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Approved Minutes -Lexington Council for the Arts -June 9, 2014 4 Fall Fundraising Task: Diana, Cristina& Jessie will get draft of fall letter. Spring Fundraising Task: Cristina, Emily, Leslie, Jessie will talk about spring event. Major Donor Task: Zoe, Cristina will discuss. Community Center: Cristina shared floor plans from Pat Goddard and the Community Center Committee. Lynne Klemmer shared some ideas that were generated by her tours of the CC. For the lower level, Zoe suggested a color field mural and Lynne shared that Hastings did a large—scale mural with David Fichter. Display cases could work well for items that LACS might be able to share/ show. The finished areas in the large dining room space are more difficult to envision for art as major walls are changing during construction. Jessie suggested two possible types of gallery spaces —formal and an artist-in-residence place. And, building on Leslie's earlier note about "arts and culture" -- display cases could work very well for "cultural" and "arts" displays. Cristina notes that library does not have insurance for art on display. LACS does have insurance. Maybe town can connect with LACS to learn about this. [Jean Hart will find out when LACS has work shown at library, is the work insured?] Cary Library did have a video recording of someone who was attempting to steal a work of art. Zoe has range of experiences with galleries and finds best color to show art is a neutral gallery gray. Lighting is also not so complex. Brainstorming discussion included: Formal Gallery, Artist-in-Residency Gallery. We agreed we needed to create a report with recommendations. Additional ideas or concerns we would like to present: * Permanent vs. Rotating displays; Storage space; Themes (Our town) * When people want to donate: need ways to review submissions. * Juried or not. Who should be on the jury? Professional artists or not. Leslie Masson raised concern that the Community Center is for the whole community and should not feel exclusive. This lead to discussion around whether all works should be framed for security, or not. In addition, members had different views about what "quality art"indicates. Broader discussions around "What is art?" "What makes it art?" "What type of art is worthy?"will likely take place as people consider what should be shown or purchased for a town space or a town art collection. Jessie shared information about a recent MFA exhibition that selected"Boston's favorite"impressionist works through crowd-sourcing on Facebook. There were positive and negative aspects to the exhibit. (Viewers had a forced choice so it was not truly our "favorites" from MFA's holdings.)