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at electric works in san francisco. nice to see you today. thanks for inviting us in and showing us your amazing facility today. >> my pleasure. >> how long has electric works been around? >> electric works has been in san francisco since the beginning of 2007. we moved here from brisbane from our old innovation. we do printmaking, gallery shows, and we have a fabulous retail store where there are lots of fun things to find. >> we will look at all of that as we walk around. it is incredible to me how many different things you do. how is it you identify that san francisco was in need of all these different services? >> it came from stepping out of graduate school in 1972. i wrote a little thing about how this is an idea, how our world should work. it should have printmaking,

archiving, a gallery. it should have a retail store. in 1972, i wanted to have art sales, point-of-sale at the grocery store. >> so you go through the manifesto. with the bay area should have. you are making art incredibly accessible in so many different ways, so that is a good segue. let's take a walk around the facilities. here we are in your gallery space. can you tell me about the current show? >> the current show is jeff chadsey. he is working on mylar velum, a smooth, beautiful drawing surface. i do not know anyone that draws as well as he does. it is perfect, following the contours and making the shape of the body. >> your gallery represents artists from all over, not just

the bay area, an artist that work in a lot of different media. how to use some of what you look for in artists you represent? >> it is dependent on people are confident with their materials. that is a really important thing. there is enough stuff in the world already. >> you also have in his current show an artist who makes sculpture out of some really interesting types of materials. let's go over and take a look at that. here we are in a smaller space. project gallery. >> artists used the parameters of this space to find relationships between the work that is not out in the big gallery. >> i noticed a lot of artists doing really site-specific work. >> this is a pile of balloons, something that is so familiar, like a child's balloon. in this proportion, suddenly, it becomes something out of a

dream. >> or a nightmare. >> may be a nightmare. >> this one over here is even harder to figure out what the initial material is. >> this is made out of puffy paint. often, kids use it to decorate their clothes. she has made all these lines of paint. >> for the pieces we are looking at, is there a core of foam or something in the middle of these pieces that she built on top of? >> i'm not telling. >> ah, a secret. >> this silver is aluminum foil, crumbled of aluminum foil. her aesthetic is very much that quiet, japanese spatial thing that i really admire. their attention to the materiality of the things of the world. >> this is a nice juxtaposition you have going on right now. you have a more established

artists alongside and emerging artists. is that something important to you as well? >> very important in this space, to have artists who really have not shown much. now let's look at other aspects of electric works operation. let's go to the bookstore. >> ok. >> in all seriousness, here we are in your store. this is the first space you encounter when you come in off the street. it has evolved since you open here into the most amazingly curious selection of things. >> this was the project for the berkeley art museum. it was -- this is from william wiley's retrospective, when he got up onstage to sing a song, 270 people put on the cat. >> it is not just a bookstore. it is a store. can you talk us through some of your favorites?

>> these are made in china, but they are made out of cattails. >> these pieces of here, you have a whale head and various animals and their health over there, and they are jewelry. >> we do fund raisers for nonprofits, so we are doing a project for the magic theater, so there are some pretty funny cartoons. they are probably not for prime time. >> you sort of have a kind of holistic relationship where you might do merchandise in the store that promotes their work and practice, and also, prince for them. maybe we should go back and look at the print operation now. >> let's go. >> before we go into the print shop, i noticed some incredible items you have talked back here. what are we standing in front of? >> this is william wiley, only

one earth. this is a print edition. there are only eight total, and what we wanted to do was expand the idea of printmaking. this is really an art object. there we go. >> besides the punball machine, what do you produce in limited edition? >> there is the slot machine. if you win the super jackpot, you have saved the world. >> what about work? >> the right design, it was three volumes with lithographs in each volume. the cab of count dracula with 20 lithographs inside and lined with beaver fur.

really special. >> let's move on to the print shop. >> ok. the core of what we do is making things. this is an example. this is a print project that will be a fund-raiser for the contemporary music players. we decided to put it in the portfolio so you could either frame at or have it on your bookshelf. >> so nonprofits can come to you, not just visual are nonprofits, but just nonprofits can come to you, and you will produce prints for them to sell, and the profits, they can keep. >> the return on investment is usually four times to 10 times the amount of investment. this is for the bio reserve in mexico, and this is one of the artists we represent. >> you also make prints for the artists that you represent. over here are some large prints by a phenomenal artist.

