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PAGE 2 JUNE 2008 NEWSLETFER Exhibitions The major project for the Exhibitions Director was the First Annual Fine Arts Sale. This involved being responsible for the setting up of the Exhibition venue. Volunteers were needed to set up the equipment, to be available on the floor to provide security and deal with the public. Many thanks to the people I worked with from different committees particularly Edith Warner, Manfred Kettek, James Elton, Roger Ayliff and special thanks to Larry Achtemichuk for painting the old display panels and facilitating the building of the new easels. A scheduled show for Park Royal in September 2007 was cancelled. Due to the success of the Fine Arts Sale it was decided for at least this year not to have Mall exhibitions. I contacted both Capilano Mall and Park Royal Mall and advised them that we would not be having a show in 2008. We also have no longer got ongoing shows at Bank of Montreal, the Chamber of Commerce and St. Stephen's Church. We have had paintings in the Community Room at Park Royal and are still considering whether to continue with that. A number of individual members have secured possible venues if other members wish to pursue them. We participated in the Harmony Arts Festival in 2007. This was highly successful in the number of sales. We sold 40 paintings. Plans are underway now for the show in August 2008. We have had one jurying session on May 3, 2008. We had our usual format of artists either sending in photographs of paintings and registration on line, or going to St. Stephen's church to have the paintings photographed there along with registering. This year we put the paintings on two CD5 and sent them to the jurors who viewed the CD on their own time and then sent the results to Edith Warner. We juried for Harmony Arts and the Ferry Building. The Ferry Building show will be in October of 2008. We decided to enter into the jurying process for a show at CityScape Art Space through the North Vancouver Arts Commission. We called for members to make suggestions as to a theme. We came up with a theme of Sea, Soil and Sky, and submitted our application with an environmental aspect to the title. Larry Achtemichuk and I met with Linda Feil the Executive Director of the North Vancouver Community Arts who suggested we go back to the drawing board as they already had several submissions along our line. Larry and I will continue to work on a proposal for submission for the Fall 2008 jurying, which will have the same jurors as in May. Submitted by, hj/uccok3shaw. ca Heather Luccock 604-985-6570 Personal Message fmm Jacqule Manning Now, what an exciting year this has been for our guild! It has been an exceptional year for "firsts". Ie instituted "First Fridays" at Klee Wyck, giving members the opportunity to exhibit their work. We held our first Annual Fine Art Sale which proved to be hugely successful. And for some of us it was ur first time for entering a jurying and exhibiting our paintings. We say "good-bye" to St. Stephen's hurch and "hello" to our new home at the West Van Senior Centre. What adventures await us this Fall? [would like to thank every one of you who volunteered your time and energy over the past year, msuring that our guild remains the fine organization our community has come to know over the tears. By consciously casting our net out into North Vancouver we now have the ability to bring "art :onsciousness" to even more people in this North Shore community. Have a wonderful summer and enjoy the Harmony Arts Festival in August. I'll see you again, with bells on, at the Senior Centre, Wednesday, September 10, 2008. Happy painting! Jacquie Manning 604 980 8907 P.O. Box 91051 West Vancouve B. C. V7V 3N3