Provincetown Art Commission

 

Minutes for meeting on February 21, ‘03

 

Meeting convened at 3 pm

 

Members present: Georgia Coxe, Steve Borkowski, Diane Shumway, Peggy Prichett, Constance Black

 

Minutes from last meeting not available

 

Treasurers Report

  Peggy passed out a report of money that has been spent.  Report lacks $1,000.00 owed to Stefan Nofield for work on the web pages.  Peggy will ask DPW about money for delivering and bringing back Pepitone sculpture.  At this point we have spent more than our budget especially if we include the cost of the heating cooling system for the new storage facility.  We will probably have to dip into the gift fund (poster money).

 

 

Storage Space Update

Steve reported that floor is finished, bricks have been ordered to fill in the windows, and order for heating cooling unit will be going out probably this week.  The commission decided to wait until this work is done before beginning to move work into room.  Steve will confer with the DPW about getting shelving for work.

 

Conservation Reports

Bob Gambone looked at work on his last visit on weekend of Martin Luther King’s Birthday.  He has sent 20 very complete reports of some of the reviews of work that he has completed.  The commission was very pleased with the reports and feel that they should become part of an ongoing file on each piece.

 

Web Pages

Georgia  has offered to write up some bios of artists for the web page.  However the town has to do the actual entering of the data so she will enquire about whether we will be billed for this work.

 

Bronzes-“The Tourists”

Georgia met with a firm in Orleans that can supply a new base for “The Tourists” to replace the brick which is there.  We need to spend the money we received for insurance before another fiscal year.  Georgia recommended a granite base but first she is going to find out what is underneath the brick and whether we need to build another base first.

 

New Business

The Manor put in a request for some work to hang in their dining room.  It was agreed that the work should be of small value.  One suggestion was to give them a set of the posters.  We deferred a final decision until we can move the work into the storage area

 

Steve has been talking to Chris Busa about an article in the next issue telling about the history to the Art Commission.  Chris would like to give a work by his father, Peter Busa, to the town.

 

The Hollis-Taggert Gallery in New York is having a show of early Provincetown painters and would like to use a black & white photo of “The Crew Of The Philomena Manta” by Hawthorne in their catalog.  Steve feels that the art assoc. may be able to come up with one.

 

Steve will send samples of posters to Posters Plus to see if they will sell them.

 

There will be a table at the YearRounders for the art commission.  We will try to sell some posters and give out info about commission and web page.

 

Meeting with Finance Comm. To pass budget is on Wed. Feb. 26.

 

Next Meeting

Sometime in late March

 

Adjourned  4:20 pm

 

Respectfully submitted:   Constance Black-recording secretary

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                                            connieart@attbi.com