Our October 16th WHAL meeting was a successful combination of brainstorming and goodtime conversation. Many thanks to all members who
participated for their input and suggestions. Additional thanks to Kim Kerr for the delicious homemade treats.
Below are some of the suggestions brought up with the end resolution:
* November 30th will be the deadline for membership submission in order to retain your web page in our Artists Market on our league website, as well as to receive the newsletter via USPS. Any member not renewing by this date will have to contact Cathy Vignolini to have his/her web page reinstated and Connie Serapiglia to have his/her name added to the newsletter mailing list.
* An increase of the Annual Art League entry fee of $5 per piece was voted upon.
* Monetary awards along with ribbons will be awarded to winners of our Annual Art League Show, due to the lack of response for requests by Cindy Gilberti for prize donations. The lack of interest in prize donations is believed to be in direct correlation to the present economic issues.
* New venues of the Sewickley Library, Airport, PTI and the Montour Trail were suggested. “Paint The Trail” was the suggested theme for the Montour Trail venue, whereby WHAL members would gather to paint outdoors on the trail.
* A new date for the Annual Art League show at Robin Hill has not yet been secured; but it was suggested this be scheduled in April, with a theme show in Oct. ’09.
* “Artist Tips” section in our newsletter and website was suggested. Gather your tips and time-saving tricks! Please submit these to either Cathy Vignolini or Connie Serapiglia.
* Demonstrators are needed! Please submit suggestions to Elene Page. One suggestion was to have a sketching session instead of a demonstrator, where we gather to sketch a live model or still-life.
