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Home My WebLink AboutMINUTES - 04161991 - S.4 TO BOARD OF SUPERVISORS S .1 Contra FROMSunne Wright McPeak Costa J l DATE : _ County 16, 1991 w SUBJECT; Request Recognition Day for California Arts Scholars SPECIFIC REQUEST(S) OR RECOMMENDAT1ONjS) & BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION RECOMMENDATION: Request the County Administrator' s Office to coordinate a "Recognition Day" for eight young artists selected by the California State Summer School for the Arts to be California Arts Scholars. BACKGROUND- See attached letter. CONTINUED ON ATTACHMENT: VES SIGNATURE: RECOMMENDATION OF COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD COMMITTEE APPROVE . OTHER SIGNATURE[S): ACTION OF BOARD ON April 16, 1991 APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED X OTHER VOTE OF SUPERVISORS _ 1 HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS IS A TRUE X UNANIMOUS(ABSENT AND CORRECT COPY OF AN ACTION TAKEN AYES: NOES: AND ENTERED ON THE MINUTES OF THE BOARD ABSENT: ABSTAIN: OF SUPERVISORS ON THE DATE SHOWN. CC: County Administrator ATTESTED -44A4,Z, /G 1991 PHIL BATCHELOR,CLERK OF THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS AND COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR M382 (10/88) BY -,DEPUTY RECEIVED APR — 9 W April 8, 1991 Ans'd............ • The Honorable Sunne McPeak c/o Karen Mitchoff 2301 Stanwell Drive Concord, CA 94520 Dear Supervisor McPeak: I am writing to you to ask for your participation in a special program to honor Contra Costa's most talented high school artists. After extensive screening and testing, The California State Summer for Arts has selected 8 young artists, including those on the waiting list, to be California Arts Scholars. These students, along with young artists throughout the state, will 'participate in the four-week summer school program, which will provide them with intensive classes by professionals in the fields of art, drama, music, dance, creative writing, film and video. Since the program was created by the Legislature in 1985, each county has held a "Recognition Day," on or around May 17, for the students who were .chosen to be California Arts Scholars. In most counties this event is held by the California Arts Councils' State/Local Partners. Unfortunately, Contra .Costa County is one of the few counties without such a State/Local Partner. In the past Contra Costa's various art organizations have held the recognition events, but this year none of the art organizations are able to hold the event for various reasons. We are writing to see if you would hold the recognition day event to honor the students chosen from your county. Although The California State Summer School for the Arts is partially funded by the State, the recognition day program receives a generous grant from EI Paso Natural Gas Company. The grant provided for Contra Costa's event will be $1 ,000. The grant can be used for any event-related expenses, such as notifying the press, inviting VIPs, printing the local insert pages for the student invitations, hiring a caterer and/or photographer, etc. Commemorative medallions for each California Arts Scholar and invitations to the event will also be provide. 2012 H STREET.RM.701 SACRAMFNiO.CA 95814 (916)145-8919 FAX(916)327-4006 We understand that you and your staff are busy and might not have the time to organize an extensive event. If that is the case, the event could be as simple as presenting the medallions to the young artists during a Board of Supervisors meeting, hiring a photographer, printing a. local insert for the invitations and mailing the invitations provided with the grant monies. Due to the fact that the students are still in the process of being notified, we can only provide you at this time with the number of students chosen from the county and where they are from. The eight students are from the cities of Oakly, Martinez, Moraga, Richmond and San Ramon. We will be able to provide you with their names by mid-April. No other elected official or Board of Supervisors has been asked to host the event this year because in every other county the State/Local partners or an art organization is hosting the ceremony. Please let us know as soon as possible whether you would be interested in holding such an event. If you are not able to, perhaps you could assist us in activating an art organization to hold the event. It would be a shame if Contra Costa's arts scholars go unrecognized this year. I have enclosed more information about the program, including an excellent 15 minute video about the summer school. If your need more information or have any questions, please call me at (916) 456-8394. Sincerely, Jennifer' West CSSSA 4; 'Part V/Saturday, August 6, 1988 MARIANNA DIAM .IH .... ..5. '�io ..: _. . .. .........:......a... 