This 3-sentence summary provides the high-level information from the document: The document summarizes the agenda and notes from the 2011 annual meeting of seARTS, a nonprofit organization focused on supporting arts and culture in Gloucester, MA. The meeting covered seARTS' accomplishments in 2010, including programs, events, fundraising, and advocacy efforts. It also discussed goals and strategic planning for 2011, including expanding volunteer base, fundraising, and advocacy around issues like the cultural district and arts in harbor development.

1. seARTS – 2011
Annual Meeting
What Role Should the Arts Play in
Harbor Development?
Monday, February 28th 2011
Cruiseport Gloucester, Harbor Room

2. seARTS Board
Bill Braunlich, Anne Robinson, Beth Scanzani, James
Caviston, Jacqueline Ganim-DeFalco, & Deb Eliason

3. Agenda
 6:30-7:30 PM
• Opening Remarks: James Caviston
• Board Development & Strategic Planning:
Jackie Ganim-DeFalco
• Treasurer’s Report & Fundraising, Membership:
William Braunlich
• Programs: Anne Robinson
• Visitor Surveys: Deb Eliason
 7:30-8:15 PM
• Keynote Presentations:
• Mayor Carolyn Kirk
• Jay Paget: Mass Cultural Council
• Susan Silberberg-Robinson – MIT
 8:00-9:00 PM: General Discussion

4. Opening Remarks - 2010 Highlights
 Behind the scenes
• Second Year of Newsblast
• Second Year of Organizational Meetings
• Second Year of Collecting Visitor Surveys
• ECCF Accounting Program
 Diversified Funding Base
• Grants, Membership, Fiscal Agency, Art Sales
 Strategic Planning
 Increased Collaboration (PWA, CCF, Wearable Arts,
Art Loan Programs)
 Advocacy

5. Board Development &
Strategic Planning
 Board & Needs
 Board Members-at-Large
 Board Nominations
 Strategic Planning-Benchmarking
• Great Arts Towns
• What this means for seARTS
SP Committee & Contributors: seARTS Board +
Dawn Gadow, Elizabeth Bergeron, Kris Fisher,
Tom Gillett, Martha Kurz, Tom Kiely, Ronn Garry,
& others…

6. seARTS
Art Loan
What Makes a Great Art Town? Programs
seARTs
Gloucester Partner with
New Arts
Festival an Artist
What ties it all together?
•Major Events
•Advocacy
•Marketing Rocky
•Data (e.g economic Neck
impact, artists in Residency
WPA Murals residence, etc.)
•Cultural District (tbd)
seARTS
eBlast..
seARTSLectures,
*seARTS involved through funding or
facilitation salons & films

7. Cape Ann Arts & Cultural Local Municipality
Assets (Gloucester, Rockport,
Manchester, Essex) –
includes Gloucester
Committee for the Arts External stakeholders
(State of MA, MCC,
Foundations, Grantors)
Individual Artists – with
and without studios
seARTS
Galleries & Co-ops connecting & Local Businesses &
collaborating Business Groups (e.g
(Local Colors, etc. )
Chamber, NBCVB)
Special Interest, education & ,
niche artist groups ( Cape Ann
Art Haven, Cape Ann Artisans, Arts & Cultural organizations &
Wearable Arts, NShore Jazz Venues (Cape Ann Museum, Rockport
etc..) Music, CA Symphony, North Shore
Arts, Rocky Neck, CAC Cinema, etc..)

8. Please Remember to Visit
AmericanStyle.com & Vote for
Gloucester as a Top 100 Small Art City

9. Treasurer’s Report, Fundraising &
Membership
 Financial Highlights
 Strong January 2011 Balance Sheet
 2011 Year to Date Excess Income vs. Expense -
$13,000
 Significant sales of Artwork, Pottery and
Wearable Arts
 Successful Fiscal Year 2010
 Current Membership Statistics

10. Membership 2011
 2010 Member Count
• 174 Individual Members
• 32 Cultural Organizations, 20 through 5/11
• 30 Businesses, 5 through 5/11
 IND Annual Renewal Date – April 15
 ORGS Renewal Date – May 15
 Cultural Members – Fourth Meeting Coming Spring 2011

