Arts Commission - Regular Meeting

All right, this is the City of San Marcos Art Commission regular meeting of July 22nd, 2026. It is 535 p.m. and we are calling to order. All right, just in time.

Katie Cargill? Here. Rick Garcia?

Aslyn Pollier? Here. Sheridan Shaper? Here. Arthur Simone? Here. Jason Williams? Here. Sarah Wingfield? We have a quorum present. Sarah's right outside. Nope, Sarah.

Issues. Sarah, are you guys? Here. Thank you.

Oh, hi. Sarah Mayfield is here. It's delayed. We have a comment period. We have Adriana Medeiros here.

I will turn on the fire for three minutes.

Yes, that's you.

Thank you.

Welcome. Time to get us down. Good evening, commissioners. I am here tonight regarding the public art initiatives on your agenda. My name is Adriana Medeiros. Many of my friends call me Gigi. I have a mural proposal that perfectly aligns with your current brief for the downtown project. While I narrowly missed the administrator submission deadline due to technical difficulties, I am requesting the Commission to consider a procedural exception to review this project. My San Marcos Loteria proposal directly answers your call to engage and identify with the aspects I am representing through entertaining and colorful imagery reflecting our community's values. It requires zero adjustments to fit your scope, budget or timeline to include this project in the running. Adding this proposal to your stack costs nothing, delays nothing, and ensures the city evaluates all top-tier options before allocating public funds. My goal with this piece is to celebrate San Marcos life, the river, and the distinctive local character, to show my gratitude and appreciation with a culturally relevant, humorous, and heartfelt installation. Because to me, this feels like an ideal project at the perfect time, and I'm ready to execute this piece right now. Seriously, and this part is seriously, you are all invited to join us for a mock-up on Saturday at the studio and see the life-size mock-up that I set up when I decided on the Loteria of San Marcos constant. I have provided a small packet with a proposal for each of here. And I respectfully ask the commission to instruct staff to accept this late submission into the office, the official review pool. All I'm asking is to be considered in the running. Thank you for your time and your service to our arts committee.

All right. Thank you, Gigi.

That's all I have to say. And I have the packets here. I didn't include a bunch of photos because I know it's, you know, it's late. I did not realize Cafe had changed their platform and all the artwork that I had on Cafe was gone. Then when I was trying to get everything in the portfolio, my whole computer pretty much, I think I had for everybody. Oh, there's an extra one, maybe? I thought I had faith.

We can share.

We can share. Oh, thank you. Thank you very much. I think I'm under my three minutes, right?

Yeah, we have 30 seconds.

Okay, so thank you very much.

Thank you, Gigi.

All right. Excellent.

Okay, just as a quick reminder, we aren't agendized to discuss this at this point.

Okay, great.

Thank you.

I'm one minutes consider approval by motion to June 24th, 2026 minutes.

Yes, so I've reviewed those minutes and I found them to reflect the accuracy of the last meeting. I move that we accept them as written. All in favor say aye. Aye. All opposed say nay. All right.

Motion carries.

All right.

Discussion, full discussion on the 2026 Smarts Awards. And so we took this as a discussion item just to get any feedback from you if warranted. We'll begin with a report and explanation of the Smarts Awards. Basically every year, we put out a call to the community and to the Arts Commission for nominations for the Smarts Awards. And that's for arts advocacy, have people, organizations, or arts businesses build their work to elevate the arts and are deserving recognition. We award them with a sculpted bronze trophy and honor them at awards.

And it's unique to us. It's not just like a repurposed bowling trophy. It's a really lovely little

And so we limit them to about two to three awards per year.

And- If you want to look at who passed the six things forward, you can go on to smjthartist.com. We went under commission, and it has marked awards in the last previous year. Mostly one of the years, they had like a big war time. We can keep it up.

And also we have a space for a spark. Award, which is somebody who is sparking their personal is beginning the push of being a irrelevant city figure. So I think that's a fun one to also keep in mind as well as people who are already super established. There's also room for people who are growing into that space.

Sorry that they're recording artist is that they've done something with elevation created community examples.

So you guys hold like a word night type deal in October, usually a price little night.

I mean, I'm going to be I'm going to be in a tux, but that's just I trust for hours.

We don't give you more. So we'll put it out to the public and to you guys.

Now, since this is this topic, can we mention what I was discussing earlier about the community outreach? But I mean, this is relevant to this conversation about us having.

Right, but it's about the community engagement.

That's an update and this is a discussion.

Right.

This is a discussion part and the next part's an update.

Yeah, it's worse and worse.

I mean, I'm suggesting that we use that as an opportunity to outreach for the SMART awards.

Right, right. So I think that it's better to read the report from that committee.

I mean, that's a report. This is a discussion.

I'm going to say, sorry.

