The Blanchard River Art Guild

January 8th BRAG Meeting Notes

Here are the notes from last nights meeting provided by Bruce....

We had a relaxed meeting . there were 6 of us there. Ruen, Schroeders, Mary Jo, and Mary Recker].. We talked about the Home and Garden show. Doing it much like last year..letting only Brag members who show up to work a few hours can display their work.. maybe try to get music and live artists..

The members talked about the committees for the ART FEST IN THE PARK. Mary Jo has reserved the Sat. in June [the 17th i believe]. Mary Jo is going to talk to last years big sponsors for another donation..[Banks, Time Warner,,etc.] We thought you , Don, could talk to Butch again and see if he would do the entertainment again. WE need to start thinking about getting other artists to come and setup...WE will contact the food people who came last year.

We talked about an ART WALK and came up with the 'BRAG Scenic Biway Cruise' . THe Gilboa Winery would like us to have a show or display there. WE could bring in food, no holes in the walls as ther is little wall space, put we could show in the large space. WE thought the Cruise could take in Glandorf to Ottawa to Gilboa. We picked a date of Sept. 20th. To be continnnnnued....

Personally ... I absolutely love the art walk idea, name and date! If anyone has any feedback I'd love to hear it.

A HUGE Thank You to the members that were there last night!!!!

January 8th BRAG Meeting

We will have our next meeting this next Tuesday Jan. 8th at 7:00 at the Doug and Karen Schroeder building.
Enter in the side by the Orchid beauty shop and follow the sign to the upstairs.

Holly and I will not be there because we have tickets to see the play "Evita". It was a fantastic Christmas gift from my wife.

Here is some of what I was going to bring up at the meeting;

First I was wondering if we should table the Artwalk until a later date and just start focusing on the Fathers day artshow. It will be rolling around alot faster that we sometimes think and we need to get our committees organized. I think that we should start getting the volunteers for the committees lined up at this meeting or the next at the latest.

Some of these need to be put together sooner than others.
The first should be Artists and the Ads and Promo committees.

Committees would include: ads and promotion / music and entertainment / writers corner / food and beverage / sponsorships from business and banks / and of course the artists committee.

What about a committee or person that would like to contact the high school art programs in the area and have a special place for them at the show? ( just a random thought )

The ads and promotions would be in charge of getting the word out through ads and press releases in the media, (paper, radio, and television).
I guess all the committees are self explantary so I won't describe what we need for each.

We will need volunteers for all of these committees and it would be nice to have help from all members.

Actually as I'm writing this I realize that all of you know what we need and whatever you decide will be great.

I do have a few other ideas that I wanted to brainstorm with you, but they can wait.

I thought the Daily Grind art show was a success, but we still need to tweak a few things for next year.
A big thank you for all the members that contributed to the success of the show. A special thank you for Mary Jo, Oscar and Bruce!

If anyone has any photos from the show I will be glad to post them on the BRAGBLOG.

Also if anyone has any artwork to display I will be glad to make your own art gallery in the album photo area.

Just email your photos and artwork to me at dhuber@nwbright.net

We can now sell artwork from this site via PayPal if you are interested?

Also if you want to link to this site just email me the link and I'll post it.

Have a GREAT TIME, consume a little beverage if you wish, and eat some Spam.

Don