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HomeMy WebLinkAboutCDN 2019-06-25 Item 2C - Report - Mid-Term Report on Artists in Residency ProgramAllan Ekberg, Mayor Parks & Recreation Department - Rick Still, Director .25)05 TO: Community Development and Neighborhoods Committee FROM: Rick Still, Director Parks & Recreation BY: Tracy Gallaway, P&R Manager CC: Mayor Ekberg DATE: June 25, 2019 SUBJECT: Artist in Residence Program Midterm Report ISSUE Midterm report of Artist in Residence Program: AiR Tukwila International Blvd & AiR Duwamish River BACKGROUND In 2014 the Tukwila Municipal Code was updated to further define section 2.30.050 the Municipal Arts Fund. Commonly referred to as the 1% Art Fund, the intent of the fund is to integrate artwork into capital projects, however where it is not possible then a contribution is made to the Municipal Arts Fund. In 2016 staff reported to CAP (memo dated 9.7.16) the intent to develop a Municipal Arts Plan and in 2017 Carolyn Law and Lesley Bain (C/Law Studio and Framework Cultural Placemaking) were retained as consultants for the project. The consultants scope of work was to engage with the community, Arts Commission, City staff and elected officials to develop a conceptual framework and strategic opportunities for art in Tukwila; and identify potential locations and approaches for art that support the connection of the community's priorities for art and culture to the well -considered vision that the City and community has developed through adoption of the Strategic Plan, the Comprehensive Plan and the Parks & Recreation Open Space Plan to develop a Municipal Arts Plan (MAP). Additionally, the consultants were asked to assist in the development of an initial implementation strategy that included a draft list of potential projects and cultural events that could be tied to the focus areas identified in the Municipal Arts Plan. The City made a call for artist to hire two Artist -in -Residence (AiRs) projects at two identified community locations: The River and Tukwila International Boulevard, The goal of activating to simultaneous Airs was to curate a larger variety of potential activity and awareness, while creating experiences, enabling collaboration and building relationships through direct involvement of Tukwila's diverse residents and city staff. The AiRs project allows for the City to assess cultural activities that the community connects with and guide art interventions, including permanent artworks. Tukwila City Hall • 6200 Southcenter Boulevard • Tukwila, WA 98188 • 206-43 -1800 • Website: TukwilaWA.gov 29 Page 2 DISCUSSION October 2018 was the beginning of the Artist in Residency program and 3 tasks were identified for each artist: Task 1 — Research and work plan development Task 2 — Artwork creation and partnership projects Task 3 — Impact statement and community debrief; final report and recommendatibns The AiRs midterm report is to provide an overview of the projects and programs that have been organized to date, activities in progress and plans for the coming months. FINANCIAL IMPACT The Artist in Residence program is funded through the Municipal Arts Fund. Additional funding for projects has come from the Tukwila Arts Commission (mural projects and Islamic Art Workshop), 4Culture (Fab Collab & Nature Storytelling Series), Dick Blick Art Supplies (Printing Project) and Vans Grant (Fab Collab). RECOMMENDATION Discussion only ATTACHMENTS A. Artist in Residences Midterm Report REFERENCE Tukwila Municipal Arts Plan - http://vvww.tukwilawa.bov/wp-content/uploadsfrukwila-Municipal-Arts- Plan-Approved-5-21 -201 8.pdf Phone: 206-433-1800 • Email: Mayor@TukwilaWA.gov • Website: TukwilaWA.gov 30 9LISA ENRiCo TUKWIL,A INTERNATIONAL BLVD Goals and Objectives he arts unity; build bridges ac oss cu ture elebrate the diversity of Tukwila; through artistic means rovide the Tukwila community with arts programming ryage thec©rnmunity in an ongoing dialogue about the arts to discover what kind cif arts the corrmuni lesires to see more of Plan Overview The scope of this plan falls into three general categories: Partnerships, Projects and Programs/Series. These categories are not exclusive and have overlapping qualities however for the sake of simplicity I will categorize them as such. This project plan provides visual examples and strives to provide enough specificity that the spirit of each of the ideas is able to be felt and envisioned. Partnerships Partnerships are collaborative efforts to engage the community in arts -based events whether supporting current effort of community entities or working with the entity to create something new these partnerships are about working together. Tukwila Schools, Sidereal Fine Arts, Tukwila AIRs, Sullivan Center "Looking Upstream": Fine Arts Printing Project • This project aims to promote arts understanding by providing a unique hands on artistic experience for the students. The project collaborators, Olisa Enrico, Sarah Kavage, Sheila Coppola, Christina Busby at FHS, Lauren Connaughton at Tukwila Elementary have agreed that a project of this type will be beyond beneficial for the students and community members that it has engaged. • The