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WEST CHICAGO
WHERE HISTORY & PROGRESS MEET
APPROVED W/ONE CORRECTION AT MEETING OF JANUARY 21, 2019
West Chicago Cultural Arts Commission
Thursday, January 3, 2019
West Chicago City Hall — Committee Room B
7:00 p.m.
1. Call meeting to order at 7:05pm: Anni Holm, Sara Phalen, Adriana Sarellana, Buddy Plumlee, Gail
Cannata, Uwe Gsedl, Heidi Kuharich and City Liaison Rosemary Mackey in attendance.
2. Approval of minutes:
a.
b.
G.
June 14, 2018: Adriana made a motion to approve, Buddy seconded, all in favor, passed
November 1, 2018: Adriana made a motion to approve, Buddy seconded, all in favor, passed
December 6, 2018: edit December minutes to state correct date and typo, Gail moved to
approve with corrections, Adriana seconded, all in favor, passed
3. Restoration of Existing Public Art:
a.
two meetings ago it was brought to our attention that the “in this together’ mural has
cracking in the vinyl throughout, Sara, Anni and Rosemary communicated with Signarama
about any possible warranty and found out that there is none, however there was a
manufacturer warranty for up to three years, which we are beyond now
i. Signarama gave two options, one to replace with the materials we used last time,
second one to use a more expensive vinyl that should last twice as long but is more
expensive; need to get a clear answer from Signarama about how long we can
expect all component to last in both options
need to know what maintenance and repairs costs we need to budget for, and build ina
schedule into our master plan and then place requests into the budget requests prior to that
year
i. need to ensure we build maintenance into all public art projects and include that in
the master plan
Forever lilies: discussion if we can restore those and when that decision should be made,
tabled until we know more about the timeline for the status of 200 Main
Going forward: we document restoration needs (restore “in this together” in 2020) and
access restoration needs every August meeting
i. Ask Signarama for quote with variables and understanding of the true “warranty”
ii. Also periodically document the pieces -take pictures to see how quickly it continues
to crack or not
1. Need to assign this to someone
Need to build into the master plan the life cycle of public art (and need to preserve in
archives, but maybe not continually restore)
4. Update on Butterfly Project
a.
b.
We had to go to a different fabricator so now the butterfly % thick which eliminates our
need to reinforce them
Need a fact sheet for recruitment for artists and businesses/locations-Heidi will draft
475 Main Street T (630) 293-2200 Ruben Pineda
West Chicago, Ilinois F (630) 293-3028 =
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i. In favor of providing two options to business locations: get one from a random artist
or purchase a butterfly and decorate it “in house” and keep it
ii. Need to contact businesses and see if they want to “sponsor” their butterfly **do
this first with 29 locations
c. Determining who will “decorate” the butterfly:
d. Will be done priming next week, then artists can pick them up at the gallery and have X
amount of time and then we need deadline for them to be dropped back off and then Buddy
will take back to shop and put the block on them to attach the stake and seal them
i. Backside? Block off the block so people don’t paint there-no just provide diagram
showing them where that will be attached
e. PMV: buy smaller ones from Gallery in February/March
f. Promo with butterfly silhouette (backdrop) pictures at Blooming
g. Kris Zimmerman from the Environmental Commission would like to invite them to be
involved in the project
5. Update on Public Art Master Plan
a. Need to include balance of history and representing the history through the present and
lens of presence , but ensuring it is not “representing” an idealized notion of the past that is
not all encompassing
b. Need to also emphasize the uniqueness of the art we can offer, but also speaking to things
that help us become a destination for art that can speak to a variety of people
c. Locations-key locations to welcome visitors (metra station) and greet residents, Metra
parking lot; high traffic areas
6. Other Business
a. Need to look at revamping CAC mission based on public art master plan
b. Look back at banners in Metra station
c. Juan mural in the metra tunnel
i. Whose schedule is the metra tunnel to fix?
ii. Focus and take ona push to include this as a priority
d. Rescheduling meeting of February 7 to January 31
e. Buddy has a videographer who is interested in helping promo arteculture
f. Push banner art deadline to ensure more submissions -Sara create event on Facebook
7. Public Participation
8. Adjournment 9:31pm