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''1: .:S. `�.g TM.1 5 Tric Rain ruber let and Sean Stencil learn about film .video, above.At right,Loretta Livingston teaches class in modern dance. ra-lentedImpro v Skill Get Chance to e s iecond Season of Statewide Summer Schools forArts Ends Today at Loyola Marymount 3y TAMMY SIMS ranks third in terms of the econo- tet that helped his fellow school- area that they're interested in and my of California and there was'a 'mate and vocalist, Maggie Gergg, what the teacher does is make you need to ensure the perpetuity of get into the program. do things that you're not good at, t'"s if you had walked onto .that industry." "They give you so much freedom that will scare you," said Matt ,the set of the TV series This year,about 600 young peo- • and the amazing thing is no Monahan of Los Olivos, another ';Fame." Young, aspiring vo- ple applied from 1,028 California one takes it for granted, Gergg visual artist. ajigts, some with purple hair and school districts and other private i said."It's like the world is competi- ose. rings, are singing African secondary schools. Mitzie Cox,a 15-year-old dancer habits'in the halls. Sweat-ridden Applicants are required to sub- tive and we can have our own little from Quincy in Northern Califor- anSers are leaping in front of mit samples of their work—either separate corner ,where we can nia, said the school taught her the d frors. Cafeteria tables are through portfolios or auditions— perfect our talents." most important aspect of making it taeked in the water fountain like and teacher recommendations. Robert Mersola, a second-year in the entertainment business:how raptures.Classical music hums in They must be high school students theater student from Redondo Un- to get an agent. "It's the best part. ie.background. oraduatin from high school ion High, said, "In the theater All the while, for a select group immediately preceding the summer department we don't have any They give you contacts,"she said. f: California students, intensive school session. performances because that's not 10ses—in art, drama, .music, In the one-month session, stu- what we're concentrating on. It's an6e, creative writing and film dents are encouraged to expand all technique. We have no end id video—have been in full swing their talents and explore new ones result except self-growth." vQ to six hours a day, six days a by a faculty of 75 professional Carrie Paff, a would-be actress eik artists and arts educators, which from San Luis-Obispo High, said, ;`You can't even describe what this summer included novelist "It's just so wonderful. We learn a 's dike here. It's like a different Todd Walton,soprano Evelyn de la lot of specifics about establishing 3r munity," said 16-year-old Va- Rosa, modern dancer.Loretta Liv- objectives and motivations. . .but rie-Chang of Palos Verdes High ingston and violinist Mischa Lef- a lot of it is just more of a general chabl;a visual artist at the second kowitz. thing. I feel so confident. The inual California State Summer teachers are so inspiring." chpol for the Arts, held this year Guest lecturers included "L.A. Second-year visual artist- :1 oyola Marymount University. Law" producer Steven Bochco, turned-sculptor Jimmy Raskin said I don't want tp go home!" composer William Goldstein and he gained a whole new perspective Clang, along with 324 other actors Edward Olmos and Charles from this year's program. "I had Haid. these expectations of what kind of elected teen-agers,has spent four . "What makes this school unusu- art I was oin to be doingand that ek ,es. improving her talents at .al, unique and important in the wasn't really beneficil to my aliFornia's only joint publicly and state is that it's the first time in the evolvement of art," he said. "So I ridately sponsored arts training history of the California education- went off and did a sculpture out of ro&ram for high school students, al system that'someone has said to bamboo which is something I prob- ,hich wraps up today. kids with artistic talent,'If you cut ably never would have done. . . . :( eated by the state Legislature the mustard, you can get the They encourage that." i 1985,the program's stated intent training,'"said Robert Jaffe,depu- Raskin's colorful African bam- r-0 provide artistically gifted_'ty director of the summer school. boo and wooden sculptures were >en-agers,with "intensive pre- "Here the atmosphere is so in- the talk of the students as they rofescredible,coming from a small town, walked through the campus gal- nces.Tonal training and exabou like me,"said Isak Goldschneider,a nces." It costs the state about f16- ear-old composer from Neva- 'lery. 900,000, and that amount y p "I think a lot of what this school's oda City near Sacramento.."Maybe. ,about is everyone has their own patched by donations from corpo it's because we're all outcasts back ations,foundations,the entertain- 'at school, but when you get 400 nent industry and other private really weird people together and )usinesses. put them in their owa element,it's Joan Newberg, executive direc- exciting. But unlike."Fame,'".he or of the foundation that runs the. added, referring to the movie.and ;ummer school, believes the pri- 'TV aeries based on the New York nary rationale for the state's back- i School of Performing Arts, "the ng of the program was that "the:emphasis here is not on competition Prts and entertainment industry but on cooperation." Goldschneider, a classical/mini malist pianist,wrote a string quin-