This email newsletter will be sent twice a month around the 1st and the 15th and will serve to be the official communication of the Salem Arts Association. If you need a fix of the latest happenings in between you can always visit or subscribe to the Salem Arts Association's blog under the 'News' section on the SAA website.

Please join us in thanking the following outgoing board members for all they have done for the SAA!

Kristin Solias (outgoing President)
Kristin first served as Vice President, then as President, and has contributed greatly to the development and structure of our organization.

Gary LaParl (outgoing retail & events committee chair)
After serving as our founding president, and most recently on the retail and events committees, Gary is now busy with another great organization, The Salem Theatre Company!

Pamela Braverman-Schmidt (outgoing Vice President)
Pamela has helped steer our growing organization and contributed to the SAA Board and we are grateful for the time she gave us.

Please let each know how much you appreciate all they have done the next time you see them at a SAA event!

As a 30-year resident of Salem I am excited to be a part of this growing and dynamic group of artists and art lovers. This is a great time to be an artist as our numbers keep growing and we will continue to contribute to the wonder and the fun that is Salem! Please consider my email as a suggestion box. As we move into the next phase of the organization I'd like to hear what interests you, what keeps you coming back, what would you like to see us do in the future?

Think about how you and some of your artist friends can contribute to the Salem Arts Festival in June? Be a part of our Meet the Artists ARTS WALK (see listing below)? Or come up with your own ideas, the city is your canvas, theatre, auditorium-USE IT! The city will continue to seek grants and funding for this event and it can only grow if we get creative & contribute.

Our next Social gathering will be a spring exhibit called "Seeds of Summer" at the SAtv gallery on March 4, 2010. See the website for further details. Submit up to two pieces by March 1st. Even if you don't submit come on down and say hello to your fellow artists after our many months of hibernation!

Let's Rock!

Ellen Hardy
Vice President, (interim) President
Salem Arts Association
P.O. Box 266
Salem MA 01970
EGH.ARTS@gmail.com

P.S. Those that may have my email address already in their contacts should change it to this new one which will be a dedicated SAA account for me.

Please contact our Volunteer
Coordinator Elizabeth Black at zabuscreations@hotmail.com. She can assign you to help with a specific short term need, an event, or a committee.

There are lots of upcoming events where we can
use your help!

In fact we could use volunteers right now for
Dancing with the Arts, the SAA/MAA Annual
Gala Fundraiser!!!

If you are already part of a committee and are not getting separate emails from the Committee chair please contact Elizabeth Black at zabuscreations@hotmail.com and she'll make sure your name and email are on the right mailing lists.

May 17, 2010. New Executive Committee and Operations and Committee Chairs to be voted in. Watch for more details in a future e-Blast. Ballots will be mailed in April.

June 4-6, 2010. Sponsored by Salem Main Streets. Salem Arts Association's proposal Arts Walk (Saturday, June 5, Meet the Artists, creating art in different locations around the city — en plein air — and Sunday, June 6, Meet the Artists in their studios.) Let us know if you want to participate. If you would like to be a part of the SAA proposal for the Meet the Artists — en plein air — on June 5th or the Meet the Artists in their studios on June 6th please send an email to EGH.ARTS@gmail.com. All proposals are due by March 15, 2010 so let us know by March 1st . Check out their website with artwork by Richard Flynn.

We are putting together the spring issue and we'd like to have images from anyone in the membership who had work in the SAA gallery on Artists' Row last season. Please send JPGs with name, title, medium, size to James Goncalves at james@gardenhead.net. Got an idea for an article? Send it in to EGH.ARTS@gmail.com.

It's time to celebrate who we are and what we do! The Dancing with the Arts annual Gala Fundraiser supports the Marblehead and Salem Arts Associations and will be held on March 26, 2010 at the Hawthorne Hotel. We are happy to offer a taste of your talent again this year by featuring cards of your artwork as table favors. If you would like to participate, please drop off a dozen or more cards and envelopes or whatever you can give at the Arts Association in Marblehead or the Art Corner in Salem no later than Sunday, March 14. Thanks so much.
Judy Beals, at jbeals1@comcast.net.