Item 3C
Southlake Arts Council
Board Report – October 2009
Status Report
Council Membership – The Arts Council has achieved a full roster, with seven regular members and all
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three alternate members named and appointed by city council. Newly appointed members have helped
to provide a richly diversified experience and energy to the Arts Council.
Public Arts Master Plan – At its September 2009 regular meeting, the Arts Council unanimously
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Toward a Public Arts Master Plan for the City Of Southlake, Texas: A First Iteration
approved
Document.
This document is a planning and activity guideline which presents options for progress
through an iterative design, assuring continual feedback and improvement from city staff and council.
Seven Goals, with requisite objectives and outcome measures, are presented in the document, which is
currently being considered by city staff, and will be shared with City Council at an upcoming meeting.
The principal recommendation of the document concerns hiring an arts planning consultant to help
Southlake attain an arts master plan as soon as possible.
Work Groups/Subcommittees – As a result of the Arts Council’s approval of the First Iteration
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document, two standing subcommittees have been formed:
The Artist and Art Work Selection Work Group – composed of three members, this group will
help formulate preliminary recommendations for all arts projects undertaken by the city. This
work group has met to design a community, city staff, and city council input and impact
procedure which will make the Arts Council’s recommendations more representative of the
opinions and desires of members of our community.
The Master Plan Work Group – composed of three members, this subcommittee will continue to
meet and work through issues pertaining to the public arts master plan, including focused work
on the arts master planning consultancy.
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Partnerships – The Arts Council continues to work toward a complete understanding of the implicit
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partnerships formed between the city and Art in the Square (The Southlake Women’s Club), ArtsNet,
and the Apex Arts League. The Arts council wants to focus special attention on helping form the most
appropriate partnership with the Apex Arts League, specifically in relation to the ongoing work
involving the possibility of a Multipurpose Facility that may include Performing Arts facilities.
Public Arts Projects for the Current Year
Another result of the First Iteration process is a list of 2009-2010 arts activities, events, and installation
projects which will help the Arts Council pace and benchmark its work throughout the coming months:
Successfully install Roundabout artworks via processes which ensure public input
Engage feasibility considerations for the opportunity of a McPherson Park Sculpture Garden
Pilot and Develop Town Hall Concerts & Exhibits
Actively support the Apex Presents 2009-2010 series of performances and events
Actively support the ArtsNet Masterworks Series
Endorse and support the continually successful Art in the Square project
For questions please contact Kerry McGeath (817) 748-8384
Respectfully submitted by the Southlake Arts Council:
Leslie Bartlett Peggy Firestone John Calvert
Terri Messing Karen Chidiac Deborah Frazier
Merlene Ingraham Carol Knox Fariba Parmer
Jeffrey Walter
Southlake Arts Council
- Board Report - 10/20/09