~ ARTS COMMISSION ~ MEETING MINUTES Wednesday, June 9, 2010 7:00 p.m., Village Hall, Lower Level Conference Room Present: Fred Weissman, Acting Chairperson Marilyn Alaynick Steve Bulmash Chris Gibson Bonnie Gold Sandy Greenberg Barbara Herman Lori Lapping Gayle Pervos Fran Sachs Absent: Laura Ander Linda Rosen Lynne Schneider Guests: Sharon Borstein Staff Liaison Carol Berman - Present Trustee Liaisons Trustee Steve Trilling Trustee Lisa Stone Welcome The meeting was called to order at 7:05 PM. Approval of Minutes Approval of the minutes was tabled until the last meeting since the Arts Commissioners did not receive them prior to the meeting due to an error in transmitting. Chair Report Carol reported that Linda wanted to thank the Bloomin Buffalo Grove committee for all their hard work in making this a very successful project. The program was well attended raised a lot of money for Buddy Baseball and the Arts Commission.
Buffalo Grove Invitational Fine Art Festival July 17 th and 18 th The volunteer meeting was held before the meeting. T-shirts were distributed and volunteers signed up for their assignments. Posters were also available for distribution. Carol Berman recapped the current progress of the festival. The Buffalo Grove Chamber of Commerce will sponsor the Celebrate Art party on Thursday, July 15 th at the Indeck Building. Local artists will be represented at this program. On Friday, July 16 th the BG Jazz Band will perform at Rotary Green. Family Art Tent Projects for the Family Art Tent will be paint a bird house and string necklaces with fruit loops and red licorice. A balloon artist, Jason Giolli, has agreed to be part of the Family Art Tent and only work for tips. Laura Ander and Lori Lapping will chair this event. Lori stated that they would obtain all the necessary supplies for the project. Unique Expressions This program is for handicap artists. Registration is now closed. Youth Artists This program will be repeated this year with ten (10) tables available for youth artists. Registration is now closed. Sunday Breakfast This event will take place at India House. The Village is currently looking for donations from the community for breakfast items. Entertainment Limelight performers will be asked to perform on Saturday. The time has been changed to 10:00-11:00AM. Carol had sent requests to three performers with no response. Gayle Pervos, Limelight Chairperson, feels that the time selected is too early. Fred felt that it would be better if we had it at noon when Cirrus Falcon took a lunch break. Carol will contact the performers personally to see if they can participate. Art Festival Office The new location will be 178 McHenry Rd. Artist Bags Lynne Schneider sent over 100 letters to local merchants asking if they would like to participate in a coupon program. Barbara Herman was successful in getting the Bank of Buffalo Grove to donate 170 bags. It was determined that the bags will be distributed to the artists on Saturday morning as a welcome gift from the Arts Commission. Volunteers to distribute the bags were Gayle, Chris, Marilyn and Linda (volunteered by Gayle).
Arthur J Rogers & Company is an additional sponsor for this event with their donation of $500. Their primary sponsorship will be the disability golf cart which will enable the committee to transport people in need of assistance. Carol will confirm cell phones numbers with the Arts Commissioners so that we can have all numbers available for the Arts Festival. This year Amdur Productions is planning to provide a water bottle to each artist during the fest and will circulate a cart with a large container of water to fill these bottles. This is in lieu of the bottles of water that were previously distributed in an effort to go green. The commissioners were very concerned on how this will work. Since the walking area is not very large the commissioner did not feel that any type of cart should be driven down the center of the fest. If the cart is driven in the back of the fest how will the bottles then be refilled? Several of the AC members will be attending the Lincolnshire Art Festival the weekend of 6/13 & 6/13 to get an idea of how Amdur handles the water distribution. We do have donations of bottled water that will be used for volunteers. Carol Berman will obtain a cooler that will house these bottles for our personal use. Buffalo Grove Symphonic Band Bonnie Gold reported on the last Band Board meeting. Some of the items discussed were: - The band surveys have been submitted to Ghida Neukirch. - There has not been any additional discussion about a concert for children. - Howard would like to do a summer concert series and has asked for the assistance of the AC and the Village to find a venue for these concerts in the community. The Arts Commission did not feel that they could support this concept. Since the Rotary and Buffalo Grove Park District each have weekly concerts the commission did not feel the community would support an additional set of concerts. - Howard is also looking to do a 3 rd major concert in 2011. - The band is in need of trombone players. - Upcoming events include the June 15th performance of the Jazz Band at Willow Stream Park, July 4th at Rotary Green, Fine Art Festival and Buffalo Grove Days. - The date for the fall concert is set for November 7 th at Buffalo Grove High School. The theme for this concert if fantasy, myths and heroes. The spring 2011 concert will feature Wayne and Kathy Messmer. Bloomin Buffalo Grove May 22nd Sandy Greenberg reported that the Bloomin Buffalo Grove project was a wonderful and very successful program. She thanked all the committee members, Arts Commission members who assisted that day, Sharon Borstein and her son
Ed, and added a special thank you to President Hartstein and the Village trustees who attended the event. As of today, the total profit for the program was $2,372.90. There are sixteen (16) additional birdhouses to sell in addition to some donated art. A motion was made by Barbara Herman, and seconded by Marilyn Alaynick, to split the profit from the event with 60% going to the Arts Commission and 40% going to Buddy Baseball. This motion was unanimously approved. The committee suggested that the check to Buddy Baseball be presented by Linda Rosen, Arts Commission Chairperson, at the 7/12/10 Village Board meeting. It was suggested that the additional birdhouses could be sold at the 6/27/10 Farmer s Market. Marilyn, Fran and Carol volunteered to work this event. The commission felt they would like to use the funds from this project, in addition to the funds raised by the Limelight programs, to purchase a piece of sculpture for the Village campus. A motion was made by Sandy Greenberg, and seconded by Fran Sachs, to set aside $1,000 from the art purchase funds at the Art Festival to be added to the sculpture funds. It motion was unanimously approved. This will go to the Village Board as a recommendation to purchase a piece of sculpture and also to seek their approval to withhold this amount of money for the project. The commission asked Carol if she would check into establishing a separate account for the sculpture funds in case we do not purchase the piece in 2010. New Business Old Business Village Report Adjourn The next meeting is scheduled for July 12 th at 6:00PM in the EOC. We will have our monthly meeting (with dinner) and then go to the Village Board meeting as a commission to support our sponsors for the Art Festival (Sanders Court Pediatrics and Arthur J Rogers) and be present for the check presentation to the Buddy Baseball League. The meeting concluded at 8:15 PM. The motion was made by Barbara Herman and seconded by Steve Bulmash. The motion was unanimously approved.
Sincerely, Carol Berman Staff Liaison cc: Steve Trilling, Trustee Liaison Lisa Stone, Trustee Liaison Ghida Neukirch, Deputy Village Manager