President’s Message – May/June 1999

This year’s symposium season is finally upon us, kicking off with the annual Whidbey Retreat, this year with no remodeling. We’ve been getting inquiries from around the US and Canada about Camp Brotherhood, so hopefully we’ll all have a chance to meet some new sculptors and expand our constantly widening circle of dust-covered fanatics. The Board of Directors has settled on a plan to make Camp B more affordable to our Canadian members.

Last year the Board of Directors started setting up different committees so that the workload of running the Association would be spread out among our members as much as possible. We still need volunteers for the following committees:

• A chair for the Exhibitions committee.
• A co-chair to run the Fundraising committee with Barbara Davidson. We could also use the advice/assistance of anyone who has been involved in fundraising for other organizations to help us with ideas. Or, if you are willing to do a few hours research on the Internet on funding oppOltunities, you could start us on the road to developing funding proposals.
• We have several people interested in pursuing a Sculpture Center at the former Sandpoint Naval Air Station in Seattle, but need someone to take overall responsibility for keeping track of what the City of Seattle is doing and to assess the amount of membership support for such a Center.

As the NWSSA is a membership organization, ideally everyone conttibutes to its operation, although our geographic scattering creates limitations. Consider this mumble for help an opportunity to help shape what we do. If you are interested in any of these roles, please contact me at 360-435-6358; email at kwmclean@excite.com.

Thanks.