May Notes
Hello, and Happy Spring!
It’s getting lovelier every single day outside, and I can’t wait to bring an easel out and paint in the sunshine. The colors are always so brilliant in the spring, after having a somewhat limited palette during the winter to look at through the windows.
Thank you to those of you who came to our little social night for the last meeting. We had two new people join us that night—thank you Barb and Annie for coming to meet all of us and we are glad you are taking part in the Guild, too! Happy to see our snowbirders are coming back as well—great to see Wayne Hein in person! :)
Our next meeting will be back at the Buffalo Municipal Airport on May 18th, doors open at 6:30, meeting starts at 7PM. It will be a show and share of all of our collective work on “Trees.” Our group project is due, and we will collect that art for our venue switch outs in May. We will take any other art you are willing to have up at the venues, too. They really like landscapes and animals, but are open to anything. Please bring your art ready to hang.
June will be our CBS Sun Project artwork, due at the meeting which will be on June 15th. If you are unsure of what this entails, or didn’t see the previous emails with the details, let me know and I can get you the pertinent information. Again, it will be a show and share of our work and then we will be taking pictures that night of the artwork so we can upload it to CBS.
This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant
from the Central MN Arts Board, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.
Big News!! We were awarded the CMAB Project Grant! Woohoo! A huge thank you to Shari for all her incredible hard work in a short amount of time to get this done. If you have never written a grant, you don’t know what you are missing if you like to work with fine detail and organizational skills under a deadline. Amazing work and a round of applause for all the time and effort you put in, Shari!
What this means is we are able to provide 9 months of fine arts workshops to the Buffalo Community. Shari and I are working hard to get everything in place for this, which again means we are under deadline and working in minute detail to honor all the grant ramifications. Please watch the Guild Journal for all the updates and monthly workshops as they become available. Such an exciting thing we get to offer to our community!
June 1st also marks the day I step down as Executive Chair of the Guild. Because of the grant and other obligations, we will need new leadership. We currently don’t have a Secretary—I have been fulfilling that role, too, in addition to the Chair. To keep this guild working properly, we will need to have these positions filled. Plus, various times for volunteer work, whether it’s helping at the venues, or the upcoming workshops.
Many times during my tenure I have thrown out the definition of a Guild— a guild is an organized group of individuals with common interests, goals, or trades, actively working together for the betterment of the whole. It is when we all work together that the guild works. Many hands make light work.
Please consider helping where you are able, and remember, we have an Executive Board of 9 members here to assist you.
See you on May 18th!
Tamra