I would like to take this opportunity to wish you and your families a safe, happy and healthy Christmas and New Year. I thank you for your continued support and look forward to welcoming you into our new home at Kedron Substation no 8 sometime in the New Year. Jenny Sanzaro- Nishimura
Hello Members and Friends of Impress,
Once again it has reached Christmas, and we are looking over our shoulder at the coming New Year. I would like to welcome all our new members and friends throughout the year of 2012. We hope you make regular use of the studio and benefit from our Workshop and Exhibitions program and our wonderful community of artists and friends. We also wish for you to become involved in the committee, subcommittees and other groups associated with Impress, these are all supported by volunteers who give generously of their time, expertise, efforts and energy. It is also important to have new ideas, new opinions and new blood to bring new life into our organisation.
I thank you all for your continuing patience regarding the rebuild of the Kedron Substation, which has at this time again gone into a hiatus until “sometime in the New Year”. The year has been like a pendulum swinging between frustrating and exciting, as we hang in there waiting for the building to be completed. It is a difficult situation, as BCC hold control of the project and we cannot override them, but please bear with me and the committee as we are doing our utmost to push this forward. Apparently there is a shortfall in the funding and the building works have been put on hold until the funds have been secured. Unfortunately, I cannot at this stage give you a completion or moving date, but I project it to be somewhere between April-June 2013. I take this opportunity to thank Jodie Cummins our architect, Paul Songhurst [our BCC Communities contact] and John Siebert [our quantity surveyor], plus the builders Ian and Shannon.
I would like to extend my most sincere thanks to each and everyone who have served on the committee this year - Angela, Astrid, Carolyn, Glenda, Jen, Karen, Kristina, Pat and Sandra. I know it has been difficult and at times trying because of the continued delays with the new building, but we are optimistic that the move won’t be too far into the future, and know that the end result will have been worth the wait. I would also like to thank Gwenn Tasker for her joint work with Carolyn on Studio Policy, John Doyle for his continued support with Kedron and studio supplies, Keegan Green for the hard work he has done (and continues to do) on our new web site and Tory Richards who has been working tirelessly with Pat Zuber on the prospectus and fundraising documents. Furthermore I especially thank Angela and Pat for their grant writing efforts, Sandra for the wonderful job she always does as treasurer, Jen Conde for keeping us up-to-date and informed through the Newsletter and Blog and Kristina for making sense of all the minutes.
Although we still don’t have our own gallery we have managed to stage three exhibitions in Brisbane for Impress members this year, two of which were shown at venues overseas and interstate; and a fourth Vie De Pacifique, will open in Auckland on December 11th 2012. All of these exhibitions have been collaborative; some are reaching to far corners of the globe. We thank you as artists, volunteers and contributors in any way for your continuing dedication, talent and support, and I thank Glenda Orr and her team on the exhibition and gallery subcommittee, for the amount of work they have put in.
I would also like to thank some dedicated helpers that are not on the committee for their continued input and dedication –Cathy Money and Julianna Joos for the collaborative Queensland-Quebec exhibition Water Portraits- Portrait d’Eau; Charlie and Pat Zuber [prior to IMC] and the members of Hunter Island Press for organising the Southern Circles collaborative exhibition; Belinda for her work in the outreach program and organising the Big and Small exhibition; Evelyn Upton and David Burrows and the other IEGS members for their help to Glenda with the Regenerate inaugural exhibition.
Without the continuing unflagging support we get from our volunteers, committee and helpers, Impress would not exist, so we congratulate you on what you have achieved over the past year.
I wish you and your families, a safe, happy and healthy Christmas and a prosperous New Year and look forward to catching up at the Christmas Party.
Kind regards,
Jenny Sanzaro-Nishimura
President Impress Printmakers Studio
Once again it has reached Christmas, and we are looking over our shoulder at the coming New Year. I would like to welcome all our new members and friends throughout the year of 2012. We hope you make regular use of the studio and benefit from our Workshop and Exhibitions program and our wonderful community of artists and friends. We also wish for you to become involved in the committee, subcommittees and other groups associated with Impress, these are all supported by volunteers who give generously of their time, expertise, efforts and energy. It is also important to have new ideas, new opinions and new blood to bring new life into our organisation.
I thank you all for your continuing patience regarding the rebuild of the Kedron Substation, which has at this time again gone into a hiatus until “sometime in the New Year”. The year has been like a pendulum swinging between frustrating and exciting, as we hang in there waiting for the building to be completed. It is a difficult situation, as BCC hold control of the project and we cannot override them, but please bear with me and the committee as we are doing our utmost to push this forward. Apparently there is a shortfall in the funding and the building works have been put on hold until the funds have been secured. Unfortunately, I cannot at this stage give you a completion or moving date, but I project it to be somewhere between April-June 2013. I take this opportunity to thank Jodie Cummins our architect, Paul Songhurst [our BCC Communities contact] and John Siebert [our quantity surveyor], plus the builders Ian and Shannon.
I would like to extend my most sincere thanks to each and everyone who have served on the committee this year - Angela, Astrid, Carolyn, Glenda, Jen, Karen, Kristina, Pat and Sandra. I know it has been difficult and at times trying because of the continued delays with the new building, but we are optimistic that the move won’t be too far into the future, and know that the end result will have been worth the wait. I would also like to thank Gwenn Tasker for her joint work with Carolyn on Studio Policy, John Doyle for his continued support with Kedron and studio supplies, Keegan Green for the hard work he has done (and continues to do) on our new web site and Tory Richards who has been working tirelessly with Pat Zuber on the prospectus and fundraising documents. Furthermore I especially thank Angela and Pat for their grant writing efforts, Sandra for the wonderful job she always does as treasurer, Jen Conde for keeping us up-to-date and informed through the Newsletter and Blog and Kristina for making sense of all the minutes.
Although we still don’t have our own gallery we have managed to stage three exhibitions in Brisbane for Impress members this year, two of which were shown at venues overseas and interstate; and a fourth Vie De Pacifique, will open in Auckland on December 11th 2012. All of these exhibitions have been collaborative; some are reaching to far corners of the globe. We thank you as artists, volunteers and contributors in any way for your continuing dedication, talent and support, and I thank Glenda Orr and her team on the exhibition and gallery subcommittee, for the amount of work they have put in.
I would also like to thank some dedicated helpers that are not on the committee for their continued input and dedication –Cathy Money and Julianna Joos for the collaborative Queensland-Quebec exhibition Water Portraits- Portrait d’Eau; Charlie and Pat Zuber [prior to IMC] and the members of Hunter Island Press for organising the Southern Circles collaborative exhibition; Belinda for her work in the outreach program and organising the Big and Small exhibition; Evelyn Upton and David Burrows and the other IEGS members for their help to Glenda with the Regenerate inaugural exhibition.
Without the continuing unflagging support we get from our volunteers, committee and helpers, Impress would not exist, so we congratulate you on what you have achieved over the past year.
I wish you and your families, a safe, happy and healthy Christmas and a prosperous New Year and look forward to catching up at the Christmas Party.
Kind regards,
Jenny Sanzaro-Nishimura
President Impress Printmakers Studio
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