2010 SOMETHING RED A HUGE SUCCESS

More photos HERE!

I want to take a few minutes to thank everyone for making this year's Something Red Event a HUGE success.

I visited several participating businesses on Wednesday evening and they all said they had lots of folks stopping by to meet the artists and look at the art. Several businesses said this was the busiest Something Red they could remember.


The Something Red Awards Reception and Ceremony at the Reed was Fantastic! Diane Trevett and Jody Bartruff really went all out putting together three huge tables of food and beverages! I think there was at least twice the amount of things to eat and drink then past years and that was a good thing because I think we had at least twice the number of folks attending the reception! I also need to thank all the folks that donated the food and beverages! Way to go!

Special thanks to Liza Marshall for chairing this year's Something Red event. Liza did an outstanding job of putting together all numerous parts and pieces. Most of us don't have a clue just how many hours go into making this event a success.

Thanks go out to Diane Marks for her Design of the new Something Red “look” helped inspire us all. She designed the posters, postcards and the map cards that you can pick up here and at each business. She worked with Lisa and did the artwork for all of the advertising for Something Red.
She also worked closely with Suzi Bicknell of GoDowntown Salem to design some of their advertising. Also helped keep Lisa sane during all of this!

Thanks to Miriam Selby for her advice was invaluable in getting Something Red 2010 o to good start and to keeping it organized.

A huge thanks to our Jurors! What a great lineup!
Our Jurors:
Catherine Alexander, Galleries Curator and Galleries Director of the Salem Art Association.
Paula Booth, MFA, Gallery Director and Assistant Professor of Art at Western Oregon University
Our Guest Jurors:
Mayor Janet Taylor
Bill Church, Executive Editor of the Statesman Journal
Suzi Bicknell, Director of GoDowntown Salem

Catherine, Mayor Taylor, Bill and Suzi all showed up at the Awards Reception and Ceremony at the Reed and presented awards to artist! I think this was a first!

Special "Thank yous" to Roger Yost and Rebecca Maitland for allowing us to use Trinity Ballroom for our Intake and Judging. Also for allowing us to use “Gallery 205” for the month of December. (Those artworks are currently hanging in the Reception area for tonight only and will be back in Gallery 205 on December 2nd.) And for their continued support of the arts in Salem and to Artists in Action in particular. We appreciate everything that they have done for us in getting “Something Red 2010” o the ground.

Another "Special Thanks" to GoDowntown Salem Director Suzi Bicknell. Our partnership with GoDowntown Salem helps provide AiA with a huge amount of publicity that we couldn't otherwise afford. I am convinced that this partnership really helped make this year's Something Red so successful.

I want to thank all the The businesses that continue to support the Arts here in Salem and participate in “Something Red 2010” :

Reed Opera House
Allesandro’s Restaurant
Art Department
Cascade Bakery
Calusa Studio
Dave Wilson Designer-Goldsmith
The French Unicorn
Greenbaum’s Quilted Forest
Jonathan’s Restaurant
Rountree Gallery
Roy John Designer Goldsmith
Umpqua Bank
Wild Pear Restaurant

And last but certainly not least, all of the volunteers that helped with the intake of more then 100 pieces of art and those that helped get the artwork distributed to the participating businesses over the 2 weekends! On both days art was distributed we had at least 15 volunteers show up to make light work of the process. I think on both days we scheduled 5 hours to distribute the art but on both days it only took 2 hours to complete the tasks!
Thank you all so very much!!

MANY HANDS MAKE LIGHT WORK - SOMETHING RED

Just a quick note to thank all the folks that showed up Saturday, November 20th to help choose art for this year's Something Red business locations. I think about 15 people showed up to help.

Art was distributed to several business locations and the balance was moved from the Ball Room on the 3rd floor of the Reed Opera house to room 205 of the Reed.

The weather cooperated and we did not have any rain.

We stared around 11 am and were all done by 1 pm, two hours ahead of schedule!

But the need for volunteers to help distribute art for this year's Something Red is NOT over. We will need volunteers to help distribute the rest of the art on Monday November 29th. We will meet at 11 am in room 205 to distribute the remaining art.

I will be sending out a "call for volunteers" soon and hopefully we can get at least as many folks to help out as we did on Saturday.

ARTISTS IN ACTION MEMBER DATABASE PROJECT

For over a year the AiA Board has been creating specifications for a new AiA Member Database System. The cost of this project is in part being offset by recent grant AiA received from the Oregon Arts Commission. Below is an abbreviated description of the project for those who have any interest in the "nuts & bolts" of the AiA Member Database Project. This project is being implemented by Design Dance and is only possible by the generous pricing structure that Design Dance offers non-profit organizations such as AiA. Thank You Design Dance!

