February Meeting Notes.

Art and About met, for the first time to my knowledge, without Kim present. However, those of us in the know were there in her stead.
Those present included Heather, who is not Kim, Jo, who is the secretary, Theresa who is acting as Becky’s agent although underpaid, Randy (comic relief), Bonnie who is our treasurer deluxe, Mary Kay Burish who is Bonnie’s sister, relative newcomer Heidi, who is a medical illustrator, and new member Michael Marr who was probably frightened off by the lot. Welcome Mike, please stay, we promise to behave. Well, we’ll see.
Basics of the meeting included the member’s exhibit, Chairs for Charity scholarship fund, farmer’s market, and the spring tour.
Member’s exhibit:
§ Set p for the exhibit is on Friday February 29th at 9 – noon. If you are available to help set up please come and help—goes faster with more present.
§ Exhibit runs Friday from 6 – 9 with an opening reception—Kim is in charge of food—cheese, grapes, etc. We will have punch—Tim will make sure there is a punch bowl and table for the reception.
§ There will be a $5.00 entry fee for the exhibit to cover the cost of advertisement and refreshments etc.
§ Please bring all entries to Roncalli on or before the 29th. You can drop them off at the office of the school or bring them directly to the art room. If you cannot get to Roncalli but have work to exhibit—please call one of us and we’ll work something out.
§ I will be in charge of kids’ crafts for the afternoon from noon to 2 or however long the supplies hold out. Heather wants to make ‘rockin’ recycled rockets’ out of toilet paper tubes—I’m sure this will be a bit hit with kids. Other crafts / and activities for kids will be a bead / bracelet making station, origami basics, and a famous artist coloring page station. Those wanting to help out with the kids are welcome. You don’t need to have any skills to help with kids—they all love art and are thrilled to make stuff. Any other ideas or crafts are welcome—but let me know what you have in mind so we can be sure to have all the materials needed for the afternoon. Thanks.

Scholarship:
§ We are very excited to announce that there were nine applicants for the Chairs for Charity scholarship. We would like to organize a committee of six people who would be willing to review the applicants and choose one or two of the recipients for an art scholarship. Those on the committee thus far are:
1. Jim Dolan
2. Jo Woodcock
3. Heather Doucette
4. Heidi Dalberg
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§ As you can see we are in need of two others interested in reviewing the applications. Please let me know via email if you are interested in being on the committee. We will also have to make a date and place as to when / where to meet.

Farmer’s Market:
§ Barb Ferguson will be the booth coordinator for the farmer’s market. Theresa Paral said she has an easy-up tent we can use until we can secure one of our own for the group if this endeavor works out well. Anyone interested in having the booth on a Saturday should contact Barb. It would be great if we can get this going steadily so the community comes to expect our presence at the farmer’s market.

Spring Tour:
§ The Spring Tour will be May 16 and 17.
§ Deadline for entry in the tour is April 30th. So far we only have Petals Plus, Persimmons, and Full Circle Products. We are looking for more entries for the tour—please contact Kim or Heather if you would like to have your gallery on the tour docket or if you are an artist without a space and would like to display your work again, please contact Kim or Heather.
§ Tour demos will be from 10 – 4 anyone wanting to demonstrate what you do please let us know.
§ Also, we need a count for the postcards—if you have a mailing list let us know how many you will need to advertise the tour. In the future we would like to merge these lists so we can just do one mass mailing. Anyone like doing that sort of thing?

Other:
§ Rahr-West table setting exhibit runs through the 20th. Maybe we could do one next year as a group? That would be fun! Tim and I did a few a few years ago—it was lots of fun.
§ We did not set a place for next month’s meeting but it will be on the second Wednesday of the month so that would make it March 12th. See you soon at the exhibit and upcoming tour.

::: Bridget Riley ::: I've never believed in God, but I believe in Picasso.