New year – new ideas.  The officers and chairmen of the Lincoln Artists’ Guild held a dinner meeting on January 9th to discuss the future of the Guild.  As with all organizations, it seems that the same few people are carrying the load for the rest of the group.  We so hope that the Guild will continue to provide a meeting place to encourage learning and comraderie in the area of the fine arts.

At the culmination of the meeting a survey was taken as to what we are looking for from the Lincoln Artists’ Guild and the results were:

·         Share like interests with others

·         Learn more techniques

·         Learn about other people’s interests

·         Place to display and sell paintings

·         Camaraderie with fellow artists

·         Workshop opportunities

·         Place to learn

·         Meeting people into art

·         Place to hang  pieces

·         Inspiration

·         Connect to other artists

·         Education

·         Show opportunities

·         Friends

·         Art instruction

·         Competition (helps artists work and create)

·         Nice to have places/opportunity to show our work

·         Each person in gallery have a blog

·         Art learning at meetings

·         More members

·         Get more members involved

Where do we go from here?  Let me know if you have any thoughts.  Carmen Stineman

Notice!!!!!!!

The Fourth Friday event will be held on February 26 at Out of the Box, with an Art Theft Mystery for patrons to solve,  There will be postcards at the February 9th guild meeting for people to take home to use for advertising the event.  Participation at the event may influence further Fridays.