project's goal was to engage art class students and instructors from all five Tukwila Schools including Foster High School, Showalter Middle School, Tukwila Elementary School, Thorndyke Elementary School and Cascade View Elementary School. (30 students x 5 schools= 150 participants). We ended up being at Foster High School and Tukwila Elementary with a special workshop open to the community at large aimed at intergenerational participation. • The project is river themed with Tukwila AIR Sarah Kavage taking the lead on guiding the young artists in an inspired design process based on the parable "looking upstream".. • Sarah and Olisa will visit the schools and lead a workshop that utilizes a parable "looking upstream" to inspire the students' design. • Elementary and middle school students utilize soft plates and do an in -class printing process on a mobile press. They roll the ink and engage the press to see their design come to fruition. • High school students used professional plates. Their designs were printed on the press at Sidereal Fine Arts. Students were present at the press to gain a better understanding of how fine arts printing works. All materials were provided to the schools for this project. The teachers had a choice to keep the supplies provided. The Fab Collab TIB AIR and choir/piano teacher Kassey Castro applied for and received a $2000 grant to execute a project that brings professional performing artists into select classes at Foster High School to craft collaborative performance pieces to be performed at a free event at the Performing Arts Center. Paired with a grant from 4culture that helped to pay for the professional artists workshop and performance time. Teachers performed with students, students performed with professionals and students with students, teachers with community members in the spirit of fabulous collaboration. Saturday May 11, 2019 Movie Nights A series of movies free and open to the public held at the Foster High School Performing Arts Center. Each month Feb -June a movie picked to highlight and honor the month. Due to scheduling conflicts Moana was canceled February: Black history month, The Black Panther March: Women's history month, Hidden Figures April: Earth day, Wall-E May: Asian/Pacific Islander Month, Moana June: Pride month, Love Simon The Arts Commission Several art commissioners have agreed to lead or participate in an arts related event, project or series. Improv Comedy Sports: Cynthia Chesak will organize a troupe of actors for a night of improv comedy at the Sullivan Center. Date AUGUST 16TH Printing project "Looking Upstream": Sheila Coppola is collaborating with the AIRS to bring an arts opportunity youth in our community. Color Wave at the Gate Way, Mural project Trisha Gilmore is partnering with the AIRS to create and administrate a mural process that engages the community and artists in bringing a wave of color with interspersed original images to the T.I.B. (see AIR collaborations) Cultural Performance: Helen Enguerra is working with the AIR to bring one or more cultural performances to events. l'artnerships Continued TUKWILA ['ARKS & RECREATION' ❖The AIRs support Parks n Rec programming in artistic ways. ❖TIB AIR held an Arts and Craft table for the youth at the Spirit of Giving providing age appropriate artistic projects while parents perused the holiday gifts. ❖ Each AIR is plugging into two See You in the Park events that are happening in the TIB focus area, June 12th at Cascade View and August 215t at the Sullivan Center. River focus July 10th at Bicenteniall park and August 7th at the Tukwila Community Center ❖ Both AIRs will be working with Parks n Rec to plan for National Arts and Humanities month. We are highlighting events and workshops that are planned in the community as well as planning several events. It is the goal of the AIR to collaborate with staff to provide arts programming that uplifts the theme of the event while engaging the community. We will utilize these opportunities to take informal surveys that will give us insight into how the community wants the percent for arts monies used. MINI GRANTS Artists in residence are utilizing a piece of the allotted budget to support local artists by offering Arts Mini Grants. Each AIR has $1000 set aside for four Arts Mini Grants to help local artists put on events, buy supplies, or contribute to an arts related project. By utilizing an informal process they hope to make the application process more equitable to all levels of artist and encourage young people and non-English as a first language speakers to apply. MURALS, SIDEWALK & TRAIL PAINTING Artists in Residence are collaborating on the planning and implementation of mural projects. 1- Teen Room at the TCC: In collaboration with Nate Robinson we are engaging the youth in a process to design and execute an original mural. Olisa is supporting the lesson planning and Sarah is working with the youth in a six -week process. Throughout the Summer there will be additional painting that will culminate in a Fall celebration. 