>> he writes these beautiful things. anyone who has told you paradise is a book of rules is -- has only appeared through the windows. this is from all over coffee. we are contract printers for all kinds of organizations all across the country. >> thank you very much for showing us around today. i really appreciate you taking the time to let me get better acquainted with the operation and also to share with our "culturewire" team. so san francisco small business week we've been doing it for 10 years about inspiring and educating and connecting small business week to have them thrive aim leslie the co-chair

of small business week along with the small business week commission steve adams and together we've been involved for since its inception and it's really about being for impressive and more resources full to and we're going looking forward to today and this is special, in fact, the top ranked part of small business week a day you'll get great information and interaction and to join me to kickoff the conventional is the executive director for the city and county of san francisco regina. (clapping.) >> thank you leslie this year's theme to small businesses they're the vitality no our corridors and neighborhood and shape our community.

the small business convention has became the most popular of offering during the week and this year we're featuring free educational and inspirational workshops success panels and a procurement panel in expo. the last session ends up at 430 are a reception overland it's hosted by a hardworking committee including our honorary mayor ed lee. mark convincing the district many of the for small business administration and emily from behalf it compromised of the team tom and marlow and hannah and kathleen bustling and the san francisco chamber of commerce and leslie and karen.

the renaissance center and the san francisco development alliance and sharon miller and the district organization henry and the golden gate association sf entrepreneurs and the san francisco african-american chamber of commerce and sf city jeremy and adams and alison now, it's my direct pleasure to introduce to you, your presenting sponsor bank of america for this year's small business week bank of america small business regional executive on the west coast is emily emily i'd like to invite you up >> good morning it's a real pleasure to be here and small business week is is an exciting week for all of us we're

thrilled to go be the presenting sponsor we understand power and significance of small business tloos across to city and really exciting to celebrate the entrepreneur spirit behaving has a long his in san francisco over a one hundred years no california and our founder opened the doors of the bank of italy in 2004 and came bank of america in the 1930s since then a lot of influence we've had and participation with the city to build it to what it is today. we were part of the funding the governmental and golden gate park and the funding the renovation at the ferry building

we are on the ground individually helping people person to person making their financial lives better everyday. the heritage commitment lives on through the floifb work and the effort we have everyday working with small property owners hocking to help them and mayor ed lee has helped to support the small business community and encourage entrepreneurship like sunday streets that's the most popular open street project in the united states this increases the foot traffic to the small businesses see more business everyday and last year with the help of the white house they brought silicon valley to the public it be tangibles programs

concluding health care and open government and transparency and finishing. during the small business week 2013 they announced the loan fund that made $12 million available to support small businesses boost the local economy and create jobs. the merging business loan program extends fund to institutions it focuses on lending to the entrepreneurs and growing industries like manufacturing and apparel and industry sector to create jobs for local folks. in this city small property owners have a terrific opportunity and and team bank of america loortdz to our continued work with the mayor in partnership and support of the local enclosures please join me

in welcoming mayor ed lee (clapping.) thank you for that introduce emily good morning, everyone what a great time to be in san francisco weather wise my economy wise i've been thinking about the loiter seeing if i could win the loiter but one of the reasons if i could dream about that winning that i'll spend all the money in san francisco because we have such a rich con gorgs of businesses of people making things in 0 san francisco i couldn't think of spending it anywhere outside of the great city that's what i think about spending it all in the city. well, i, you know, not everyone ca can working for the city and

county of san francisco go that's on the mind as i close out the 27 contracts and balance a budget hopefully in the next two weeks to wrap up but i see why this city is so attractive because today wife got 65 small businesses in san francisco. they compromises over 2 hundred and thirty thousand people for jobs that's the reason they compromises all the businesses in the city so those conferences there's a statistical appreciation but ufo our strong economy is reflected in the small businesses. while everybody doount do not want to be an employee the strength of combrifrp is strong and there are so many reasons why one of the reasons great

