Meeting Nov 11- Art With The Community Day!

So finally AWTC is happening and it can be over and done with! A reminder to all you volunteers who weren't at the meeting, be there BEFORE 6:30 if you're helping with the first class and BEFORE 8 for the second class. Also, please bring in bake sale stuff like pop and cookies and cupcakes and brownies and things. There's never too much.

Membership stuff was due today, the money and the forms. It's very important that we get those because we need to be able to contact everyone and know who's actually going to be participating this year. Once we get everyone's contact info in, I think I'll probably send around an email so that everyone will have everyone else's info. Or maybe I'll just post it here. Either way, it will be available.

Another thing that was due today was the t-shirt designs. Aside from that one I made, we only got one other one from Sasha which was really cool. It had dinosaurs with paintbrushes and pencils. It looks very similar to the one from last year. There was a vote, and Sasha's design, won, I guess. So we'll be in the process of putting into a format to screen print out onto t-shirts. I think next week we'll probably make a list of all the people who want one and the sizes and get a cost estimate. It should be around $10 per shirt. Sorry I don't have a picture of it here, but hopefully Brianna will post it soon enough.

Lastly, our next "project" sort of thing we have set up is going to be candy cane-o-grams. If you don't remember what that is from last year, basically people buy candy canes at lunch and send them to a friend. It's 50¢ to $1, I can't really remember, but pretty cheap. Now where it gets artsy is that this year we'll be making greeting cards to go with it, or decorative gift tags. They'll either be some sort of template or stencil that everyone can trace out and color or they'll be made of paper cut outs. Since Christmas break is really only a few weeks off, it's something that needs to be started right away, so by next week have some (fairly simple) designs for that in mind and we can pick two or three to mass produce for it. Don't even worry about actually obtaining the candy canes just yet though because you can get those everywhere on the cheap.

So, as the Dimminator used to say, It's about that time.
See you next week,
Andrea

P.S. I didn't mention this at the meeting, but there are at least three teachers who are lined up for us to paint murals on their walls. One of them would be a pretty big project, so it would take some time. The others are pretty simple. Dani Morrow is essentially in charge of these now, so we'll talk more about it at the next meeting and see about getting a committee together to help.