11/13/11

These notes will be sent to Architecture and Town Planning as part of a bid for an official Arts and Culture space in the park. Please send your suggestions for additions/ amendments to ows-arts-and-culture-spaces@googlegroups.com by end of week

Problems:

• No information center for A+C
• Fragmentation w/in group b/c of need to go offsite for art-making
• Difficult to communicate between A+C and rest of movement
• Other WG’s do not know how to contact us with requests for signage
• No designated art space
• No room for collective art-making
• Artists’ attempts to perform have been met with hostility due to perceived “misuse” of mic check. A designated performance/ exhibition space would clear up this confusion.
• No longer a place in park for art/ sign making
• Lack of art on display/ being made in park
• Art brings joy to the daily life of occupiers
• Theft/ loss of materials
• Art supplies have been stolen from park—need a permanent spaced that can be manned.
• Supplies currently kept at library but it is not known throughout movement that these supplies are available for everyone
• Currently one member is holding all GA-funded art supplies as there is no where else to keep them. Would prefer for them to be more centrally-accessible
• Using library as A+C drop-off point, but artwork has been accidentally mishandled and misplaced by Library

Solutions:

• Info desk
• Mailing list sign-up sheet
• Sign/ banner request spreadsheet
• Events calendar (cross-discipline)
• A+C general/ guild/ affinity group meeting days/ times
• Performances
• Concerts
• Regular sign-painting days
• Art actions
• City-wide art exhibitions
• Tent for storage/ sleeping
• Mobile exhibition walls for pop-up exhibitions

Needs:

• Tent
• Desk
• 20x20ft of space
• Volunteers from w/in A+C to man tent 24/7