all right we have a quorum so I think we're good to begin great um I call the April 21st 2025 Arts and Culture Commission meeting to order ethan roll call please jonathan Ruer
here allison Coer here carrie Rogers here britta Trigstead here Brandon Batty Paula Krogan here and Chuck Hendrickson here
is there a motion to amend or approve the April 21st 2025 agenda motion to approve second all in favor i I all against um is there a motion to amend or approve
the March 17th 2025 minutes to approve second all in favor i i are there any citizens to be heard on items not on the agenda no all right well up to the business
items um we're going to chat about the sidewalk stamps ethan can you please provide a an overview overview yeah so with the construction of the 11 Street underpass um the commission has previously expressed an interest in utilizing sidewalk stamps in some of
those project areas um staff has been continuing coordination with the state to determine appropriate stamp locations for the areas that are being paved in 2025 um with available funding from the project back in 2015 um the commission
has relayed an interest in utilizing a request for art to curate uh new original local art to manufacture additional stamps to expand the existing inventory we have um the proposed new stamps would be used in conjunction with
the existing inventory on available 11 street areas um additionally in coordination with a local business sign badgers um staff is currently working to manufacture a few stamps that from the existing inventory that went missing um
so as requested by the commission uh a request for art has been prepared um for artistic sidewalk stamp installations uh the request for art specifies the scope of the project um submission requirements um specifically complying
with ADA standards um an estimated timeline and the proposed selection process um it is proposed that the submissions would be reviewed and selected by the artist review team uh so staff is requesting feedback from the commission on the draft request for art
and any feedback may be relayed or incorporated into the draft request or the final request for art and then further staff is seeking any feedback or recommendations to market the request for art to ensure that we can get a good amount of submissions um please let me
know if you do have any comments or questions how was it marketed in the past for the 2015 um looking back there isn't a ton of information saved i It looks like we may have used social media and then done some coordination with some of the local
schools worth talking to local media yeah we can definitely coordinate something like that fmva and Arts Partnership are often good about uh helping to relay calls for art so they might be worth uh including in
the release if nothing else sounds good and I can definitely reach out to them as well i think I have both their emails so and I definitely think like the the local schools art and maybe English departments might be a nice and maybe the colleges too although it it's kind
of getting to the end of the semester for college students but they can announce it they don't have to set aside time in class do we know how many I know that we talked about this before how many we're hoping to to approve
um it'll vary based on the curating artistic submissions um there'll be a little bit more leeway because the art stamps are a little cheaper um it depends how much of the funding we want to use as well um we may want to
save a little bit um for the downtown project so um we'll just I think once the submissions come in analyze it on that basis i would estimate probably somewhere from 10 to 20 is a it's probably broad
but greed of Morhead might be another good group to reach out to and I'm not sure if there's much existence beyond Facebook but there's also a kind of a a bigger group west central creatives
i will add them to the list this is why we have you around Jonathan when are they hoping to to start when do they hope to announce the um the selections yeah yeah um so right now it's anticipated that it would
be in the middle of May just to keep things moving um some of the paving will already be starting here in the spring so we'll use some of the existing inventory earlier on and then once we have the new stamps um the sooner we can get them then we'll be able to incorporate those this year so it looks
like deadline to submit is the 16th and then to get people to know it we're thinking soon I would assume next week or so yeah it would likely be posted next week so Okay add it are there any other questions or comments on the
sidewalk project no um does anyone have any other reports or information to share well I am curious Ethan if are there any updates on the historic Morehead video series yeah I
can just give a couple brief updates on those real quick um we've been coordinating with the historical society and MCAM um there are a few proposed episodes um relating to kind of our wild west history the saloon era um and then
the founding of Morehead to kind of test the waters um it's estimated that those would be released um earlier in the fall and then progress um and then it's anticipated that we would touch on more topics um following that it may stretch
into future years as well so have an announcement um Morehead High Schools has a their spring play coming up um Geek it's called and it is um going to be at Horizon Middle School auditorium April
24th through 27th and I'm not sure if there's anything else going on with the colleges at all i tried to look and I didn't find anything but Theater B's uh spring production of Pride and Prejudice opens
on May 2nd and runs through the 18th concord why that's loud concordia's um music department they're going to do an ortorio or masterworks on Sunday and I think it's the foray recreum so and and there's another piece I can't remember it off end and then the following week
is the commencement concert in Memorial Auditorium that Saturday night so couple music events going on so catch it while you can because they're off right after after next Saturday i think it's and it's graduation on Sunday and then
So take it in as you can anything else to share yeah couple of things over at theor we've got uh Courtney Donaghhue will be opening her exhibit Untethered this weekend uh public openings on Sunday day
before that uh we've been doing this thing gallery in bloom where we uh bring in a floral artist Steph Lininger and this year uh instead of coupling her with another visual artist we're just clearing one of the galleries upstairs and she's just going to fill the space
with flowers i have no idea what it's going to look like but it will look and smell great so come by on Saturday between 1:30 and 3:30 to share all right is there a motion to adjurnn
second quickest meeting ever everyone's go outside