HomeMy WebLinkAboutArts 2025-10-15 Agenda PacketThomas McLeod, Mayor
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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City's Arts Commission will meet on October 15, 2025, at 6 p.m.
This meeting will be held in person and on Teams in the Executive Conference Room at the Tukwila Community Center,
12424 42nd Avenue South. For questions, please call the Arts Commission Staff Liaison, Michael May, at 206-767-2342.
ARTS COMMISSION: Pat Bako (Chair/Position 1), Sheila Coppola (Vice Chair/Position 2), Pinky Estell (Position 3), Cynthia
Chesak (Position 5), Kamla Kakaria (Position 6), Shawn Belyea (Position 7), Angeline Peralta (Student Representative)
Call toOrder/LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT: The City of Tukwila is located on the ancestral lands of the Coast Salish
people. We acknowledge their continuing connections to land, waters, and culture. We pay our respect to their elders
past, present and emerging.
� Roll Call
~ Approval mfAgenda
Approval of Minutes
Guest: Matt Austin, Parks Maintenance & Operations Superintendent
Duwamish Park Ground Mural Project
Commissioner Reports:
° Reports
* New Business: Creating Portrait Project Nomination Process
Staff Reports
* Teen Art Collective Recruitment Update
Agenda for Next/Future Meetings (5min)
Adjournment / Next Meeting: November 19,2026
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SEPTEMBER 17,2025: MINUTES FOR APPROVAL
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(Student Representative)
Thomas McLeod, Mayor
, Sheila Coppola (Vice Chair/Position Z),Pinky EsteU(Position 3),
Call toOrder/LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT: The City of Tukwila is located on the ancestral lands of the Coast Salish
people. We acknowledge their continuing connections to land, waters, and culture. We pay our respect to their elders
past present and emerging.
� Roll Call
~ Approval ofAgenda
Approval of Minutes
Commissioner Reports:
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o Cynthia Chesak: The Rainier Symphony will have completed its commitment to perform at two Tukwila
Village Market dates (August 6 and September 24) to receive a grant from the Arts Commission. She will
ask the symphony toinvoice the city for $Z,UOO.
o Pinky EsteU:Otter & Penguin Makerspaces successfully engaged the public inart making at two Tukwila
Farmers Market dates (August 17 and September 7).
° New Business
Staff Reports
* Grey Ellis, the Teen Art Collective consultant, recruited teens during the lunch hours on September 9.
o Angeline Peralta: The Tukwila Teen Art Collective has successfully recruited 15 applicants for the
program.
* Gloria Alberto has completed the portrait of Jan Bolerjack. He has been paid the $1000 stipend.
o Pinky Estell: An agenda item is to be included for the October arts commission meeting to begin
developing a more robust nomination process for the Portrait Project program.
° The commission has been invited to lead an artist selection process for a new mural at Duwamish Park. The
mural will be on the surface of the sport court. The desired installation is Spring 2026.
Agenda for Next/Future K8eetn8s(5nmin)
Adjournment / Next Meeting: October15, 2025
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