Like, I don't want to just tell people. I want to have a conversation about it.

It can be a discussion.

I mean, if that's the case, but I've been shut down. So, okay.

I didn't see how waiting until that time would be good.

I'm down for whatever. I'm just following the rules. Very briefly, we'll be talking about this in a report later, but we did have a community engagement meeting. And we just think that if we did it at the early part of September, we could use this as an opportunity to really bring in some people who might be a last-minute... you know, a nominee for us and a way to engage our community with the fact that we have these awards because it is fairly new and a lot of people don't even know that they exist. And so it's an opportunity to use this moment. And I'm kind of curious if you all agree and if there's a discussion, it will be around how can we use community engagement as a way to bring people into the smart awards? That would be the discussion I would hope to have. We did. If there's any ideas, don't be shy.

Crickets in this as far as timing the the nomination period would open in early August and shut down early September so that you could make your selections at the September meeting.

And we're the ones who select. It's not some audience selection thing. It's it's us.

So what's the date we have for the Star Wars?

It was October something. I'll have to.

This will be all of a part of that big push where we have the grants and the smart awards. It's just everything kind of happened on top of each other.

Just being aware, an awareness that we have that coming up.

I don't have specifics, but are we talking about this now?

I mean, I think we can, yeah.

Yeah, so the question is, how can we utilize community engagement to bring in nominees?

Yeah, I think there's even kind of a bigger point in that is that the Smart Awards is a huge opportunity that I think right now is going a little bit underutilized. I mean, I think that it's great and we're doing fine things with it, but I do think that it's barely reaching into the consciousness of the people that exist, even if they're artists. And so I think there's an opportunity for us to bring that more to the forefront and to utilize it as a way for us to really engage with our community at large, not just the artists, but people who want to support the arts. And I think that we have this opportunity in September with a community engagement mixer to help that process out.

You want to get a consensus and then that way, then when you're like, OK, everybody wants to do that and you're not going to get the details down on dates and all that kind of stuff.

Yeah, we're going to, yeah, that's generally, that was already kind of like the base plan, was just to have a mixer, but what good opportunity for us, right before it all happens, for us to put a little focus in on it, is the thought, you know.

So, maybe, like, we would do, like, a small presentation about the smart awards, possibly. Sure, maybe. People who may be nominees or possible winners. stuff to invite them to come there because we're going to talk about this.

Well, yeah, you know, and that brings up a thought. Maybe I could get some photos from y'all and download them off the internet or whatever and put together like a little science fair project team kind of, you know what I mean? For what we have got.

And why don't you go ahead and print it out and I'll get it for this.

Yeah, that would come in. It'd come in good.

And then what we do just to make sure that we're giving people room and everything. we can close nominations in like mid, early mid-September. That way it'll still give you enough time to go over the nominations and then be able to vote on them during the September meeting. But we're not like, if you have a mixer on the 3rd and it closes on the 4th, that's not, so I won't make sure that I'm not putting y'all.

Oh, and that does bring up another question. What about Even though we're going to be the ones that vote, and I don't think we should change that at all. What about having a suggestion pad available at the mixer? Yeah, just like, who do you think? Who would you vote for? Kind of a thing. Consider it if there was somebody in there. It would be one of our nominations if we thought that was the case. Yeah, because we can all put a nomination up for us to vote.

Submits a nomination.

They don't at this point, right?

It's just based on. We started having nominations. And we did nominate.

Right. We have to debate it down to three. So, you know, not doing ourselves any favor by being overly. But we'll only we go.

Yeah.

So how many members of it?

So this year I wanted to do in the past, it was a PDF they filled out.

Well, if we set up an iPad or laptop or a QR code, even just print it up into a sandwich thing, you know, QR code it, people would just do it on their phone right then.

And if that's the best way to do it. And then if somebody is struggling, one of us can just help them out with it.

Mm-hmm.

This question I've got is for nominators from commissioners. Do you want to have y'all go through the same rules? Like if you want to nominate somebody, you've got to go through the... Would it be easier for y'all?

That way we would have it all on the same... You know, when I'm from the floor, it's a change, because that way... Yeah. Once it closes, we can send those to y'all so y'all can look over and say, oh, I know it's awesome, but this one sounds really good. So you'll have an idea of who you think.

And then y'all will have it all online for the future. I think, yeah, that makes sense.

That'd be great.

Yeah. It sends you the, once we have the live, it sends you the link, and that way it'll be the same link that you fill out your nominations, but then you also share with your social media accounts.

This is already feeling better. I'm really liking this a lot. I feel like we've been really running the verge of having this kind of running and I think this effort that we're talking about now could really elevate it to where I think it could be. It's all happening.

A question.

