annual members meeting oct 29

Hello members!!
a few updates!
Don't forget to check out our website for updates and/or our Facebook page

Important >>> MWCA ANNUAL MEMBERS' MEETING 
Please come to our brief Annual Meeting at 3:00 on Sunday, 10/29.  This meeting is required by our constitution - Nancy Moate, our treasurer, will present the 2024 budget.  We also have a roster of executive committee members for you to vote on:  Laura Templeton, president; Juli Tredwell, VP; Nancy Moate, Treasurer and Marla Surette, Secretary.  You can also meet and talk to our board members.  
See you there! 

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UPCOMING SPECIAL EVENTS - Go to our website to learn more -- dozens of classes & events every month!!  Pre-registration required for most of our classes

• Today and tomorrow: artist pick-up for the Regional Show
• Oct 21: Drop-in concrete pumpkin workshop
• Oct 21: Temari Christmas Ornament (register today!)
• Oct 21: Old Time Music
• Oct 22 - 27: installing the Christmas Gift Show
• Oct 28 -- Christmas Shop opens!!
• Oct 28: No Sew Christmas Tree
• Oct 29: Annual Members Meeting
• Nov 2: Light up the Night/Spark your Creativity: MWCA at THE ROE!
• Nov 11: Soiree and BBQ Fundraiser for the pottery studio
• Dec. 9 -- Mistletoe in Monroe Christmas Tour of Homes 
• April 26, 2024 -- ARTini -- save the date!  Celebrate with us 1920's style!

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MISTLETOE IN MONROE CHRISTMAS TOUR OF HOMES -- DEC 9
Tickets are selling briskly!  Based on our sales just in this first week, I expect we will sell out - as we've already sold over 1/3 of the tickets available!  Drop by the Center to buy or you can purchase online.  We MAY NOT have tickets available for walk-up buyers on Dec 9.
Learn more here: https://www.monroewaltonarts.org/mistletoe-in-monroe-christmas-tour-of-homes.html
EIGHT homes and historic venues are on the Tour - it will blow you away!
NOTE: You'll have to visit the art center between December 1 - 9 to pick up your Guide Map/Ticket.  
I urge you to go ahead and purchase your tickets soon!

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NOVEMBER 11 - SATURDAY SOIREE AND BBQ FUNDRAISER
Help is needed!  
We will have a Soiree with fun drop-in workshops and also our much-requested BBQ fundraiser is back!  We have some excellent cooks here!!
The fundraiser is for the pottery studio to buy some much-needed shelves, some kiln repairs and a new vented hood.
Please support your local arts center by buying a BBQ plate and baked goods ... and help is needed too, to prepare foods.

You can sign up to help here:
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/904094AADA822A3FC1-45465963-bbqfundraiser

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Our 2024 Gallery Show Schedule is ready and posted on the website
GO HERE to learn more: https://www.monroewaltonarts.org/call-for-entries.html
NOTE the MEMBERS SHOW coming up in January!!

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CLASSES AND EVENTS

See our calendar here: https://www.monroewaltonarts.org/calendar.html

More info about classes and events: https://www.monroewaltonarts.org/classes--events.html

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IN THE GALLERY
The Christmas Gift Show will start installing Sunday, October 22 through Friday October 27 - but we WILL BE OPEN during that time.  Feel free to drop in and get a preview and do some early shopping!  The Shop officially opens October 28 - next Saturday.  You'll be amazed at the lovely, unique and affordable gifts available -- ALL made by our local artist-members.  Support local artists!
Our entire gallery will be transformed into a Christmas Shop - hundreds of gifts, most under $35.

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TEACHERS NEEDED
If you're interested in proposing a class, please visit out JOTFORM for our NEW CLASS PROPOSALS.  If you've been thinking about leading a class here, take a look -- CLICK HERE -- at this worksheet.  It will help you design your class.  Submit the form and we will be in touch!

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VOLUNTEER
Volunteers are always needed to help with our special needs classes. 
* A quick list of ways you can help and volunteer opportunities can be found HERE.

IF ANY of you have contacts with people/places or ideas for where we could expand our classroom space (we need BOTH more classrooms and bigger classrooms that are accessible) -- please please please contact me.  Thank you!

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I appreciate you all so much!  Thank you for being a part of the arts here in Walton County!  By the way, we have a new "post card" that provides a QR code for instant access to our classes on our website.  Please drop by the art center and pick up a few to hand out to your friends.  Be our art ambassador!  Thanks!!

Art for all!
Hope