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Orange County Arts Commission April 8, 2024, Minutes Attendees: John Claude Bemis, Linda Williamson, Sec, Crystal Wu, Chair, Marc Miller, Katie Murray, Gideon Young, Wendy Smith, Josh Rosenstein, Denise Duffy, Vice chair, Heather Washburn Absent: Lindsay Metivier, Sadie Allen, Saba Jordan Meeting Location:The Eno Arts Mill 1. Call to Order at 6:32pm by Crystal, Chair. 2. Josh moved with to approve the March 2024 Board Minutes with corrections reviewed at the April meeting and Crystal seconded. All approved. 3. Board updates a. Welcome Heather Washburn! Heather was approved at the last BOCC. Heather is our new liaison with Orange County Artist Guild. She invited us all to the Calico Market that will be going on 4/27—4/28, 10-5pm 28 artists and 4 musical acts. b. Board Updates: i. Discussed Alexa Velez's application for our board. John made a motion to approve Alexa to go before the BOCC for approval. Denise seconded. All approved. ii. Katie reported that she has not heard back from Savada Gilmore yet. Hopefully we will, but board agreed with Katie to move forward on looking for other candidates with arts education background. She has a lead on an Orange County arts teacher. Denise recommended another teacher at McDougal. c. Executive Roles i. Crystal Wu, Chair ii. Linda Williamson, Secretary iii. Vice-Chair—Denise has agreed to serve as vice-chair. Gideon nominated Denise and Josh seconded.All approved. 4. Director's Report a. FY25 Budget Update—budget time with the County. Katie's meeting with the County Manager for her department was on April 3rd and went very well. It will still be a couple of weeks more before Katie learns if her requests are included in the recommended county budget. b. Eno Mill i. Current show in the gallery is awesome—132 pieces of art. Please check it out. ii. Studio Updates-two studios open, but also have 2 applicants so should be good. iii. There will be a kickoff Juneteenth event at the Eno Mill on 6/14/2024 from 4-8pm.The interim director of the Office of Equity and Inclusion and Katie met to firm up how we can host and provide support to that team for the event. Excited to a part of this event. iv. Studio Be—got a grant, but slow to get work started. Katie and team have funding to pay for two facilitators for two different marginalized youth programs.We have one person lined up, but still looking for another person.The person's specialty would help determine the focus the work. Katie asked the board if we have any leads on who a second facilitator could be.Two ideas were presented during the discussion. c. Arts Day 2024—Katie asked all board members to attend the event, if possible,on May 21 and May 22. The first day is an informative conference on various arts topics and the second day is meeting with legislators. d. Rebranding Idea—Katie presented an approach that had one brand for use by both the Arts Commission and the Arts Alliance.The board like the idea of branding our work behind the existing name Arts Orange and sharing that brand between the Commission and Alliance. i. Wendy made a the following motion after our discussion: "Katie should focus the rebranding efforts on a forward facing unified brand that represents both entities (Arts Commission and Arts Alliance) under the tag of Arts Orange." Gideon seconded.