I've noticed that a couple of like For example, the, um, uh, Mosaic titles, uh, steps at, um, Price Center, the artist, she lives in Austin, uh, I believe. So, and I don't know if, so all of the people, yeah, because we also get, like, international markets and people, people in the surrounding area, but for the Smarts Awards, they, we just want them to be residents of San Marcos.

Oh, yeah. Just because they do it in the park here doesn't mean they have the Or do you need to elevate the perception and help that? I think we've done, you know, art leave, because that's how people, the individual artists have done, like Rene, because his art around town elevates the, because that's what I'm saying, what you said.

But anyone from the zip code?

uh how about so somebody has to reside in the city proper um i don't think we actually have if they're like working here and doing all the work here you know not as a one-off project but like some of the people live in kyle and they come here and then they're doing yeah i don't know if there's an official rule but for me i would say yeah if you're if you're yeah an active rel you know relevant

part of the San Marcos scene, then I think it's okay. A lot of people live in Martindale or whatever, you know.

I just realized, like, there's some people who I could consider active members of the artistic scene here in San Marcos, but I actually don't know if they live here.

I would still be willing to nominate somebody that was really, truly a part of it.

Yeah. Yeah. I'm here to do that.

Now, if it comes down to two people who seem kind of equal on paper, one of them lives in San Marcos, one of them doesn't, maybe I'm going to throw my vote towards the San Martian just because I like that better. But we all have a vote, you know?

Yeah. Next year's.

And back to this question, the I've got October 15th votes for pricing.

OK, well for us to do the actual orders.

Thank. Thank you, it's not time to let me. Say 15 years old.

What time on the 15th?

Do we know about 7? I think we we usually do about 6 yes.

people can come at 5 30 and then there's a you have a little mingled moment a little elbow rubbing um anybody else want to talk about anything else on that topic

The Spark Award, and what were you talking about?

Well, there's a SMART Award, and that is for an established person, but a SPARK. SPARK is an up-and-coming person who's maybe not 10 years established, but you can tell they're really doing stuff.

Yeah. Somebody just started a... I think when, like, say, well, that would have been the first year, it would have been a SPARK, because you're sparking more creativity or sparking.

Some of y'all know my buddy Easy, who he and I did the Open Mic for years. He still does it. He got one because he is a person who's actively engaged in every level of music in the city in one way or another. And he's not been doing it for 20 years, but he's clearly doing it. And he clearly deserves a little recognition. So he got a Spark Award, for example. And he's kind of a perfect example of who should get those.

That's usually, so the Spark is one of the three?

Well, no.

Oh, there's this person or this organization that they just started in the last year or two, and they're really doing Game Busters on this.

Excuse me, the Spark Award, as opposed to... And that's been a nice certificate passed, right?

Yeah, they're not getting the full statue. What's that? I'm sorry, Sadie.

He's asking how do people get nominated for...

Same thing.

But people nominate, you know, they don't nominate specifically. Yeah. Well, they haven't been doing it very well.

This is more appropriate here. This is more appropriate there. There's no statute.

Yeah, it's a nice certificate on, like, the city's, you know, currently huge parking lot.

As it was, you know, smart and more artificial looks like an actual little Martian, a little astronomical.

And then we had them cast every few years as we started getting low on them.

It kind of vibes like the MTV Woody Award. It's not.

It just vibes like Martian, you know. Is there one that we can take pictures of?

Yeah, usually I'll put it on social and

I mean, they have several made at a time, and so they probably are sitting in your office hours or something. So they have, you know, a dozen of them or whatever.

But, yeah, no, I couldn't. I can see the picture, you know, just sitting like this. I'm curious.

We came to this award.

Your name here.

Anything else before we go to the next item?

Hearing none. Item three, both discussion on downtown church funded public park project to get correctional staff.

Yeah, that was my question.

If they attack, increment, something, I'm getting this. That's me out. So the thing is, what we've done with our policy now is get any other department or city on the property and do something. I think that's kind of get like a consensus from us that we've done this downtown first. And they have $50,000 to do some kind of art piece. Anything is. Because you're heading in, so they're thinking about doing some kind of a cool shaded, if you could walk under it, kind of shaded, it would be in on Hutchinson where, you know where the old CBS is? Across from the hub. Right before you get to Showdown. There used to be trees along there, so they're just empty tree wells. So they want to be like giving three different pieces depending on how much money they have in California. What kind of pieces? What kind of pieces? They don't put a call out or anything. First step is coming to us. Second step is getting a second.

No, we don't want your art.

Or yes. So our input is yes art or no art. Yes. I mean, you just did a lot of

research on different cool shade structures that we can actually afford for the other things. So I don't know if they would be interested in, some of you don't really collaborate.

No, I mean, I'll be on the committee with them. I'll talk about this stuff.

But would there be any, would we be involved in any other way past this?

Not unless they come and find out that these three are going to cost a lot more money than you. And then they would want to ask us.

