Item K04BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
AGENDA ITEM SUMMARY
Meeting Date: Wed. February 16, 2011 Division: BOCC
Bulk Item: Yes No XX Department: Comm. David Rice
Staff Contact /Phone #: Tamara Lamarche, X6000
AGENDA ITEM WORDING: Approval to appoint Beth Kaminstein to the Art in Public Places
Committee as the District 4 representative.
ITEM BACKGROUND: Ms. Kaminstein will fulfill the term of previous appointee Kathleen
Clements through November 1, 2012. She has lived in the Islamorada area since she and her husband
built their home and art studio there in 1992. She has an extensive professional art background, and
has worked with the Florida Keys Council for the Arts with Artists in Classrooms Grant program,
working with students of various ages. She collaborated with the architect in designing the private
Montessori Island School in Tavernier, as a founder of the school, which became a public charter
school, the focus of numerous articles in major architectural magazines.
PREVIOUS RELEVANT BOCC ACTION: The BOCC appointed Kathleen Clements to the AAIP
as a full term appointment on Nov. 18, 2009.
CONTRACT /AGREEMENT CHANGES:
STAFF RECOMMENDATIONS:
TOTAL COST: INDIRECT COST: BUDGETED: Yes
DIFFERENTIAL OF LOCAL PREFERENCE:
COST TO COUNTY:
SOURCE OF FUNDS:
REVENUE PRODUCING: Yes No AMOUNT PER MONTH
APPROVED BY: County Atty _ OMB /Purchasing Risk Management
DOCUMENTATION:
DISPOSITION:
Included XX Not Required
AGENDA ITEM #
No
Year
Revised 7/09
Monroe County Boards and Committees
Appointment Information
Board or Committee: Art In Public Places Committee
Commissioner Appointing Member: Comm. David Rice, (BOCC District 4)
Name of Member:
Address:
Mailing Address
Beth Kaminstein
83257 Overseas Hwv.
Islamorada, FL 33036
Same
Phone Numbers: Work: *
Home: 305 664 -2875
Cell: 305 393 -4013
Fax: *
E -mail: BETHKAM @BELLSOUTH.NET
Date of Appointment
Reappointment
Date Term Expires:
February 16, 2011
No
November 1, 2012
Name of Person Being Replaced:
Fulfilling Term of
Kathleen Clements
Misc. Info:
Beth Kaminstein
Art In Public Places Committee
January 31, 2011
I am writing in response to your request for a brief summary of my pertinent activities
that would qualify me as the best candidate for the Art in Public Places Committee. I
graduated with a BA from Bennington College in Vermont in 1976 with a double major
in Ceramics/Drawing and Dance. Since graduation I have maintained a professional
practice as an artist, consistently exhibiting over the years as well as teaching at
Greenwich House Pottery and Parsons School of Design in NYC.
In the early 1980s, I designed and constructed a three -story residence on Mulberry Street
in NYC, including the conception and installation of a ceramic fagade on this and another
building in Harlem on East 104` Street. In 1988 I participated in the seminal exhibition
"Firing the Imagination: Artists and Architects Use Clay" at the Urban Center in NYC,
curated by Susan Tunick, president of the preservation group Friends of Terracotta. I was
invited by Ms. Tunick to create a ceramic building unit for this show, which was widely
lauded and reviewed.
In 1997, I built, in collaboration with the architecture firm Jersey Devil
http:// www .jerseydevildesignbuild.conV, the private Montessori Island School that then
became a public charter school, Montessori Island Charter School in Tavernier, Florida.
am also the founder of the Montessori Island School, which has been the focus of
numerous articles in major architecture magazines.
Through the Monroe County Council for the Arts, I was awarded and completed
numerous Artists in the Classroom grants, working with various age groups to bring an
awareness of the arts to these students. My commitment to art and architecture is also
evident in the home that I constructed in Islamorada in 1992, which integrates a variety of
ceramic elements that I designed into its structure. This is where I have lived and
maintained my studio ever since.
I am currently a board member of the Ocean Studies Charter School in Tavernier, as well
as on the SAC of Coral Shores High School. I was a past member of the Islamorada Park
and Recreation Committee and a board member of the Pace School for Girls, also in
Islamorada. I was recently selected to work on the Broward County Greenways project,
designing mile - marker and trail signage, and roundabouts, all out of clay with the
iconography of local flora.
I strongly believe in the value and impact that art in public places can have on the quality
of life in the communities that are engaged in its installation and sincerely hope that I will
be able to be involved with these types of projects and aesthetic decisions in the years to
come.
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Monroe County
Board of County Commissioners
Office of the County Administrator
The Historic Wto Cigar Factor'
l 100 Simonton Street. Suite 205
Key West. FL 330.}0
(305) 292-4441 - Phone
(305) 292- 454.4 - Fax
November 19.2009
Kathleen Clements
113 Orange Lane
Islamorada. FL 33036
Dear Ms. Clements:
On behalf of this office and the Monroe County Board of County Commissioners. please allow- me to
congratulate you on your appointment to the Art in Public Places Committee. which occurred at the November
18`� Commission meeting. Your term of office will commence November 18. 2009 and expire November 18.
2012.
In accordance with Section 760.80, Florida Statutes. we are required to submit a report to the Secretary of State
annually. We must report the number of appointments made during the preceding year from each minority group
and the number of non - minority appointments made. In addition, we must report the number of ph }sically
disabled persons appointed to boards, commissions, council and committees in the previous calendar }•car. In
order for us to comply with this mandate. please complete the attached form and return it to Calvin Allen. EEO
Coordinator. 1100 Simonton Street, Room 268. Kev West, FL 33040. You may also email the information. if it
is easier for you, to allen- calvin(i�monroecountN -fl.Eov .
Thank you for - our interest in our community and congratulations once again.
Very truly y rs,
Debbie Frederick
Deputy County Administrator
DF /ac
cc: Commissioner Mario Di Gennam
Andrea Comstock