Agenda for the Seldovia Arts Council Meeting May 11 2009
Call to order:
Minutes
Treasurer’s report
Old Business:
Westaf Grants
Ball in the House write up
2009 Grants for Winter Season 2009/10
The Refugees
Les Yeux Noir
Festival Committees
Headliners-Mummma
Mary Jane Lamond, Wendy Mc Isaacs, Patrick Gillis…tickets have been purchased. They will be picked up in Anchorage on June 16..
Robert Post will be bringing his wife(his expense) and large amount of freight that will be bigger than I can get into my car.
Jamie Michaels, his manager, and Rad Lorkovic will be coming at the same time.
I am working with Jamie Michaels manager to rent a van to drive everyone down the peninsula, and then onto the ferry.
Everyone will need housing in Anchorage on Tuesday night.
We will need housing in Homer on Wednesday night. All have a KBBI interview on Thursday morning before the ferry takes off.
Housing- Jerry Stranik
I have given all of the festival participants and their needs to Jerry Stranik.
He will need to contact the hosts and make sure they have their artist’s information.
Transportation-Tania Spurkland
We will need to get a list of possible transportation modes to the artists and then arrange for them to come to Seldovia. Many are coming on the ferry on Thursday.
T-Shirts- Greg Davis…
Greg called is waiting for a count on the T-Shirts sizes that we need. He should also remember that we wanted guitar stickers and bumper stickers as well.
Publicity—Susan Zerwick.
Press releases are done and the article for the Summer Gazette in is in. Sing Out done..
A few posters have been printed and distributed around Homer.. We need more.
Web: Susan Zerwick and Susan Mumma
Official Website: www.seldoviaartscouncil.wordpress.com
Official Festival website: www.seldoviamusicfestival.wordpress.com
Facebook social networking site..
Director’s blog
Festival Director’s Blog.
Hospitality---Suzie Stranik…
Need to make up greeting package for each artist with information about Seldovia, the festival, the program etc.
Decide on meals for artists
Financial-- Darlene Crawford
Wristbands??
Director:
Building permit has been applied for.
Stage Director—Laurel Hilts…
Stage Crew_ Rob Rurka-------
BIG QUESTION? Are we going to have a second stage.
Sound Crew—Dan Mac Elrath
Program---- Who is going to do the program??? When printed …folded etc.
Signage: Who will do this?/
Around Town: Events…
New Business:
2009-10 Community Arts Development grant due June 1.
What do we want to include in it? Painting Workshop, Westafs, PlaidGrass,T.J.Casey? Scott Cossu
Eddie Wood workshops.
Trash Can painting… Who would we suggest as artists to paint cans?
Attached information sheets:
Painting Workshop (see attached proposition)
T.J. Casey
PlaidGrass
Letter from Lou Anne Person...
Re: Acrylics, large-format art class, taught by Lou Anne Person, ASID
Dear Members:
Thank you for the opportunity to teach art in your community this summer. I am excited and certainly looking forward to it. Following is my letter of intent that will define the class I propose to teach:
Date:
I will arrive on the ferry from Homer on Thursday afternoon of July 30.
Class to start Friday, the 31st, and continue Saturday and Sunday, August 1st and 2nd. Exact times to be determined by travel plans and availability of the students. We will offer evening times for those who want to keep working! And perhaps don’t have young families. We will firm these times by June 1st.
Accommodations:
Judith and Kris Lethin, Dancing Eagles Cabin Rental, have offered to comp my room and board as a donation to the Arts Council.
Class Location:
Each student will need a 6’ table space with good lighting. I understand Seldovia has a number of options: The community building, the Susan B. English School, and the Seldovia Village Tribe Conference Room. I am anticipating a number of out of town artists so we may need to plan for at least 20 participants. I think we will have a better idea by mid July. I am flexible and willing to accommodate as many as sign up.
Advertising:
I have several mailing lists for people in South Central Alaska. I am a member of the Alaska Watercolor Society and have access to their addresses. I also know several artists in the Homer area whom I can ask to send emails for me. I will get the info in the Frontiersman, Anchorage Daily News, and get the info out
to people in the Palmer/Wasilla area through my circle of friends and acquaintances. My art is being displayed this month at The Red Beet Café in Palmer and they have a great mailing list, also. In addition, I’ll get the information to the community in which I live, Willow.