Because they would want money.

No.

Yeah, I I like the idea, especially more shade structures downtown.

There's not a whole lot of shade, so I don't think it's look at it, but with the shade structure, it may be like, oh, that's a giant flower, but come with a blanket.

I mean, I would throw in a suggestion on like if it, you know, offers a great photo opportunity, sort of functionality of the shade. So, you know,

Yeah, I think, uh, uh, Phoenix, I believe it was, did like a really cool artistic change structure program that, um, we did some research on during our task, special project task force thing. So it's our money or it's their money? It's their money.

No, it's the three wells, blunts, and sidewalk.

They probably lost them in the freezer or whatever, but yeah.

Three specific spots. When they researched into this,

What kind of budget they need.

Which for a slighter bigger picture is really nearby where we just did a double-sided really cool mosaic. One of our most successful public activations so far. And so it would help ARC vibe out this area a little bit more. Like I'd love this. I love this.

Yeah. Yeah, you're right, it is.

That's great.

I think it's a great thing.

Should we vote?

Yeah.

I think your directions is go forth and make cool stuff happen.

Yeah, it sounds like consensus is reached.

All right.

That stuff reports receiving financial help from staff.

And so, as always, we have the...

That's true.

Right after the minute, you guys.

Hello.

Can you tell us the summary? Summary sheet and then those of you who are interested can find my line. Yeah, nothing.

really new or significant to report from last time, so. Yeah.

This is going to be a much, much more active conversation very soon.

All right, next up, item five, a student staff report on the 2027 arts and cultural grant process. So we've had three, three, Yeah, three of our six grant applicant workshops. And these are the, these are the mandatory workshops where we lay out the policy and rules and the instructions and everything. All the workshops go off the same script. So basically, that kids have to attend at least one of the workshops to be able to go to apply for the grant.

So it's an opportunity to say something.

Is this an appropriate time or is it appropriate for me to bring up a conversation I had with a resident who attended one of the workshops and is in the process? And somebody might use her name and stuff, but Are y'all familiar with Laura Beninez, who owns Private Park? I don't know, but it sounds like there's, you know, a lot of layers to this. She and I did the university program together this year, and then she's also a student club. And so I've built a positive rapport with her. And she is one of the, I did a bunch of outreach where I just kind of sent like DMs on Instagram to people and encouraged people, to apply and she seemed really excited about the process, really enthusiastic, and she said she was in one of the meetings, and that she was told that she needed to go talk to a city staff member from a different department.

Is that what she's- She was not told, everyone was told. Basically, one of the sections of the presentation we go over the permitting process and it's not it's not a step in the in our grant process we do it as a hey you know if your event gets shut down because of you know no permits or whatever then you're going to have to refund your grant money and everything so since we're sitting there the permits are sitting we let them have a table at our, you know, their conversation, they're writing. And so yeah, no, we, you know, tell everybody the same thing as part of your event planning process.

Determination. They cannot go, you know, a permit, or you need a blue permit, or, you know, oh, we can set a roadmap. So it's just that I will get started for the roadmap approach.

Absolutely. And I'm not saying that they're all anything wrong with the process. It sounds like perhaps there's a history of her being a bit indignant with the city about some different issues, so I'm still trying to wrap my head around all of it, but it does sound like she's been trying to get information from the city about getting a special event permit, and she hasn't been getting, like, I don't know. I don't know what to believe. I don't know if it's true, but she suddenly seemed very upset and like, oh, she's really excited about it, and then she was really upset, and then she was like, I'm not going to be able to apply for this until Brittany gets back to me, but then, yeah, then she, like, that's the thing. Yeah, so I don't know, and, like, suddenly I felt like I had to, like, personally oversee this for Laura, but also I didn't want, I don't want to get, like, necessarily sucked into that, but she is somebody who I'm, like, just overall trying to foster, like, a positive community. If she has questions, tell her to reach out to us.

She left.

So what's been going on with her? She's been talking for a year with the region and they just can't work it out or what?

Yeah, that's probably what we need.

Yeah, we'll stop it there. So I'll just try to handle it as tactfully as I can. Maybe put y'all in new emails or whatever it sounds like.

Yeah, it is. And it's one of those deals where we're happy to talk about the grant process. And then again, we're not subject matter experts on the permitting process, but we, as part of our presentation, make them aware, hey, we've got, there's permitting staff, there's rules, but there's also a whole office that talks about, explains all that. So go here to talk about your permitting. And again, it's not part of the grant process. It's just, it's part of the event planning process. So in order to have a successful event that can be eligible for grants.

Yeah. In order to have the grant, you have to have a successful event. In order to have a successful event, you have to have certain permits.