11. Partial
List

12. Local Colors
Random Arts Gallery

13. Michael O’Leary
Ken Bonfield
Steve Davison
Sorellanza Sisters in Song
Larry Coryell
Chalumeau Chamber Ensemble

14. Gloucester Writer’s Center
Cape Ann Museum

15. 2011 Programs– Anne Robinson
 Feb 28 - Annual Meeting
 March 5 - CCF
 April – Cultural District Discussion
 May 9-14 – Partner with an Artist Events
 June 15 - Bass Rocks Opening Reception
 July Summer Membership Get Together Reader
Captains Courageous Festival, 2010
 Sept/Oct – Fall Fundraising Event
 Dec. 10 - Wearable Arts
 April & Sept - Organizational Meetings
Cape Ann Medical Center
Team
Three Sheets to the Wind
Captains Courageous Festival, 2010

16. Art @ Bass Rocks – Year Three
 2010 Awarded Viewers Choice Award: Kathy Coakley
 Opening Reception featuring Carol Seitchik & Artists
 Featured Artists in BR Newsletter
 Total Sales since 2009: $7,075
 $5,400 to Artists
 Bass Rocks Sponsorship each year
Lannan at Sunset by Katherine Coakley Red Flag by Rob Diebboll
Everything Has a Use by Michael Oleksiw

17. PWA – WPA @ Art Haven
Our signature artist grant program, partnering artists with
businesses in new and creative ways to develop public art.

18. Cape Ann Medical Center Loan
Program: Year One
Anne Robinson, Program Coordinator
Paul Cary Goldberg
Karen Ristuben Jurors
Carol Seitchik
Courtney Karcher, Program Asst
Karen Berger, Volunteer

19. Summer Members Networking Party
Lanesville Community Center
 Name Tag Contest
 Music and Dance
 Up-and-coming artists
meeting established artists

20. Fourth Annual Wearable Arts Show
 2011 Arts Sold $11,831.33 vs.
$8,400 in 2010
 $1,774.70 to seARTS
 $600 to Library
Lee Cunningham
Marlene Cann
Carol MacIntyre
Margaret Derby Beth Williams Harpist

21. 2010 Fall Benefit

22. Pottery Program
Managed by Stephanie Mason –
seARTS Volunteer – Thank you!

23. Visitors’ Surveys
 Importance
 Re-Vamped
 Collected from many groups
 Total number collected
 New Cultural Organization Survey
 Plans for 2011

24. 2011 Goals
 Build Volunteer Base
 Expand Board
 Technology Plan, Platform, & Implementation
 Fundraising – Annual Appeal and/or Annual
Fundraising Event
 Advocacy-Cultural District, Arts & Harbor Development
 Outreach beyond Cape Ann

26. Clare Higgins, Kathleen Valentine &
Elizabeth Bergeron
Working Behind the Scenes!
 Newsblast
 Website
 Events
 Surveys
 Member Relations
 Marketing

27. Local Media!
Manuel Simoes
Photographer
Good Morning Gloucester

28. Our Member Volunteers
Fall Event Committee:
Ken Bonfield, Artistic Director
Susan Boles
Art Show Jurors: Karen Berger, Joy Buell, Paul Cary Kristine Fisher
Goldberg, Clarke, Yhanna Coffin, Karen Ristuben, Edie Freedman
Carol Seitchik, Debbie Clarke, Juni VanDyke Cindy Hendrickson
Meg Jarrett
Martha Kurz
Wearable Arts Committee Stephanie Mason-Thibideaux
Lee Cunningham, Meredith Karen Ristuben
Anderson, Susan Kenna Beth Scanzani
Manny Simoes
Captains Courageous Festival
Readers & Volunteers

29. Members & 2010 Sponsors!
2010 Captains Courageous Festival
Sponsors
•Neptune’s Harvest
Annual Sponsors •Virgilio’s
Ben’s Paint Store
BOSE
Cape Ann Savings
Bank
2010 Doyon’s Appliances
Cape Ann Benefit Gordon Florist &
Donors Greenhouses, Inc.
Medical Intershell Seafood
Center Corp
Winer Brothers/ACE
Hardware
Funders
Bruce J. Anderson
Selma & Bayness Andrews Fund

30. Mayor Carolyn Kirk
Jay Paget: Mass Cultural
Council – Cultural
Facilities Fund & Cultural
Districts
Keynote:
Susan Silberberg
Robinson, MIT