* This transcript was created by voice-to-text technology. The transcript has not been edited for errors or omissions, it is for reference only and is not the official minutes of the meeting. APOLOGIZE. NOW [00:00:01] WE, WELL, I GUESS WE'LL GO AHEAD AND CALL OUR MEETING TO ORDER OF THE CULTURAL ARTS COMMISSION TODAY'S JANUARY 20TH. UM, FIRST OFF WILL BE OUR APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES FROM OUR LAST MEETING. AND THEY'RE ATTACHED. WE HAVE A CHANCE TO LOOK THEM OVER. EVERYBODY'S NAMES SPELLED, VERIFIED. ANY ADDITIONS OR CORRECTIONS? SHORT MEETING AGAIN. DO I HEAR A MOTION TO ACCEPT THEM AS WRITTEN? I TWO THE SAME THING YOU GONNA DO ? YOU KNOW WHAT, THERE'S ARE EXTRA COPIES RIGHT THERE, . YOU PROBABLY DO. YEAH. OH, OKAY. YEAH. OH, OKAY. GOT EXTRA. WE, YEAH, WE HAD TO MAKE MORE COPIES, BUT, OH, OKAY. I GUESS THAT GOT TWO OF THEM. OKAY. YES. IT'S JUST A LITTLE TWO PAGE THING. THE FIRST, OR AT LEAST FOR THIS MEETING, ANY ADDITIONS OR DIRECTIONS? IF NOT, DO I HEAR MOTION TO ACCEPT THEM AS WRITTEN? I'LL MAKE A MOTION TO ACCEPT THE UNWRITTEN AND SECOND. SECOND. OKAY. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE. AYE. AND OPPOSED? MOTION CARRIES. ALRIGHT. WE DON'T HAVE ANY PUBLIC COMMENTS HERE TODAY, SO OUR MONDAY REPORTS, YOU HAVE ATTACHMENT THERE SECOND. YEP. AND SO THANK YOU SO MUCH TO THE LOVELY MS. CLAPPER. MS. THERESA CLAPPER PUTS TOGETHER SOME NUMBERS. THERESA, DO YOU WANNA SHARE ABOUT THE NUMBERS? SO WE'RE STARTING OVER INTO A NEW FISCAL YEAR NOW. SO THE TOP ONE, YOU'LL SEE THE PREVIOUS FISCAL YEAR TOTALS, AND THEN WE'RE GOING INTO THE BEGINNING OF, UH, 25, 26 FISCAL YEAR, STARTING OCTOBER 1ST. IT ACTUALLY RUNS ALL THE WAY THROUGH SEPTEMBER 30TH. SO, UM, THIS IS, THIS IS BASICALLY OCTOBER 1ST THROUGH DECEMBER 31ST. AH, MM-HMM . MM-HMM . YEAH. SO INCLUDED IN THESE NUMBERS ARE THE SIX SOLD OUT SHOWS FOR DALLAS BALLET. MM-HMM . WE HAD REALLY HIGH NUMBERS FOR TUNA CHRISTMAS. THEY SOLD OUT SEVERAL, I THINK MOST OF THEIR SHOWS DID. THEY SELL OUT MOST OF THEIR UNA SHOWS? NOT, NOT SOLD OUT. PRETTY CLOSE. EACH ONE. YEAH. AND THEN GARY MORRIS IS WILL FOR THE CLOSET SOLD OUT. HOW DID THE REDNECK TENS THAT LOOK TOO, THAT WELL, FOR YOU? THEY GOT, YEAH, 250 ON THEIR LONG GOT SO BAD. OH GOSH. IT ALSO HAS ALITA, WHICH SEEMS LIKE A MILLION YEARS AGO. I KNOW. I THOUGHT THAT WAS LAST SEASON, LAST BUDGET YEAR. I WAS LIKE, WHAT? THAT'S GOOD. OKAY. SO BRIGHTLING HAD