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HomeMy WebLinkAbout03-04-19 City Commission Packet Materials - C13. Res. 5027, Supporting Mountain Time Arts GrantCommission Memorandum REPORT TO: Bozeman City Commission FROM: Andrea Surratt, City Manager Cyndy Andrus, Mayor SUBJECT: Resolution 5027, Relating to the Application by Mountain Time Arts for the National Endowment for the Arts MEETING DATE: Monday, March 4, 2019 AGENDA ITEM TYPE: Consent RECOMMENDATION: Adopt Resolution 5027, and authorize the approval of support for Mountain Time Arts application for an NEA grant in the amount of $60,000. SUGGESTED MOTION: I move to adopt Resolution 5027, to approve the request from Mountain Time Arts to apply in partnership with the City of Bozeman for the National Endowment for the Arts grant. BACKGROUND: NEA encourages communities to partner with artists, elevating the value of including the creative sector when developing solutions to significant urban issues. The program supports public art projects that celebrate creativity, enhance urban identity, encourage public- private collaborations, and strengthen local economies. The proposed project is identified as Standby Snow: Chronicles of a Heatwave. It is a place-based opera that will premiere in July 2020 at the new Story Mill Community Park. It is a cooperative project between the Trust for Public Land and the City of Bozeman. FISCAL EFFECTS: The City of Bozeman has no financial obligation to this grant upon it award to Mountain Time Arts. Attachment: Resolution 5027 Letter of Support 192 National Endowment for the Arts February 21, 2019 Art Works Grant Committee 400 7th Street SW Washington, DC 20506-0001 Dear Committee, As Mayor of Bozeman, Montana, I am pleased to support Mountain Time Arts (MTA) application to the NEA for an Art Works grant for their upcoming project, Standby Snow: Chronicles of a Heatwave. Through their work, I have come to appreciate the value of creative placemaking to help our City grapple with our current challenges of explosive growth, resource scarcity and climate change. Standby Snow: Chronicles of a Heatwave is a place-based opera that will premiere in July 2020 at our new Story Mill Community Park, a cooperative project between the Trust for Public Land and the City of Bozeman. Place making has been a core value of the park from its inception and Standby Snow will contribute to that value. We are excited to be activating this new 60-acre park with engaging public art of this high caliber that speaks about Bozeman’s history and environmental concerns. MTA’s participatory public art events are a form that we have seen participants and audiences enthusiastically embrace in Bozeman. MTA’s projects have successfully activated community dialogues about our environment and culture at this time of challenged resources and extreme weather. MTA’s projects consciously reach across boundaries in our urban and rural communities. These artworks create a forum for our community to listen to each other patiently, to see each other deeply, to acknowledge our differences and to care for the place we call home. 193 MTA has cultivated relationships between members of the agriculture community, local politicians from different parties, environmentalists, Indigenous Scholars and community members to conduct research and participate in artworks about our region’s critical environmental issues. MTA has built trust in numerous communities, bringing visibility to under-represented groups and opening important conversations across sectors. The subject of Standby Snow is important to our community, but of equal importance is the way MTA brings diverse groups together with different perspectives to participate in the making of their successful temporal public artworks that are free to the public. MTA has identified exemplary artists from Montana to produce this new multidisciplinary work: Dr. Shane Doyle, writer, Indigenous Scholar, Crow Nation; MJ Williams, composer and recipient of the 2016 Governor’s Arts Award and internationally renowned visual artist, Mary Ellen Strom. Acclaimed opera director Laine Rettmer, originally from Colorado and currently residing in NYC, joins these artists for this anticipated event. Along with the artists, Standby Snow is being made with some outstanding community members from other disciplines including a geologist, fire scientist and historian. MTA’s philosophy of inclusion engages the region’s diverse communities to create, collaborate and participate in its well-attended public art events. We have limited local and state arts funding in Montana and therefore require federal support. I support their efforts and request your consideration in Mountain Time Arts application for grant funding. Respectfully, Cynthia L. Andrus Cynthia Andrus, Mayor Bozeman, Montana 194 RESOLUTION NO. 5027 A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF BOZEMAN, MONTANA, RELATING TO THE APPLICATION BY MOUNTAIN TIME ARTS FOR A GRANT FROM THE NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS. WHEREAS, the Bozeman City Commission is committed to facilitating public art and performance art in the City and the region; and WHEREAS, the Bozeman City Commission is committed to facilitating partnerships in the community, thus positively impacting the economy of the entire region; and WHEREAS, Mountain Time Arts desires to apply for a grant of $60,000 to the National Endowment for the Arts for a place based opera entitled Standby Snow: Chronicles of a Heatwave in Bozeman at the Story Mill community Park; and WHEREAS, the City Commission has determined that the project is going to celebrate creativity, enhance urban identity, encourage public-private collaborations, and strengthen local economies; and WHEREAS, the City of Bozeman oversees the administration of the grant and acknowledges the public-private-nonprofit partnership that will carry out the terms of the grant and provide a better awareness of art and its link to urban identity for future generations; and WHEREAS, the City Commission hereby authorizes Mountain Time Arts to submit application in partnership with the City of Bozeman. 195 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City Commission of the City of Bozeman, Montana, the City agrees to allow Mountain Time Arts to submit an application, and that Mountain Time Arts will manage all aspects of the grant administration as determined by the National Endowment for the Arts. PASSED, ADOPTED, AND APPROVED by the City Commission of the City of Bozeman, Montana, at a regular session thereof held on the 4th day of March, 2019. CYNTHIA L. ANDRUS Mayor ATTEST: ROBIN CROUGH City Clerk APPROVED AS TO FORM: GREG SULLIVAN City Attorney 196