Charter

“Artists for a Cause” Charter

Mission

“Artists for a Cause” is the inspiration of six local artists who joined their talents to create an annual fine art show and sale to benefit a chosen local charity. It is our goal to benefit various charities in the Redlands, CA area on a rotating basis.

The Artists for a Cause Operating Committee does the following:

• Provides the location for the show in late Fall
• Solely responsible for jurying a select group of Artists representing a balanced, wide variety of media, limited to 20, we hope to include all of the following media
  • Acrylic, Oil, and Watercolor Paint, Ceramics, Glass, Gourd, Jewelry, Photography (film, digital and digitally enhanced), Textiles, Wood
• Identify small group of college age artists and provide them with a show experience
• Designs and prints postcards; provides the charity and selected artists with as many postcards as necessary (up to 5000 for charity and 200/artist)
• Offers a limited buffet during the event
• Maintains a website devoted to our group, which will include information about the chosen charity
• Donates 20% of all sales to the charity, accounting done by us (donation checks are collected at the of the show from the artists)
• Maintain high reputation amongst artistic community in regards to quality of the services provided to them

We ask that the chosen charity do the following:

• Integrate AFAC mailing list (~700 addresses) with their mailing list
• Address and send postcards ~ 5-6 weeks before event
• Follow up with email invitations to their email mailing list the week before the event
• Publicize event in conjunction with AFAC
• Provide docents during the show to assist guests circulating the show, and to maintain the refreshment table
• Provide some food for refreshment table
• Send tax receipts to each individual artist within 4 weeks of the event
• Provide 1-2 paragraphs summarizing major charity works for the information board on display during the event

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