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Okay.

So we have an agenda review and supplemental reports.

I think the only thing to note is that we do have a PowerPoint for 6A, 6B, and 6C.

Thank you.

Okay.

Any public comment?

Always welcome.

Okay.

Everyone had a chance to review the minutes from the last meeting.

Yes.

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Somebody like to make a motion to approve.

I make a motion to approve the minutes.

I second.

Yes.

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Everyone in favor, aye.

Nays.

Okay.

And presentations.

Okay, for agenda item six A.

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Yeah.

So straight like where we are right now.

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So all right.

Um yeah, apologies if you wouldn't mind looking at the back screen.

So agenda item six A is a report on the Brown Street and Dwight Murray Plaza sculpture relocation, and we have an update for you.

So as a reminder, the Dwight Murray um Dwight Mary Plaza and the north side of the Brown Street corridor are currently undergoing renovations as part of the first Street Napa phase two project, which is a private development project, and seven artworks are impacted by this.

Two temporary sculptures as part of the Napa Art Walk, a mural, and four permanent sculptures.

These are the four permanent public artworks that are impacted by this project.

And these are their previous locations, and they have um already been removed from the site, and we're in the process of planning for their relocation.

These are the proposed locations, three of which you approved last time, and the fourth of which Napa birthplace of the loudspeaker.

So previously PASC approved the proposed locations for the Great Eye by Peter Boyger, cat washing by Norma J.

Anderson, and City Hall for the immigrants.

So both Great Eye and Cat Washing will be at Heritage Park, and the immigrants will be at City Hall on the corner of Second Street and School Street.

We based on the recommendation from PASC, we'd like to move uh Napa Birthplace of the Loudspeaker to the Napa Valley Historical Society located at the Goodman Library.

And we are still in the process of determining the relocation expenses, but we do not anticipate that these costs will come out of the public art fund.

They will come out of the general fund public art budget.

Staff recommends that committee members move second and approve the action set forth below, which is to support the recommendation for the proposed location of the permanent artwork NAPA birthplace of the loudspeaker, and to move forward with its relocation, including receiving approval from city council.

Well, I make a motion that we approve the move and accept the new position at the Goodman Library happily.

Seconded.

All those in favor?

Aye.

Aye.

All those nay.

Approved.

Okay, we're now looking for administrative administrative report B.

Sure.

So for um administrative report B, we are giving you some project updates on projects that have been using the public art.

So firstly, I'm happy to announce that we have completed the installation of Downstream by Jacques Lissec.

This marks the completion of the Saskell Media's public art project.

We're still waiting for final inspections, and we are currently working on a video about the project.

There's Jacques.

And here are some iPhone images of the project at night.

Second um leaves on a line, the playable art project at Fuller Park by Daniel Woodarchik has, as of art August started the construction phase.

So that included the removal of old equipment and salvaging of the two to five equipment, which will be relocated at the at Laurel Park.

Current tasks include preparation of the future resilient rubber surfacing and ADA corrections, and the equipment for Fuller Park leaves on a line, is currently in fabrication and is anticipated to arrive in November for installation.

And we expect the project to be completed in January or February of 2026.

That's the end of 6B.

Thank you.

All right, we're on to 6C presentation.

I had a question about 6B.

In the video that you're doing, did um the artist, I believe, that he had talked about bringing some youth, local high school students and talking about what he was doing.

And do you have any documentation of that?

And can you make sure to include that element in the video?

Um I don't know about youth.

We did have an artist studio visit open to the public.

And I remember that, but I I think that Jacques was talking about having some high school students, you know, a little bit just kind of familiarizing with what he was doing and how he was doing it, and if he's got any kind of documentation like that, it'd be really important to include that so that people understand that you know the artists that we do have working here are very open to that kind of community connection.

They're not working in a void.

I uh also had a quick question.

Did Didi design the lighting or was it he was constrained by the city to create it?

Um this is on the structure, it's not on the ground.

