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Dear Members
Summer has flown by and I hope everyone had a chance to take a break
from the heat and return refreshed and ready to embrace a packed year of art
activities. Our first membership meeting will be an Open House on Sunday,
September 22 from 1:00 to 3:00pm. Our art instructors will be there to share information about their classes and we'll have more details about upcoming workshops and special events we have planned.
We have become a year round community Art Center, offering adult classes and open studios along with a very successful kids EcoArt summer camp during the period we used to be “mostly” closed. It is all part of our drive to add value to your membership by providing a “joyful” and friendly retreat for any community member to feel comfortable about learning a new skill or honing an existing talent. We are constantly searching for new ways to increase our revenue in order to support ongoing projects like updating our clay department which we did last year and planning a makeover of the Canal Street Gallery, which is in the works. Our biggest sources of income are our membership dues, the NSB Plein Air Paint Out, EcoArt Camp, the Volusia County Grant (which we have been approved for) and now, hopefully,
the State of Florida Cultural Grant, which we for the first time have applied for but is still pending. Classes and workshops also provide income but the point I am hoping to make is that it takes a lot of membership, staff and board support, physically as well as monetarily to have an Art Center we can all feel proud and happy to be a part of. We want to continue to explore new ideas and grow, so we are thankful for your support and look forward to our future together!
See you at the members meeting!
Cheryl Faber
President
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