Annual Report Outline

HOUSECALLS (people)

Volunteers- and consultants – Behind-the-scenes chain of mentorships:

• Richard Mitchell, volunteer, sets up ArtSeed’s mailing list database, 8/19/02
• Joy Mukai, office management volunteer, enters ArtSeed’s mailing list data, 9/02
• Carolina Humphrys, Catherine Bunn and Marissa Kunz develop brochure design; Clay Murphy designs business cards and postcards, 9/22/02- 2/28/03
• Laura Kamian and Cris Larson, CPA, draft our first projected annual budget, 12/02
• Tamara Wolfson, healing and culinary arts resource, 3/03
• Tamera White drafts a press release for The LAB Shebang, 1/22/03
• Volunteer Orientations, 9/4/02, 9/16/02, 9/22/02, 9/25/02, 4/14/03, 7/31/03
• Jeffrey J Chang & Associates pro-bono non profit incorporation by Jeffrey T. Chow, Esq. and Victoria Tseng, Esq., 3/02-7/03
• Marissa Kunz assists the Children’s Mural Program exhibition reception & telephones Bayview-Hunters Point parents to remind them to come, 4/18/03
• Haidar Alssaqaf, bookkeeping, Michael Dovbish, business management, 7/03
• Jennifer Cheek, guest artist consultant, Presidio Middle School, documentary photo presentation on children in Haiti and Cambodia, 7/23/03

Private lessons, pilot apprenticeships, internships, auditions:

• William Scott begins apprenticeship w/ JV, 9/6/02
• Lori Kossowsky begins coaching sessions w/ JV, 11/2/02
• Dana Olney-Bell begins private lessons w/ JV, 12/26/02 and auditions for School of the Arts, San Francisco, Winter 2003
• Leland Wolfson begins private lessons w/ JV, 4/15/03
• Troy Byker, assistant, Alden Jenks LAB piece, Conservatory of Music, 3/03-5/03
• Nathan Murray intern, Chinese American International School, 9/02-6/03
• Christine Rice, Glide Office Support Skills Internship, 7/9/03
• Steven Chin, assisting artist, Richmond District YMCA Art Mondays 7/23/03-8/11/03
• Lisa Fox graphic design intern, Volunteer Match, 7/29/03
• Emily Hughes, photography intern, San Francisco State University, 2/03
• Rocio Avila, Yanina Aparicio, marketing interns, SF State University, 2/03, 
• Bonnie Kirkland begins work/study internship, Richmond District YMCA, 7/5/03

Field Trips:

• Arts interventions gathering mark making from people in all walks of life for Coloring Sounds  & Postcards to People in Power, (city wide, tri-coastal and year-round)
• Castro Street Fair - ArtSeed volunteers on behalf of Visual Aid, MK, 10/6/02
• Mills College, Charles Shere talk, “Why I read Gertrude Stein,” MK, LK, JV, 11/24/02
• Creativity Explored & Creative Growth, JV, W. Scott, L. Kamian, D. Scarritt
• Beach Chalet, ArtSeed Holiday Thank You Lunch, 12/20/02
• Lydia and Martin Titcomb’s Pacific Heights Home, 2/9/03
• San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Fall 2002, Spring, Summer 2003
• Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Fall 2002, Spring, Summer 2003
• Palace of the Legion of Honor, Fall 2002, Spring, Summer 2003
• Asian Art Museum, inauguration of education programs, 7/1/03
• Hunters Point Open Studios, Oct. 26th & 27th 2002, May 3rd & 4th 2003
• Photography Center, Harvey Milk Recreational Arts Building, 7/25/03
• Temescal Lake, open air painting class, JV teaching, 7/26/03
• Zeum, Rooftop Youth Arts Fair, ArtSeed “Creativity Fitness Station,” 8/30/03

SHEBANGS (events)

ArtSeed Exhibitions, Workshops, Awards and Public Outreach:

• Internship Fair, San Francisco Art Institute, Marissa Kunz, 8/02
• Merry Wives of Windsor, Stern Grove Opera, intermission continuation drawing station for audience members, JV, 8/4/02
• Zen Ink Drawings with a Figurative Twist, Studio One Gallery, 10/02-11/02, JV class
• Painters’ / Composers’ Pow Wow, The LAB, 9/18/02 & 9/23/02
• Lydia Titcomb’s Shebang (First Board Development Event), 2/9/03
• Hunters Point Open Studios Interactive Installation, 10/26 & 27 / 2002, 5/3 & 4 / 2003
• Postcards to People in Power, Peace March, San Francisco, (marching, collecting, and mailing postcards)  Claire Bane, William Scott & Josefa Vaughan, 2/16/03
• Individual Artists Commissions (IAC) SFArts Commission Cultural Equity grant, JV
• Coloring Sounds: Songlines for Seibert’s Pipes, Josefa Vaughan exhibition at The LAB benefiting and showcasing aspects of ArtSeed, 3/28/03-4/26/03
• From Hand to Hand, panel discussion with David Hegarty, Raymond Holbert, Richard Felciano, Jeanne Foss, Charles Shere & Meredith Tromble, The LAB, 4/3/03
• Flash! performances by William Klinglehoffer, Laetitia Sonami, Kinji Hayashi, Charles Boone, Chris Burns, Beau Casey, Alden Jenks & Artseed youth, The LAB, 4/10/03
• Josefa Vaughan talk in Pamela Blotner’s class, University of San Francisco, 4/2/03
• Exhibition walk-through talk for Pamela Blotner’s class, The LAB 4/8/02, JV
• Malcom X Academy, Postcards to People in Power, workshop, JV & MK, 4/18/03
• ArtSeed’s Fine Arts Summer Camp, Bayview Opera House, funded by the Shipyard Trust for the Arts, teaching artists: JV & Marissa Kunz; ArtSeed interns: Bonnie Kirkland, Baktash Sorkhabi, Monica Mercado, Stephanie Majia, 8/8/03-8/18/03
• “Make Stuff” days, Josefa Vaughan’s 10/02; Laura Kamian’s 8/2/03

