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‘Arts and Culture’ workgroup report -Feb 2021 Attendee: (a) Pramod Patil (Chair) (b) Shubhada Saxena (c) Hanna Huang (d) Peter Chao Date: 02/14/2021 Meeting minutes: Here are the notes from Arts and Culture workgroup meeting in Feb-2021. This meeting was mainly focused on capturing progress on focus area for each member. • Grant data We discussed about different city of Austin grant opportunities and ways to bring awareness of these opportunities. We decided to create a list of such resources and find ways to share it with the community. As a starting point these grant opportunities are stored in the following google link https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1j58OrJyvrAf7D-Ak-cv- HQK6vbIIiC4lKOglAkIzngw/edit?usp=sharing This resource list will be a living document and members of the Arts and Culture workgroup will continue updating this doc. Hanna Huang and Shubhada Saxena to explore ways to share/communicate the Asian resource list with the community. • Display of Asian Exhibits We discussed about opportunities to showcase Asian arts, musical instrument and/or sculptures etc. at various Austin locations. Shubhada Saxena has approached PARD for this earlier. We also discussed on other avenues to achieve the same. Pramod Patil will be exploring other opportunities for Asian exhibit display by discussion with Ayesha Khan from Austin History Museum. • Peter Chao Peter Chao will not be serving on the Asian American Quality of Life Commission and also won’t be part of the Arts and Culture workgroup anymore.