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PHG has resumed in-Person Meetings. We will follow the MAC guidelines. Vaccinations and masking are encouraged but not required. Please take common sense health precautions to protect yourself & avoid exposing others if you feel unwell. Thanks & stay safe!

PHG Meeting Info

NOTICE: Meetings will be held both in-person and on Zoom until further notice. Zoom links are provided in the PHG Calendar where Zoom participation is available.

PHG meets on the second Thursday of every month during September - June at the Multnomah Art Center.

Morning Meetings 10am - noon, 9:30am social
Evening Meetings 7pm - 9pm, 6:30 social

Meetings are free and open to the public. Meetings generally follow the same agenda:
* Welcome new members and guests
* Show and Share
* Brief Announcements
* Short Social Time
* Program Presentation

Multnomah Arts Center
7688 Southwest Capitol Highway,
Portland, OR 97219-2489
Phone: (503) 823-2787

PHG Board Meeting 2-24-22

Agenda
Portland Handweavers Guild Board Meeting
7 PM, February 24, 2022
Online Zoom Meeting

February 24, 2022

  1. Call to Order – Meeting started at 7:00pm (approximately)
  2. Roll Call: Linda Edquist, Robin Korybski, Dan Steves, Sylvia Emard, Sarah McCully-Posner, Bertha Kao, Jessica Bardsley, Lynette Peterson, Maggie Patterson
  3. Approval of April Minutes: January Minutes will be approved in March
  4. Individual Topics
    1. Conflict of Interest Policy approved unanimously
    2. Bylaws Update:
      1. Agreed on 5 year teams, in increments of 1 year.  Board Members will be elected at the June meeting.
    3. Spring Sale Update, PHG Guild Booth
      1. Sales committee has met and approved artists.
      2. 4 booths still available
      3. Proposed Guild Booth of 2 10x10s next to each other. Dan created a survey to send to membership to ask what we would like to do with this space. Mannequins, members projects, community outreach, celebrate the anniversary of the guild (75 years), community booth for smaller sellers. Looking for other ideas also. We are reaching out to past artists to see if they would like to participate. Francisco will not be able to make it this year. 
    4. Scholarships
      1. A family offered us a scholarship and we need to decide what we do with that. If we do something this year vs. next year. Need to talk to the lawyers about how to handle especially around conflict of interest. How do we get applications? What are we looking for in granting the scholarships? We need to work out processes. Getting the word out. Perhaps reaching out to teachers/etc and working out who will be reviewing for scholarships. Dan will check with attorneys about putting the process together. Might be best to get the 501c3 done first.
    5. Review of HGA Meeting (Bertha, Dan, and Linda)
      1. It was a retreat on how to develop a guild. Marketing, growing guild with technology, partnerships and collaborations and fundraising.
      2. MN Guild is really big and have a focus on sustainability and how to keep donations going and tracking membership. Many things might not apply to us, but there are ideas that we could implement.
      3. Things Bertha really likes the idea of considering for our guild: 
        1. Having a special space just for the Guild (commercial space opportunity).
        2. Encouragement to ask guild members what are going well/not going well, pinch points, etc. 
        3. Tracking number of members. 
        4. Let technology work for you. Look at a consolidation service for web, etc to streamline everyone for us. 501c3 will allow us to access different options for this. Best tool depends on what the needs are for the guild.
        5. Social media: geared more towards guilds who weren’t doing anything with social media. We have done this for several years already. They are suggesting using this to recruit newer/younger members. Need to be there and active to drive membership. We should try to maybe be more active on Instagram. TikTok?
        6. Opening homes for city art days.
        7. Online library/searchable – we are there.
        8. Movie and discussion night.
        9. Newsletter: emailed version can be forwarded on. Library book of the month. This can be done on Instagram/Facebook.
        10. Sending a post card as soon as members sign up is a good way to start getting people engaged. We have a letter that goes out to new members.
        11. Fundraising: one way that a small guild got their community space, for grants, important to know the mission of your guild and remind members of that to help with fundraising. Last one might not sit well with the culture of our guild. Textile Hive can help strategize on different options for when we are a non-profit (c3). 
    6. MAC Update (Sarah)
      1. Rooms are reserved for meetings next year.  Prices are higher for the classroom than the gym/auditorium, but on par from the previous years
      2. Do we need the room for the Movie Night?  Sarah will speak with Sue.  April 21 seems a bit unrealistic, maybe move it to the summer.
    7. Art in the Pearl
      1. We were invited back to have a booth. It will happen Labor Day weekend. Cooki will confirm with them that we will be there. Jessica has the tent and the extra brochures and is happy to pass that along. We will use the extra brochures for GOTG – Dan will have more brochures made (Jessica thinks we have about 40-50 right now). Sarah will dress the baby Wolf for GOTG. 20” wide, straight draw – pull yarns from the closet at the MAC.
    8. Farewells
      1. Maggie Patterson is moving out of state; this was her last night with the Board.  We will miss her.