Yeah, so that's the only way I would want you to have officers because it's over 500 people who would want you to get. At some place like at the Price Center, well, they already have, that's already a public space. So, you know,

to do that but you would have to get a food permit you know are you going to be selling alcohol there's so there's so many things that we don't know you can't give them direction we said do your determination rather her being able to let you know what you need okay and i don't want to drive this out too much longer at all but i just would ask some of the commissioners who've been on here a little bit longer have you ever encountered a situation where you kind of like informed a citizen about the application process we had go on and then they sure they suddenly got really kind of like yeah

Yeah, I mean, I think that happens. Go ahead.

Yeah, it probably does happen, but one of the things that, so, you know, I'm not necessarily as part of the, as a commissioner here, but at Texas State, the, like, general thing to do is just to go, I don't handle that, but I know who does. Here you go.

Yeah, and to be, you could say, hey, this is kind of good, but as I

Yeah, like if you have questions. Right.

I mean, for me, it's very much like what you just described. It's almost always a scenario where a person hears half a sentence, gets upset, decides to leave before the meeting's up, they don't hear the rest of it, and then they've made a decision based off of incomplete information. So anytime that's come up, I've been like, well, ask some questions, kind of probed about it, and encouraged them to kind of restart and to get back into touch, because that's all we can really do.

Some other, just because they're trying to get the permitting process so that everybody goes through the same thing. So if you look at, like, you know, just a fun thing. So two years ago, they were like, what do you mean you have to give this to them? But it's worked out now. So the city worked with them, and then, you know, like, we have a specific grant for them, so that will help pay for road closures. So we, as the city, work with them, but everybody has to be in compliance doing the same thing. Like, why do you have to give road closure permits where I just drag out my own

And also shared, and I think that, especially, you know, you and I did the university thing. I think that we both got the impression of. Of a professional city staffed with people who actually care who are willing to take time to resolve issues on a person to person level. I don't see any evidence other than that. So if she's really hitting a brick wall, there may be different approaches that she can use. I have my doubts that it's a city.

Oh, I agree. I agree. Yeah.

It makes it difficult for you, I understand, because you have a personal relationship, friendship. So I think what she said, hey, you know, I'll just share the information. I don't know enough about that.

One thing that helps me handle situations like this is like legally, I don't think I can handle this.

And there are so many rules like that you guys lean on it. I get to be excited and share it, but it's beyond my scope. So go this direction, but we're going to be having some great stuff and be involved. I think that's the line.

And I think I was like, oh, you should definitely attend one of the workshops. They're super informational. They'll be able to answer all your questions. She's like, well, I did go and they told me I needed to talk to somebody else. But yes, I think it's a pattern and we don't need to do all this speaking longer. Thank you so much for your feedback. I don't know.

I think this is good for everybody to talk about the rural sense.

I just have one question. Private Park, this is the one that's like by the railroad tracks behind the big warehouse that people have made.

Yeah, like by where all the veterans parks are. Yeah.

I just wanted to put the visual place. I know that. Yes.

All right. But yeah, no, the good, good conversation. Bring it back to the agenda and process, though. If anybody runs into any questions that either you don't feel comfortable answering or you just don't know, send them our way. And that's where there is lots and lots of communication that's allowed. just know what threat bombing of us, but that rarely happens. But yeah, and basically we can answer questions to the point of, you know, we can have one on one discussions at the office and, you know, they can ask, applicants can ask questions like, hey, I've got this event, which, you know, which grant could I qualify for it. We can even go that far and kind of coach and be like, hey, you know, this grant may or may not, you know, makes more sense than this one. Issues, you know, that are visible, we can inform them. So, I mean, it's like we can share a whole lot of information and, you know, handholding is an uncharitable way to say it, but we can do that up until really late in the process.

You can, until it's just like that. I mean, if somebody goes, you know, thinking about having this event, what do you think about it? You can kind of tell them what you think about it. But you probably don't know because you haven't been in the process of it. What does it require for, like, if it's church or the right stuff? And sometimes they'll come in and go, well, you know, if you did this, we can give them advice or say, hey, have you tried this or talk to these people? We can help them flesh out what their event is as long as it's a week before deadline. And that week before deadline, we can just help them meet if they have problems online. We're there to help.

I mean, I know y'all are, I'm obsessed with city staff and obviously I'm obsessed with y'all, so no doubt.

The thing I miss, the most big thing there, we're in the process of doing our workshops. Keep encouraging people to sign up for the workshops and everything. All right, next up, item six, receive a staff report on current projects.

And now here is a, actually, the last, second to last page is the art project that, so the community art at Veterans Park, we have, let's see, we have posted the off-artist qualifications.

We're also. Yeah, yeah, it's that's posted where. And then we're on the list for for the park support for August 20th and then got us on the rolling agenda for correction for city council for September 1st.