2- Tukwila International BLVD. A wave of color will greet drivers and pedestrians as the come and go from the North end of the TIB. Each section of the wall will be a solid color for easy maintenance. The color wave serve as a backdrop for more unique and intricate mini murals. Various artists and/or groups will be commissioned to paint several '16x'3 mini murals interspersed along the corridor on top of the color wave. These mini murals can be replaced and or added to as a yearly mural project. The wave can extend down the pedestrian wall over time or the theme can be used at other sites at later dates. 3-TCC mural: Hoa Hong. A local artist will be commissioned to paint a mural at the TCC as a river -based location for permanent public art. Olisa will assist Sarah in the mural process. 4- Trails and Sidewalks: Depending on funding availability it is the desire for both artists to engage the community in a series of trail/sidewalk painting events much like you see in the images to the right that ca were a part of the series of trail paintings in North Carolina v PROJECTS REMEMBERING THE JOURNEY Story collection and video archive of personal histories that reflect the uniquely diverse people of the city of Tukwila. This project is threefold: 1- Collecting and interpreting written stories and audio recordings that are held in archive at the Tukwila Historical Society 2-Collecting and recording stories from members of the community 3- Organizing, archiving, and publishing these stories for public benefit Remembering the Journey: Stories of Arrival and Stories of Survival is a collaborative project with Tukwila Historical Society, City of Tukwila Technology and Innovation Services, and community members. Tukwila is an extremely diverse area with 80 languages spoken in the local high school. Built on Duwamish land, settlers came and made a life for themselves and their families, planting seeds that would help to feed the region. Over the years there have been multiple migrations to this area, Southeast Asian, Eastern European, East African, Pacific Islanders, Latinos/Hispanic, Nepalese/Burmese, and Middle Easterners came in waves to make this the place we know today. And though there is diversity there is still an apparent lack of knowledge about one another, how and why we came to be who and where we are. We will get to know one another through stories of arrival and stories of survival and celebrate the common thread that ties us all together. We are reaching out to the Duwamish tribe, the Muckleshoot, and asking to include their stories as they tell them. We are collecting the written and oral recorded stories found at the Tukwila Historical Society and in the book Tukwila -community at the Crossroads, creating scripts from those stories and having actors/storytellers read them aloud to be recorded and archived. We will digitize the stories that are currently held on fragile cassette tapes. We are looking to our current residents and asking them to share moments that made them who they are and how they came to be here. With gentrification and urbanization, with the elders who remember a time with this all farmland aging and passing away, it is imperative that we take the time to collect these 1st person narratives so that they are not lost forever. To be inclusive and equitable we want to pay people who speak the languages to interview and translate the stories so that we are not restricted by the English language. These stories will be digitally preserved and transcribed into written records. They will be turned into mp4 files and published on YouTube. They will accessible through the Tukwila historical society and held there in perpetuity. Digitizing existing recordings that are held bthe Historical Society and pairing the recording with a relative slidesho Interpreting written histories and having them read by and actor and pairing the recording with a relative slideshow Collecting new stories from members of the Tukwila community in their first languages when appropriate with trans "ublic access through GIS mapping, push technology and YouTube ~ ����� �^����� "����U���� U U ���K�� U �� U U U ��� ~���� U U ���� Arts Hangouts An intergenerationa| open art space that is scheduled t0coincide with the school's early release days. The goal istoprovide the community with fun and simple opportunities to be creative. This series began inJanuary and ran through May. African Dance: ComnnmunitVMoves Series An intergenerationa| West African Dance class free and open tothe public. Dance isoften inaccessible financially for many people and having culturally engaging physically activexvaytoconnect, exercise and learn is valuable to the community. This series was lOweeks, April 6-June D. Arts Show nShare: for audience and artists Aspace for artists and arts lovers tocome together inaninformal setting and share work. Artists who choose toshare can ask for feedback from the audience. This isagreat place for new and seasoned artists tooffer their talents and receive critical support from the community. In development SatundoVJam Sessions: music, dance, open nnic A live music open rniC jam session that will occur once amonth over the summer. The series isall (4geSand welcomes professionals and beginners. 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