Programming Year Annual Report Outline
Annual Theme: Health and Healing
(Final Draft: 2/21/2011)
PEOPLE
- Board of Directors: Edna Arterberry, Bayview Hunters Point Community Liaison; Matthew Boriskin, President; James Joves, Financial Planning & Marketing Officer;
Marissa Kunz, Founding Artist/Educator, Secretary, Program Officer; Kevin Quan, Treasurer; Bonnie Milstein, Poverty Law and Civil Rights Attorney; Josefa Vaughan, Founding Artist/Educator Executive Director
- Most Active Advisors: Arwen & Heather Vaughan, Leo Steinberg, David Hollands, William Scott, Michelle Vignes, Charles Boone; Accounting: Allerton Steel, Joan Nelson
- Mentoring Artists: Charles "Trey" Houston, film-maker (Sydney Van Bueren), Charles Boone, composer (Sasha Kharag); Josefa Vaughan (Dina Kharag); Chris Treggiari (09-10 Mentor for Vicente),
- Teaching, Presenting and Assisting Artists: Marissa Kunz and Jessica Robin; Josefa Vaughan with Manon Bogerd-Wada and Richard Cheung, Kenneth Kolevzon, Veronica and Alexandra Bastias and Yvel Sagaille, Jen Bloomer, Jeff Van Bueren, Brad Justice, Trey Houston, Peter Mann, Esther Rogers, Reyna Kontos
- Exhibited Artists: Peter Mann, Marissa Kunz, Manon Bogerd-Wada, Josefa Vaughan, Catie O'Leary, Brad Justice, Meegan Barns, Jen Bloomer, Patricia Warren, Melanie Stewart
- Youth: Idanna Zharzhauskaya Anton Belov (office interns), (Summer Intensive); Youth Advisors to the Board: Sydney Van Bueren, Daria Baydina, (Woodside International School Intern) Dina Kharag,
- New Board Member: Edna Arterberry; Retiring Board Member: Bonnie Milstein; Prospective Nominees for Board/Advisor roles: Maria Palmo, Ed.D.; Robert Rathmel, Susan Flaskerud-Rathmel
- New/Core Volunteers: Karly Mossberg and Nina Zurier, Graphic Design; Dave Parker, IT; Katie Vater, Stephanie Burns, Lindsay Collingwood, Julie Cowley (Art Jam); Reyna Kontos, administrative assistance; Charles Boone, publicity; Yolanda Garcia and Jeff Grubler, Meegan Barnes, Diana Banh, Steven Chin
- Parents: Keith & Velvet Van Bueren and Ludmila Turok
- Staff: Josefa Vaughan, Marissa Kunz, Allison Kraus, Luned Palmer, Trey Houston
EXHIBITIONS AND EVENTS
- Annual Exhibition Opening Receptions, Annual Theme – Health and Healing curated by Josefa Vaughan and Marissa Kunz, Thoreau Center Main Gallery, June 4 and August 12
- Jellyfish Gallery exhibition of photo documentation of historic Presidio Hospital graffiti
- The Art Run Fun Run organized by Kevin Quan, home brew by James Joves, baked goods & cake decorating by Steve Funk & Lauren Korshal. Event sponsored by Fleet Feet Sports Store owners Brett Lamb & Kim Holt, Sept. 3, 2009
- Summer Arts, Collaboration with Betty Skwarek, Unitarian Universalist Society and Sequoias, July 11-Aug. 29
- Summer Resource Fair, Concourse Center, March 14, SF Department of Children, Youth, and their Families
- Fall Open Studios, Hunters Point Shipyard, Manon Bogerd-Wada, Nov. 1-2
- Spring Open Studios, Hunters Point Shipyard, Charles "Trey" Houston and Sydney "Raven" Van Bueren Video Installation, May 2-3
- ArtSeed Summer Intensive at the Bay School of San Francisco, Marissa Kunz and Peter Mann, lead artists Aug. 5-12
- Earth Week Art-a-thon, Thoreau Center for Sustainability, 10 hour art-making fundraiser, April 17
- Burnett CDC Field trip to the Thoreau Center, Teacher Tamera M. Edmond and sixteen 4th & 5th-graders
- Bayview Hunters Point African Market presentation
- Shipyard Trust for the Arts Art Auction
- Board Meetings: 9-8-09; 11-13-09; 1-22-10; 3-5-10; 5-28-10; 7-30-10; 9-19-10; 11-7-10; 12-10-10 (Holiday Party with Charles Boone and Sasha Kharag presentation)
WORKSHOPS AND CLASSES
- Sherman Elementary School, arts integration K-5 classes all students, every week with Marissa Kunz
- Burnett Child Development Center, arts integration two weekly Pre-K classes with Josefa Vaughan & Manon Bogerd-Wada
- Private lessons: Students Janette Salcedo and Jade Kikuchi
- Apprenticeship: Weekly meetings at Burnett between Mentoring Artists and upper elementary students were interrupted by building renovation. However meetings continued between three pairs of participants with Field Trips, Studio and HouseCall sessions by filmmaker Trey Houston with Sydney Van Bueren, painter Josefa Vaughan with Dina Kharag and composer Charles Boone with Sasha Kharag. Apprenticeships culminated in a video presented at Fall Open Studio, a power point presented at ArtSeed's Baker Beach Holiday Party and an exhibition at Theatre unlimited in response to the play, The Rainbow Room by Sara Kumar in West Hollywood, LA, CA.