We can send y'all that link out if you know any artists that can do that. Usually we kind of back it into this because of time, should be able to call on processes.

Worst case scenario, or council says no, then we would just pull the phone.

Calls for art for the sundial and for the basketball court mural. They're both still in progress. We've got a few things to hammer out before we're able to post those. Dunbar History Trail. We're finalizing RFP for professional research for a local historian to help us basically do research on the wet down reviews and inductees, selectees for the first year so that we can have a professional local historian be able to look at, you know, research people with the nomination forms. It's kind of like a springboard to getting them started. But we want somebody who's trained with local history and can be able to find the information, but then also more importantly, or just as importantly, put it into readily digestible paragraphs that we can present to the public online.

Which is a waiting hub approval got approval from city council for the grant for the lighting. So that's good. They voted on that. So we have that. for the lighting, we can start planning, but we won't get HUD. They have to go and do some sort of a survey thing in September, October. And usually by the time the funds are released, it's going to be right there.

So we still have to try to release .

And let's see, the Cuauhtemoc Hall

We are going to meet with representatives from their board tomorrow evening, actually.

Is that the place by Dairy Queen?

Yep.

Is that just like a community organization?

Yeah, they own the building. I figured. So they don't move orders.

It seems well-established. Not that I'm at Dairy Queen all the time when I'm here, but... But I might have noticed it. Funny thing, there was a blizzard, and it was in a cup.

So, yeah.

In downtown Carroll Valley, we have 38 trees. And so, the lake to that lake has gone out to the mountains.

What you're saying, the pollinator wings? Is that?

I haven't done that.

So we can't. I'm in the agenda to discuss this.

Is that related to that?

Yes. If it's time to figure out how to get it all heavy, it was like. I'm talking online, so it's all working. We'll come to a tender. That's your problem.

It was like 1030 p.m. the 9th. Yeah, I know. So.

If we looked at that, we would have to open it back up to everybody else. We would have to open the call to get it back up.

And the call specifically said what the deadline was and said that all entries had to be through.

And you had 38 other entries that did successfully do it. It's very hard to still hear.

Yeah, I did. I'll do it at the very last minute too.

this is what happens when you do yeah like legal liability issue except just hers yeah and i want to embody rick for a second since he can't be here just say look everybody else had a fair shot she had a fair shot you know she could have said that i'm having a problem email the day before you could have helped her yeah i i i do have a lot of empathy and i love what i see yeah She'd probably get my vote.

Yeah.

Just like if it was with the grants. If the grants closed, it's closed.

Yeah.

And there's got to be, when you're dealing with a whole city.

I just have a question. Is it possible that in the future we might have another call open up and that she could submit this to?

So basically my, whenever, just in general, whenever somebody emails me hey man get this in late or says do you take this medium and we're not asking for that medium i tell them no not for this call but i encourage you to apply for other call if you have other call yeah so and this and this content is valid for all sorts of stuff it's great

I get a little confused how things work between the Mural Arts Committee and then our discussions here, because these are things that come up during the meeting, but I know we've discussed a mini mural project that shouldn't potentially be implemented.

Well, how cool would it be if she did one Lotteria card at a time in a mini mural project all around the city?

Working on a panel in your A.D., Right. We have that kind of call. We'll definitely send it to everybody. Everybody gets a chance. Yeah.

Yeah. Well, this is trying to get a consensus on this or no. Okay. Got it.

We're kind of breaking the rules already here.

Yeah.

But if any of y'all have a relationship with that woman, Gigi Teller, we love it. Keep at it.

Don't like her again.

The downtown mural thing, it's like a single panel.

Eight artists with children.

She would only be, for her, she'd only be at one panel, which doesn't even necessarily sound like that's the best fit for her project anyway.

I mean, I guess her panel could be all of those.

Yeah, that would be the panel.

But again, that's it. Yeah, right. Trey, you were going to be

This is one of the future of the city that is a very cultural response. So it's beautiful. Yeah.

Absolutely. All right. And everything else has been reported on previously. So barring any questions. This is on. You see the staff report from the Mural Arts Committee, and actually we kind of covered covered a lot of the meat, potatoes, bed, previous items of 38, 38 entries for the downtown mural gallery, the Baltimore Hall mural and craft for, you know, discuss this process and then we'll report back and find out what the questions are tomorrow with everything with that. All right.

I have our notes.

Yeah, yeah, we had a great meeting and we've got some notes here.

Yeah, y'all ready? I'm going to throw a lot at you. OK, so we have a consensus from the mural arts, or not mural arts, I'm sorry, community engagement committee that we'd like to have some more semi-regular mixers around quarterly, kind of skipping summer unless we choose an indoor space. But We're finding that indoor spaces are hard to find here.

Yeah, so if anybody has a good lead on a good indoor space that could fit 20 to 30 people at the most, probably, let us know. Casual, no big deal.

