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INTERNATIONAL ENCAUSTIC ARTISTS NEWSLETTER
President's Message for March
by Gail Steinberg
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“If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you
disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a
compromise.”
- Robert Fritz
Time is precious.
Exactly eighty four thousand nine hundred and sixty minutes of 2007 are gone as of this writing so
now is a good time for an accountability check on our goals for this year. Grab your popcorn and be
prepared to stay, let's say, three minutes, more or less. Here's my point, lets not waste any of our
precious time hoping someone else will do it. Just step up to get it done, folks, let's get it all done.
Reviewing IEA's top goals for 2007:
Sell, sell, sell: Original goal: "Schedule a minimum of three IEA shows this year, one
member show and two juried shows."
Progress: Task completed. Our first juried show is scheduled at the Lauryn Taylor Gallery in Carmel in June.
We are working with MM Galleries in San Francisco on details re an IEA juried show July 15th-Aug. 15th. We
have signed the contract for a third show in Northern Ca scheduled for the end of September through October.
Full details will be announced soon. Explorations of possible venues for IEA shows in San Diego,LA, NY, etc.
are on the drawing board.
Help Needed: If you have any connections for an IEA show, please get to us as soon as possible. One of the
benefits of IEA membership is increased opportunity to show and sell. Please contact Laura Kleinman
lollybelle@hotmail.com with your thoughts.
Original goal "create our first organizational brochure and a member slide registry."
Progress: We will have our first brochure by May 30th. We do have a great yahoo email list, thank you Paula Fava.
No one has volunteered to work on a slide registry. Should we drop the idea?
Help Needed: If you're able to manage a slide registry please contact Cari Hernandez cari47@comcast.net
Who's the rainmaker? Original goal: "increase funding through a 2nd annual benefit auction, grant submissions
and donor outreach."
Progress: We are currently considering an ebay auction of member work as a benefit for IEA.
Help Needed: Anyone with ebay experience who can guide this process please identify yourself. Contact Sandi Miot.
sandi@sandimiot.com
Progress: We are now an approved non-profit organization and will have our 501c3 status soon so we can begin applying
for grants.
Help Needed: We need someone to identify grant opportunities for IEA. If this interests you, contact
Gail.Steinberg@comcast.net. I have been very successful in securing large federal grants in a previous career. Art
grants are new for me. We need a volunteer to begin identifying opportunities.
Progress: We have a donor database, ready to go, thank you Wendy Aiken. First usage will be our annual art auction.
Help Needed: If you know of any charitably inclined folks with an interest in support fledgling art organizations,
could you forward their names to Gail.Steinberg@comcast.net
I'll rub your feet, you rub mine: Original goal "to formalize ways to increase member support through a buddy
program, coop buying for supplies, and inspiration sessions to share our new works with other encaustic artists and
practice talking about our work.
No Progress: No one has offered to establish a buddy program or coop buying. Shall we drop these ideas? If anyone
is interested in making these programs happen, please contact Phylis Lasche, palasche@ewnet.net
Progress: Our general meeting at Tina Vietmeier's studio was lively, stimulating and inspiring, all about sharing our
work. We need to share what we do and how we do it on a regular basis, I'd say monthly. Incredibly worthwhile.
Help Needed: Help yourself. Show up for general meetings. If you are too far away, organize a local group. We'll be glad
to help you do it. Contact Cathy Valentine bunz13@sbcglobal.net for info.
A lively incubator: Original goals "increase our national and international presence by building a p.r. campaign
and speaking at the national conference in Massachusetts. Activate new chapters throughout the US and Europe. Lots of
work, very big outcome.
Progress: We will begin recruiting members when we have a finished brochure. We have added paypal to our website to
make registration faster and more efficient. Thanks Kathleen McMahon. Many of us are attending the national conference.
Help Needed: Lets blitz the universe with info about IEA. We need you to send news releases to your local newspapers,
radio stations etc. promoting us. A few hours mailing materials we will provide you with can satisfy your volunteer
commitment for this year. Please contact Eileen Goldenberg to say you will do this. goldendancer@sbcglobal.net
Learn, learn, learn: host our second annual retreat and a series of community based classes. Create state of the art
how-to pages for our website.
Progress: As you know the April retreat in Carmel sounds smashing. Don't miss it. Thank you Cari Hernandez, Helen Steele,
and numerous others.
Help Needed: Plans for how-to booklet development will begin in September. Contact Helen Steele to
participate hsteele948@aol.com
Credibility and Credit: achieve our 501C3 status immediately.
Progress: Almost done: Our non-profit status is achieved. Our 501C3 proposal is nearing completion.
Active Engagement: to get the benefits, we have to get the work done.
Progress: Our new volunteer coordinator is Phylis Lasche. Please contact her if you are not yet on a team. palasche@ewnet.net
let us dream
let us intend
let us commit
Looking forward to seeing you all in April in Carmel. Have the best month.
Gail
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