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        <title>Think Outside the Box!!!!</title>   
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<span style="font-size: 1.25em;"><strong><span style="color: #ff9933">Never doubt that a small, group of thoughtful, committed citizens can
change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. -Margaret Mead</span></strong></span><br /></div><p><span style="color: #ff9933; font-size: 1.25em;"><br /></span><span style="color: #8da4b4"><strong><span style="font-size: 1em;">ART has the power to change a community. </span>We know that through personal experience.</strong><br /><strong>And we can have a lot of fun doing it!</strong></span><span style="color: #8da4b4"></p></span>
    
    
    

    
    
    

    
    
    

    
    
    
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<p><span style="color: #8da4b4"><br /></span><span style="color: #8da4b4"><strong><span style="font-size: 1em;">The power of ART is vividly apparent when we look up and down the streets of Brandon,
remembering empty storefronts and a depressed economy. Of the many
factors that added up to a triumphant tipping point and the town&#39;s
revitalization, the BAG&#39;s contribution is immeasurable.</span><br />&#160;But as we noted before, it takes many hands to make it all work, and we need you to join in!<br /><span style="font-size: 0.8em;"><span style="font-size: 1.25em;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: 0.8em;"><span style="font-size: 1.25em;">So, stand back: It&#39;s coming, it&#39;s coming!!!</span><br /></span></strong><strong><span style="font-size: 0.8em;"><span style="font-size: 1.25em;">The next Brandon Artists Guild Project!<br />&#160;<br /></span></span></strong></span><span style="color: #8da4b4"><strong><span style="font-size: 0.8em;"><span style="font-size: 1.25em;">Please take on a creative challenge, participate, &amp; perhaps have a satisfying sale</span></span></strong></span><br /><span style="color: #8da4b4"><strong><span style="font-size: 0.8em;"><span style="font-size: 1.25em;">And here&#39;s how directly from the Box committee co chairs Linda Evans and Steve Zorn</span></span></strong></span><span style="color: #8da4b4"><strong><span style="font-size: 0.8em;">.</span></strong></span><span style="color: #8da4b4; font-size: 0.64em;"><br /><span style="font-size: 1em;"><br /></span></span>

<p><strong><span style="font-size: medium; color: #8da4b4; font-size: 0.64em;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 0.8em;">We&#39;re inviting every BAG member to design
fabulous smaller boxes to be sold at the BAG throughout the spring and
fall.&#160; And here&#39;s the deal: You sell your box – you get your
commission!&#160; So why stop at one?&#160; You can design as many boxes as you
like, in the media of your choosing.</span><span style="font-size: 1em;"></p></span><span style="font-size: 0.8em;">
Your box can be as small as a matchbook or as big as… well, you know how
limited the BAG&#39;s space is, so keep that in mind.</span><span style="font-size: 0.8em;"><span style="color: navy;"></span></p><p>
ARTISTIC LICENSE<br />
You can find your own box materials or, to start you off, the BAG has an array
of unpainted wooden boxes for you to choose from.&#160; We&#39;re selling these
boxes to BAG artists at cost. They&#39;re not expensive – and remember, you&#39;ll
get your commission when yours sells!&#160;&#160; <br />C&#39;mon down! Check out the samples, make your choices, leave a check in
the envelope, and we&#39;ll order the boxes.&#160; We&#39;d like to place our order
with the manufacturer by the first week of March, so please make your decision
soon.</p><p>
Also, the Country Owl Studio has some great boxes at great prices, so speak
with Dolores Furnari to see what she has to offer.</span><br /></span></span></strong></p><p><br /><span style="font-size: medium; color: #8da4b4; font-size: 0.512em;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong></strong>


