+Raffle-chain. Sue Rankin donating the item for raffle for the meeting this month!

+March 22-23 Concord, NH Sarah Shriver, Intricate Kaleidoscope Canes, Sat/Sun See Jan 2003 NaN -Lynne and Libby are going to this class, please contact them if you want to arrange a carpool or share accommodations.

+ May 11 (10-4) Sunday. Jody Bishel is teaching a class at Brookfield: Renaissance Goblets

+June Milwaukee, WI Bead and Button Show; Diane Villano will be teaching various classes. Details in later NaN's

+August 3-10, Ravensdale, Issaquah, WA Jody Bishel will be teaching. Details upcoming.

MARCH    Plumb Memorial Library, 65 Wooster Street, Shelton
APRIL    Hagaman Memorial Library, 227 Main Street, East Haven
MAY     South Norwalk Public Library, 10 Washington St.
JUNE    Miller Memorial Library, 2901 Dixwell Ave. Hamden
JULY    CH Booth Library, 25 Main Street, Newtown
AUGUST  Wallingford Public Library, 200 North Main St.
SEPTEMBER  North Haven Memorial Library, 17 Elm St.
OCTOBER  Seymour Public Library, 46 Church Street
NOVEMBER  Guilford Public Library, 67 Park Street
DECEMBER  Milford Public Library, 57 New Haven Ave.
JANUARY 2004  Blackstone Memorial Library, 758 South Main Street, Branford
FEBRUARY 2004   Cheshire

+Raffle-chain drawings will be held Jan, Mar, May, Aug, Oct. If you win the raffle, you also provide the item for the next raffle

Submitted by Libby Mills.

Meeting called to order at 11:25 am

Gini Fisher gave a demo of Impressionist Painting Pins.

There were 17 members in attendance. 2 guests

March's demo will be Jody's Foil Texture technique.
Tracy will do a demo in April.

The Clay Weekend was great. Like a retreat without all the pressure.

Leigh Ross was talking about her Millennium Garden Workshop. She explained that this class is appropriate for all levels and will cover many techniques. Sharon has reserved the Foxon firehouse for the weekend of October 3-4. She will be e-mailing Leigh to see if that weekend will work for her. More details about this exciting workshop will be provided later.

The Bead Strand raffle will happen sometime in the future. Reminder that your $15 dues and 3 beads for the 2003 Bead Strand are due.

Terry brought up the large demand for BOH at Yale. How many bottles can the guild make and distribute on a regular basis?

Bottles of Hope: The movement has gone global. Tracy received an e-mail from Australia that there is someone doing BOH there. Sharon will be speaking at a Junior Women's Club in Middlebury. We would like to encourage self-supporting groups who would like to get involved in making BOH. There are logos and brochures available. Gini & Tracy will be holding a BOH workshop at Danbury Hospital.

Tracy is working toward having a stand alone Bottles of Hope website, to promote, provide links, give instructions etc.

Gini will be helping with guild promotions, particularly online.

Discussion of the Winter 2003 Metalsmith magazine article about Ford & Forlano followed.

The meeting adjourned at 2:25 pm.

Respectfully submitted,

NaN Editor, Vice President, and Acting Guild Clown;

Debbie Goodrow

deb_twinkle@yahoo.com

====Member Links

++Lynne Schwarzenberg
River Poet@aol.com
http://www.wtcpins.com/

++Barbara McKie
mckieart@earthlink.net (Barbara McKie)
http://www.mckieart.com/

++Libby Mills
mills3456@cox.net
http:www.libzoid.com

++Tricia Hamel
tjhamel@peoplepc.com
http://www.collagefh.com/

++Lucille Schacht
Lucille@cshore.com
Polymer Clay
http://lujs.tripod.com/my-polymer-clay.html
Egg Lessons
http://members.tripod.com/~LuJS/EggLessons-INDEX.HTML

++Marie Segal
Clay Factory of Escondodo Beach
http://www.clayfactoryinc.com/

++Leigh Ross
Polymer Clay Central
http://www.polymerclaycentral.com/index.html

Links for art in New Haven and CT:
http://www.artscouncil-newhaven.org
http://www.ctarts.org