Mini Minutes October 5th/12th, 2006 Things Important: -We’ve come up with a fundraiser: Paint Crimes! Essentially, we will let students pay to throw balloons filled with water-soluble paint at students, faculty and staff who have agreed to have paint thrown at them (this is NOT a paint throwing free for all). So far, our list includes: President Fox Frank Southerington Laura Shaft Bob Grotjohn Sarah Kennedy Pam Yowell Karen Parker Rev. Scott Allison Kaufman
The science department is donating goggles to keep paint out of eyes, and we’ll use left over Apple Day tee-shirts. We will probably hold this in the SAC, with drop cloths and butcher paper to keep things clean. The plan is to try to get the outlines of the professors onto the butcher paper behind them. Two possible dates for this event are on the 1st Thursday of November (November 2nd) or the Thursday before final exams.
-Officers will meet every Thursday until our plans for our fundraiser are straightened out. The rest of you don’t need to plan on coming to these meetings, but I’ll update you on any new developments after each meeting. However, this brings me to the next very important thing:
-Official meetings are, from now on, being held on the 1st and 3rd Thursdays of every month. I’ll send out reminders a day or so before each meeting so no one gets confused. Meetings are still at 6:00 PM in the Pub.
By the way, since tomorrow is the 3rd Thursday of the month, we have another meeting! To my knowledge, some of us still owe dues, so if you haven’t given Hannah $5 yet, try to remember to bring it to the meeting tomorrow. Lots of brilliant ideas are being tossed around for things we can do as a club, so be sure to come and share anything you have to offer. I’m sorry these minutes are combined and late.
“Art is a lie that tells the truth”- Pablo Picasso
Love love love, Brittany Bugge October 2, 2006Minutes for Thursday, September 28, 2006.
Things important: -Hannah Scott is our Vice President! She rocks! -Our plans for Apple Day have changed. Instead of setting up a photo booth with SIFE, we are only going to sell the homemade Apple Day tees-hirts that were printed over the weekend, and let people tie dye them. Another e-mail went out earlier today with the shifts that you signed up for, but if anyone just feels like coming down to help out, don’t hesitate. We could always use more people to help us talk up the fine arts. -Dues are due this week. Five dollars. They would have been due last week, but the meeting was really small and didn’t last long, and our treasurer was unavailable to collect dues. Therefore, bring $5 with you to the meeting on Thursday.
Upcoming: -This Wednesday, October 4, Mary Baldwin College’s theatre season opens with Exit the Body by Fred Carmichael, directed by Terry Southerington. Several members of the SFAA are involved in the cast and crew, including Betsy Shortt, Jess Hilden, Rachael Phipps, Max Hoskins, myself, and a lovely and generous contribution by Susan Felton. Wednesday through Saturday night at 8 PM (doors open at 7:30) Sunday afternoon at 2 PM For tickets or more information, call the box office at X7189. $5 for students, faculty and staff $7 for general public Talk it up! Invite your significant others! If you are a freshman or an Honor Scholar, you should get a free ticket. Call the box office and be sure to reserve it!
-Hunt Gallery in Hunt dinging hall opened a new exhibit called How to Live without Fear, with paintings by Mark Van Buskirk. His paintings will be up in Hunt Gallery through October 27. The gallery is open Monday through Friday from 9 AM to 5 PM…so whenever you have a chance, go check out some awesome paintings!
Things Other: -Thank you to everyone who came to Deming art studio on Saturday! We printed all of the tee-shirts with stencils and spray paint, and they look great. We will be tie-dying the shirts on Wednesday at our Apple Day table. (Supposedly, these tee-shirts are cooler than the official Apple Day shirts!)
So…that’s all for last week’s minutes. I’m sorry they came out late. But…I have no excuses. Just remember: Exit the Body this week, Apple Day on Wednesday, and bring your dues on Thursday!