The really GREAT part of having all the AiA member information in a database is that it only gets inputted ONCE which greatly reduces the chances of "key punch" errors as well as GREATLY reducing the labor and time to make AiA email lists and "Our Members" web page current. I think having this database will greatly increase the possibility of recruiting board members and officers in the future since they will not have to know any specific applications.

Project Description:

Create an member management system to perform the following tasks:

Basic online member management system includes:

Secure admin login

Member management page to add/edit edit members.

Automatically update the member mailing system with current e-mails.

Automatically send a welcome message for new members.

Our Members page will automatically display member information from the new system.

Admin Report to display member information.


New Member Sign-Up Screen includes:

Sign-up screen for new users to enter their information and pay their 1st membership dues online.


Automatically process member payments option includes:

Automatically send an e-mail with a payment link to any upcoming renewals.

Also ability to send an individual renewal message.
Online payments will be processed through PayPal (www.paypal.com).

ARTISTS IN ACTION'S FIRST GRANT!

Artists in Action is the recipient of a Oregon Arts Commission Arts Recognition grant award! October 2010 - September 30, 2011. This grant is for the support of Artists in Action to increase marketing and development, to increase recognition of Artists in Action.

This grant is given by the Oregon Arts Commission and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Thank you Oregon Arts Commission and National Endowment for the Arts!

SUMMER IN THE CITY 2010 -- A FEW OF DEGREES OF SEPERATION

AiA Members Linda Lowery, Kathy Lull and Marilyn Krug with "Country Joe McDonald".

Despite the searing temperatures on Saturday and Sunday, I think most of the AiA Members that participated in this year's Summer in the City event had a great time. Sales were low but the energy between AiA Members and artists and event goers was very high. Saturday night had almost a "full house" when "Cherry Poppin' Daddies" hit the stage.

Sunday brought special memories for some of us when Joe McDonald showed up to have a bite to eat and talk to several AiA members. For those that don't remember, Joe McDonald is the legendary Country Joe McDonald of Woodstock fame and is best remembered by some of us for his performance of The "Fish" Cheer/I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-To-Die Rag. "Give me an "F"... ;-)

Joe McDonald also played a tribute to John Fahey. AiA member Melody Fahey can fill you in about the life and times of John Fahey if you are interested.

Special thanks to Suzi Bicknell and Mike Patton for bringing this year's Summer in the City event together. Also a huge "Tip of the Hat" to all the High School kids that showed up very early Saturday morning to help us setup some of the AiA Artist's booths.

Phil Krug
2010 AiA President

Summer in the City AiA booths


Bud & Lorraine Dye "enjoying the heat"


Homer "taking it easy"

Suzi Bicknell & Ron Wolf

"Outside the Box" 2010 --

There are a couple of things that really stand out from this year's "Outside The Box" event and I wanted to take some time to acknowledge them.

First off, according to our preliminary calculations we have FAR exceeded previous years in terms of the total dollars we raised through this event. On Sunday we added up all the top bids and came up with a total of about $1,250 gross! We think previous years netted no more then $800. Of course we still have some expenses to deduct but it looks like 2010 will be a banner year for our "Outside the Box" event.

I do want to thank all the AiA members that contributed their time and talent to make this year's event a smashing success.

I want to take a moment to also thank one contributing artist in particular, Layne Young. Layne is NOT a member of AiA but when I told her about AiA's "Outside the Box" event she immediately wanted to donate one of her pieces to the event. Layne is one of the Studio Artists at Project Space 2010 and I would invite all of you to stop by Project Space 2010 to check out Layne's art in the Studio Artist Gallery.

Once again, Thank you one and all for making this year's Outside the Box event the event to remember...

Phil Krug
2010 AiA President

PROJECT SPACE UPDATE

Main Gallery Space

Studio Artist Gallery Space

I would like to invite everyone to visit the Salem Art Association's Project Space 2010 event as it enters its second month.

Project Space 2010 is an outstanding venue for seeing some very creative and cutting edge art. Project Space 2010 has over 20 local and regional artists contributing to this event.

Michael Boonstra is the Gallery Artist for July.

Jennifer Gimzewski, Layne Young and Marilyn Krug are the featured Studio Artists and have their gallery setup in the back on the first floor for the entire month of July.

Some background information about my role at Project Space 2010:

My role at Project Space 2010 is to document the entire 3 months of this event and create a book of this time period. Additionally I will be creating a second book related to Project Space 2009.

These "books" will document these events through images and text and be given to key participants of the events. Additional copies will be available to the general pubic for the cost of publication.

I have also become the chief facilities person, providing lighting and such for the exhibits. By default I am also doing all the design, hosting and administration for the Project Space 2010 web site.

Project Space 2010 is located at 150 Liberty St, NE, Salem Oregon. Open Tuesdays - Thrusdays 11 am till 6 pm & Fridays - Saturdays noon till 7 pm. Closed Sundays - Mondays

For MUCH more information please visit the Project Space 2010 web site.