TO, WHAT SHOWS DID THEY, IS THAT, UH, DANCE RECITAL. SO BRIGHTLING PERFORMING ARTS WOULD'VE HAD ELF YEAH. RIGHT? YES. I THINK, I THINK THEY DID THELAN IN NOVEMBER. YEAH, THEY DID THE LION KING IN NOVEMBER. OKAY. AND THEY'RE DOING IT AGAIN THIS MONTH. MM-HMM. A GOOD TURNAROUND THERE. I GUESS IT'S ABOUT PARENTS. OKAY. COOL. ANYTHING ELSE YOU WANNA TELL US ABOUT THAT? JUST SO, SO THAT, UH, TAKES CARE OF OUR REPORTS. UM, JUST A, A FEW, UH, UPDATES. SO, UH, THE FLATS, I WANTED TO GIVE Y'ALL A LITTLE UPDATE ABOUT THE FLATS. UM, SO FELICIA SERVED ON THE ARTIST SELECTION PANEL FOR THIS PROJECT. AND I THINK WE'VE TALKED A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THIS LAST YEAR, BUT JUST KIND OF AS A REFRESHER, THE FLATS, UM, IS GARLAND'S ORIGINAL AFRICAN AMERICAN, UH, COMMUNITY THAT WAS ACTUALLY LOCATED IN THIS AREA WHERE THE ATRIUM IS AND THE GRANVILLE ARTS CENTER AND A LITTLE BIT FARTHER NORTH AND, UM, A LITTLE FARTHER EAST. EAST. YES. A LITTLE FARTHER EAST. SO, UH, WHICH THE FLATS HAD A SCHOOL, COLORED SCHOOL, THE CHURCH, UM, A VARIETY OF BUSINESSES AND, AND RESIDENCES. AND SO TRYING TO THINK ABOUT A WAY THERE. THERE'S, UH, THERE WILL BE A HISTORIC MARKER COMING FROM THE TEXAS HISTORIC COMMISSION, UM, INSTALLED. AND THEN WE'LL HAVE SOME OF OUR INTERPRETIVE PANELS, WHICH ARE THOSE. UM, THERE'S ONE OUT IN FRONT OF THE GRANDVILLE ARTS CENTER HAS AN IMAGE AND KIND OF GIVES YOU SOME OF THE HISTORY ABOUT THE AREA, BUT THEN THERE'S ALSO THIS, AN ART PROJECT ASSOCIATED WITH IT. AND SO REGINALD WILL BE HERE ON FEBRUARY 14TH [00:05:01] AND 15TH AND HE, UH, WILL CONDUCT A WORKSHOP FOR COMMUNITY, FOR GARLAND CITIZENS AND BEYOND TO, UM, HELP CONTRIBUTE MOSAIC TILES TO THE, THE FINAL PIECE. AND I WOULD TOTALLY ENCOURAGE, I'LL SEND Y'ALL AN INVITE, BUT PLEASE JOIN US. IT'S GONNA BE AT EPIPHANY GALLERY. PLEASE JOIN US TO, UM, CONTRIBUTE TO THE MOSAIC. SO, SO HE'S NOT GONNA, HE'S GONNA DO THE OUTLINE FOR THAT. HE, HE WILL DO THE OUTLINE. AND LET ME, LET ME HIDE MY SCREEN REAL QUICK, BUT I'LL SHOW YOU A, UH, A LITTLE SAMPLE OF WHAT HE DOES. 