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Lexington Council for the Arts <br /> Meeting AGENDA <br /> e✓i <br /> Pre-Meeting Tasks <br /> Review of handouts&minutes <br /> Attendance: <br /> Present: Seetha Ramnath, Laurel Smith, Faith Lin,Amy Kaser, Lynne Klemmerer, Jean Hart, Rebecca <br /> McGowan, Jessie Steigerwald <br /> Absent:Mark Ferri <br /> Guests: <br /> Recording Secretary: Rebecca McGowan <br /> Meeting start time: 7:06 <br /> 1. WELCOME-Chairperson (Seetha) <br /> a. Updates on pertinent meetings <br /> i. Discussion with Ms. Koren Stembridge-planned offline with Seetha, has rescheduled her <br /> visit to February 2018(sent her apologies for last month's decline due to last minute <br /> personal circumstances). The library has extensive programming planned and wants to <br /> coordinate with the council. Interest in brainstorming public art and programming in the <br /> space by the idea wall. <br /> ii. Breakthrough Artist follow up-Mr. Joel Kowit will be supported by the Council through the <br /> following initiatives : (1)Seetha has organized and confirmed the LHS Science Dept(% <br /> Ms. Jackie Crowe, Science Department Head)will host Joel Kowit for a 50-75 person <br /> presentation on May 22, 2018(2)For public benefit, Seetha will arrange with Cary Library <br /> for Joel's Stained Glass exhibit—this winter(3)For public awareness,Jessie has <br /> organized an ArtTalk interview on LexMedia planned for Nov-Dec 2017 (4)Seetha has <br /> confirmed meeting for Joel with Melissa Tintocalis to expand his artistic influence into the <br /> biotech community(5)Seetha has prepared an article for release to the Lexington <br /> Minuteman and Colonial Times. <br /> iii. Meeting with Ms. Melissa Tintacolis-request for public art proposalNisitor <br /> Center/RFP/will join Jan meeting with LCCs. Bring ideas for parameters for a public art <br /> piece to the January meeting. <br /> b. Confirmed: Lexington hosting Jan/Feb regional LCC meeting with Waltham and Arlington to share <br /> best practices&lessons learned on grants strategy. Lynne&Jean are helping develop the agenda <br /> for issuing by December 1st. <br /> c. Security of LCA File Cabinet.Amy has cleaned up access and will provide the LCA login to council <br /> members. <br /> d. New Council members-Seetha has meetings scheduled meetings with prospective candidate w/o <br /> Nov 20 <br /> 2. REPORTS <br /> a. Secretary's Report(Rebecca) <br /> i. Approval of previous meeting's minutes(October 2017, Lynne motion,Jessie seconded) <br /> b. Treasurer's Report(Amy) <br /> i. Annual report complete 2017-18 <br /> ii. Grant refresher document—still expecting several more reimbursement requests <br /> c. Communications Report(Faith) <br /> i. Website: www.lexartscouncil.oLq -updated with information about online grants, several <br /> ........................................................................................... <br /> new arts businesses added (more needed for completeness) <br /> 3. NEW BUSINESS (Seetha/Laurel/Jessie/Lynne) <br /> a. Execute Grant Evaluation process for 2017-18-identified the low scoring applicants and prepared <br /> "decline" letters to be mailed following the meeting <br /> b. Review strategy for awarding top priority applicants <br /> c. 2017-18 Projects: <br /> 1 of 2 <br />