Northwest Artist Guild
Revised and accepted May 6, 2013
Mission: Within a supportive environment that encourages the creative process, the Northwest Artists Guild provides opportunities for artists to build and share their knowledge and skills, and to exhibit their work on the Pacific Northwest Coast.
Purpose: We formed to mutually support each other in making art, inspire and enable each other to develop additional skills through educational opportunities in our chosen mediums or to cross-train in other artistic disciplines, as well as learn about and actively participate hands-on in gallery duties and relationships.
Proposal: To that end we propose to:
· Meet regularly to develop camaraderie and support for each other, discuss guild business, and meet with prospective new members.
· Learn and actively participate in the practical challenges of gallery administration, marketing and management, as well as meeting and talking about art to art patrons.
· Bring experienced artists, who have their own unique esthetic, to the peninsula to provide an array of educational opportunities to advance our skills through demonstrations, classes and workshops and if space remains to invite other artists on the peninsula to share in this opportunity.
· Explore and exchange information on exhibition and selling opportunities in the world outside the peninsula.
· Specifically, over the course of the calendar year to develop other local opportunities to exhibit and sell our work.
· Develop a list of discerning art lovers on and off the peninsula to invite to our shows.
Membership: Our membership consists of a core group of founding guild members and additional artists who are invited to join he guild.
Goals of the Guild members are:
· Initially be invited to join by 75% “yes” vote of the current guild members present at a monthly meeting.
· To fully participate in providing leadership and hands on work in running of the guild activities for our shows and events on a rotational basis as a guild member.
· To pay annual dues for now, and a low commission on the sale of your art work. All income will be used strictly for the production of guild events.
· Attend monthly art reception if you are showing work, to meet and greet art patrons.
· Attend the monthly general meeting where we conduct all business together and make our decisions. No business conducted elsewhere will be a decision for the guild until it is voted by the members in the general meeting.
Artistic Disciplines: We accept artists who work in original, one-of-a-kind fine art disciplines.
Unframed giclee’s or other prints of your work are ok during the reception, but only original art is to be hung in the gallery space, or at shows.
Framed Paintings or Contemporary Presentations in Oil, Watercolor, Pastel, Acrylic, Collage, Mixed Media, Encaustic, Pencil/Colored Pencil, Pen & Ink, Scratchboard, or Monoprints,
· Other presentations of Glass Tile/Individual Pieces/Sculpture, Metal Work/Sculpture, Wood Carving, Ceramic Tile/Individual Pieces/Sculpture, or Fiber.
Annual Fees Guild members pay an annual membership fee of $60. Commission on gallery sales is 10%.
THIS CHARTER IS A "LIVING DOCOMENT" AND IS SUBJECT TO REVIEW AND APPROVAL OF GUILD MEMBERS.
Revised and accepted May 6, 2013
Mission: Within a supportive environment that encourages the creative process, the Northwest Artists Guild provides opportunities for artists to build and share their knowledge and skills, and to exhibit their work on the Pacific Northwest Coast.
Purpose: We formed to mutually support each other in making art, inspire and enable each other to develop additional skills through educational opportunities in our chosen mediums or to cross-train in other artistic disciplines, as well as learn about and actively participate hands-on in gallery duties and relationships.
Proposal: To that end we propose to:
· Meet regularly to develop camaraderie and support for each other, discuss guild business, and meet with prospective new members.
· Learn and actively participate in the practical challenges of gallery administration, marketing and management, as well as meeting and talking about art to art patrons.
· Bring experienced artists, who have their own unique esthetic, to the peninsula to provide an array of educational opportunities to advance our skills through demonstrations, classes and workshops and if space remains to invite other artists on the peninsula to share in this opportunity.
· Explore and exchange information on exhibition and selling opportunities in the world outside the peninsula.
· Specifically, over the course of the calendar year to develop other local opportunities to exhibit and sell our work.
· Develop a list of discerning art lovers on and off the peninsula to invite to our shows.
Membership: Our membership consists of a core group of founding guild members and additional artists who are invited to join he guild.
Goals of the Guild members are:
· Initially be invited to join by 75% “yes” vote of the current guild members present at a monthly meeting.
· To fully participate in providing leadership and hands on work in running of the guild activities for our shows and events on a rotational basis as a guild member.
· To pay annual dues for now, and a low commission on the sale of your art work. All income will be used strictly for the production of guild events.
· Attend monthly art reception if you are showing work, to meet and greet art patrons.
· Attend the monthly general meeting where we conduct all business together and make our decisions. No business conducted elsewhere will be a decision for the guild until it is voted by the members in the general meeting.
Artistic Disciplines: We accept artists who work in original, one-of-a-kind fine art disciplines.
Unframed giclee’s or other prints of your work are ok during the reception, but only original art is to be hung in the gallery space, or at shows.
Framed Paintings or Contemporary Presentations in Oil, Watercolor, Pastel, Acrylic, Collage, Mixed Media, Encaustic, Pencil/Colored Pencil, Pen & Ink, Scratchboard, or Monoprints,
· Other presentations of Glass Tile/Individual Pieces/Sculpture, Metal Work/Sculpture, Wood Carving, Ceramic Tile/Individual Pieces/Sculpture, or Fiber.
Annual Fees Guild members pay an annual membership fee of $60. Commission on gallery sales is 10%.
THIS CHARTER IS A "LIVING DOCOMENT" AND IS SUBJECT TO REVIEW AND APPROVAL OF GUILD MEMBERS.