I think it's on.

Okay, I'd like to call the meeting to order.

And Elijah, would you read the role?

Epic is absent.

Hannaford here.

Murphy.

Corolla Titus.

And Newton is absent.

Has everybody had a chance to uh read the Oh no.

First let me say are there any changes or additions to the agenda?

Um no changes.

We do have PowerPoints for agenda items six A and six B.

Okay.

Are there any members of the community here who would like to come up and speak?

Apparently not.

Um has everybody had a chance to look at the minutes of the last meeting?

Yes.

Yes.

Any uh discussion or is there a motion to approve the minutes?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Okay.

A second?

Good because there's only two of you here.

Um anyway.

Um so um do I have any so then uh any YAs?

Yes.

I think it's the first meeting of in where it's only three of us.

That's why I think I'm uh I'm I'm a little confused.

I've been to several that way.

Okay, so um have all the communities uh see, we already did the minutes, so um we're ready for their presentations.

So Sarah, do you want to so this is um starting our administrative reports for agenda item high clay?

Um six A, which is a review of the temporary land art initiative, nature culture, um, and the finalists.

So as a reminder, nature culture is a temporary rotating exhibition series that's part of our temporary public art program.

It invites artists to create site responsive installations in parks across the city of Napa.

The intent is for these exhibitions to investigate the relationships between ecology and art.

The first edition will be held in the Oxpo Preserve, and it will be installed between the period of fall 2026 through to spring of 2029.

The goals of this project are to create exciting, appealing, and harmonious public environments to uplift new voices and perspectives on nature and climate issues through art to promote public participation and interaction with artists and artwork, and to encourage the use and appreciation of Napa's park system.

Our selection panel used the following criteria to select the finalists of the RFQ.

This included their design portfolio, a letter of interest, and artist qualifications.

The Oxbow Preserve is one of Napa's many parks, and the art walk will be located in zones one, two, three, and five of the Oxbow Preserve.

This ensures that the art walk is fully accessible along an ADA approved path and also keeps the wilderness areas of the park reserved for wilderness.

And with that, I will introduce you to our finalists.

The first finalists are an artist duo, Delia DeVer and Chris Um and Christy Moya.

Both DeVert and Moya have roots in the Bay Area, and Christy Moya is a long-term current resident of Napa.

Moya is a photographer and filmmaker, and DeVer is a basket weaver, and together they propose a large-scale burden basket inspired by baskets from their shared Chiricawa Apache heritage.

It will incorporate overlapping cultural references from contemporary and traditional Western and native sources.

They propose that it will be made out of river willow and will incorporate cyanotype photography.

In their proposal, Christy Moya says, in the canon between dreams and peril, there is tangible faith.

A basket is tangible faith, an icon of devotion.

The weaver imagines her basket, gathers the materials, and as her hands work, she sings to the plants gathered, she sings to the form that emerges to the use that will nurture her people.

The next artist is Mia Fuhr.

Mia is a professor of sculpture originally from Canada, but currently based in the Bay Area for the last 15 years.

Her practice has long centered on questions surrounding ecology, climate change, and our relationship to the more than human world.

Early projects emerged from field research in Alberta's tar sands strip mines and in the coastal Louisiana bayous.

She says that witnessing the fragility of northern ecosystems firsthand deepened her understanding of the profound interconnectedness of environmental systems and human activity.

She says that this program, Nature Culture, she is interested in creating a work that enters into a dialogue with the place rather than imposing itself upon it, and would begin with on site research.

She also states that material choice will be important to her process, choosing materials that are durable enough to withstand outdoor conditions while remaining sensitive to the ecological character of the site.

She says she's interested in how sculpture can alternatively reveal itself and disappear into the landscape, shifting between contrast and camouflage depending on the season, weather, light, and vantage point.

She's also interested in creating sculptural forms that make unseen ecological relationships visible.