Process minutes: 2014-09-09

Agenda:

Meeting to discuss ART and SKILLS AND THRILLS 2014
9/5/2014
6 to 7pm, unit 18
Present: Gail, Becky G, Megan, Jillian

At the community meeting last week, Create more outdoor art was the 2014
Skills and Thrills topic with the most "dots".
The 2nd runner up was CPR and First Aid training.
The 3rd runner up was interpersonal communication. (the 2nd and 3rd were
quite close)

Tonight we spent a while brainstorming ideas -
- what were projects that appealed to us
- what are good locations for art around campus
- what could be worked on by a large number of people
- what could be worked on in November given the temps outside
- if we should split it into two and have some of it done in a warmer season

Our conclusions (more details of what we discussed are at the end of the
minutes):

Our favorite idea is a large street painting, like they've done in
intersections in Portland, OR and St Paul, MN and other places (google
images of portland street painting.) There are how-to documents online,
about how to this in a way that lasts, and cost estimates too, and what
temperature is too cool for the paint to stick well, and about using a
non-skid coating over the paint. Choose one of the two spots where the two
parking lot entrances meet the main pedway.

The street painting itself needs to be done in warm weather, like June, so
we thought for the Nov 2014 Skills and Thrills, we could do a half-day of
planning/design for the street painting, as well as some small craft such
as, small twisted strips of metal that everyone could paint, and hang on
fishing line and each person could hang it in a tree or somewhere on
campus. AND, a half day of Red Cross CPR training, maybe one event on Sat
and one on Sun.

Then the Skills and Thrills 2015 could be, the mural painting! Or part of
the 2015 Skills and Thrills hours anyway.

MONKEYS:
- Becky will look in to the idea of twisted metal strips, if there are ways
to paint/decorate them. She will also check in with her friend with a 3D
metal butterfly pattern.
- Megan will ask people at the Y about CPR/First Aid training, potentially
for the afternoon of Sunday Nov 9.
- Megan will contact her mural painting friend, Mary Theifels, who helped
us before, to see what she thinks about this project - might she be able to
lead us through a design process?
- Jillian or someone else from Process will ask for agenda time at next
week's community meeting, to give a 5 minute info item and see what the
reaction is to potentially taking some of the 2015 skills and thrills time
for this plan. Or if agenda is full maybe just an announcement for people
to contact Process cmtee if concerns.
- Jillian will email grounds and ask how many years until the next pavement
resealing happens

Minutes:

Below is the flow of comments and ideas:

A large thing has a big impact, I like the idea of a big painting on the
ground.

Pergola might be too hard- it is logistically challenging, plowing for
example.

Portland's pavement painted art is gorgeous.

Ends of the garages could use some art - or maybe even a GO sign?
Becky saw an image of quilts painted on barns.

Paint hot boxes - Megan says her friend who helped with the Mural - Mary
Theifels - Tree Town Murals.

Idea, a colorful compass, each direction could have different things. Or a
globe with critters coming in and around in all directions, maybe little
critters could be painted all around GO pedway too!

Idea of living willow sculpture.

Outdoor sculpture garden that Becky visited in Wisconsin. Its in the woods.
Wooden crates with rocks where people are encouraged to make sculptures and
periodically they collect the rocks and put back in the crates and start
over.

Metal cattail and fish sculpture

Metal shapes that could be painted and hung from trees all around, hung on
fishing line.

The question will come up about resealing the pavement - is that cracks and
problem areas or the whole thing. How often does pavement get resealed?
(that might make people happy to know it won't be forever.)

How often do garages get restained?

what is the paint like, might need to wear masks.

Planter or something physical that is in front of everyone's unit.

Contest - art in front yards to encourage more art.

serpent that winds along all the cracks - a long thin thing that could go
by everyone's.

long vine with spirally leaves and animals hidden in it, households could
talk about what animal they wanted. I don't think we could do that all at
once.

like the idea of a central circle with a theme and then small critters
spread around the community.

bottlecap art and bottle corks.

I do like the idea of a big sculpture somewhere.
If we can figure out what we want, it could be made at Maker Works - they
have the plasma cutter and the tools. Next summer project. Greenhills
School has a sculpture outside their auditorium that is a metal tree
(aluminium?) it had leaves and each leaf had something written on them.

we'd need time and space to collect objects like bottlecaps etc. We need
someone with knowledge.

Get some basic benches and let people decorate them. Gail - we went to the
Smith College museum and they had artists design the benches in the
gallery. Paint them?

We need to figure out what is possible.

Becky will research her friend with the 3-D butterflies, as a little thing
people could do and hang outside.

What are the weather and materials needed for street painting and how much
they cost?

When is the pavement resealed? Maybe we still have 5 years? MONKEY: Jillian
will ask grounds.

http://www.paintthepavement.org/

What if we did CPR and a 4 hour workshop design plan.
Interpersonal communication and art - work together in certain ways and
come out with design themes. Be part of the inspiration for what we do.

Plan a design workshop and a small project. Fingerpaint mockups! what are
themes important to you. Painting twisted metal strips.

Makerworks often ends up with random scraps leftover from projects that are
pretty!

Fingerpaint our individual visions - art stations - collage.

3 to 4 hours plus food. Remember Diwali - maybe we could do lights in the
evening - get rice paper on the glass candle holders, and you collage it
and light the candles - lovely and so easy to make. Becky's family
gathering they did.

CPR one day and art the next day. Elisha had said she had a contact about
CPR, Jillian and Megan might also.

order in dinner food.

How about in early June?

Ted could not make it to our meeting but emailed in ideas:

Although I said at the meeting that weather could be an issue for doing
this on the Nov. weekend, we do have the workshop available for things that
could be constructed indoors and then moved to their final location.
However, as we discovered during the open house, it is not really suitable
for a zillion people at once. How many is too many would depend a lot on
what specific activities were happening in there. I suspect somewhere
between 3 and 10 people would be a workable range.

For project possibilities, naturally my thoughts turn to wood & I was
considering things to beautify the campus or hide something ugly. So for
example: east entrance pergola; decorative enhancements to some of the
lighting that's mounted on 4x4s (e.g. the one in Patti's garden); screens
for hot boxes or electrical pillars. There are probably some other things
people can think of. We have tooling to do some fairly sculptural things
with wood, too.

For pavement painting ideas, Portland OR has an ordinance that let's people
paint intersections:

http://cityrepair.org/about/how-to/placemaking/intersectionrepair/

you can google 'portland intersection painting' for lots of photos. Not
sure we could actually paint in Nov but we could do a design charette &
nail down ideas for spring.
Ted
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