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HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolution 5027 Supporting Moutain Time Arts' Application for a National Endowment of the Arts Grant co. 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. 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. HIA RU Mayor ATTEST: O Z $• - ♦ V • �J'. ROBIN CROU City ClerkbO "LL9TrN co APPROVED AS TO FORM: LLIVAN City Attorney BOZEMAN MT Mayor 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. 0Bozeman, MT 59771-1230 TDD: 406-582-2301 THE MOST LIVABLE PLACE. BOZ E MAN MT Mayor 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, Cyr.L. A nd ru4, Cynthia Andrus, Mayor Bozeman, Montana Rouse121 North P.O. Box 1230 TDD: 406-582-2301 THE MOST LIVABLE PLACE.