Civic Arts Commission Meeting Agenda Packet 110424

Database Ticket sales Sign-in sheet Other If you answered “other” to the preceding question please explain. Enter “N/A” if not applicable. Report 1 It is extremely tough to track participation during an event of this manner. The public enters one of our Venues, be at a private home or large public building like the Bothwell Art Center or Pleasanton Firehouse. They wander around and speak with Artists Please include any additional comments or clarifications here about your grant that you feel the Commission will benefit from: Report 1 In answering question number 12 above… of course, the event for which this grant was awarded does not occur until May 2024. The following is in regards our May 2023 event: The public that enters a venue is often unwilling to provide a name or email to allow us to count them accurately. Also, one member of the public may visit several venues. Hopefully they do. In our application we set a goal to reach out to notify a large section of the public. We cannot say exactly how many actually showed up with any great accuracy. I can say from experience, having run such an event during four different years, that this past event in May 2023 was highly successful in terms of public turnout. The Firehouse Arts Center location was very well attended due to the proximity of the location to the farmers market and the closing of Main Street for the monthly “first weekend” event. That location had artists demonstrating throughout the day. As far as art sales go… which is not always a fantastic measure of “Success”… Several thousands of dollars in sales were made. At my location, my private home studio where we had five artists, we were busy from the moment we opened until we closed. Only a few of the venues reported a low public turnout at certain times of the day - and those were single/two artists in private homes. And we are addressing that issue and hoping to encourage the public to visit more smaller venues using a variety of incentives - to include fine art giveaways, adding more scheduled demos, talks, etc. With the grant money provided to us now we are able to expand our publicity to include purchasing more advertising and large scale banners that are hung within downtown city areas such as the one that we purchased and hung for one week in Pleasanton to publicize TVAST 2023. Events of this nature, similar to the highly successful Art Walk in Livermore that has been going on for over 20 years, requires both a continuation of hard work and patience to see it grow. For FINAL REPORT [ANSWER "N/A" FOR QUESTIONS 15-20 FOR MID-YEAR REPORT]: Name and title of person completing the report: 10/18/24, 4:05 PM FY 2023/2024 Community Grant Program - Civic Arts https://www.zoomgrants.com/customreport.asp 3/41Page 11 of 58