April 7th Meeting Minutes

Attendance: Sue Finch Lilly Haugh, John Daniels, Kaitlin Kline, Grace Edwards, Misty McGiffin, Trisha Wirick, Molly Courtright, Donna Menigat, Fred Menigat, Bonnie Johnson, Sherry Hamilton, Randy Devol, Jessica Devol, Nathan Fitchpatrick, Kim Hartman, Rod Hartman, Kamal Kassouf, Denise Holmes, Katie McCarthy, Jo Binkley, Peggy Arvay

Sue ran the meeting

Secretaries Report– Sue checked that people at the meeting are receiving the minutes, and will add our new visitors to the distribution.

Treasurers Report. Larry was not present. He emailed balance $1347.76

Report on Olivedale Show – Misty – We made $263 with the raffle ticket sales. 171 visitors over three days were counted. 63 people attended classes, with approximately 15 people at each class, and 17 club members displayed their work. Misty thanked everyone for their donations and stated that we still have gift cards for use at our next show.

Our next show is the Library show. The theme is Beyond the Beaten Path and we will be hanging the show on May 17th from 5-7. Work needs to be wired to hang. We do a scavenger hunt for adults with the show and they do a drawing for one winner of an 8×10 (or equivalent) print of their favorite picture so if your picture is the one chosen you will need to provide either a print or a digital file so we can make a print for the winner. The show will run through July 15th…(I may have said the wrong date at the meeting, as my notes were wrong).

Which leads us straight into the Art Walk. We will be hoisting the show at the Presbyterian church. More information will be coming after we have our meeting with the church later this month. We have decided we will not have judging categories, but will do a People’s choice. Art Walk generally is looking for newer work, but work that hasn’t been displayed during a previous Art Walk (even if it is older) is fine. The Art Walk is a good time to pull out your best work, and prints and a few framed pieces will usually sell. The Art Walk is Friday July 22nd, and then we will have open hours on Sunday, Monday, Wednesday, and Friday after the Art Walk as required by Destination Downtown.

There will be wall space, and display walls, and we may also borrow some display walls from Parks and Rec. We will have sign-ups for space once we figure out how we want to arrange the space.

Our Fall Olivedale Show – we need to double check the dates with Nancy and get a committee together to run things. The main priority will be deciding on judging categories so people have time to get their displays figured out.

April meeting – Kim Hartman did a presentation on Water Photography. Thanks Kim. We also had several examples set up that members could photograph.

May – John Daniels will be presenting “Special Effect Photography”

June – John and Nancy will be putting together an Africa Slide Show.

Please let us know if there are any subjects that you would like to learn about for future meetings

John has invited us for the Pine Lake Fireworks in July – we will determine if it is a picnic, etc. at a later date.

Scavenger hunt judging:

Mirrors: 1st Kamal Kassouf, 2nd Sue Finch, 3rd Peggy Arvay

Open: 1st Kamal Kassouf, 2nd Bonnie Johnson, 3rd Molly Courtright

Complementary Colors: 1st Peggy, 2nd Kamal Kassouf, 3rd Sue Finch

Abstract: 1st Molly Courtright, 2nd Kamal Kassouf, 3rd Misty McGiffin

Golden Hour: 1st Kamal Kassouf, 2nd Molly Courtright, 3rd Sue Finch

Snow: 1st Misty McGiffin, 2nd Sue Finch, 3rd Kamal Kassouf

Architecture: 1st Sue Finch, 2nd Kamal Kassouf, 3rd Bonnie Johnson

Those will be posted on FB and the webpage over the next few days.

2nd Quarter Scavenger Categories: Nature, Extreme Close Ups, Leading Lines, Animals in Action, May Flowers, Blooms, and Open this Quarter. 4X6 prints will be due at our July meeting.