The Annual meeting was so much fun! We were able to zip through the official business because the reports were all contained in a paper document. If you would like a copy of the Annual meeting packet, please let me know.
The Annual meeting provided a chance to talk with old friends, make new ones, put names to faces, in short, all of the connecting and networking that makes DSWPS a great group to belong to. After our brown bag lunches, we engaged in a project created by Kim Santini in which we focused, appropriately for our 120th anniversary year, on the women who supported and mentored our art. We were given a chance to think about those who have lifted us and our creativity up, and then we cut out painted circles to which we added our own marks. Next we wrote down the names, gathered in a circle, took turns naming the persons whose love and encouragement helped us on our way as the circles were placed in an abalone shell. A tear or two was shed. Kim’s intention is to create an assemblage of the circles for display at our exhibitions. For more information, or if you would like to create a circle or two, contact Kim Santini or me.
I thank Kim Santini for her gifts of creativity and spirituality so freely shared with her DSWPS sisters. I thank Bette Prudden for arranging the space at her church, Grosse Pointe Woods Presbyterian, for our meeting. I thank Rose Rhodes, stepping down as Social Chair, for the nourishment provided at our meetings during her term, and I thank Margaret Reese for stepping into the Social chair position. I thank an incredible group of women who make up the Executive Board. It is truly a pleasure to work with you all. More than anything, I thank you, members of an inspiring, amazing group of artists. I am so very honored to be a part of DSWPS.
It’s summer, no meetings until September. The beautiful world awaits your interpretation of it, go make art!
Lori Zurvalec