Um, is there a reason why or it was intentional he he liked that effect.

He worked with some lighting designers, but that is the design that he liked, and that we wanted to be going more directionally down versus up because potentially you're not gonna hit the whole sculpture if you're going up with the in-ground lining.

Okay.

It looks very cool.

Thank you.

Any other comments or questions from the committee?

Okay.

We'll move on to 6C, please.

6C is an update on our temporary public art projects.

So we have a number of temporary um public art projects in the works, including Kawanis Park, which will be part of our temporary mural program, and this has been a really exciting community initiated project.

Um, as a bit of background, this project was brought to us by a community member in September of last year who has lived in the Napa of Aho neighborhood for 30 years, uh, and in his words has driven past this big ugly green wall for all 30 years that he's lived there.

And he came to us asking, because it's a city property, if we would be interested in commissioning a mural, and he offered to help fundraise for this project.

Um the total square footage of the mural is about uh 14,000 square feet, and it includes nine structures.

And the temporary nature of this project has allowed us to try a different engagement process than we have done with other public art projects, and this is hopefully reflective of the community-centric nature of the project.

So the total project budget will be $30,000, 15,000 of which was fundraised by this community member, and that was matched um by the city general fund.

So we have solicited public engagement with the project in two ways.

The first of which was a community advisory panel, which consisted of um select individuals, including neighbors of Kawanis Park, members of the Napa Valley Girls Fast Pitch Association, which has played at Cawanas Park for over 75 years, and a member of the public art steering committee.

We also have um had a citywide survey uh to identify themes um or colors that are important to include in the mural.

Um the panel were presented with seven artists, and they selected L, who is shown on your right, and L is in Napa local, and we are currently negotiating a contract with her, and we hope to install the mural in October or November of this year.

We additionally have two events coming up, the Napa Lighted Art Festival and Dia de los Muertos, um, which are happening in November of this year and January to February of next year.

For Dia de los Muertos, we've um established two new art initiatives.

Uh the first being a community-designed street banner program, and then also integrating low rider classic car car altars.

So the street banner program is intended to uplift local artists and to add to our celebration.

We started accepting submissions from artists of any age, background, and medium in June, and we just closed the call on September 19th.

We've received almost a hundred and seventy submissions.

These submissions submissions will be reviewed by a selection panel, uh, who will ultimately select 16 designs to be printed on vinyl and hung on Main Street and Brown Street.

Here are some images from our banner making workshop.

We had two of those that we hosted last week and the week before.

Um it was really fun.

We hosted it in the senior center, and it was a really great uh multi-generational gathering.

And um, just a quick sneak peek.

We are in the contract stage with most of our Napa Lighted Art Festival 2026 artists.

So we should be able to give you more information on this at our next meeting.

But in the meantime, this artwork affinity will hopefully be at Veterans Park.

It's an interactive artwork inspired by the human brain.

And it's uh if you touch one of the orbs, it sets off a light that travels to another orb that is being touched by someone else.

Um and so the light is connecting in all of these different ways, and every uh 20 minutes or so there's uh a light show, a pre-programmed light show.

And just as a reminder, the dates for the Napoleon Art Festival are January 17th to February 15th of 2026.

That's the end of 6C.

Okay.

Um, anyone have any comments?

Um, I have comments about upcoming stuff, yes.

Upcoming stuff, okay.

Well, I personally am very excited.

I love to see that Dia de los Muertos has grown and the community engagement.

That's amazing that 170 submissions and kudos on the marketing as well.

Because I was really seeing that pushed out as I was following along.

So that's really really wonderful.

Uh so I wanted to just mention that, and everything looks great.

I'm excited.

Okay.

Anyone else?

I'll just wait for the comment section.

I have one comment for seven as well.

Okay, we're open for comments.

Well, I had two, is there gonna be an like an opening celebration kind of thing for Jacques's piece?

We're discussing it with Jacques.

