Wednesday, May 4, 2011

We're finally a Non-Profit Organization

Our articles of incorporation were sent to the Missouri Secretary of State office a couple weeks ago, and we have confirmation from our VLAA lawyer that the paperwork has been received!  We are expanding our Founding Board of Directors, and the current list looks something like this:

Barry Larson - President of Bridges Community Support Services, and CEO of Arthouse Coffees - www.bridgescss.com   www.arthousecoffees.com

Linda Wiggen Kraft - Local artist and Gardener for the Soul!  http://www.gardensforthesoul.com/about.htm

Tom Allen - TCA Artist Representative, and Local Artist

Brooke Foster - Public Relations Executive at Common Ground PR www.commongroundpr.com

Annie Smith-Piffel - Art Instructor and long time friend of TCA http://www.gatewaygalleryonline.com/piffelggo.html

To help us celebrate our new (still unofficial) status as a Non-Profit, we welcome a new volunteer into the fold:  Carolyn.  She is currently finishing her junior year at Cor Jesu High School, and approached us about a volunteer opportunity for the summer months.  After meeting her, it was clear how comfortable she is in the studio setting and she even came to our last TCA Tango Night to help and also to learn some moves for her own knowledge...she'll prob bust out those great moves once she gets to college, she'll impress everyone with the authenticity of her dance skills!  HAHA!  She'll be helping our artists with their work and other tasks around the studio during our "Open Studio" program this summer, and we can't wait to see what she can do!

In other news, TCA has a new brochure.  It is clean, simple, bright, and eye-catching (imo) and it looks more like the website than our last brochure--in the name of what they call "branding", so people will recognize our material more instantly in the future.  Pick up a copy at the studio, it's a square brochure...who ever heard of such a thing?  To end, here is a pic of a piece by Michael Weidle...a mixed media portrait of Spider Man that we titled, "Spidey Extremo".  Enjoy.

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