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<div><span style="color: #ff9933; font-size: 1.5625em;"><strong><br /></strong></span><div style="text-align: right"><span style="color: #ff9933; font-size: 1.5625em;"><strong>Creativity is more important <br />than knowledge<br />-Albert Einstein</strong></span></div></div><span style="color: #f8c189"></span><br />&#160;&#160;&#160;<span style="color: #ff9933"> Once again, the Guild has put together an exciting show of work by young artists from the entire <a href="http://www.rnesu.org">Rutland Northeast </a>region. Stop by and check it out! <br />&#160;&#160;&#160; This annual exhibition: <em><strong>Art Among Us</strong></em> makes me realize that I was very lucky when I was a child. I had a lot of support for my crazy artist side.<br /><strong><em>(What were my parents thinking???) </em></strong><br />But having spent many years teaching in various sorts of schools on two continents, I know that is not always the case. <br />Not even often the case. <br />&#160;&#160;&#160; The Art room is a refuge for the young creative soul, the artist-to-be. A haven where creativity and focus trump the multiplication table and spelling bees, where all sorts of wonderful colors, tools and materials are made available. In other words, heaven for a creative kid!<br />&#160;&#160;&#160; And this is yet another of the <a href="http://www.brandonartistguild.org/">BAG</a>&#39;s great successes: our support of art education in our community. From the Really Really Pig parade in 2003, when more than a thousand area school kids, and their families, friends and neighbors proudly paraded their pigs down Park Street, to this year&#39;s ongoing artistic and significant financial donation to the local <a href="http://rnesu.k12.vt.us/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=23&amp;Itemid=44">SOAR </a>program, the BAG has made a difference in the hearts and minds of the region. Art has played a vital role in the revitalization of Brandon, and in the community pride of local students from K-12 and beyond. <br />And an important thing to remember is that these students will become not just artists, but art appreciators, and art patrons in the future. Thanks to the efforts of many these children will grow up with the knowledge that art is important.<br />And we&#39;re just getting going!<br />BAG members, I look forward to your comments! (gulp!)</p><p></p></span><p><br /> </p>   <p style="clear:both;"> 
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        <title>Guilding</title>   
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        <h1 style="text-align: right; margin: 0pt; font-size: 12px;"><span style="color: #f8c189; font-size: 1.25em;"><em><strong>A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.</strong></em></span></h1><div style="text-align: right"><span style="color: #f8c189; font-size: 1.25em;">&#160;&#160;&#160; &#160;&#160;&#160; &#160;&#160;&#160; &#160;&#160;&#160; &#160;&#160;&#160; &#160;&#160;&#160; &#160;&#160;&#160; &#160;&#160;&#160; &#160;&#160;&#160; &#160;&#160;&#160; </span><em><strong><span style="color: #663366"><span style="color: #f8c189; font-size: 1.25em;">-&#160; Henrik Ibsen</span><br /><br /></span></strong></em></div><h1 style="margin: 0pt; font-size: 12px;"><em><strong></strong></em></h1><div style="text-align: left">&#160;&#160;&#160;
    
    
    

    
    
    

    
    
    

    
    
    

    
    
    

    
    
    

    
    
    
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 <span style="color: #ff9933">Take the helm, hoist the sails, swab the decks... dump the honey buckets...  <br />In the <a href="http://www.brandonartistsguild.org">Brandon Artists Guild</a> we all lend a hand with whatever needs to be done. To me, Ibsen&#39;s quote isn&#39;t so much about who is the captain, but how essential it is that the entire crew contributes to the whole.<br />&#160;&#160;&#160; Who and what are we? A community of artists </span><span style="color: #ff9933">in the wonderful Vermont village&#160; of <a href="http://www.brandon.org">Brandon</a>, </span><span style="color: #ff9933">banded together nine years ago to support each other&#39;s creativity as well as our efforts to market our art. We have done pretty well thus far, but as the group has grown it has become increasingly difficult to maintain the sense of camraderie that gve us such energy at the beginning of this adventure. <br />I hope that this blog will help to change that.</span><span style="color: #ff9933"><br />It is intended as a forum for discussion and
as a means of staying in touch, for BAG members. I hope that members
will read, enjoy, suggest and comment. </span><span style="color: #ff9933">When you do comment, please do so publicly... not as a private post to me, although I love those too! <em><strong>It&#39;s about camraderie!</strong></em></span><span style="color: #ff9933"><br />Part of the reality of the web is that connectivity begets connectivity. <br />In other words, the more ways we are linked, by posts, by web links etc. the more visible we are on the web, which means more potential business for all of us. <br /></span><span style="color: #ff9933"><br />
In order to post, you do have to join Vox. The reason I picked Vox is
that it&#39;s FREE, very user friendly, and in the year that I have been
posting @ my own blog (<a href="http://elizabethmyers.vox.com/">www.elizabethmyers.vox.com</a>) I have had no
problems at all. </span><span style="color: #ff9933">So please don&#39;t be worried about joining. <em>You can read it without joining but you can&#39;t post a comment.</em><br />If you have a website, please let me know and I will post it on the links<br /></span><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #ff9933">So I&#39;m going to put this on line now, and let all the guild members know about it!<br />It&#39;s bitter out tonight! Stay warm!</span><br /><br /><br /></span> </div>   <p style="clear:both;"> 
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