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President's Message
During this month of gratitude, I would like to take a moment to express how thankful I am for this Art Association and how incredibly grateful I am for everyone who’s contributions make this organization the amazing, thriving, fun community that it is. It has been a blast to reflect on all the things we have accomplished together during this last year and I cannot wait to see all the things we will do together in the upcoming year.
Janet, our board Secretary, has once again worked her grant-getting magic and has found us not one, but TWO grants! We will be receiving a BUILD grant through The Community Foundation San Luis Obispo County to update our iPads. The timing of receiving the funds from this grant could not have been more perfect. Our gallery iPads have become crucial to ensuring smooth Take-in days and are vital to ringing in sales during events, such as, Art on the Patio and Art in the Park. Our current refurbished iPads are out of date and will no longer be able to connect to our point of sale system in the very near future. Needless to say we are very excited for the new iPads.
The second grant we will be receiving is from the City of Morro Bay. We have been wanting to replace the flooring in the downstairs workshop space even before we tore the carpeting off the gallery walls, and now, with this grant, our new-flooring-install dreams are about to come true. We are currently waiting on estimates, but if all goes well, we hope to close the gallery during the last week of December in order to reopen in the new year with a beautiful new workshop floor. Wohoooo! THANK YOU JANET!!!!!
Angie and Alissa, our social media/web gurus, have succeeded in finding a new website designer/host for building a brand new - more dynamic - more accessible - more user-friendly - just better in general- website. Did someone say Online Take-in Registration!? Yes, we sure did! We are absolutely thrilled to be able to streamline the entire take-in process with this new feature. This will enable our exhibiting Artists to check in their work and pay for their submissions through the MBAA’s website, up to two weeks before the exhibit’s scheduled take-in day, making artwork drop off a breeze. We hope to have the new site up and running by January 2nd, just in time for the For the Birds exhibit’s take-in.
If you are interested in having any of your artwork featured in the MBAA’s 2024 online and print marketing materials, we will be sending out (in the next week or two) a call-to-action email outlining how and where to submit your high resolution images. If you’re like me and have gotten behind on photographing/archiving your latest body of work, this is a great excuse to get back on top of it.
Tomorrow is Take-in Tuesday, 10am-2pm, for the annual Winter Faire & Juried Craft Show. This exhibit is open to all mediums, fine arts, and crafts, as well as, any subject matter. Crafts include, but not limited to fiber, wood, glass, sculpture, pottery and jewelry. This exhibit is designed for customers who are holiday shopping and looking for special gift ideas. Artists are invited to submit up to - three wall hung 2D pieces, ten cards, five portfolio prints, twelve jewelry pieces, three large sculptures and/or twelve craft items. The artist’s reception for what promises to be an exceptional holiday shopping wonderland is this Sunday from 2-4pm. I will not be attending the reception this Sunday as I will be starting out on what promises to be an epic cross-country adventure. It is a little bit bittersweet because it will be the first reception I will be missing since joining the MBAA, however I hope to have exciting tales to regale y’all with upon my return.
Don’t forget, Art Center will be closed on Thanksgiving Day, but will be open the rest of the week for all of your holiday gift shopping needs. I hope you have a Happy Thanksgiving!
Cheers,
Kathleen
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