January meeting notes by the brilliant Jo

Art and About meeting notes for January 9, 2008
We met at Persimmons at 6:30.

Heather, although not the boss and not officially in charge, put together an outline for us to follow at the meeting. Good thing too because I am a secretarial putts. Thank you Heather!
Anyway, dues were collected from those who attended and anyone who has not paid their dues may do so at any time. Bonnie Loeh will be our treasurer—thanks Bonnie! Make checks payable to Art and About. You may pay your dues at our next meeting on February 13th or bring it in to Persimmons. Dues are $25.00 a year for adults and $15.00 a year for students. Dues must be paid on or before our member’s exhibit on Feb. 29th / March 1st.
As mentioned our yearly member’s exhibit will be held at the Roncalli Atrium Gallery on Friday, February 29th with an opening reception from 6:00 – 9:00; and on Saturday, March 1st from 10:00 – 4:00. There will also be art projects / stations for kids of various ages from noon to 2:00. Yours truly will be organizing the projects and will need a few people to help man the stations. I’m thinking we will have three or four stations. So far ideas are beading / bracelet making, paper kites, foil repousse’ or metal punch, origami paper folding, and / or ….? Anyone having some wonderful idea for a project may share it with me—I’m open for ideas. I am planning on having something to appeal to a variety of age groups.
We would also like to have someone at the show at all times during the day on Saturday to answer questions, greet people, et cetera. Here is a list of those who have signed up so far:
10 – 2 Randy Boldt
Tim and Jo (we will probably be there all day—either one or both of us)
12 – 2 Tim and Jo
Amy Zander
Annette Wimmer
Johanna
2 – 4 Judy Rollin
Laurel and Heather will be there in the afternoon
These times are certainly not set in stone—we just want to make sure that there is always someone present. If you are able to help out or know that you will be there during the day—let us know or just show up. If you would like to help out with a specific project let me know about that as well.
We will be setting up the members exhibit on Friday morning, the 29th, beginning at 9:00 AM. Anyone willing and able to help is encouraged to come. We should have everything set up by noon. We will have Art and About name tags the morning of set-up—either you can write your own or someone (Tim or I) will write them for you. Bring all art to Roncalli that morning or, if you are unable to help set-up, please bring your work in anytime during that week—either drop it off in the art room or bring it to the main office. If you can’t make it to Roncalli that week, I’m sure Kim would be willing to house your work at Persimmons.
Everyone enjoyed the music at our opening reception so much last year that Kim is going to look into asking Greg, of Pick & Squeeze, to return. We are also just going to go with punch this year (no wine) so we don’t get into any trouble with the prohibitionists and otherwise fuddy-duddies of this country who think wine was created by the feet of the devil. And, even though European mothers serve wine to their children in their bottles, we are not allowed to drink wine in a Catholic school while viewing art or having fun. Because of course, having too much fun is frowned upon.
We will also have the return of the ‘chunk-o-cheese’ as we had in year one, crackers, and the ever popular olive penguins. I will need some help this year making the penguins because our usual penguin maker (my sister) will be out of the country at that time soaking up the golden rays of the sun in the Virgin Islands and she’s not even taking me along (although she did offer). Besides, I couldn’t go anyway; my bikini was lost at the cleaners.
Moving on to our spring tour…dates for the tour will be May 16th and 17th with the opening reception on Friday at Full Circle Products (Heather’s gallery) from 6 – 9 PM. On Saturday the times will be from 10 – 4. Gallery fee is $40.00. Please have your fee and info into Heather no later than April 30th so brochures and maps can be properly made to include your info. Any individual artist needing a space to display their work can let us know and we can match you with a gallery. We would also like demonstrations that day as well so again, anyone wanting to do a demo—let us know.
In other news…Kim Geiser of Persimmons will be having her own exhibit at Stump Jacks on Friday, March 28th. More info to come.
P.S., Kim could use some cool glass jars with lids if anyone has anything they’d like to get rid of.
Also, we have three or four applications already in for the Chairs for Charity scholarship fund and we will be viewing and discussing the applicants at a future Art and About meeting. We will keep you posted.
The Rahr-West museum, under the direction of Barbara Bundy Jost, is looking for art to be donated to an “Art” event coming up on Feb. 1, 2, 8, 9, 15, and 16. They are looking for artwork to be auctioned off during a silent auction. If you would like to donate a piece of art (100% of the proceeds will go to scholarships) please bring in your work or contact Barb at the museum ASAP.
And, on a last note, Ladies Day!, an inspirational day of artistic exploration and unbridled self expression, will be held on Saturday, January 19th at the Rahr-West Art Museum. Please RSVP ASAP if you are interested in enjoying the day—sounds like fun.
That is all for now.

Reminder: our next meeting will be held at Roncalli High School in the art room at 6:30 PM on Wednesday, February 13th.

Hope to see you all soon.

Jo of Art