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HomeMy WebLinkAboutJPAC August 11, 2025 J FFER VIII DATE: 8/11/2025 PUBLIC AR _R TIME: 5:30 pm ST CREATING IDEAS LOCATION: Mayor's Conference Room CALL TO ORDER • Chairperson Freeman welcomed everyone to the meeting and called the meeting to order at 5:35 p.m. • The meeting was held in person at Jeffersonville City Hall, 500 Quartermaster Court, Jeffersonville, Indiana 47130. ATTENDEES • Arts Administrator o Kathleen (Kat) Wang • Chairperson o Kimberly Freeman • Commissioners o Noah Aychby o Meredith Clipp-Rodriquez o Jackie Hawkins o Dr. Allison Miller (Zoom) o Donna Reed (Zoom) o Monica Uhl o Perla Zavala (Zoom) • Secretary o Joanna Peyron ABSENT • Amy Semones, Co-Chairperson GUEST ATTENDEE(S) • Andy Crouch, City Engineer OLD BUSINESS • Approve the July 14, 2024, meeting minutes. o Commissioner Hawkins motioned to approve the minutes. o Commissioner Clipp-Rodriquez seconded. o The motion to approve July 14, 2024, meeting minutes passed unanimously. • Roof Update (Administrator Wang) o Redevelopment is funding the new roof. o Administrator Wang will provide an update at our September meeting. • Cultural Pass (Administrator Wang) 1 ,�. CC `� i � JEFFER ONVILL DATE: 8/11/2025 ` PUBLIC ARTa TIME: 5:30 pm ST CREATING IDEAS LOCATION: Mayor's Conference Room O 564 unique kids served to date o Estimate of $4,200 in grant money coming back o Paper report processing is still in process. Based on the outcome, we may be eligible for more grant money. O Last year, we had 460 attendees (including repeat attendees) o Maker13 had over 500 kids who checked in. • New Murals (Administrator Wang) o All is on target o Work on the Maker13 mural has started. • - 98% complete • Social media posts about the mural will drop in a few weeks o Art Center mural is scheduled to start in -2 weeks • OBC artists will paint the initial mural. • Riley Gregor will paint over the mural but will still show pieces/break outs of the OBC artists' work. • Meeting Space for Area Creatives (Administrator Wang) o Commissioner Reed will send Caesars grant application submission information to Administrator Wang • OBC (Odd Bright Colors) graffiti art event (Administrator Wang) o This Friday and Saturday: August 15 - 16 o Facebook post went live o Administrator Wang asked for all to share the post, invite friends and come to the event. • Steamboat Nights (Administrator Wang) o Several artists have been secured to exhibit during the event. • Blacksmith • Caricature artist • Watercolor artist • Potter • Calligrapher • Marble paper artist o We're paying the artists as commissioned artists to demonstrate their work, and they have the choice to sell merchandise if they want. o Two muralists will complete murals then will "sabotage" the other's work. o The event time is 6 p.m. to 11 p.m. • The main activities will run from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. 2 JEFFER NVILLE DATE: 8/11/2025 PUBLIC AR ,, . TIME: 5:30 pm ST. . CREATING IDEAS LOCATION: Mayor's Conference Room • Everything will shut down by 10 p.m. to focus attendance at the music stage o Update on Poster: • Monica Melendez is the designer. • Once the draft designs are in (expected by the end of the week), Administrator Wang will share with group via email. NEW BUSINESS • New Mural for Local Business: Peyton's Barricade and Sign Co (Administrator Wang) o 814 Spring St, Jeffersonville, IN 47130 o Damon Thompson will create and paint the mural o The mural will be tulips with bees flying in the direction of Damon's other mural, daffodils on the IMPCO Building in memory of his mother. o Half of the project will be paid through a facade grant available through Redevelopment/City of Jeff and the other half by Jeffersonville Public Art. • New Mural for the Front of the Art Center (Administrator Wang) o The group discussed a mural for the front of the building and down the side to align with Maker13's facade refresh, o All the Commissioners agree with vetting out costs for this project. o May try to use Chili Rodriguez for the murals — Toledo muralist who is part of OBC. o Insta has bios and examples of all the OBC artists. o Commissioner Hawkins motioned to vote for vetting costs for the mural(s). Commissioner Clipp-Rodriguez seconded the motion. o Votes: • Yes — Co-Chairperson Freeman, Commissioners Aychby, Clipp-Rodriguez, Hawkins, Reed and Uhl • No — none o The motion passed • Change in Plan for Holiday Market (Administrator Wang) o We will be part of the Fright Fair instead (Saturday, October 25) • Fright Fair is usually held on Spring Street but has outgrown space. • The Alcove & Bad Cat Boutique will still lead the marketing and JPA will co-host in NoCo. 3 FFERSONVILLE DATE: 8/11/2025 J BL.IC AR I TIME: 5:30 pm START CREATING IDEAS LOCATION: Mayor's Conference Room • Promotional graphics should be ready at the end of the week. • There will be a band, bar, and food trucks. • The final layout isn't finalized. • There will be a 21+ after party at The Alcove. • Makerl 3 has an in-house coffee roaster who will do small batches specifically for Fright Fair and will have a pop-up at the vendor area and sell coffee, etc. • Joe Autry will carve a spooky relief on a piece of wood during the event. • 21+ after party at Alcove • Vendor market at Picasso Pointe o Discussion and ideation about how JPA will participate: • Artistic photo stops: Adam (a barista at Pearl Street) is in a theater group which does spooky