'CAUSE IT'S KIND OF COOL'S. PRETTY COOL. WHAT'S HIS LAST NAME? HIS, UH, ADAMS. REGINALD ADAMS, UH, INSTAGRAM. YOU SAID THAT'S GONNA BE IN FEBRUARY THOUGH? YEP, ON FEBRUARY 14TH AND 15TH. OKAY. SO HERE'S A, HERE'S A SAMPLE OF HERE'S HOW IT LOOKS WHEN HE'S WORKING WITH, UH, WHERE'S THIS, THIS ONE YOU CAN KIND OF GET A, A, A SCENE OF HOW HE DOES IT. SO, PRETTY COOL. SO THERE'S A CHA AN OPPORTUNITY FOR SOME OF THE INDIVIDUALS THAT LIVED IN THE FLATS THAT ARE ELDERLY IN THEIR EIGHTIES AND BEYOND. THEY'LL GET TO CONTRIBUTE INTO THE MOSAIC AS WELL AS YOUNG PEOPLE, AS WELL AS EVERYBODY. SO, UM, AGAIN, IT'LL BE FUN. I HOPE THE COMMISSIONERS CAN COME OUT AND JOIN US AND, YOU KNOW, ADD A FEW TILES AND BE A PART OF THE ART PROJECT. SO, YEAH. OKAY. AND LEMME GO BACK TO THIS VIEW FROM CURRENT SLIDE. YEP. SO THAT'S FEBRUARY 14TH AND 15TH. THE OTHER THING TO JUST PUT ON YOUR RADAR, WE'RE GONNA DO OUR PHASE TWO OF ART AT EVERY TURN. UM, AT THE . I'VE BEEN ENJOYING THOSE THOUGH. I MEAN, THEY ARE, IT'S NEAT TO SEE SOME VERY TALENTED PEOPLE HAVE TO TALK TO. I, I, I AGREE. I MEAN, IT REALLY, IT'S JUST THAT LITTLE POP OF COLOR THAT'S KIND OF UNEXPECTED THAT. SO, UM, WE WILL, WE WILL BE ASKING FOR SOMEONE FROM THE ARTS COMMISSION TO HELP BE ON THE PANEL TO PICK SOME NEW ARTISTS. MM-HMM . UM, AND THAT WILL PROBABLY BE SOMETIME, I WOULD SAY IN FEBRUARY OR SO. SO, OKAY. NEIGHBORHOOD VITALITY. THIS IS A PROJECT THAT'S PAID FOR BY NEIGHBORHOOD VITALITY. UM, BUT YEAH, BIG IMPACT AND PRETTY FUN. FELICIA, HELLO. HI. HI EVERYONE. GREAT. AND I, I, I WANNA BACK UP JUST TOO, BECAUSE SHE WAS A PART, FELICIA WAS A PART OF THE SELECTION PROCESS FOR REGINALD. SO I JUST WANNA GIVE YOU A QUICK LITTLE UPDATE. FELICIA, HE'S COMING ON FEBRUARY 14TH AND 15TH AND HE'S CONDUCTING SOME WORKSHOPS. UM, LEMME GO BACK HERE, UM, WITH COMMUNITY MEMBERS TO, HE'S GOT HIS DESIGN, UM, AND HE, THIS IS YEAH. SOMETHING THAT THEY'RE DOING IN AUSTIN. SO, BUT HE HAS HIS DESIGN AND HE WILL BE HERE ON FEBRUARY 14TH AND 15TH TO, UM, CREATE THE WORK. AND I HOPE THAT COMMISSIONERS CAN COME. I, I CAN FIND THE DESIGN. I CAN PULL IT UP REAL QUICK AND, BUT IT'LL JUST TAKE ME A SECOND HERE. SO, BUT SO HE, IT WILL BE DONE KIND OF LIKE THAT, BUT THEN IF IT DOESN'T GET DOWN, HE'LL FINISH IT AND DO ALL THAT. YES, HE WILL FINISH IT. HOW BIG SUPPOSEDLY IS IT GONNA BE? SO IT IS, UH, 36 FEET LONG AND THREE FEET TALL. TALL. AND IT'LL GO ON THE ATRIUM, ON THE WALL OF THE ATRIUM. SO LET ME PULL UP THE DESIGN. 