In attendance: Fran Doll, Ron Augustine, Barb Winko, Melanie Griffith, Leeanne McCarthy, Eddie Wolford. Trish Pleasant was excused.

We had two new applicants to jury in today and one current participant wanting to have a time to speak, and one participant wanting us to add new types of media she is using in her paintings.

Michael Johnson came to jury for cut coconuts. He wants to sell the coconuts for their milk and the meat of the coconut. He will open them with a table knife, remove the husk and furnish a straw when he sells them. We observed him opening the nuts and showing us how they will be served. We advised him he must use a rug so as not to damage the bricks and also must have his own object to pound the coconut on while opening them. He must also clean up any mess that he makes. He paid a $20.00 jury fee and was approved by unanimous vote.

Chuck Dutton came to jury for crocheted purses, bags, cozies, etc. He crochets them himself and they are made from plastic grocery bags. He demonstrated how the makes the items and how he makes the "yarn" from the bags in order to crochet them. He paid a $20.00 jury fee and was approved by unanimous vote.

Dana Powell came to the PC to air her feelings on the verbal complaint that was made about her on Saturday, the 15^th. She had just recently juried in for her bottle cap novelty item. She was advised by the PC at that time that the items could not be displayed or sold as a jewelry item. Dana felt this is a violation of her rights as an artist to display and sell he own creative items. The PC listened to Dana and then explained to her why the jewelry category is closed and that the item in question could be sold as a zipper pull, bottle adornment, etc. We advised her that if she puts in on a ribbon or neck ring or something similar it would then be considered jewelry. She was concerned that if her customer wanted to wear it as a pendant and held it up to her neck that she would be in violation. We explained that the customer can do whatever they want with the piece. She just cannot provide the means for it to be worn as jewelry.

Joyce Straiton has been approved for paintings for a number of years and wants to document that she in now using two new mediums to paint on. She will be painting on wooden fence slats and tile magnets. She does not need to be juried for these new mediums.

The PC had a list of items to discuss that arose from the Pier walks by a couple of PC members. We discussed each item at length and the outcome is as follows:

1. Three participants were out of compliance with our SOP’s regarding their art work ,they are: Melanie Griffith, Isaias Mendoza and Ray Rolston. They have all been advised that they must have some original art work on display in order to be allowed to sell their prints. All were very cooperative and are in the process of being in compliance.
2. We had one participant who was not in compliance in the photography department. Nicholas Bergery was displaying some of his photography without mats. We spoke with him and he is now in compliance. He was also very cooperative.
3. We discussed the photographers that are selling Gilcee prints. Since this is a relatively new type of photography we needed to decide on how to approach this. We all feel that this is a picture that is not intended to be matted. It is printed on canvas and stretched on a frame and it looks like original art work. It is not designed to be matted. The PC will accept the framing of these as being in compliance with our rules.
4. We have one participant that the PC feels needs to be re-juried. He was juried for a number of items but it appears that he has a couple of items on his table that he was not juried for. One is prints of his original paintings and the other is what appears to Gilcee. We will be sending him a letter advising him we will be re-jurying on him.
5. We also discussed Isaac and Davmar Valdes and Harriett Vaughn. Both are selling magnets that have their photographs on them. The PC feels that in order to be in compliance they will need to mat these somehow. Harriett also asked the PC if her postcards were in compliance since she does a lot of hand painting, drawing and writing all around the photograph so that it looks like a mat. The PC feels that this is not sufficient since our SOP’s state that all pictures must be matted.
6. We have one participant, Jason Probstein, who was seen with glass pendants on his table by PC members. He was not juried for these items. He was also seen selling "glass pipes". He was specifically told he could not do this as it is not allowed at Sunset. We will be sending him a letter.
7. We had a few remarks from participants that are complaining about some of the participants working outside of their 6’ x 8’ space. We will ask the Board to address this with the Pier Managers. We will also ask the Board to ask the Pier Managers how they are coming with the measuring of all of the displays on the pier.
8. The PC has received a complaint regarding the use of dichroic glass in jewelry being sold at Mallory. This has been an ongoing problem for many years. When dichroic glass originally came on the market it was not sold in catalogs or other venues. Everyone had to make their own. When the PC first started jurying in participants making fused glass and fused dichroic glass they decided that it would be a separate jewelry category. Since that time dichroic glass has become readily available in catalogs and stores. China and Mexico also flood the market with it. So the PC spent quite a while discussing this issue. The final outcome is that fused glass, fused dichroic glass can only be used by the participants that have been juried for making the glass. A statement will be written for the Pier Managers to announce at lottery each evening for five consecutive nights notifying the membership that they must remove the glass from their table if they are not juried specifically for fused glass and/or fused dichroic glass. This was a very hard decision for the PC. We feel that if the jewelry participants can just buy this item and use it in their work, why can’t the dichroic jewelers be able to buy other components and use them in their work. It was felt that this would flood the Square with too many jewelry people doing the same type of work.
9. The PC has drafted a "helpful hint" list for all new food participants. We will be giving this to all new applicants that come to jury for food.
10. The last discussion we had was about Alyssa Mealor. A number of years ago she was juried to sell a few items that she makes while working in the Twilight Category. Our rules prohibit anyone from working in two categories at the same time. We will notify Alyssa that we will grandfather her in for what she is doing right now. However, if she wishes to add any other items to her Arts and Crafts category, she would have to make a decision as to what category she wanted to work in and would no longer be able to work in both. She could do Henna some nights, arts and crafts on other nights, but not both together. Since Alyssa has done nothing wrong, she went to the PC and they approved what she is doing, we are going to correct the mistake without doing any harm to her business. She can stay status quo until she wants to add any items.
11. Fran Doll will be leaving for the summer as she does every year. The PC Committee is very fortunate to have had her expertise and knowledge of the arts and crafts to help us with a very difficult year. She has been a great asset to us and to Mallory Square. We will need to replace her and the PC would like to ask the Board of Directors to appoint Jan Nelson as a new PC member. We replaced Susan Johnson with Eddie (alternate) and Joyce has a conflict with her work schedule (she is the next alternate), therefore we have chosen someone from the list of participants that signed up at the first of the year.

Eddie Wolford will turn in the $40.00 collected in jury fees today.

Meeting adjourned at 12:25 p.m.

Minutes written by Barb Winko