News and Other Good Information from Elsewhere!

 

From the Toledo Area Weavers Guild:

We have two events your members may be interested in. A two day on-loom workshop with Sara Saulson in July and a lecture with Kathy Zasuwa in Oct. ’07.

Here is further information:  Toledo Weaver's Guild flyer

 

A great opportunity from HGA and MLH!

Important Information:

Please be advised that HGA has offered to MLH the opportunity to award five paid registration fees to the 2008 HGA Convergence to be held June 25-28, 2008 in Tampa Bay, Florida.  This is HGA's thank you to MLH for helping behind the scenes get ready for and work at Convergence 2006 in Grand Rapids.  This free registration is just for the Conference fee.  You will be responsible for your own transportation costs, your housing and meal fees, and any additional expenses.

 

Should you wish to apply for one of these free conference registration fees, you are a HGA member, a MLH member, and you helped in some way with Convergence 2006, please forward your name to mccarthykal@aol.com by 8 o'clock a.m. Friday, October 12, 2007.  In the event you do not use e-mail, Cathy must receive your mailed request no later than Thursday, October 11, 2007, so mail early! 

 

Cathy McCarthy

6886 Springbrook Lane

Kalamazoo, MI 49004

 

 

Other MLH News:

We did not have a quorum (17 people) at out September MLH Board meeting.  According to our Bylaws we could not conduct any business that needed a vote.  Our treasurer, in particular, is most concerned as we could not approve the budget for the coming year.  We needed this vote so MLH can conduct business as usual.  For this reason we want to make sure our MLH Guild Reps are aware it is pretty important to try and attend board meetings.  If you cannot attend a meeting, please let us know by the Thursday before the meeting, and if you have any kind of report from your guild or committee please make sure we know about your news.

 

Please announce to your guild members that the MLH Biennial show will be held at the Ella Sharp Museum July 13 through September 21, 2008.  We would like you to start announcing this news to your guilds so we can have many entries for the show this year.  The museum has expanded their exhibit space so we encourage you to enter this show to demonstrate the talents of our MLH membership.

 

Guild reps.  Membership is greatly down in MLH.  Please talk up our organization at your meetings.  Encourage your fiber artists to join.  We get 4 newsletters a year, can attend workshops one year, and workshops and conference the next.  MLH offers grants/scholarships to attend fiber learning opportunities.  Plus the biggest benefit of all is mingling with many fiber artists from around the state and other regions at our conferences.

 

Finally, really exciting news.  MLH will celebrate their 50th Birthday/Anniversary at the MLH Conference and workshops in 2009.  It will be really fun to become a part of this celebration, so join now and come celebrate with us!

 

Looking forward to working with you for the good of MLH!

 

Sincerely,

Cathy McCarthy