January 2011 Meeting Minutes

Notes from meeting 1/14/2011

Present: Sally Penrod, Tammy Wight, Kevin Harty, Susan Rockwell, David Hurwitz, Barry Miller, Ken Goss, Bonny Willett

Ongoing Art Show: To take down or leave up?

1. It was decided to leave the show up for now and to have a closing reception of 2/20 at 2pm with a general meeting to follow at 3pm
2. Melia to pursue publicity with the Herald (maybe an article) and to e-mail artist’s and members.
3. Sally to ask Bob Eddy to photograph the reception and art
4. Set-up Ken Goss and Kevin Harty, Barry Miller
5.  Clean-up Sally Penrod, Tammy Wight, David Hurwitz, Susan Rockwell

March Art show postponed due to conflicts with scheduling for artists, etc.

Barry Miller offered to do a show “Stone in Motion” for that time slot.

Membership:  $10 for year of membership (Jan-Jan) was decided by members present.  This would entitle members to exhibit their work in the gallery. 

Artists would be asked to pay next meeting or whenever new members are joining.

Ken Goss announced that we a new member. Ken will pursue people on our interested persons list re’ joining the guild with personal notes.

Gallery Space: The large gallery space would re reserved for revolving shows.  Though there is limited wall space, movable partitions could be used for art as well.

Living room space: could be reserved for pieces of art from regular members and could be ongoing.

Publicity: we discussed that more publicity was probably needed re the venue and discussion planned. 

Evening use of the living room space for other events was also discussed

Following the meeting those present went down to the gallery walk at Chandler.

Happy 2011!

The Green Mountain Creative Collective kicked off the new year on 01/01/11 with an event at the White River Craft Center.  Barry Vermont invited everyone to come share their creative work, from art to music to writing to storytelling to leading an activity.  There was a little bit of everything and a lot of great food packed into the first afternoon of 2011.

Bonny Willet provided these photos of some of the amazing music that was made that day by Barry Miller playing with John Mahan (both pictured), Chris Martin, Spencer Lewis and John Zuefle.

Malia Timmerman brought a candy sculpture project to share, and in collaboration with the Zimet family's mini-marshmallow building materials, it yielded some very creative structures (some more structurally sound than others!).  Malia built a spirit house for her brother, which she completed decorating at home and liberated in a bonfire the next day (click here for "liberation" photos).

 As it left the Craft Center

"Spirit House for Sean", completed on 1/2/11

Many thanks to Barry for a great inspiration, to the White River Craft Center for providing the space for it to blossom, and to everyone who participated in whatever way.  This may need to be an annual event!