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[Dan Cefalo <cefalobuilt AT gmail.com>]

To All and my apologies to Peter,

Although Peter could not make the meeting, Jeff and I received his contribution to committee suggestions.  

Peter says it best:

 "We don’t do as much right now around encouraging people to actively participate in creative activity (other than the community clay studio, which is a great thing). I think we ought to do more with that.

 

Along those lines, one reason that I think people don’t participate as actively in art is that there’s pressure for people, even for kids, to spend their time doing the things that are going to be useful to them for college or for their work lives. There’s so much focus out there on math, science, and technology, that people who are more naturally inclined towards artistic or creative fields may not ever see what types of opportunities exist for study or careers in the arts. I think showing people that being involved in artistic activities can help you academically or professionally (i.e. that it’s not a waste of time) could only help encourage people to participate.  Based on that, I’d be interested in pulling together a group of people who do actually work “in the arts” and getting them to talk about what they do, how they got there, and how their arts backgrounds relate to what they do now (as an example, a friend of mine was trained as a painter at SCAD and now works as a video game graphics designer for a major game company – I think of him as working in the arts). I’ve been trying to think about how this would be presented, format-wise. I’m still tossing that around, but have recently thought that it might work best as a short, 5-10 min, web video (think an extended advertisement for careers in the arts) that could be posted online and offered to art teachers in the school system as something they might show their classes. Just looking for a simple way to remind people, especially kids, that there are lots of ways to get value out of the time they spend making art."

I would love to get feedback on what all of you see this as in the form of a committee or an action.  This may even end up as an addition to our Art Plan,  Please comment

Thanks

 DAN CEFALO

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On Oct 10, 2014, at 1:32 PM, Jeff York <jyork AT townofchapelhill.org> wrote:

Dan,  what about Peter’s suggestion?   jy

 

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From: Dan Cefalo [mailto:cefalobuilt AT gmail.com] 
Sent: Friday, October 10, 2014 1:18 PM
To: Steve Wright; Jeff York
Cc: chpac-staff AT lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [Chpac-staff] CHPAC mtg. followup

 

Steve, Jeff, Commissioners,

 

 

Committees / Initiatives:

Executive – Dan, Lisa

Artist-in-Residence – Kat, Andrea, Peter, Lisa

Community Art Project – Kat, Mandey, Andrea

Drama / Performing Arts– Kat

Exhibitions / Sculpture Visions – Mandey, Dan, Peter

Permanent Collection – Emily

Festifall – Kelly

   Marketing - Kelly, Mandey

Downtown Arts & Entertainment – Andrea, Kat, Kelly, Emily, Mandey

 

Items in Red are from my notes during the meeting.

 

The categories of Festifall, Permanent Collections, and Drama need more support.  Please take the time to let us know if you want on those committees or if you feel that you have too much on your plate, you can remove yourself from other groups  All committees are most productive with a minimum of three members.

 

DAN CEFALO
Certified General Contractor
Building Consultant
Development Consultant

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Email-   cefalobuilt AT gmail.com

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On Oct 10, 2014, at 11:37 AM, Steve Wright <swright AT townofchapelhill.org> wrote:

Dear CHPAC,

 

Please find via the following link the draft Action Report for this past Wednesday’s Commission meeting:

http://www.townofchapelhill.org/Modules/ShowDocument.aspx?documentid=24722

 

As requested by Dan, also please find attached to this email two PDFs showing the Town’s permanent outdoor collection.  Each page is a static shot from our Filemaker database.  The PDF “art_outdoors_maint_needed.pdf” lists pieces needing attention, sorted so that those needing attention “ASAP” are first, then “TBD” (by staff and committee), and then “as time/$ permits”.   The Permanent Collection committee will meet soon to discuss this in more detail and make recommendations.  The second PDF “art_outdoors_no_maint_needed.pdf” shows pieces that do not currently need care.  There are 72 pieces in the Town’s outdoor collection.

 

Regarding committees and other possible initiatives, below I have listed my understanding of Commissioner’s interests in these as expressed on Wednesday.  If any of this is inaccurate or you wish to change your assignment(s) as listed below, please let me know.

 

Committees / Initiatives:

Executive – Dan, Lisa

Artist-in-Residence – Kat, Andrea, Peter

Community Art Project – Kat, Mandey, Andrea

Drama – Kat

Exhibitions / Sculpture Visions – Mandey, Dan, Peter

Permanent Collection – Emily

Festifall – Kelly

Downtown Arts & Entertainment – Andrea, Kat, Kelly, Emily, Mandey

 

Thank you,

 

Steve

 

 

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Steve Wright Public Art Coordinator Cultural Arts Division Town of Chapel Hill 200 Plant Road Chapel Hill, NC 27514 swright AT townofchapelhill.org www.chapelhillarts.org Public Arts on Facebook Office: (919) 968-2749 Fax: (919) 932-2923

 

 

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