Belmont Art Association EXHIBIT!

The BAA has been invited to have a show in the Belmont Gallery of Art!

It is up to us to make it a huge success.  Here is the email I received:
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Dear Belmont Art Association,
The Belmont Gallery of Art is pleased to support your membership by extending an invitation to produce a winter art show at the gallery from February 7 to March 21.  The nature, scope and selection process for work to be included in the show would be up to you as long as it meets with the requirements determined by the Town of Belmont. If you accept this invitation, Richard Hill will work with you on the logistics and gallery requirements.
As a reminder gallery hours are: Thursday and Friday 10 a.m. – 4 p.m., Sunday 1 – 4 p.m.  The BAA would be responsible for determining a date for a reception and if outside of these hours the gallery would provide logistical support to make sure the building is open. The BAA would need to provide gallery “sitters” for the duration of the Sunday hours.
We hope that you are interested in this opportunity and we look forward to working with you.
Yours,
The Belmont Gallery of Art Committee:
Viva Fisher, Richard Hill, Kathy Lobo, Rebecca Richards, Christine Sandvik

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I am hoping that we will have time at our October 24^th get together – after the demonstration – to have a chat about this.   We need to discuss quite a few things.  Here are some beginning outlines/topics:

• Eligibility – only BAA paying members with priority given to current members of the BAA (as of today) and second priority to members joining before a certain date (dec 1?) or just by chronological order of enrollment based on available space.  also, since this is the first show for the BAA, I would propose that the artists live or work in belmont to qualify.  (to join, go to : http://belmontart.org/join/  )
• Number of pieces/space – perhaps every official member would be given a certain area of wall space
• Theme – no theme but the BGA and BAA would have the power to veto anything they consider inappropriate for whatever reason.  if some sort of open theme would help give the show continuity, that would be fine, but we want all the BAA artists to be able to participate.  I guess in a way, the theme is “artist of belmont” and I imagine it organized as above – each artist with an area.
• Sales – offering for sale smaller items as well as artwork – reproductions and cards etc.
• Commission – I believe the BGA takes a commission.
• The mission of this show would be to get greater visibility for belmont artists both as a group and individually.  support in the form of some sales would be nice.  we need to have good artist labels by the works and we should have special “artist” name tags identifying us at the events.
• AP Art class  idea – the BGA has noticed that there is much more attendance when there are school displays.  The AP art class in the high school has students of a superior level with an excellent teacher in mark milowsky.  as they are belmont residents, i propose that we allocate some space for them (maybe in the 2^nd room).  in addition, they are trying to raise funds for a school trip to paris, and were not able to run their annual fundraiser event this year.  each student could have a work on display with proceeds going to the fund for the trip. we could even do a separate event for their opening – helping to maximize the attendance to the gallery over a span of time.
• Gallery sitting – we would take turns doing gallery sitting.  i’m sure we would all be happy to contribute our time to support the gallery in this way.

We will create a list of topics and discussions somewhere online.  Stay tuned!

This is so exciting!