Group Exhibitions, Performances and Collaborative Public Works

• “Brut Love,” Southern Exposure, William Scott, 8/30/02
• Mission District postcard collecting, 8/20/02, and Treasure Hunt 9/7/02, Lise Swenson’s “Living Laboratory,” The LAB
• 16th Annual Emeryville Celebration of the Arts 9/4/02 and Olive Hyde Art Gallery Exhibition 8/5/03, Laura Kamian
• ArtSeed Performance, “Living Laboratory”, The LAB, 9/20/02
• ArtSeed Installation, Lise Swenson’s “Living Laboratory”, The LAB, 9/12/02- 10/3/02
• Graphic Arts Workshop at Meridian Gallery (JV) 11/7/02
• Visual Aids Benefit Exhibition (JV and MK) 11/9/02
• “No War,” The Luggage Store, Steven Chin, Charles Granich, 12/6/02
• Poor Press book release party, Marissa Kunz, 2/23/03
• School of the Arts, Graduate Exhibition, Dana Flores & Steven Chin, 6/03
• Museum of Children’s Art, Oakland, Steven Chin, 1/12/03-2/7/03
• Chung Nghai Lion Dancing, Steven Chin, year round
• Richmond District YMCA Summer Camp, Presidio Middle School, web design class by Marissa Kunz, fine art and photography class by Josefa Vaughan 6/23/03-7/25/03
• Zeum, Rooftop Youth Arts Fair, ArtSeed “Creativity Fitness Station,” 8/30/03
• Regarding Here, Claire Bane mural, San Jose btwn. 24th & 25th Sts. 6/03-8/03

GRAPEVINES (organizations)

ArtSeed Website Related:

• Bay Area Directory of Resources for Artists and Youth, (work in progress)
• Updates to calendar of free arts events and professional opportunities

Publicity:

• Headlands Center for the Arts newsletter, Fall 2002,
• The Independent, “Art Fights Back,” Rory McNamara photo, 2/18/03
• Inside/Outside Guide to Arts & Arts Education Resources for Children, 4th edition
• KQED, Spark show featuring William Scott & Creative Growth Art Center, 7/6/03
• “Pointed Remarks,” Shipyard Trust for the Arts newsletter, Meredith Tromble, 5/03
• Djerassi RAP newsletter, Spring 2003
• SF Observer, ArtSeed’s nondiscrimination policy statement
• www.springopenstudio.com/events.htm 
• www.zpub.com/sf/thepoint
• www.sonami.net/upcoming.htm 
• www.visualaid.org/vabeta/big_deal_artists.html
• www.artspan.org/artists_as_teachers.html
• www.missionmovie.org/about_livinglab.html
• www.sfbg.com/37/26/x_list_art.html
• ba-newmus@eartha.mills.edu, call for collaboration with ArtSeed

Seminars, Research, Partnerships and Outreach Contacts:

• Small Business Development Center, Public Relations, JV & MK, 8/6/02
• Atlantic City Convention Hall Organ Society, American Guild of Organists, 9/02
• Arts Providers Alliance Workshop, Content Standards for CA Public Schools, 9/02
• San Francisco Foundation requests annual budget from ArtSeed, 11/02
• Otherminds Castro Theater Festival, ushering/outreach LAB benefit, 11/02
• Small Business Development Center, Business Writing, JV, 11/3/02
• CA Lawyers for the Arts, Grantwriting, Laura Kamian, Ava Miedzinski 1/14/03
• LEF Foundation, Jenée Misrage & Marion Green, 10/3/03
• Chinese American International School, “Master Builders,” JV teaching, 9/02-6/03
• Studio One, Oakland, “Strictly Oil Painting,” JV teaching, 9/02-6/03
• Allison Wyckoff’s & Carol Harada’s creativity support/critique groups, JV, 9/02-6/03
• Creative Growth Art Center, T. di Maria, JV, E. Arterberry, D. Scarritt, 3/03
• Bayview-Hunters Point Foundation, George Peterson, JV, 4/24/03
• Richmond District YMCA “Art Mondays,” drop in studio & classes, JV, 6/23-7/25/03
• Community Org. Rep. Project, Practicing Law Institute, MK, 6/30/03
• Asian Art Museum, Allison Wyckoff, Public Programs, JV & Coco Hall, 7/1/03
• Tax exemption acquired: IRS, 501(c)(3) 7/2/03 and  State of California, 3/3/03
• Shipyard Trust for the Arts funds ArtSeed camp, Kathleen McNamara, JV, 5/16/03
• ArtSpan, “Making Your Art Your Business,” panel discussion, JV & LK, 6/3/03
• Children’s Mural Program, JV & MK, Jan. 22 – April 18, 2003
• Alice Art Center, CA Lawyers for the Arts, non profit seminar, JV, 6/14/03
• Sun Micro Systems, Don Hunter, 7/26/03, SF Opera, Carol Weinstein, 8/21/03, JV
• Music in the Schools Today, Gordon Getty & Meg Madden, JV, 3/03
• SF State Univ., Frances Phillips, grant writing, Ava Miedzinski, 6/23/03-8/13/03
• Cartoon Art Museum, Steven Chin, year round internship
• San Francisco Art Institute, Pam Hyland, student services, 8/03
• Alvarado Elementary School residency, Marissa Kunz, teaching, 9/03-5/04