'CAUSE IT, IT TURNED OUT COOL. SO HE INTERVIEWED SEVERAL RESIDENTS. HE WENT BACK TO SOME PHOTOS. UM, OKAY. LET'S SEE HERE. UM, ENTRANCE. UH, OKAY. BUT IF WE'RE DOING THE RENOVATION MM-HMM . THAT'S WHAT WE'RE DOING. ARE WE GONNA PLACE THE MOSAIC NOW OR AFTER THE RENOVATION? UM, IT'LL BE PLACED THIS SUMMER. JUNE 20TH. YEAH. SO JUNE 20TH IS JUNE. DEDICATION, THE JUNETEENTH CELEBRATION AND ALL THAT. ANY CONSTRUCTION. YEAH. BUT IT, BUT IT WON'T, YEAH. THE CONSTRUCTION'S NOT GONNA INTERFERE. YES. THAT, THAT WAS, THAT'S A VERY IMPORTANT POINT BECAUSE IT'S A, IT'S A BEAUTIFUL, IT'S GONNA BE A BEAUTIFUL PIECE OF ARTWORK, AND WE WANNA MAKE SURE THAT IT, UM, THAT IS GONNA BE GREAT. HI, KATIE. HI. [00:10:01] WE'RE, WE'RE FINISHING UP SOME OF THIS OTHER BUSINESS AND THEN WE'LL WONDERFUL. COME ON TO, SO LET'S SEE. UH, AND SO THE WORKSHOP IS AT EPIPHANY GALLERY. SO BASICALLY HE, UM, THIS IS THE MAP OF THE FLATS AND THERE WILL BE A LITTLE MARKER OF THE FLATS. BUT, UM, THERE WERE SOME STORIES ABOUT, UM, INTERACTING WITH GRANDPARENTS AND WALKING HOME AND THE CHURCH. AND THERE WAS A BUS. HAD SOME GOOD STORIES THERE. WE HEARD SOME STORIES ABOUT BUSES, OF COURSE, THE AGRICULTURAL COMPONENT, THE SCHOOL, UM, DOWNTOWN SQUARE, THERE WAS TALKS ABOUT THE, UH, CAFE DAVIS CAFE. UM, AND THEN THIS WAS THE CONCRETE PLANT WHERE A LOT OF THE RESIDENTS OF THE FLATS WORKED AT THE CONCRETE PLANT. UM, THERE'S A GREAT PHOTO OF RESIDENTS PLAYING DOMINOES. UM, OF COURSE, BEING SO CLOSE TO THE SANTA FE OR THE, TO THE TRAIN LINE, WE NEED TO TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE PLAZA. WE'RE NOT, THIS IS PROBABLY NOT HISTORICALLY ACCURATE. THERE, THERE WERE LOTS OF STORIES OF, UM, FOLKS ATTENDING MOVIES AT THE PLAZA, BUT AT THIS POINT, THEY, THEY WOULD'VE BEEN IN THE BALCONY. SO IT WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN, WHEN WE TALKED TO MARK TO THE COMMUNITY MEMBERS, WE'RE GONNA GET A LITTLE FEEDBACK. AND THEN HE WANTED TO INCLUDE SOME, UM, SOME QUILTS, SOME QUILT PATTERNS. SO, UH, AGAIN, I THOUGHT THAT'S BE NICE. YEAH. THE FINAL PRODUCT IS GONNA BE PRETTY COOL. SO THE DEDICATION WILL BE, UM, SO YOU CAN KIND OF SEE AGAIN, MORE OF HOW THEY WORK AND BRINGING IT TO LIFE. IT, IT'LL BE PRETTY, PRETTY INCREDIBLE COP OF COLOR THERE ON FIFTH STREET, TO SAY THE LEAST. SO DO YOU THINK HE'LL HAVE THE WHOLE THING THERE FOR EVERYBODY TO WORK ON? OR JUST LIKE, I THINK HE, SO HE CALLS THESE, UM, LIKE PANEL PORTALS, THESE ROUND PORTALS. I KNOW FOR SURE HE'LL HAVE THE PORTALS. I DON'T THINK HE'LL HAVE THE FULL, LIKE THAT, THE BACKGROUND. YEAH, I WOULD, YEAH. I WOULD THINK HE NEEDS TO DO SOME OF THAT HIMSELF. YEAH. HE MAY NOT WANT US TO MESS, YOU KNOW, SO. YEAH, I KNOW. I'M KIND OF LIKE, OOH. YEAH, IF EVERYBODY'S JUST