I will have invitational postcards made up to advertise the class. My art is also on display at the Bagel Factory in Anchorage and the owners would be glad to have them available at check out.
I will email a bio that you can send out as you would like.
Honorarium:
. My fee is $250 per person for the 3 day class. I will be assuming my own travel expenses. If you would like to add on a fee to cover your Arts Council expenses let’s talk about that. I want to keep the cost reasonable for local artists as well as those coming from out of town. If the Arts Council or Seldovia Village Tribe would like to offer scholarships or partial scholarships for locals that would be wonderful. I am also willing to offer one partial scholarship for every 10 participants. I want to encourage maximum participation!
Materials List:
Along with my bio I will send a materials list. I intend to bring a roll of canvas with me so that students can buy a piece the size they would like to work on, but people can certainly buy a large canvas in advance and use that. I also intend to be loose about what can be painted and what size. I will have a subject (flower) chosen and will teach with that subject. However, since we are opening it up to beginners through advanced artists, I am going to be flexible with what they would prefer to paint.
Class Outline:
I will be teaching the technique I use to paint large-format, gallery-wrapped paintings on canvas. I intend to do this with acrylic paints.
There are 6 steps I use:
1) gridding the canvas
2) laying out the picture with composition in mind
3) drawing the picture on the canvas
4) blocking out the drawing with paint
5) fleshing the picture out
6) final details
The first 3 steps can take us through Friday afternoon, if we start at 10AM. We should be fully launched into painting the first day. Of course, everyone can go at their own pace. I am assuming I will be teaching to the beginners, and painting along side the experienced artists.
Art Show:
I would like to end the class with an art show for family and friends. Judith Lethin volunteered to furnish soup!
I think I have about covered everything. I will be showing at a juried art show in Washington the week before this class, and cannot get to Seldovia any earlier than the 30th, and then I have to be in Anchorage on the 9th of August. Other than that, I am very flexible about everything….the times of the class, where it is held, the Honorarium, scholarships, etc, etc.
Please let me know what your thoughts and wishes are. As I sit here looking out over two feet of snow still on the ground, this gives me something to really look forward to. I’ve just finished painting a large picture of lilacs, and finished one of a bouquet of summer flowers last week. I am SO looking forward to summer for many reasons, and the Seldovia class is right up there on the list.
Best Regards,
Lou Anne Person, ASID
Artist, Sisters of Spirit
Contacts:
Home 907-495-6399
Cell 907-240-0509
Email from T. J. Casey
T. J. Casey Cowboy Poet
T. J. Casey will be available Sept. 14-25(He will be in Homer). His suggestion is a performance on Saturday Sept 19
He will need $750. Travel from Homer and Lodging.
This true Montana ranch cowboy is a knockout solo performer who’s happy and comfortable onstage performing for a school assembly or in the classroom teaching grades 4-12.
The countless stage hours he’s logged over the last three decades include performances with such recognized entertainers as Ian Tyson, Merle Haggard, Dierks Bentley, Waddie Mitchell, Ty Herndon, the Everly Brothers and more.
Young people are special to T.J., and he’s constantly striving to help them
connect with their Western roots and culture at a deep level, which he strongly
believes will impart confidence and a positive attitude to benefit them
throughout their lives. He helps students learn about Western heritage,
cowboy culture, and how to write poetry; as well as introducing them to the
magical human/horse relationship.
In conjunction with his mission to youth, T.J. works with arts councils in Montana, North and South Dakota, Alaska and Nevada as well as Arts Northwest and Wyoming Arts Alliance.
This year, 2009, TJ's Pure "D" Cowboy CD has been named the Country-Western CD of the Year by the National Traditional Country Music Association.
To learn more about this amazing Montana cowboy artist, please check out the following website www.tjcasey.net, once there click on “schools”. There is a press kit available on the site.
Thank you for your time and we look forward to working with you again.
Please don’t hesitate to call if you have any questions.
God Bless
Marcie
Cowboy Enterprises Inc
P O Box 31676
Billings, MT 59107
406-245-0734
tjcasey@tjcasey.net
www.tjcasey.net
PlaidGrass
I have this group waiting to hear what we would like to do .
