March Members' Memo

​Hello fabulous members!

Hope you all are doing well!  We appreciate you ... entering our shows, spending your hard-earned money in our shop and at our shows, volunteering, telling others about us, bringing your friends to visit, taking a class or two, just visiting and enjoying the gallery ... all the ways you show your support for your local community arts center - THANK YOU!

Here's your MARCH quick take:

1.  CALL FOR ARTISTS!!
Beyond the gallery
We have been approached by local restaurants and businesses to provide original, local art for their walls.
Many thanks to Juli Tredwell and NancyJeanette Long, who have networked with local business owners and coordinated this brand new (!) effort to share the beauty and talent of our local artists with our community.  This perfectly fits with our mission to support local artists while serving our community.  We are kicking off this effort with an exhibition at LeGabrielle.  
Read the guidelines and find the link to apply here: https://www.monroewaltonarts.org/beyond-the-gallery.html

2. MARCH CLASSES
Please check out our MARCH offerings!

• https://www.monroewaltonarts.org/classes--events.html
• THIS WEEKEND: pottery project (drop-in) with Rebecca and Members Morning Mingle
• Don't miss our Paint Along Fundraiser on March 22: https://monroewaltonarts.square.site/product/paint-along-fundraiser/3005?cs=true&cst=custom 

3. WELCOME SPRING! TWO BEAUTIFUL EVENTS...
A Toast to the Arts Garden Party on April 26
Nature Meets Art Garden Tour on May 10
Learn more, see the gardens, buy tickets!!
https://www.monroewaltonarts.org/spring-events.html

4. THANK YOU to these early bird business sponsors:
Innovator Level
SideStreet Boutique

Enthusiast Level
Piedmont-Walton Hospital

Supporter Level
Fit Fiddles
Rust and Dust Antiques
The Brown Fig
Wayfarer Inn
Wyrick Mechanical

Contributor Level
Jackie Rod, author
Lori Duff, author

YOUR business can help us out, too! 
https://www.monroewaltonarts.org/sponsorship.html

5. WELCOME NEW BOARD MEMBERS!!
We're so proud to announce these new members on our board of directors:

• Fundraising:  Amy Weems
  
• Gallery: Jennifer Dominy
  
• Grants: Sara Shropshire

Our entire board works tirelessly on behalf of our non-profit community art center.  They are the best -- dedicated, trustworthy, creative and just plain nice people!!

6. GALLERY NEWS
Get ready for our 2025 shows ... our summer show & sale season is just around the corner!!
https://www.monroewaltonarts.org/call-for-entries.html
The reception for the Elementary Student Art Show is March 20 from 6 - 7:30.  You're invited!!
Many thanks to Walmart Monroe for sponsoring our Walton Co. Elementary Student Art Show!  
Sponsorship is especially appreciated for our student shows as we give our gallery space to the schools to display students' art, and we forgo any income we might earn from our usual gallery sales.

7. 2024 IMPACT REPORT and RECAP
Please visit our website https://www.monroewaltonarts.org/ to view a three-minute video recap of 2024 plus our IMPACT REPORT. We have copies of the Impact Report at the Art Center - please come by and pick one up!
I think you'll be pleased and impressed with our accomplishments. I often call us the "little art center that could"!

8 MARCH NEWSLETTER
If you missed the March newsletter - here's a link:https://mailchi.mp/monroeartguild/monroewaltonartsnews-feb2025-8342335

warmly,
Hope