Need to support media engagement via creativity challenges. So, Charlotte, I'll connect with you offline. We have a few mixer ideas for locations. Maybe Zellix, The Porch, Blue Dahlia, Vox Car Social, Southbound Social, which is a new one that is in an older building that used to be another business. There we go. Okay, thank you.

I don't know. There's no way of knowing. There's no way to tell how you know.

Been here for a while, so...

You know, we don't even chat.

That's true. Actually, that's a great spot.

Right. Yeah.

Yeah.

Okay.

Oh, yeah. Yeah. Did y'all say Tantra? Yeah, we did.

Yeah. Yeah.

We've done some at Tantra, so I think we're kind of feeling like we want to sort of, yeah, they're going to be on the list.

And we're down with Prociner, but I think they have a little more, they have like a little more processes. Processes.

then you can get something to drink yeah a little less you have to bring anything as it were anything you want to keep cold tommy stay hydrated um we said jackson then what was the other one that we oh wake the day yeah um there is um triple six triple six thank you yeah what But it's a little further off this point.

Oh, yeah, I do like that plant. I haven't gotten gone, but I've been looking at it.

So have some good stuff.

Industry could be good. They have enough room, especially at the little kind of outside place. Is that plant where we did the big mural, is that open now?

Oh, actually.

That's a great spot, actually. And they need people, I think. So it's the back. And it's really great because it's where the mural is. But it's the back of where industry is. And it's where our giant plant. gateway mural. Was there an actual name for it? The big mural that you come in as you're coming into downtown?

Yeah. It's the wall with the industry.

Yeah.

That is a great spot to say meet. And they also like us and they want to support us.

What kind of high ceilings? It has sort of like a gathering hall feel.

They might even sponsor like a beer person kind of a thing if we ask for a nice, you know. We just need to work about it ahead of time.

Maybe not.

Yeah.

I'll ask.

We'll add these to our little list. Some of the ideas we thought of mainly was like a portfolio night with opportunities for feedback. So maybe like the top three or so receive a spotlight on KZSM. Jason's going to reach out on that. And then I had in my, when I was running some like emerging arts events in my backyard, In Austin, I had these little pamphlets for feedback that had the Liz Luhrmann critical response method broken down into real plain English so that it was not like I didn't like, it was how to ask the artist to get closer to their vision. things like that. So I can share that with everybody as well. Our next target date is going to be the weekend of October 3rd, either Saturday or Sunday. I'm realizing now, however, that that's around the powwow.

Well, we were talking about September because there's a chance for us to do this right before the St. Marcus Art Awards. So earlier today, we had a conversation that could work at the beginning of September.

Right.

Yeah, and just to really break down all of those notes in a really very brief sort of redux, you know, we want to have more meetings, we want to do more with the meetings, and we want to engage people in the times between the meetings.

Right.

That's the gist.

We also want to document the meetings a little bit more and see if we can get city support for photography and documentation, if possible.

We had that one dude that's come before to our art stuff. He used to have a mustache on it.

I think he does it once in a while. Yeah.

But they all have people. If we reached out ahead of time, they could come and do stuff.

The thing, though, too, is that if we have commission members present, we should all be documenting, like taking photos, videos, and sending it to Charlotte Trey, I think, just acting as those documentarians as well. Whether or not they end up on socials, it would then be just general documentation.

And a way that might be easier for you, Charlotte, is if you wanted to set us up a – The Google Drive sort of ask thing, whether it's that or something else that we could all have access to and dump photos.

Where's like we can't actually, well, we're not good.

Maybe not specifically Google Drive or whatever, but like someplace to send it.

Like it's about like having a discussion.

Just sending. We all have like one driver or anything.

Okay, y'all can send a OneDrive link.

You could potentially even send individual OneDrive links rather than... We have Crowder, what we use for generate constant. We have links that go, hey, And then just from your phone, you can go.

Oh, that's beautiful. That's perfect.

This is a way for us all to engage the community between mingling moments. Anytime that we see a cool photo, anytime we see a cool artist, we could take a little photo or a little video and shoot out content, you know? but that way you could have if we make it a part of our rote activity and just make it habitual for us it will give charlotte all the content she needs right to make a really robust you know social media presence or just we just want to help with that and we think that all of us working together make it like work yeah um so yeah the long cast i said y'all exactly first part of september

I was going to say the 6th. The 6th. I don't know.

No, that's – oh, is it?

Is that – Yes, never mind.

It doesn't have to be September. I just thought September because of the smart boards.

The smart boards are closing in like the 15th. Yeah. Well, I mean, yeah, I mean, maybe so.

It's available.

Up to, yeah, right, yes.

I know. I have last chance to submit here.

