Time to JUMP IN!
Get involved with one or more of the RRAA committees for 2018.
Here are brief descriptions of what each committee will do. These descriptions will change with the interests and abilities of committee participants and are only meant to inspire thinking and get us started. You may have better ideas and that’s our hope. Think about how YOUR talents can be a part of the fun. What would YOU like to do? How can YOU help? Join one or more committees and help us keep RRAA vital and full of new ideas. We need YOU!
Hospitality Committees
Meetings
• Create a yearly meetings calendar for our website and for emails to members
• Find presenters or task leaders and persuade them to present on specific dates
• Promote meetings with emails to membership to describe next meeting and presenter
• Promote meetings within StoryPoint to encourage resident participation
• Promote meetings outside of membership to grow membership
• Plan, shop and provide refreshments for meetings
• Work with presenters to ensure that media and materials are ready for meetings
• Clean up after meetings to return the space to original condition
• Photograph presentations and provide to Website and Social Media committees
Membership
• Identify prospects (artists, patrons, hobbyists)
• Create profiles of prospective members and design ways to reach them
• Create promotional materials (promos, emails, brochures, flyers)
• Maintain, update and protect the membership roster
• Provide updated membership files in CSV format for easy emailing by other committees
• Create and distribute ID cards, thank-you cards and other internal communications
Publicity Committees
Website
• Design and maintain current information on the website with daily or weekly updates
• Maintain the RRAA branding (colors, uses)
• Coordinate with other committees to get files for the website
• Increase website usability with links and coordination with social media
• Feature our members and keep their art on display
• Quickly incorporate the art of new members on the website
a. Paul Pate
b. ??
c. ??
Social Media –
• Maintain Facebook, Snapchat, Pinterest, etc. to build interest in the larger community
• Constantly update and include current activities and images
• Respond and communicate with participants (be social)
a. Mary Myszka
b. ??
c. ??
Chamber of Commerce
• Attend CC meetings and become RRAA ombudsman to the business community
• Look for opportunities that will benefit our membership and local businesses
• Find ways to make art part of the discussion
• Make sure businesses see that art is essential for a healthy business climate
a. Alan Rosas
b. ??
c. ??
RRAA Publicity
• Promote RRAA shows, events and activities
• Make the Rockford community more aware of all available art opportunities
• Establish consistent branding and language for RRAA
• Create new events that will excite the community and entice greater membership
What members do:
• Design posters, brochures, postcards and other promotional tools
• Write promotional copy and press releases
• Contribute frequent updates to the website and social media
• Photograph events and create materials for our website and promotions
• Distribute posters, postcards and other devices to the community
• Manage costs of printing web presence, and work out budgets for promotions
• Create an image in the community with signage and high profile events (banners, chalk llusions, Big Head papier mache objects, painted rocks, dripping clocks, etc.).
Show Committees
Spring Art Market
• Secure venue and manage fees
• Design and produce promotional materials
• Secure member participants
• Distribute promotional materials (posters in businesses, etc.)
• Write and distribute press releases and other media releases
• Promote within our membership
• Manage setup, lighting, teardown and signage
a. Rosemary Cheslock
b. ??
c. ??
Art In The Park
• Secure park venue and insurance
• Design and produce promotional materials
• Secure participants and manage fees
• Jury potential participants and select award winners
• Work with city in planning and resource use
• Work with local shops and restaurants to highlight their businesses
• Manage costs and deliver invoices to the city
• Distribute promotional materials (posters in businesses, etc.)
• Write and distribute press releases and other media releases
• Promote within our membership
• Manage setup, space marking, teardown, cleanup and signage
a. Alan Rosas
b. Rosemary Cheslock
c. Jim Falk
d ??
Summer Art Market
• Secure Pavilion and Insurance
• Design and produce promotional materials
• Secure member participants
• Distribute promotional materials (posters in businesses, etc.)
• Write and distribute press releases and other media releases
• Promote within our membership
• Manage setup, teardown and signage
a. Alan Rosas
b. Rosemary Cheslock
c. ??
d ??
Holiday Show
• Secure church and pay fee
• Design and produce promotional materials
• Secure member participants
• Distribute promotional materials (posters in businesses, etc.)
• Write and distribute press releases and other media releases
• Promote within our membership
• Manage setup, teardown and signage
a. Alan Rosas
b. Rosemary Cheslock
c. ??
d ??
Etsy Shop
Dorothy Mienko
Explore other shows
Open
Fundraising Committee
501C3 project – Lynne Hernandez
Grants
Mary Myszka and Krys Rosas
Animated Ornament Production and Sale
Open
Animated Ornament Committee
Objectives:
• Generate funds for RRAA to purchase an enclosed trailer for our display materials ($2,000)
• Sell on Etsy store.
What members do:
• Meet periodically to assemble, glue and prepare animated ornaments and shipping boxes from parts cut by Alan on a Cricut computerized cutter. The goal is to make and sell 150 finished ornaments by October, 2017.
• Set up an Etsy store with payment options, advertising copy, photograph (and mpeg) of ornament.
• Ship ornaments, keep records.
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