plays. They have an Audrey 2 plant from Little Shop of Horrors. We'll try to get id so people can walk around and take photos. • We can also see if kids involved with the Jeffersonville High School drama program will come and dress up. • Indiana Tourism Board is looking to bring Stranger Things events to the area and may culminate with the Fright Fair at NoCo. • Maker13 (Commissioner Uhl) is still figuring out details. • May have a build a haunted house vs gingerbread house set-up • As part of the Cultural Pass, they made paper rockets and launched them —will launch witches on broomsticks instead and need an artist to help with design. • Mr. Crouch: Jeff High and other local high schools and colleges have built trebuchets for pumpkin chucks. We could include something like that in the open lawn area. • There could be a scavenger hunt to find pieces of a PVC trebuchet. Groups can work as teams to build and use it to hurl a pumpkin. • We could have the pieces at various vendor locations • We could use a small pumpkin or water balloons filled with paint as the item to chuck. 4 FFERSONVILLE LE DATE: 8/11/2025 IBLIC AR TIME: 5:30 pm START CREATING IDEAS LOCATION: Mayor's Conference Room • Utilize the Duke Energy lawn for the pumpkin launch. Administrator Wang will send a request. • Neighborhood Competition: Decoration contest between neighborhoods. We'd have a list of participating neighborhoods, share with community and ask them to visit each then come to Fright Fair and vote for best decorated. Winning neighborhood would get a prize. We could also or alternatively put pictures of neighborhood decorations on digital screens and/or on social media if people can't go out and see. • Commissioner Aychby: Suggested we create a great pumpkin "story" • We could collaborate with local artists and/or students to author the story, create graphics, record the story and project onto a 3D pumpkin to make it look like it's talking. • Commissioner Aychby built a giant pumpkin for Huber's and can ask if they'll bring it down and sell pumpkins. • It may not be dark enough outside (event is 1 p.m. — 7 p.m.) • There was a suggestion to in Maker13 or the Art Center if it's not too big. • There was a suggestion to commission Commissioner Aychby to make a smaller version for use inside the Art Center. o The pumpkin is durable and made with a skeletal structure, spray foam, and plastic stretched across the structure. o There could be actors added to the scene to make it enhance the experience. o We could start this year and small, then add year over year o There's a potential to incorporate local history into the story • Commissioner Aychby will collaborate with Administrator Wang on project ideas and costs. • Art project for small kids: Play-Doh monsters with googly eyes located at The Depot. Commissioner Zavala offered to 5 FFERSONVILLEIII DATE: 8/11/2025 111 1r 4R t��.7 TIME: 5:30 pm START CREATING IDEAS LOCATION: Mayor's Conference Room lead the activity and will send ideas/needs for supplies to Administrator Wang. • Life-size Clue/Murder Mystery: Stop by vendors to get clues or cut bones out of plywood and put clues on them, hide and find clues to solve mystery — include clues that may throw you off the trial. Potential for next year. o Downtown stores to decorate a pumpkin each, line up and people can vote - help promote businesses o We'll decide at the next meeting what three things we'll move forward with. • Dog Days at Jeffersonville Aquatic Center (Administrator Wang) o We will raffle baskets again this year. o All activities will be in the pool area. o Administrator Wang asked for suggestions of who she can reach out to for item donations to fill the baskets o She would like to have at least 5 dog-themed baskets, minimum, for the raffle with a value of $25-$50 each. o Proceeds go to Jeff Animal Shelter o Cost: First dog is $12 and $5 for each additional dog • Upcoming events (Administrator Wang) o Through October: Art Mobile at the Farmers Market - 2nd & 4th Saturdays • Will have Farmers Market on morning of Fright Fair and will promote it there o OBC (Odd Bright Colors) Art Show I • Pearl Street meet the artist Thursday until 6 • Art Show: August 15 & 16 (7 p.m. - 10 p.m.) o August 27: 4th Friday Event • The artist will teach needle felting • See Facebook Event for details and share with your connections. • Arts after Hours • 5:30 - 8:30 p.m. o September 3 - 5: Chamber Theater production: The Trojan Woman but adapted for Harlan Kentucky Little Coal Wars of the 1930's o September 6: Dog Days at Jeffersonville Aquatic Center (10 a.m. -2 p.m.) o September (TBD): Cool Mountain play o October 3 - 4: Steamboat Nights 6 1 JEFFERSONVILLE DATE: 8/11/2025 TIME: 5:30 pm START CREATING IDEAS LOCATION: Mayor's Conference Room o October 25: Fright Fest COMMISSIONER COMMENTS • Chairperson Freeman: Dog night at the Jammin in Jeff concert was fun. • Commissioner Clipp-Rodriquez: Looking forward to all the fun fall events. • Commissioner Hawkins: Helped at two of the Riverstage events and said it was fun; Everyone loved Moana cultural night. • Commissioner Uhl: Asked about the need for volunteers for this weekend's events. Administrator Wang welcomed any who wanted to help. ADJOURNMENT • Commissioner Hawkins motioned to adjourn the meeting. o Commissioner Uhl seconded. o The motion to adjourn the meeting passed unanimously. • The meeting adjourned at 6:50 p.m. tIC • JPAC Secretary: DATE: • JPAC Chairperson: DATE: 7