West Fife Villages Exhibition of Art, Photography and Crafts: Minutes

Minutes of the meeting held on 31st January 2012 in Saline Community Centre to discuss the arrangements for the 2012 West Fife Villages Exhibition of Art, Photography and Crafts.

Those in attendance:- Gareth Turner, Jim Hensman, Austen Clark, Dave Quinney, Marylla Ferguson, Marie Crane, Liz Harvey, Dr Ian Mason, Muriel Phillips, John Crane.

Apologies:- Elizabeth Crabbie, Donald Murdoch,. Fiona Aitken, Ada Cooper, David Hatton, Derek Fudge, Joan Featherstone, Mike Dunn.

Gareth Turner took the chair.

Minutes Minutes of the previous meeting held 25th October were accepted. Proposed by Marie Crane, seconded by Austen Clark.

Dr Ian Morgan. Gareth welcomed Ian to the gathering and asked him to introduce himself. Ian explained that he had taken up photography following his retirement. He added that all profits from the sale of his work goes to the Stroke Association.

It was agreed that we would allocate an 8 ft. display board for Ian’s work at the exhibition.

Catering. Fiona Aitken had confirmed that the ladies of the Church Guild would organise the catering for the two days of the event.

Who Opens the Exhibition? Marylla agreed to approach a suitable artist.

Post Meeting Note. Marylla has reported that Lys Hansen, an international artist and the former President of the Society of Scottish Artists, has agreed to open the exhibition.

Primary School Involvement. Jim Hensman said that he had visited all eleven primary schools in the West Fife villages, including Kincardine Primary School. All had been invited to participate in the event. Jim added that he would be keeping in touch with all of the schools to agree dates and times when artwork would be available.

Publicity. John reported that the large display table in the foyer of Dunfermline Carnegie Library had been booked for 3 weeks from 2nd April.

John added that he would shortly be issuing press releases to local newspapers and online art magazines. An article would also appear in the next Community Bulletin and an entry had been submitted for inclusion in the next edition of Fife Council’s Events Booklet.

John said that he would speak to Derek Fudge about the production of posters, flyers and the “Certificates of Merit” for the primary school pupils.

Painting and Photographic workshops. Liz had already agreed to again organise her very successful watercolour workshop. Dave Hatton had suggested that he introduce a photographic workshop. It was agreed that this item be left on the agenda for discussion at the next meeting.

Database of Artists. Dave and Marylla had agreed to take on the task of inviting artists to participate in the exhibition and liaising with new artists who express a desire to enter exhibits. John said that he would tidy up the database of artists and pass it to Dave and Marylla.

Display Boards Following a discussion, Gareth agreed to source and build a few pegboard frames for use in the boxes that display the school children’s work.

Crafts. It was agreed that we would still include some crafts in the exhibition but that we would have to be extremely selective in view of the space limitations.

Dunfermline Photographic Association. Mike Dunn has been in touch to confirm the participation of the Association in this year‘s event.

Date of Next Meeting It was agreed that the next meeting would be held at 7.00 pm on 31st January in the Saline Community Centre.

John Crane

Exhibition Manager

Exhibition Manager