- Buriram, Thailand Still-life. Marissa Kunz and Peter Mann organized a three-hour workshop for forty elementary to high school age children in a rural community who worked for the first time with conte crayon, watercolor and acrylic, July 2010
- Charles Boone served as a short-term mentor to Cambodian dancer Prumsodun Ok. Prumsodun had been a student of Charles's at the San Francisco Art Institute and wished to continue their work together. The mentorship was facilitated by San Francisco's CounterPulse organization and took place the end of 2010.
FIELD TRIPS
- Gallery Paule Anglim, Rena Bransten, The Art Exchange,
- San Francisco Art Institute
- San Francisco Museum of Modern Art,
- Fine Arts Museums, Palace of the Legion of Honor
- San Francisco Ballet (Petruska and Rite of Spring, Charles Boone & Sasha Kharag Apprenticeship)
- Hunter's Point Open Studios, Golden Gate Park, Sutro Park/Baths, Ocean Beach, Presidio + Golden Gate Bridge, Pine Methodist for audio recording. Apprentice Sydney Van Bueren also went on a Green Screen shoot with Mentoring Artist Trey Houston and another video professional Vanessa Workman to work the a dog training video, Oh Behave!
PUBLICITY
- New ArtSeed poster/ brochure designed by Nina Zurier and coordinated by Charles Boone
- Spanish translations: ArtSeed College Application Workshop booklet also designed and taught by Reyna Kontos (also Summer Intensive application and letters to parents)
- Pamakid Runners Club ArtSeed Presentation by Josefa Vaughan
- DVD Summer Intensive 2010 Participant Keepsake
- Quick Guide to Financial Aid for College, self published by Reyna Kontos, workshop leader
OPERATIONS, FACILITIES & CAPACITY BUILDING
- New professionally designed brochure (ArtSeed's first! Nina Zurier was the designer) The production and printing was coordinated by Charles Boone who also compiled a list of outlets for ArtSeed news releases, wrote and had printed the tenth anniversary letter of appeal along with new return envelopes (another first!)
- Cultural Data Project updates by bookkeeper Joan Nelson
- State of California, Registry of Charitable Trusts compliance updated
- New Flat Files at Burnett CDC studio
- National Endowment for the Arts Grants Workshop & Conversation, SF May 20
- Grant applications: California Arts Council Artists in Schools Program ($10,200 Marissa); Open Circle Foundation ($5,000, Manon); Sustainable Arts Foundation ($3,000 Tony & Caroline Grant); Voluntary Arts Contribution, Grants for the Arts/San Francisco Hotel Fund ; Lucius and Eva Eastman Fund, Inc; Pamakid Runners
- Total Revenue for 2009: $74,361 Total Expenses: $72,530
- Renovations of ArtSeed Studio at Burnett Complete (Thanks to a 2006 Prop. A Lopez Compliance School Repair Bond Project)
- New ArtSeed Studio Affiliate Program Awardee: Melanie Stewart
- California Arts Council grants workshop, Berkeley Reparatory Theater, Berkeley
NEW AWARDS, FUNDRAISERS, AND MAJOR GIFTS
- Macy's West Community Shopping Day with ArtSeed Fairies-making Station by Keith & Sydney Van Bueren, May 15, 2010
- ArtSeed Raffle at Joxer's Daly by Jeff Grubler with dinner by Yolanda Garcia, July 11, 2010
- California Arts Council Artists in Schools Program (fourth year), Second year to receive highest possible points and invited to apply for a 2- year grant next year.
