Members Present: Josh DeWeese, Keely Holmes, Kris Johnson, Maggie Kerr, Melissa Ragain, Royce Smith
Members Absent: Courtney Johnson- Co-Chair, John How, Cori Huttinga, Laurel Yost
Staff Support Present: Olivia Hayes, Jaclyn Liebscher

ITEM No.1 – Harrison Hall Public Art Call to Action

  • PAAC does not currently have a plant fund to deposit project percent for art funds into. CPDC is working on this process.
  • Jaclyn Liebscher will keep the Harrison Hall fund open for the purpose of this project and asks the Committee to work to install this art within the next 6 months.
  • Royce and Melissa would like to use the Mission Statement and Call for Artists that are currently in development to solicit artists for this project. Plan to move forward in November when documents are finalized.

Action Item: Courtney Johnson to continue work on creating a plant fund for PAAC.

Action Item: PAAC to review the draft Mission Statement and Call for Artists template and insert the information for this project. Circulate the Call for Artists to students.

ITEM No.2 – American Indian Hall – Public Art Grants

  • Committee discussed investigating opportunities to apply for grants supporting Indigenous American/American Indian artists.

Action Item: American Indian Hall (AIH) Subcommittee to investigate grant opportunities.

Action Item: PAAC to consider if there are any artists who they would like to showcase on campus as individual artists can apply for grants as well.

ITEM No.3 – PAAC Policy

  • PAAC discussed the draft and example mission statements in PAAC Box folder.
  • Committee discussed the need for ongoing conservation for all campus art.
  • Committee considered the differences between public art and gifted art/pieces to MSU and concluded that a distinction should be made between the two.
  • Discussed creating a ‘University Art Collection’ document that has different sections addressing Public Art and Gifts (or University Acquisitions).
  • Target for adopting updated PAAC Policy Document is end of 2020-2021 academic year.

Action Item: Committee members to further their understanding of “university art collection” language and what it entails in order to inform the development of “public art” vs “university acquisitions” language.

Action Item: PAAC members to work on the two mission statements and provide new draft versions for November meeting. Document is available in Box for editing.

Action Item: John How continuing to work on the 1% for Art policy.

ITEM No.4 – Call for Artists Template

  • Two example Call for Artist documents were uploaded to PAAC Box: Romney Hall from the Montana Arts Council and American Indian Hall. The American Indian Hall (AIH) Scoring Matrix is also available for PAAC members to consider.
  • A working draft exists for Committee members to view and edit; the draft is based on the Montana Arts Council document.
  • Committee recalled that there was not enough time allotted for artists to submit proposals for AIH.

Action Item: Jaclyn Liebscher to provide a general example of a schedule to follow in the Call for Artists template.

Discussion:

  • Campus Art Inventory document does exist.
  • With regards to the Ivan Navarro bench, PAAC expressed hope that people could sit on the piece. Discussed having two benches lit up with MSU blue and gold.
  • Artist Ben Peace has accepted an offer to work with MSU on an art piece for the AIH Great Hall operable wall. His proposal will vetted by the AIH Art Subcommittee and ultimately brought to PAAC.
  • ASMSU has been evaluating options for including student art in the Student Memorial renovation. PAAC advised that they should start working with the Project Manager as soon as possible.
  • The chair (Allison Reinhardt) of the ASMSU Student Memorial committee would like to present their designs to PAAC at the meeting in November.
  • PAAC is asked to consider the library for future projects in their public spaces.

Action Item: Locate the inventory/catalogue of MSU campus art. Jaclyn will follow-up with Planners to locate document that Victoria used.

Action Item: Royce Smith to continue to work with Ivan Navarro developing the final proposal for BAC. Committee is in favor of two usable benches.

Action Item: Olivia Hayes to invite Allison Reinhardt to the next meeting and add Student Memorial Art to the November agenda.