23i7b8 institutions bank of america thank you for your sponsoring for this great convention and wells fargo thank you for supporting today's event and thank you to detests for the square for the flavors and all of you who are succeeding our are supporting the others a that's a story it continues to resonate throughout the rest of the country businesses helping other businesses and helping our community. i've added a number of things to my busy i didn't agenda on a weekly basis every tuesday, i visit is a business in the city and talk to the ceo and cfos and people working with the businesses but get to talk to the employees and find out what's attractive and try to meet the challenges and usually it's about transportation or

schools now those days it's about the price of housing and building more housing thaitsdz that's where we generate our ideas i added to that meeting not because i want to get out of city hall but on fridays now i've added an hour to get to go to the commercial corridors of the city and walk and feel what people are doing and stick my head into the local restaurant and the eyes cream particularly that takes along or the local toy stores and futile iowa we can do. and listening to them and talk with them and react with all the policy decisions with regina and others tisk with our economic development office and awe our

small business programs and those ideas turn into immediate reality so we create 1, 2, 3 license ability where small business can get our licenses or permits quickly we're going to open a single portal for small businesses that wyoming want to have one place to go rather than stand in line for different permits and attitudes we'll have >> prayer by the chaplain. >> that online and open 24246 so 7 so entrepreneurs in our pa gambles can do thing. but there's also things that are big picture things i'm glad to see the gentleman helping me to really out a new business tax system in the next 4 years we've

done it will help with the talking to the small business county and see whether an outside tax will help the city small businesses weighed in we know our new business tax will support the small businesses in the city and we'll do more along with our assessors office we've got loans and grant we're matching them up with our 12krik9d captains and mrovs to make sure the corridors are safe and we've got neighborhood grants that are visiting in the programs that are working hard to get out there. it's no longer in any estimation about money known e money it around the city there really is harnessing that in ways to help people succeed and get the jobs.

i'm going to thank the small businesses and large ones you're helping us with jobs helping me so much we can go out and tell the folks how about a paying summer job 7 thousands of them we did that saturday to help small businesses and we're going to have a big meeting with all the businesses and they'll be raising their hands over a question who helped you get our first job and all you have so to do is send the lovely thirty seconds someone helped you, you to get our jobs for the recreational managers and institutions. as we relive that i hope to create another generation of kids that appreciate how when i become conceive you taller than and help accountability pr this is the culture of san francisco

this is why i came in and decided to live and sacrificed my golf free speech to be the mayor of san francisco. but it is more than a dream it's visiting in each other this is what small businesses do they ask for help and invest in others help and this is the huge kwenlz that come to the town the big conventions don't want to ride the cable cars they're asking where are the real neighborhoods in san francisco y where can i go out and see thing and experience things that are very strong in our neighborhoods because they're coming from places it's a lot of vanilla the same thing over and over but they want to see the cultures

and that's why we have 25 neighborhoods we're investing in. i'm proud this welcome to announce our small business honorees and you'll see the diversity when i go through the names the sushi and the automobile repair shaping shop that is changing the shops in the past the has a valley and the hampton creek foods talk about a new maine nasal egging free and the electric bike super store the triple 52 do brewery and, of course, i added in matt restore their special in our city their pete's are a that was started by two deaf business

leaders that are taking orders because of the technology and the ability of the blending the technology with their small business they're taking live orders in their restaurant and their entire staff is deaf. so those are stories that others are going to tell over and over again, the diversity of the city this is how we're successful and those continue to draw the biggest conventions around the world to come to san francisco and see how the businesses are helping us and, of course, they're helping government as well. so again, this is a way of me saying thank you to all of you working together you, you know, we've got sf made and i can't leave the stage without thanking mark and katie they're leading

some 4 thousand people in sf merchandising and working with the small business community saying we can give back to great manufacturing and the offer lay that's happening there. they petroleum pump in 3 hundred and 95 thousand dollars a year gas station to the small business week and to the partnership with s b.a. you and part of the entire obama administration set the tone for the country and next year i get the privilege and honor of hosting the conventional of mayors in san francisco 2015, 3 thousand mayors and we're going to add 3 thousand mayors around the world to the convention to come to san francisco to create

jobs and maintain good requirements and help our kids and create jobs and keep our city safe all of this is part of a whole network of relationships and the ones that know how to create the relationships are the ones in business that's how you survive and succeed in the city with that, take the opportunity the proclamation that signals that small business in the city and regina please accept this and to all you have who you are part of this great week thank you very much

[gavel] >> good afternoon. welcome to the san francisco board of supervisors meeting of tuesday, may the 20th, 2014. madam clerk, could you call the roll? >> yes, mr. president. supervisor avalos? avalos present. supervisor breed? breed present. supervisor campos? campos present. president chiu? chiu present. supervisor cohen? cohen present. supervisor farrell? farrell present. supervisor kim? kim present. supervisor mar? mar present. supervisor tang? tang present. supervisor wiener?