KIND OF STICKING THE YEAH, I THINK HE NEEDS TO BE DOING MOST OF IT. YEAH. YEAH. BUT, BUT ANYTHING THAT, YEAH, FOR SURE. I, UM, THE, THE SPECIAL PART OF THIS IS THAT, YOU KNOW, FOLKS GET SOME YEAH. SO THEY CAN BE LIKE, THAT. I MADE PART OF THIS, THAT'S WHERE I PUT MY TILES, SO TO HELP WITH THE OWNERSHIP. SO, UM, BUT MORE COMING SOON ON THAT, BUT REALLY COOL, EXCITED TO SHARE. AND THEN JUST AGAIN, TO CATCH UP, WE ARE, UH, MOVING INTO OUR SECOND PHASE OF ART AT EVERY TURN. AND, UM, WE'LL BE LOOKING FOR COMMISSIONER TO HELP US WITH SOME ARTIST SELECTIONS. AND, AND THE REASON WHY, JUST TO KIND OF GO BACK, BECAUSE I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT FOR US TO TALK ABOUT THIS, YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES THERE ARE QUESTIONS OF US ASKED, WELL, LIKE, WHY WAS THIS ARTIST PICKED FOR THIS PROJECT AND WHY NOT? YOU KNOW? AND ART IS SO SUBJECTIVE, YOU KNOW, SOMETHING THAT I LOVE THERESA MIGHT NOT BE CRAZY ABOUT AND VICE VERSA. AND SO WHO'S RIGHT, I'M NOT RIGHT NECESSARILY, OR THERESA'S NOT RIGHT. YOU KNOW, IT'S OUR OPINION. RIGHT. RIGHT. SO JUST BECAUSE SOMEBODY SEES ONE THING IN ONE WAY. SO WHEN YOU HAVE A PANEL, AND I WILL SAY THIS CAME INTO PLAY WITH THE ART, UM, WITH THE, WITH THE BOXES, THERE WERE SOME QUESTIONS ABOUT WHY CERTAIN ARTWORK WAS SELECTED, AND WE WERE ABLE TO SAY, WELL, WE HAD A PANEL THAT WAS COMPRISED, THAT HAD AN ARTS COMMISSIONER RUBEN SERVED ON THIS LAST PROJECT. WE HAD AN ARTS COMMISSIONER, WE HAD A PARKS PERSON, WE HAD SOME CITY STAFF. AND IT WAS A VARIETY OF PERSPECTIVES. SO WHEN YOU HAVE A PANEL, IT JUST KIND OF HELPS. YEAH. IT'S NOT JUST ONE PERSON. IT'S NOT JUST ONE PERSON'S OPINION. RIGHT. SO THAT, THAT'S WHERE THE PANEL COMES INTO PLAY. UM, AND REALLY THAT WRAPS IT UP FOR OUR CITY UPDATES. OKAY. IS THIS THE OD WE'LL JUST DO IN THE, WE'LL DO IN THE, YEP. ALL RIGHT. UM, I THINK ANY, ANY OTHER DISCUSSION WITH THIS. OKAY. UH, AND THEN WE'RE GONNA TALK WITH HER IN THE NEXT ONE TOO. YEP. MM-HMM . OKAY. ALL RIGHT. SO, UH, AT THIS POINT, DO I HAVE A MOTION TO ADJOURN THIS PART OF OUR MEETING? I MOVE THAT WE ADJOURN. AND A SECOND. I'LL SECOND THAT. OKAY. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE. AYE. AND OPPOSED MOTION, CARRIE. * This transcript was created by voice-to-text technology. The transcript has not been edited for errors or omissions, it is for reference only and is not the official minutes of the meeting.