Meetings

 This meeting was held at Salisbury University April 12th, 2014 at 10am. In Fulton Hall room 127.   
    In addition to the meeting we had a photographer on site.  This service was being offered to collect content from our members for pages on the web site.

Agenda- updated with notes

A call to order
I.         Minutes                                                                                   Rob
II.        Treasure's Report                                                                  Ernie
III.        Membership Update                                                              Mike
               - We need more members
VI.        Old Business
  • Details on Guild Exhibition Spaces                                                   Rob
  • We will be doing the Art Institute & Gallery Clay Guild show The week of August 15th . Rob and Sarah are coordinating it this year.  The guild will pay $10 per person, 25% of sales will go to AIG, 5% will to to clay guild.
  •  Interest was expressed in doing shows together as the Guild, one possible show brought to our attention is Festival of the Arts at Ker Place in Onancock.  Any one interested in going should contact us ASAP or sign up through the festival.
  • We will be looking in to exhibition spaces at the RAL, OC Art League and more for the Guild to do more group shows.  More info will be discussed at the next meeting. 
  • Details on upcoming workshops Raku and Barrel firing         Ernie &  Rob
  • -Earnie's work shop on Raku will be September 27th,
  • Glazing for the workshop will be September 20th during the next meeting.  Location TBA. 
  • Workshops:
    We discussed getting Steve Witmer or John Cheer to do a workshop, we will look in to prices and present at next meeting.
  • We also discussed having short workshops by members at the meeting.  

  • Saggar workshop 4/26,  Approval of supplies                              Rob
V.  New Business   
       -We are adding a page to the site for Mentoring.  If you would like to join we can add you name to the page
  • Guild membership dues   
  • We are going to do an email push for memberships, allow people to become members at workshops, and have more workshops to increase membership.                                                                Rob
  • Throw Down / May 3rd Friday                                                     Sarah
     -Clay-a-polooza    - 3rd Friday, May 15th, Salisbury Plaza, 5-8 pm. Rain Date June 20th.         We will set up 2 wheels and 2 hand building tables, we are asking clay guild members to volunteer to do throwing demos and work with the kids on hand building.   We will supply the clay, tools and firing.    
     -Dott Truitt, Earnie Satchell, Robert Johnson and Sarah Halcott have volunteered so far. 
     - We would like to have a table where some one can talk about the clay guild and give out membership applications.
VI. Next Meeting Date & Location
    Next meeting date September 20th, with raku glazing for next workshop.  Location TBA
     -We will try to create quarterly meeting with corresponding quarterly workshops, and may have short workshops (15 - 20 min)  at meetings with larger workshops following at another date.
VII.       Adjournment
In attendance were: 
Marge, Dott, Bob, Sarah, Robbie, Marie, Ernie, Brenda, and Jeff