Call to Action! Ba-ba-da-DAAH!

I hope you all are having a great week and that your Midterms came back WAY better than you thought they would! We've got a couple of things to give you a heads up on, not the least of which is that we still need seven people to sign up for AIGA! Take your envelope with $50 cash in it to Accounting (make sure it has your name, ID number and email address on it for reference. Otherwise it's just "lunch on the house" for some lucky staff) and it's due this week!! Otherwise we lose the opportunity to get this good of a deal on Membership! Scrape those pennies together, folks - it's worth it!

And now for the meat of the matter:

(btw, I've got the song "Let's Get It Started" by the Black Eyed Peas running through my head every time I think of this event...)

THE EVENT:

We got a few things down in wet cement this week, at least as far as "Remember Me" is concerned. The whole club is excited with the prospect of this adventure, but we all wanted to agree that the most important factors of this project are 1) that we all have fun; 2) that we invest back into our community; and 3) that the Graphic Design Club of AiS starts getting their name out into the community as well! Once that was settled, the rest started to fall into place!

So, tentative dates and needs:

AUGUST 24th: Next Tuesday bring your "Call to Action" ideas to GD Club (or email them to me if you can't make it). These posters should say something along the lines of "Attention fellow artists! The Graphic Design Club will be hosting a Gallery Opening in October to raise funds for Coyote Central, a local non-profit that brings art into the lives of high risk youth in our community. We need your help! The theme for the event is "Remember When" - and the idea is that each composition brings with it a memory of childhood, whatever that may be. If you are an artist (graphic design, glass blowing, oils, acrylic, fashion, furniture, underwater basket weaving, whatever!) and you have a composition that you would be willing to have auctioned off to a good cause, please come and be a part of this event! For more information go to aisgdclub.blogspot.com or ask the Graphic Design Club student next to you! All compositions are due no later than September 28th." ....Or something like that. :)

Also, if you would like to submit a poster idea for Remember When, please send it to me at jessetheswingdancequeen@gmail.com no later than Friday, August 20th so that we can vote on it! Please and thank you!

SEPTEMBER 28th: Will be a workshop day. We will bring in ALL of our finished compositions for the show (if it's too big to haul into the classroom, just bring pictures.) and your vintage picture frames for painting. Spray paint will be provided, and we will all go out back where there is open air to avoid getting any higher than we want to....HAVE to. Sorry. :)

OCTOBER 7th (tentative): My responsibility this week is to track down and finalize the gallery that we are going to use. We have decided to see if we can partner with First Thursdays down at Pioneer Square, and if that doesn't pan out, we will try to partner with the Grand Opening of Coyote Central's new location the following week. So, the location is a little up in the air, but have faith. With a little fairy dust, the right conversations and some ruby slippers, we should be good to go!

So, that is all she wrote for the event at this time. Just FYI, my personal email is jessetheswingdancequeen@gmail.com. I welcome any and all suggestions and feedback, and would love to hear your ideas as well!

Next Tuesday, Room #704 at 4:30pm. Bring your spare change, and let's take a walk up to Starbucks!! Mmmm.....field trip....

See you then!

-Jesse