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CONTENTS:
Latest news
Becoming a member.
Membership entitlements.
The price and rewards of Membership
The A.G.M
New E-mail address
Keeping in touch with you.
All your own work ?
Get Yourself Known
Terms and Conditions.
LATEST NEWS
DATES TO NOTE:
New work for display in the Gallery in 2012 may be submitted on 17th & 18th March 2012. Please attend between 10 am and 3pm, but if you have several items to submit, please call before 2.30pm.
The Gallery will open for business on 1st April 2012 and will be open every day until the middle of December. This means that your work will be on display to the public for an additional 37 days next year.
The Annual General Meeting will be held on Saturday 21st April 2012.
We have revised our charges for use of the studio and have built in a membership benefit to the pricing structure. Full details can be found in the NEWS section, under STUDIO HIRE.
BECOMING A MEMBER
Membership is open to all who produce their own work in paintings, prints, crafts and cards.
Prospective members should call at the Gallery after April 1st, to register for Membership.
MEMBERSHIP ENTITLEMENTS
Being a member entitles you to submit your work to the gallery for display. There are limits to the amount of work that any one member may have on show at any one time. These are:
2 original paintings for hanging.
6 originals, or prints, mounted for browser display.
10 crafts items
20 cards.
The submission conditions are more fully explained under "Terms and Conditions" - see below
Members are encouraged to submit their profile, together with images of their work, to be included in the Artist's section of this website. More details on this topic below - see 'Get Yourself Known'.
THE PRICE AND REWARDS OF MEMBERSHIP
The annual subscription fee is £20.00, payable on registration or renewal of your membership.
On sale of your work, you will be paid 75% of whatever price you have asked us to display on it.
Payment is made at the following times during the year:
If we owe you more than £100. you will be paid at the end of the month of the sale.
If we owe you between £20 and £99.99, you will be paid at the end of the current quarter, - June, September or December.
However, if your sales are less than £20, you will not be paid until 31st December.
THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
The AGM takes place in the Studio at the Arts Centre on April 21st 2012. Details will be posted soon in the News section.
At the 2011 AGM, which was held on 9th April, the Committee was elected unchanged. Some offices, however, have a different Committee member designated. The officials for the current year are:-
Chairman: David Kerr
Vice-Chairman: Brian Moon
Secretary: Ros Stewart
Treasurer: Steve Ray
Gallery Manager: Isobel Robinson
Publicity Officer: David Kerr
Webmaster: Georgia Ray
Other Committee members with individual responsibilities are:
Ann Bilclough - who deals with the Custodian rota and related matters,
Isabel Brightman - who looks after the Saturday Classes, and together with
Zena Chevassut - attends to the recording of weekly sales,
Maureen Seaword - who attends to the banking,
Jan Szymczuk - who looks after the membership records,
Ken Russell - who organises the display of paintings on the stairwell.
Together we hope to form an effective team to work for the good of the Arts Centre.
Any matters you may wish to raise with the Committee should be addressed, please, to the Chairman.
NEW E-MAIL ADDRESS
Would all members please note that as our e-mail address has recently been compromised, we have needed to change it. If you wish to contact us by e-mail please use coartcentre@aol.co.uk
KEEPING IN TOUCH WITH YOU
At Coquetdale, we are always looking for ways to improve our communications. We also need to try to keep down the cost of delivering our news and information to you.
Our initial membership registrations for this year indicate that almost 90% of our members have an e-mail address.
We would hope, therefore, to send our messages by e-mail whenever possible, and to help us with this, we would ask members who change their e-mail address to send us their details.
Please send your name and new e-mail address to
coartcentre@aol.co.uk
If someone else in your household is also a member, please indicate to us if a single address will suffice for both of you.
ALL YOUR OWN WORK ?
Your Committee have decided to amend the rules in respect of paintings copied from an existing work. The conditions are now as follows:
All Paintings submitted to the Gallery should be the product of your own work.
Paintings copied from an existing work are not encouraged, but may be submitted provided they are accompanied by evidence of written consent from the original artist.
Likewise, if you have used a photograph other than your own as a basis for your creation, then written permission from the photographer must accompany your submission.
GET YOURSELF KNOWN
Just as we like to keep the pictures in the Gallery fresh, so we are hoping to keep our list of artists, with their personal profiles and recent work, up to date.
This is an invitation to ALL our artists to review their profiles, Use the link above to go straight there!) and update them if necessary, by sending your new profile to Georgia via our email address, coartcentre@aol.co.uk Also, please send us j-pegs of your latest work, smaller than 1000 pixels across would be good, but if you are not too clever with such things, don't worry, they can be resized for you.
And if YOU are not on our list of artists, then please consider joining us - we are now willing to help with sales from any pictures you exhibit in your online gallery, but please note, we will take the same 25% commission that you pay normally.
Putting all the pictures and profiles onto the website takes a lot of time, so the sooner you send them the better, remember, we open on 1st April 2011. You can e-mail us at coartcentre@aol.co.uk.
TERMS & CONDITIONS
Conditions of Submissions;
Framed pictures - 2 pictures allowed, provided each has a maximum size of 4 sq.ft. They must be presented ready for hanging with taut picture cord one third from the top, your name and picture title on the back and taped with framing tape (masking tape is not acceptable). Please note that a picture of more than 4sq.ft. (up to 5sq.ft) is acceptable, but this counts as your total allowance. The price and medium used is to be stated.
Unframed pictures - a maximum of 6 may be displayed at any one time. Please indicate if they are originals or prints. Each piece of work needs to be properly mounted, labelled with your name, price and medium and presented in sealed transparent wrapping. (Cling film is not acceptable for this purpose, Remember that the public will be handling these items.)
Crafts - a maximum of 10 pieces at any one time. Very small pieces (e.g. tea-lights) can be classed as one item but they must be listed separately on the submission sheet. The description and price of the work must be stated.
Cards - A maximum of 20 cards with envelopes, presented either separately or in packs, is permitted at any one time. Each card (or pack) needs to be covered in transparent wrap or bag and sealed. The price is to be stated.
Website: Members are entitled to have their profiles & additional items, titled and priced, displayed on the Gallery website. Any sales thus generated will be subject to normal terms and conditions.
The Gallery reserves the right to decline acceptance of any piece of work deemed to be dangerous, offensive, contravening Copyright Law or not complying with the terms of submissions.
The Gallery undertakes to exhibit all work received and would prefer to have members change pictures not sold after 13 weeks, thus keeping the Gallery exhibits fresh.
The Gallery will attempt to contact artists by telephone on sale of any framed picture so that the member can bring a replacement. The Gallery cannot be held responsible if contact cannot be made, although every endeavour will be used to make contact.
Members are required to price everything on submission and will be paid 75% of the displayed price for work sold. Payment dates will be:-
Payment due of £100 or more - paid at the end of the month of sale.
Payment between £20 & £99.99 - paid at end of quarter(Jun, Sept, Dec)
Payment due less than £20 - payment retained until 31st December.
Note that the above amounts refer to the actual payments due, and not the price of your work. The Gallery would not expect to make any additional payments.
The Gallery agrees to make good any accidental damage caused to items on display. Should an item be beyond repair, payment will be made as though the item had been sold (75% of price). No liability will be accepted beyond this limit.
Any members' disputes or grievance needs to be in written form and discussed by the Committee. Any decision proving unsatisfactory to the member will be dealt with by the Trustees whose adjudication will be final.
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