August Meeting Minutes

Creative Collective Meeting 8/20/12, 6-8 PM

Alexis, Emanuelle, Eva, Ken, Malia

 Introductions & updates, show & tell

Update on figure drawing: dates scheduled for White River Craft Center, 2-4PM

9/9 male

9/16? Female

9/23 male

10/21 male

Need: lighting, props, pillows, throws

Bring own easels & materials

Is there somewhere at the Craft Center to store easels? Drawing horse-building idea?

Round Barn in Waitsfield currently has photo show, including several of Ken’s pieces

Also at Round Barn October 7, art auction benefit for Hannah’s House, including Alexis’s work

Fall Open Studio October 6 & 7—ask artists to swap work out prior to the date!

Labor Day weekend Vermont Festival of the Arts winds up in Waitsfield and Warren

We all owe dues for fiscal year 2012-- $10 payable to the White River Craft Center collected by Ken

“Featured artist” on a rotating basis, to be showcased in local media—Ken will talk to someone who might be the first

“Art in the park” idea—possibly at Gifford?

Weekend staffing—discuss with Kevin, take turns doing a shift every 6 weeks or so?

Bring musicians back into the Collective

Barry’s video online at Bangor Daily News--  http://bangordailynews.com/2012/07/25/news/portland/street-musician-sound-sculpture-artist-invites-portland-passers-by-to-make-music/

Films recommended “Margin Call”, “The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill”, “The Body Found” (“docufiction” about evidence of mermaids) ,“Breath Made Visible” about the modern dancer Anna Halprin, “The Black Power Mixtape”