“Art is the perpetual motion of illusion. The highest purpose of art is to inspire. What else can you do? What else can you do for any one but inspire them?” – Bob Dylan
Love love love, Brittany Bugge
Thursday, September 21, 2006
Student Fine Arts Association Minutes! <!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--><!--[endif]-->SFAA website: sfaa.mbc.googlepages.comSFAA e-mail: sfaa.mbc@gmail.com Things Important -We have a Treasurer! Her name is Hannah Vargason and she rocks. -We have nominees for Vice President! Their names are Hannah (Scott), Meagan, and Becca. You can read their bios on the website. Nominations for VP are now closed. -In order to get on our feet financially, we decided to charge dues of $5. So at the next meeting, please bring your spare dough (i.e. FIVE DOLLARS) and hand it to Hannah Vargason. Make checks out to Mary Baldwin College. If you want to vote, you must pay dues. -Rachael Phipps is setting up an online voting system. It will be based on the Honor System, and will probably involve e-mail verification. It should be running by next Tuesday. Upcoming -Apple Day is October 4th! We have a table for Apple Day, at which we will be: -Tie Dying pre-printed Apple Day Tee shirts -Taking pictures. For this, we are borrowing costumes from Deming’s Old Laundry building. We will charge for use of costumes and take pictures using a digital camera borrowed from A/V. At the table, we’ll have a lap top computer onto which we’ll save pictures and post on a private, free account that only people from Baldwin can access and print out. Phipps is going to pick out costumes and Hannah V is going to find out how much dry cleaning is going to cost. Then we will decide how much to charge for using the costumes. We will be doing this in partnership with SIFE, who are going to provide the backdrop. - In order to prepare our pre-printed Apple Day Tee-shirts, everyone will be getting together the weekend before Apple Day (that’s the weekend of Saturday, Sept 30/Sunday, Oct 1. Specific date and time yet to be determined...) to help stencil tee shirts and heat treat fabric paint. Pizza will probably be included in this endeavor, and Jess Hilden, Betsy Shortt and Max Hoskins have lovingly volunteered their apartments for the occasion. Here are directions to their apartment: Go down Frederick St. Turn right at Stuart Hall on Fillmore St. Fillmore will twist and turn into Alleghany Max lives at 625 Alleghany in the big white brick square house, in apartment # 1. <!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--> That’s all I have for the minutes this week, but I’m pretty sure that I’m forgetting something. Oh well. I’ll see you kids next week, same time, same place, with $5 in hand. Be prepared to welcome a new Vice President (don’t forget to check the website and VOTE) and share more amazing ideas. <!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--> “Art is why I get up in the morning but my definition ends there. You know I don't think it’s fair that I'm living for something I can't even define.” –Ani DiFranco <!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--> Love love love, Brittany Bugge
Thursday, September 14, 2006SFAA e-mail: sfaa.mbc@gmail.com
Things important -We agreed to change our meeting time from 7 PM to 6 PM for the benefit of those in the theatre department who have rehearsals to attend at 7. Same place, same day, just one hour earlier. -Voting: We agreed that if members want to vote on anything we do, they have to attend meetings. -Open positions: We currently have open positions for a Treasurer and a Vice President! If you want to be either of these, please send us a short bio of yourself and tell us what position you would like to fill. We will vote for a Treasurer and Vice Prez at our meeting next week.
Upcoming -Apple Day! We have two terrific ideas so far for our Apple Day table: Face painting, and taking old timey pictures. This will involve borrowing costumes from Fletcher Collins Theatre, and obtaining digital camera and related equipment. If anyone wants to volunteer to man the table and help out with these great ideas, please e-mail us. We’ll set up shifts so nobody has to be at the table all day long. If anyone has anymore ideas, please e-mail them to us or bring them up at the next meeting! -Campus Comments: Campus Comments is offering advertising space for $5. If anyone has an idea or a design for an SFAA advertisement, e-mail us your idea and bring it to the next meeting.
Things Discussed -Arts Department overnight weekend. The idea for this comes from the Prospective Weekend hosted by the Theatre department, for high school students who are prospective Mary Baldwin theatre students. We could try to organize a similar weekend for prospective fine arts students. -SOULS is organizing Love Your Body Day and one of their ideas is to make body part molds. We might like to do something in conjunction with Souls to help out, especially with art projects like body molds. -Groups on LiveJournal, Facebook and MySpace are being created for SFAA so that everyone can connect over the internet using whatever website we each prefer, along with the official SFAA website. -We need ideas to bring before senate, so if you have ideas, share them! Chances are, we’ll love them. We also need ideas for fund raising. Some ideas we have had include: -Getting the word out to restaurants and coffee shops in town so artists on campus can have their work displayed in town, and said restaurants can get more business as students come in to see their works of art displayed. -Murals and other campus beautification projects -Art trails -Exposition on Parents Weekend -Interdisciplinary art festival in the spring -Setting up galleries in the Deming lobby during productions at the Fletcher Collins Theatre so patrons can view artwork while they wait for house to open on performance nights. -Workshops to show how all the different things we do can be art forms (especially things that might not normally be considered art forms, such as sewing, puppetry, woodworking or culinary arts). -Offering to alter choir dresses or uniforms as a fund raiser
That’s all the information I have for you this week. Please remember that our meeting time is now at 6:00 PM. While we are planning for Apple Day, we will be meeting once every week (on Thursdays). After that, we will probably start meeting twice each month.
“People have been thinking too long that art is a privilege of the museums & the rich. Art is not business! It does not belong to banks and fancy investors. Art is food. You can’t eat it, but it feeds you. Art has to be cheap & available to everybody. It needs to be everywhere because it is the inside of the world. Art soothes pain! Art wakes up sleepers! Art fights against war and stupidity! Art sings Halleluja! Art is for kitchens! Art is like good bread! Art is like green trees! Art is like white clouds in blue sky! Art is cheap! Hurrah!” – Cheap Art Manifesto, Bread and Puppet Theatre
Love love love, Brittany Bugge |