Well, and we really, I mean, it really could be as easy as a QR code and that we make it a point to pass it around to people.

I think it's best because it's in the middle of August. I can get like some of that information so that we have at least a few weeks that we have it up.

Could you do it at the end of August instead of September? Would that be better?

I don't think it's going to be better for us is the problem. Yeah.

I'm starting to Google. I think my schedule might be a little tight, short notice.

But that middle of September I think is far enough in advance.

Yeah, I think. I don't know what that is.

It's what? Wash. Wash?

Rosh Hashanah, yes. Oh.

I mean, I don't want to be disrespectful to anybody's holidays, but I don't think I've really heard of that being like a shut down. The Rosh Hashanah. The Jewish holiday. I've never heard of that shutting down.

Rosh Hashanah.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. But that's our report. Yeah.

Again, soon. I still think like if it's a three day notice we've already established or to switch to the last minute. So that's like perfect timing, actually.

Yeah, actually.

It's not bad. It's not a bad point.

For questions.

Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

No, something they could do right then in the moment. That's great.

All right.

I think that that completes our community engagement committee update.

All right.

Next up on nine people on upcoming events. And on the very back page of Facebook, the event's basically from now until the end of the year, and put in a little spreadsheet that I made for y'all last month. Thank you.

So some of them will pass. Yes, it's okay. I was having an artist exception. They had to cancel it last month.

They canceled it?

Oh, yeah. The weather was bad last year.

Oh, yeah. It was really bad. Oh.

35 minutes ago? Yeah, it's the original. Yeah.

What are they doing? Shades of Green art ceremony, art reception. That was supposed to be last week, but now it's this week.

I don't think I know what Shades of Green is.

It's a call for art. Oh, okay.

That's okay.

Gallery artist reception.

I got you. I'm picking up what you're trying to do.

I can't read my mind. I want to put three words out there.

They tell people about another event this week, this Sunday. at Centro from 3 to 5 p.m. It is Yeses Flores' exhibit, the exact name of the exhibition. And it's all about food from her parents. But it's 3 to 5 at Centro. Um, yes, of course.

If you see the table, there's a lot. Make sure that you put it on a website.

On your phone. Yeah.

There's like submit your event. I did not. Picture and then all the word reading students copy paste. That is great to know.

And as long as I'm religious or.

OK. Very good. I intend future agenda items.

Yeah.

Yeah, August. So. Already there. That's crazy. Oh, that's smart.

You've already got it.

And again, same thing, if you think of anything, email us and Jason, and Jason will almost guarantee your seconds. Happily. And same thing, if Steph thinks of something, we'll get with you.

Are we still discussing that, Igor?

Yeah, I got it on. It'll be coming up next year.

Oh, it's on the...

There's so many. We already have two more calls.

Oh, I see it down there.

If I send you my updated breakdown, would that help anything at all?

Well, yeah, you could send it, but I think you only need to decide on what exactly that is. I mean, that's exactly what you want it to be versus a discussion on things. I haven't gotten with parts of gospel with my job with parts of like a few other people in town. But that won't happen for a while. He didn't give it to me personally, personally, because we have to get the mural and basketball court, we have to get the seven dial thing.

Yeah, I mean, I'd just be happy to send over my packet. Just so I know that if it's helpful, It's out there, and I don't have to remember.

Okay. Okay. When I'm talking to Parker, I kind of have to reach back in my brain from three months ago.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Just, you know, because I did a lot of a lot of research and stuff that could be helpful. Yeah. To just make things go quicker. And since you're going to talk to Parks and Rec anyway, and I don't know if you've already done this, I would just like any sort of information that I can get I don't know if I'm able to go talk to him directly. I just would like to know the whole status of that clock tower at Vista Ridge Park. I think I will ask what can or cannot be done because it's really cool. I always see it every time I go south on 35 now. There's just a lot of potential and I just don't know if I need to stop my brain for

I have 3,000 notes in my notes app. Oh, gosh.

And I'll be driving going, let's do the same thing. I'll do the same thing. I'll just voice record myself.

Drop those into AI and have them organized for you. Oh, God.

Okay. My phone broke Saturday night.

Bizarre thing, I didn't even know it would happen. It, like, did an update. I didn't even know I had that set on how to manipulate it. It's overnight. My phone wasn't even plugged in. And then it broke my phone. The next morning, it was, like, said I had to plug my phone into a computer to restore it. But it just, like, it couldn't be restored. And I took it to do break-up fix. They took two days trying to fix it, and they couldn't fix it. Anyway, I haven't been able to take any notes from my notes app. I've had to handwrite notes. It's really frustrating.

Nice, actually, yeah.

Very lo-fi. Have a lo-fi moment. Yeah. Okay.

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Okay.

All right.

It is 639 p.m. on Wednesday, January 22nd, and this meeting is adjourned.