Sorry for the delays in posting minutes!
Meeting 11/1/09
Announcements
- on Friday, the 11th, is a Family Paint Jam Fest 6:30-8pm at Norristown should be tons of fun! dancing, food, painting!
- working on finding and contacting Haverford’s Photo Club since we can’t have a darkroom in the studio
Renovations
- yay OIG funding!
- yay meeting with Catherine Shapiro, President’s Chief of Staff!
- future meeting with facilities
- future meeting with Dean Tidmarsh
- we are hard at work!
Gallery Opening
- yay Euphemism Quartet is performing!
- discussed food. there will lots of it and it will be yummy!
- how to display art work
- posters and lights!
Artwork
- Exec board is required to submit at least 1 piece of artwork made this year
- announcements to classes
- Artist statements welcome but not required
- someplace else to display the artwork after the opening
Meeting Rescheduling
- Nov 15th’s exec board meeting is rescheduled to Weds at 9pm to start setting up for gallery opening
Activist Stenciling
- starts Weds 11/4/09
- Exec board members will be there
Classes
- report of survey results about next classes next semester
- status report of classes running this semester
- Potential Classes for next semester
- Silkscreening
- Sewing
- Bookarts and printmaking
- Jewelry Making
- Batik
- a specific kind of painting? (issue: no artist known to teach)
- email will be sent out, people respond with what class they’re interested in. Lottery will occur before class, class times will be picked and a meeting one week before the class to confirm class attendance
Minutes 11/08/09
Announcements
- yay Dean Tidmarsh!
- Adrienne is being interviewed along with Amy Grebe for Civic Matters about their work in Norristown
Budget Report
- slight mix up fixed up
- classes need to be fully paid up
- table shopping duties for all!
Gallery Opening
- Cheap Art Sale- all unclaimed art (or donated art) will be sold
- new motto: “make art not work” (though exec board members are making art AND work)
- posters!
- Submit art! by the 19th!
Sarah Zia Ebrahimi
- free screening of Between the Folds followed by a free origami workshop at the BMFI
Lighting
- lighting set up on Weds
- command hooks are purchased. so are lights
Next Semester’s Classes
- Class evaluations would be super useful
- respond by 11/18 5pm about what classes you want to take!
- more than 5 people have to sign up for a class to run