Honestly, it's been so busy with the installation that we're just trying to get the final inspections done and get he was taking a kind of a little bit of a break.

It was all the installation all happened at night, so it was quite a taxing um week and preparation for all that as well.

So uh we're we're checking in with him to see it's obviously a similar, very difficult site to do kind of a opening, if you will, or uh a ceremony, but we're still exploring that.

And then the other question was um any kind of update on the bump outs.

Yes, we'll we should bring that back to the uh committee next month with an update.

We're still like kind of in the design process right now, so we're still working through that, but we can have a good update at the next meeting.

And I'm glad that I have the dates for the park because um I'm compelled often when I'm driving my grandchildren around to stop and have to walk all the way up because they want to see the progress.

And uh they were quite surprised about how deep they're all that had to be done.

So it's it's been really cool.

I live across the street.

I've been watching that as well.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Uh I had uh one quick question.

I was wondering, and maybe um, you guys are already aware of it, but um uh is are we ever gonna add to this uh the per the permanent uh art that's being sprinkled right now around the city?

Are we ever gonna add to this?

I mean new projects.

So those little pieces like this and uh around the city.

The comp the comp is that they call complex small sculptural small sculptural pieces.

So we're actually this spring, we'll go through a process of looking at uh more planning for the future these last couple years because we had so many projects in the pipeline.

We've been kind of carrying those forward just based on staff capacity and funding and whatnot.

So um it's kind of exciting this spring.

We should be able to kind of look into the future and start planning and perhaps look at smaller projects as well, not always have to be these monumental gateway or large scale projects that can be smaller projects as well.

So we'll go back to where are the opportunity sites, what type of projects are we looking to do, um, refer back to the public art master plan, um, all those things when we start planning for the springtime, which aligns then with the budget cycles because then we'll make a recommendation to city council about how to uh allocate the public art fund going forward so if there's ideas in the meantime um definitely connect with Sarah and I if you have some individual ideas that we can kind of bring those forward um in the early springtime yeah thank you so much.

The Napa art walk also kind of fills a little bit of that gap with uh the the two year residency for the nine sculptures but would any of those ever be considered for permanent collection pending budget or how how we move forward maybe not in those particular locations because I know those have been mapped out but just wondering I mean we would have a couple year couple residencies of selections as well and those have been really fun to see.

It's always possible it does pieces don't have to be commissioned they can be purchased um it does call out for that opportunity so that's always a possibility okay any other comments or questions no I have one comment um I'm excited to announce that Sarah has become a full-time staff member this last Monday right it was her first full time or first day of full time employment so we're really excited that she's joined the team in this capacity and that we can continue to grow the public art program add on more um you know public programs we have a lot of great ideas that we've been brainstorming about how we can utilize this position as well as just help myself with a lot of the project management so very excited and very proud of Sarah of transitioning from part time to full-time and is that um in part a result of measure g funding for it and the way that like how is it that we've been able to do that I think it's fantastic but so there was a retirement in um my division and we kind of evaluated the workload and we actually created two technically recreation coordinators but um public art can obviously falls within the recreation division and so we identified public art as a a core area for a recreation position uh recreation coordinator position and then we split off special events and special event permits as the other recreation coordinator so we're actually having three new full-time staff um between another staff leaving and a retirement we're almost half the team is brand new well congratulations Sarah yes congratulations anyone else for comment um I just wanted to say thank you to my fellow commissioners um for uh you know putting up with me for I don't know what like six years how many how long has it been Sean?

Long enough um and uh I I think that you know thinking about where we were getting through the pandemic and where we are right now um there's lots to be very um proud of more work to be done um and definitely more education of the public to be done about what the purpose of public art is and why we have this body and what we do and all the things that we talk about um and uh I just want to thank everyone for their work and for letting me be part of it we'll miss we'll miss you Lisa yeah it's been incredible appreciate your insight and I'll still be around this I'm not I'm I'm not disappearing completely.

Thank you so much.

All right meeting adjourned