P.C. Minutes 3/21/05

Typed by Ryan Stimers

Attendance: Ryan Stimers, Susan Van Hulst, Joanne Housemen, Susan Schaal, Isaias Mendoza, Joel Ouellete, Helena

3/21/05 we juried 3 people:

David Dorsty: Approved for hand painted Straw Hats paid 20$

Melanie S. Griffith: Approved for acrylic & ink on paper and prints paid 5$ owes 15$

Ronda Rinald: Approved painted buoys, Disapproved for buoys decorated with commercial decorations.

We did one jury-by-mail and gave the following initial reactions:

Reneee Burrell: positive on hand painted and decorated sunglasses, negative on jewelry.

We discussed the following issues:

We read over documents clarifying “digital art”.

We approved a new “welcome to the jury process” letter to be given to people with applications a as well as they arrive on jury days. (Document attached)

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Welcome to the Mallory Square Jury Process, Here is what will happen today:

When you arrive:

1) Give us your name; we create a list of who will be juried today. The first person to arrive is juried first and so on.

2) If you haven’t already done so, get an application and fill it out. You will give us that when it is your turn to be juried.

3) If you need to set up your craft demonstration ahead of time, go ahead and lay it out, but don’t make anything yet, wait for us.

3) Relax, maybe talk to the other applicants.

When it’s your turn to jury:

1) Give us your application along with a 20$ jury fee. If you already paid 5$ to get a “jury by mail”, than, you only need to pay $15 today. (If you don’t know what “jury by mail” is don’t worry about it)

2) Second, show us your finished products so we know what type of thing you wish to sell. (page two has a brief summery about what we are looking for)

3) Third we will ask you to demonstrate how you hand-make the product and we will ask some questions so we can learn about it. If the product you are jurying takes allot of time we may ask you to continue working while we see other applicants. we will check back to see how you are doing.

3) That’s it. You can go home now. Unfortunately we need time to discuss each applicant so you don’t get a decision today, but keep reading.

What happens after the jury.

After everyone leaves, the committee gets together to discuss and vote on each applicant. We create an official report, which goes to the board of Directors on Wednesday morning, and the pier manager gets a copy Wednesday night.

On Wednesday night (or any night after Wednesday) between 1 hour before sunset and an hour after sunset it’s your responsibility to call the pier or stop by to find out the committee’s decision. The number to call is 292-7700 the pier manager will answer and let you know the committee’s decision.

If you are accepted then you must work at least one day in the next 30 days in order to “lock in” your acceptance if you don’t, than you will need to re jury for a new acceptance.

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What Types of things we are Not looking for:

This is a hand-crafted market. If you do not make what you sell your self or if you do not make it by hand you will not be let in.

Because we are a handcrafted market we do not allow “digital art” if you make your product with a computer you will not be let in. Until recently this was only a convention, now it is a rule. Some examples of Digital art are: DVD’s, CD’s, anything made with digital photography programs, anything involving onsite printing.

Some catagories are capped (closed) namely, Photography, T-Shirt, Henna, Jewelry, Massage, Caricatures, Fused Glass, Fortune Telling / Tarot, Drinks.

What kind of things we are looking for:

Original, Hand Crafted, Products that we don’t already have at Mallory square.