2011-05-11 - Arts Commission - Minutes Board or Commission: ❑Arts commission
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Meeting ate: 05/11/2011
Type of Meeting: ❑ Regular Meeting
MEETING MINUTES
Regular Meeting
Wednesday, May 11 , 2011
7:00 PM., Village Hall, EOC
Present:
Linda Rosen, Chairperson
Marilyn Alaynick
Laura Ander
Sharon Borstein
Steve Bulmash
Chris Gibson
Bonnie Gold
Sandy Greenberg
Barbara Herman
Lori Lapping
Gayle Pervos
Fran Sachs
Lynne Schneider
Fred Weissman
Absent:
Mark Andrews
Guests:
Staff Liaison
Carol Berman - Present
Trustee Liaisons
Trustee Steve Trilling - Present
Trustee Les Ottenheimer
Welcome
The meeting was called to order at 7.10 PM.
Approval of Minutes
Fran Sachs made a motion to amend the April minutes to report that she made the
motion to split the profits with Saving tiny Hearts with a 60-40 split whereby the minutes
reflected that Sandy Greenberg made the motion. A motion was made by Sandy to
accept the amendment and approve the minutes. This was seconded by Marilyn
Alaynick. The motion was unanimously approved.
Chair Report
Linda reported that President Braiman appointed Mark Andrews to the Arts
Commission. Welcome to Mark who did such a wonderful job on the graphics for our
Blooming Buffalo Grove project.
Linda announced that our new Trustee Liaison is Les Ottenheimer.
Buffalo Grove Symphonic Band
Fred Weissman reported on the 9/11 Committee's first meeting. Howard is the chair of
this group and they are looking to: find a member of the clergy to do a benediction and
invocation, obtain a sponsor for this event, seek volunteers to help with the distribution
of posters and possibly do a contest for children on "What America Means to Me."
Carol reported that Buffalo Grove High School has agreed to host the 9/11 concert and
has waived all the fees for the program. Bonnie Gold, Fred Weissman and Steve
Bulmash are our representatives to this committee.
No date has been established for the fall concert. Buffalo Grove High School should be
able to provide such within the next two (2) weeks.
There is an Ensemble Concert scheduled for June 5t" at Village Hall.
The band party, honoring their 10t" anniversary, will be held on Thursday, May 26t", at
8.15PM at Meridian School. All Arts Commission members are invited.
Blooming Buffalo Grove
Sandy and Fran reported that all is ready for the upcoming event. In addition to the
mirrors and boxes that have been decorated by local artists there are a number of items
that will be raffled including packages of four (4) tickets with parking to a Cubs game
and also to a White Sox game.
Volunteers were requested for this event. The committee chairs also asked everyone
on the Arts Commission to email their friends about the event and place the flyer on
their Facebook page. The important thing is to get as many people as possible to
Village Hall on Saturday to purchase these items and participate in the raffle.
Buffalo Grove Invitational Fine Art Festival
Carol reported that all is going well with the preplanning for the festival. Versailles
Restaurant has agreed to host the Sunday awards breakfast for the artists. Ghida will
coordinate the letters to our normal contributors looking for donations of bagels, donuts,
fruit and juice. We anticipate having lariats for the volunteers in addition to encouraging
them to wear a red shirt preferably from one of the past festivals.
Currently we do not have any sponsors for the festival. If any commissioners know of
anyone who will be willing to be a sponsor please let Ghida or I know and we can
follow-up with a letter.
Lori and Laura are co-chairpersons of the Family Art Tent. The projects they plan to do
this year are: plastic cups (filled with potting soil and seeds) that can be decorated with
stickers, paper bag hats and paintings that the children can do with crayons and water
colors.
The volunteer meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, June 8t" at 6:OOPM.
We will have the same space for our office in Town Center as we did last year.
Artists' League
Sharon Borstein reported that the next meeting of the Artists' League will be on
Monday, May 23rd at the Arboretum. Len Upin will be the featured speaker that evening.
Len will be doing a project with the group and asked everyone to bring a facial
photograph.
At the last meeting on April 13t", Peter Patterson was the featured speaker. Peter is a
glass artist, and spoke on his art and the process.
The Indian Trails Library has offered the group their display space for an August 2011
show.
Sharon mentioned that she was not getting a positive response from the Artists' League
about doing any special projects during the Arts Festival. Carol will notify Amdur
Productions that the Artists' League will not be participating in the event this year.
Lynne Schneider made a motion to reimburse Sharon Borstein for all postage costs she
has incurred. Bonnie seconded the motion. The motion was passed unanimously.
New Business
None
Old Business
None
Village Report
Carol requested that all commission members submit the ethics statements.
Adjourn
The next meeting is scheduled for June 8, 2011 at 6:OOPM. We will start with annual
Art Festival meeting for all volunteers and then go directly into our meeting. There will
be no July meeting.
The motion to adjourn was made by Lori Lapping and seconded by Marilyn Alaynick. It
was unanimously approved. Meeting adjourned at 7.55PM
Sincerely,
Carol Berman
Staff Liaison
cc: Steve Trilling, Trustee Liaison
Les Ottenheimer, Trustee Liaison
Ghida Neukirch, Deputy Village Manager