- Matching Grant from Sherman Elementary PTA
- Philanthropic Ventures Foundation Affinity, Fund Summer Intensive scholarships for Christine Le
- Perforce Foundation, gift in honor of employee Hamish Reid
- Sustainable Arts Foundation, Tony and Caroline Grant major gifts
- ArtSeed Art Jam, 111 Minna Street, an evening of finger painting, henna and raffle organized by Julie Cowley
PARTNERSHIPS AND OUTREACH
- Unitarian Universalist Society & The Faithful Fools, Summer Arts Project
- Burnett Child Development Center seventh year of programming, fifth year that ArtSeed Apprenticeship Program has a dedicated art studio. Pre-K classroom teachers Lupe Navarro and Nancy Boyle
- Sherman Elementary School, fifth year that ArtSeed has had a dedicated art studio for teaching artist Marissa Kunz
- Thoreau Center Macy's Fundraising tables & exhibitions in Gallery Thoreau
- ArtSeed Internships: Haas Center for Public Service, Stanford University (Reyna Kontos); Japanese Community Youth Council (Idanna Zharzhauskaya and Anton Belov)
- NTM Support Group started for consultants to Health & Healing art project organized by Josefa Vaughan
- Marissa Kunz, ArtCrit Parties
- Marissa Kunz and Josefa Vaughan, Sherman Elementary Carnival Face Painting
- Arts Providers Alliance of San Francisco
ART-A-THON COMMITTEE/LEAD ARTISTS (with individual redeemed pledge totals):
Coordinators-Marissa Kunz & Peter Mann $5,626.31; Luned Palmer& Brett Engard $901; Julia Doctoroff $595; Kevin Quan $515; Esther Rogers $460; Josefa Vaughan $460; Meegan Barnes $460; Jana Cook: $375; Alexandra, Bastias:$331; Kerrie Paussa: $320; Manon Bogerd-Wada: $245; Sydney Van Bueren: $230; Sue Laurita: $220; Vincent Kukua $130; John Scheib: $125; Cheyenne Kelsey: $100; Matt Boris: $100 - GRAND TOTAL: $12,214.81
TESTIMONY:
I got the idea of doing something with Sasha Kharag when I heard him articulate the idea that an artist's relationship with what has come before must play a notable role in what that artist thinks and makes. Having dealt with historical matters during my teaching years at the San Francisco Art Institute, a place where fresh ideas are everyday matters, I proposed to Sasha that we do something that could combine a search for what he questioned, allied with my own interest in the subject and experience in explaining it. It was his idea that a PowerPoint presentation might be a good final result of our collective investigations. This old/new proposition seemed to be a particularly interesting launching point when combined with his Russian parentage. Our primary motto came from the Soviet artist Varvara Stepanova: "Study the old, but make the new." We took the innovative Russian-born composer Igor Stravinsky as a key figure with whom to begin. We listened to excerpts of his three early ballets, Firebird, Petrouchka, and The Rite of Spring, observed the influence of Russian folk culture and music on both the stories and music of these works, looked at a video in which Stravinsky explained the origin of The Rite, saw a live performance of Petrouchka with the original choreography, and finally, heard a live performance of The Rite of Spring. After this latter, we went backstage to greet Michael Tilson Thomas, who conducted the work and to collect his autograph on Sasha's program. We made a tour of public art in San Francisco's downtown during which we encountered the concept of site-specific works through sculptures by Richard Serra and Claes Oldenbueg/Koosje van Bruggen. We inspected a small building by Frank Lloyd Wright that was a prototype for his later, much larger Guggenheim Museum in New York. We saw kinetic sculpture by George Rickey along with conceptually conceived work by Sol LeWitt. What we observed about all of these art pieces fed in directly to what we produced some months down the line. I prepared an outline of ideas: Many ways Stepanova's dictum had been realized over time, specifically, how memory plays a role in the conception of art, how commemoration of things past has been accomplished in a variety of media (painting, music, literature, and architecture, among them), and how artists (LeCorbusier, Picasso, and Palladio, to name but three) took aspects both of their own heritages as well as aspects of exotic cultures to make powerful, fresh statements. The idea, for example, that van Gogh copied a woodcut of Hiroshigi was a stunning revelation, as was the idea that LeCorbusier's chapel at Ronchamp, wildly modern in its execution, retained important aspects of churches from Renaissance and Gothic times. The idea of studying the old but making the new — sometimes the radically new — is something that was stressed over and over in what we ended up making together. Sasha has considerable skill in the technical aspects of PowerPoint-making. We spent many hours together gathering images from the Internet and elsewhere, and I prepared a text that we read as a dialog. The whole presentation took forty-five minutes and was, obviously, by no means any sort of five-minute high school oral report. Our public presentation of this finished collaboration took place seven days before Sasha turned fourteen. It was a treat working with this fine young colleague.
— Charles Boone, Composer and ArtSeed Apprenticeship Mentor
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