HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!
It is an honor to serve you as SPS president after so many years.
I just want to commend our volunteers and members for all the things we accomplished in 2022. It was a very busy year for all and a year of “Firsts” for SPS.. There is much that goes on behind the scenes to keep the SPS locomotive running at full speed and the email track has been running hot with communications. The digital world has totally changed the face of our organization. We have worked and we have learned so much this past year. Without naming every person involved let me just say that there are many people involved in every area of SPS.
To recap a bit, we have our website operating now since we changed our our domain to “.com”, which has been a truck load of tasks for several people and Sandie continues tweaking it, but we feel with the new agency (GoWP) that we are very stable. Members pay their dues and are notified by email to pay online. We share our member news, display our exhibits, list our upcoming events which are linked to SPS exhibit prospectus, entry and workshops all on our website.
In order to let you our members know what is happening we use Mail Chimp to send out email communications.
We held our 1st International Online exhibition and workshop which drew in artists from across the world. And our Juror was in the UK. It was very successful.
Over the summer we held a local paint together in Norcross. We also had two of our members attend IAPS as SPS representatives and they created a great SPS display.
Throughout the year, except for summer, we have our special guest artist on zoom monthly and we started our 1st Facebook members only Paint nGrow with special guest artist instructors in 2022.
We held our 35th Anniversary National exhibition with workshop, which was our first in person exhibit since covid shut things down.
And there is so much more that I could tell you but it would take too much time to say it all.
I thank you all personally and we look forward to another exciting year in 2023.
My sincere gratitude and love to you all.
Connie Reilly,
Your humble president
SPS Founder and President
“United We Stand with Pastels in Hand”