being right next to a dance studio or an after-school program for kids. I feel there is actually a need for both types of Centers. misc. points made • An art/cultural center for the whole community is needed! (more than visual arts and needs to be self-sustaining). • Exhibition space is needed. • Some conduit/service that helps match art needs with providers (e.g. teacher who needs supplies – someone who funds supplies, etc.) • More support for and community-building activities with individual artists. • Ideas suggested include artist registry; portal for patrons and exhibition spaces to find artists (and vice versa); ways to find collaborators, etc. A point was made that SFAC is a well-developed organization in San Francisco. They can be looked at as an example for RWC. It was also mentioned that there was a County registration for artists in the past but it charged a yearly fee. Lance suggested people review the SFAC and send him pieces they think would be valuable in our community. • It is necessary to increase recognition that the arts are an economic driver. • Audiences need to be generated, and there needs to be support to do so. • Arts in RWC has a branding challenge– people think of RWC as a fun, entertaining place (music on square, movies), but not an arts place. How does RWC change or build on that? • In what ways can the resources and the knowledge of Canada College be tapped into? • Consider an artists’ residency program/space. • Support “thinking big”, (e.g. international artists and major public art projects that bring recognition beyond the city), and for being inclusive of local artists and small projects too. • The city currently has about $80K/yr. for funding public art. The CCC has about $60K/yr. to fund all arts activities including performance, education, etc. • Should RWC restart the monthly art walk that existed in the past? the art Center • Host free to the public open studio events. I expect our total for the end of the year will be around 1700 visitors after the Holiday Open Studios. The Art Center has grown exponentially in the last 2 years in this area. • Host other local non-profits who would like to display art, like Art in Action or nCWCA (in the works for next year). • Sponsor teachers and provide supplies so art classes can be taught in communities that can’t come to The Art Center: local autism group, local after school program, dementia patients at a local senior center. • Sponsor muralists and provide money for supplies for local non-profits and schools. • Sponsor artists to go speak to school children about what it is like to be an artist. • Sponsor kids who would like to take art lessons but whose families cannot afford them. • Offset registration fees for tenant artists to help them host open studio events. • Provide 33 studios to 40 artists (with about 13 extra on the wait list) at below market rental rates. Please note that we are still more expensive than the average Art Center because we are not subsidized by a city or given a building like many others in the Peninsula are. This will be a harder thing to do as time goes on with our current business model. It would be very cool to become like Cubberly or Sanchez… at around $1/square foot instead of $2.844/ sq. foot Cai guo-qiang Philadelphia 8.A. - Page 68