Kingstowne Area Artist Association
Minutes 7/8/10 Meeting
Attendees: Sandy, Ginny, Lenore, Kathy, Nancy, Reggie, Lee, Beverly, Rajam, Sam, Duane, Anne, Cathlene, and Audrey. A quorum was present.
Board: Sandy announced that Reggie and Nancy will be the board advisory members
New Member: Anne Murch, a ceramist, is out newest member and our first 3D artist. Welcome Anne. E-mail: AnneMurch@earthlygrace.com. Anne is joining the events committee.
Report of the Treasurer: Lenore announced that our balance, after reimbursement to Reggie for the web hosting, is $863.91.
Reports of Committees
Publicity
Nancy reported that publicity for the children’s event is underway; it will not be too highly publicized as there is only room for about 25 children. The photography part of the event is a go also. Sam will provide the set-up and other photographers will participate too. Kathy and Lee will do the printing and CDs.
Publicity for the October show is underway also. Audrey provided examples of the 4x4 banner for $133, postcards $164 for 5,000, and a color ad for $220. We agreed on several small changes, the banner will say this Friday and Saturday with no dates so it will be reusable, and the time for the wine tasting will be added to the postcards and ad. The combined cost for these items as well as $75 for some signs is $582. The show fee will be $20 per artist. This was unanimously approved. Thanks to Audrey for the great work!
Events
Sam passed around a sign up list for the October show.
Venues to Show Work
Lee has found a possibility for photographers; he will further investigate and get back to us. Lee will be sending around a brief questionnaire so he can figure out the optimum number of venues for us. He will be going to each of our current venues and introducing himself.
Lee will be taking over Pho Bowl hanging coordination.
Online Communication
Members are encouraged to sign up for a page on the Website. Members wishing to change the photographs they have on the website should provide their new photos to Reggie as soon as possible.
Special Events
The group will plan for art raffle of Ginny and Sam’s donated pieces. Reggie discussed the next contest, two possibilities are portraits or a “sign” contest
Old or Unfinished Business
Ginny provided an update. Our ABC agent is telling us we have to be a non-profit for a tasting license. The online guidance does not require you to be a non profit for the tasting license. Ginny and Kathy will further investigate.
New Business/Open Discussion on Relevant Topics
All agreed that the existing committee chairs will remain in place for On-line Communications, Special Events, and Publicity
The membership agreed that it makes more sense to stick to a fall show because if we alternate between spring and fall our shows will be 6 months apart and then 18 months apart.
We agreed on the weekend of September 30 for the 2011 show... If we can get a wine vendor for Friday the 30th the show would be Friday evening and Saturday October 1. If we cannot get another wine vendor it would be Saturday October 1 and Sunday October 2. In order to ensure we can get the Snyder Center it is imperative we lock down the dates as soon as possible. Therefore we need to determine whether or not we can get a vendor.
The events committee is assigned the task of finding a vendor. Results of this effort will be due by e-mail to the board by August 23. (Both Skip and Audrey had ideas on vendors which they should pursue as part of this effort.) Once the results are in the board will communicate with KROC to get the Snyder center.
The events committee will provide information to new members at the August meeting. This will be an end-of-meeting mini workshop.
There was a suggestion that those members who would be participating in the Studio Day on July 17th from Noon to 3:00 p.m. at the Active Adult 55+ Center might like to meet for lunch beforehand (11:00 a.m.) at the Pho Bowl.