Column by Elise Gegauff
I have seen a lot of art in my life already.
Most of the time we think that art is something that we need to go to a museum to see. However, sometimes we get a feeling of art that surrounds us everyday, usually in nature, but sadly that feeling doesn't always last for very long.
There’s one type of art though that I feel that many people tend to look down on or even forget about. A lot of people see it almost daily and takes it for granted; I am of course talking about the art of animation.
A lot of people forget what an amazing and complicated form of art animation is. I for instance, love animation, and I have always admired the people behind it.
When I heard that Tennispalatsi was having a PIXAR exhibition I was absolutely thrilled! When I went there I was met with a wonderful world of colour, excitement and inspiration. The exhibition shows how PIXAR and Disney Studios has created some of the best known animated characters in the world.
PIXAR (with Disney's help) has made films such as Ratatouille, Cars, Toy Story and Finding Nemo. Their final animation is computer made, but it was nice to see the sketches and ideas behind the final product, and to see that a wonderful film, story or painting always starts with a simple line.
The exhibition includes 500 original pieces of art, like sculptures, paintings, sketches and drawings.
PIXAR is a company that was founded in 1986 and started working for George Lucas making special effects. After that it moved on to making short animated commercials, before they in 1991, made a deal with Disney to release three feature films, the first of which was Toy Story.
After that, PIXAR and Disney had their ups and downs and didn't always agree, especially since PIXAR was doing most of the work while Disney got most of the money. In 2006, Disney bought PIXAR Animation Studios.
To tell you all some info about the exhibition:
It is until the 27th of april 2008, and it is in Tennispalatsi (Finnkino by Kamppi).
Address: Salomonkatu 15, 2nd floor, 00100 Helsinki.
Tel.; +358 (0)9 310 87001
On Fridays it is free admission, but the regular price is 7/5 Euros, children under 18 are free of charge.
The museum is open Tue-Sun 11-20:30.
Check out other information at: www.artmuseum.fi
Take your family there! Or go alone. You will enjoy it!
-Elise Gegauff
27 February 2008
03 February 2008
HIAA news
Dear Artists
HIAA is starting the new year with big plans. We're soon to be an official association and thus we're going to go ahead and have our own logo, web site, membership card and of course, group exhibition.
The web site will include, among other features, members' gallery where all the members will have own "exhibition space". We will work on deals with art supply stores in order to get our members discounts by showing their membership card. And all the members are entitled to participate in our group exhibitions, by sharing the possible extra costs. HIAA is working to bring together international artists in Finland, but also to bring forward international artists in the Finnish art scene.
All this is yours by returning the membership registration form and paying the memberhsip fee of 25 euros to HIAA bank account (you'll find the number in the registration form) or at the March 18 meeting. When you have paid the fee, you will receive your membership card and be a fully fledged member of the association.
We have also elected a logo for the association. Hong Liu graciously agreed to do the design and the board elected one of the many options at its first meeting of this year. The logo will feature on our website, membership cards and any printed materials the association will give out.
At the moment we are selecting a web site service provider in order to create a site for us. The web site should be our common space in the internet, so don't hesitate to tell your ideas of what it should include and, indeed, participate in the design, planning and realisation of the site!
The group exhibition has as a theme "HOME", which is a working title. There are several ideas of what the exhibition place should/could be. All this should come together in the near future as the exhibition is planned for the autumn.
Let's talk more of these things at the HIAA meeting on Monday 4th February in Café Strindberg at 18.30, where everybody is most welcome to come!
Best regards,
Susan
17 January 2008
Hot Art
Column by Elise Gegauff
A new gallery;
Gallery Kalhama & Piippo Contemporary
Before anything, I would like to wish all the memebers of HIAA a very good and artistic newyear, and I hope you had a great christmas! I look forward to sharing exciting projects with you in 2008!
Since it's a new year, I also wanted to find something fresh and new to write about. Something that had opened in 2008 would be just perfect. I stumbled over this gallery called Gallery Kalhama & Piippo that had opened on january 11, 2008.
I decided to go there and check out what they've got.
It was a littlebit diffucult for me to find...being a foreigner and all, because it was sort of inside an area with many stores and restaurants. However, I found it after a little blind walking and I was delighted to discover that the gallery is 500 square metres big!
The gallery is aiming to be a new place for the sharpest edge of Finnish contemporary art and right now it is hosting the exhibitions of sculptor Villu Jaanisoo (Estonia) and painter Jussi Niva (Finland).
Villu Jaanisoo has a massive sound installation called "Wave" (2008) in Kalhama & Piippo (although I was quite surprised by this, since I couldn't hear any sound! Maybe the art was broken?).
Jussi Niva's exhibition is called "Diffus", and he is concentrating on the making up and braking down of a situation.
If you want more information about this gallery, you can go to:
www.kalhamapiippo.com
The visiting adress is:
Gallery Kalhama & Piippo Contemporary Ltd.
Mannerheimintie 3 B
5th floor
Tel.; +358-9-2785301
-Elise Gegauff
A new gallery;
Gallery Kalhama & Piippo Contemporary
Before anything, I would like to wish all the memebers of HIAA a very good and artistic newyear, and I hope you had a great christmas! I look forward to sharing exciting projects with you in 2008!
Since it's a new year, I also wanted to find something fresh and new to write about. Something that had opened in 2008 would be just perfect. I stumbled over this gallery called Gallery Kalhama & Piippo that had opened on january 11, 2008.
I decided to go there and check out what they've got.
It was a littlebit diffucult for me to find...being a foreigner and all, because it was sort of inside an area with many stores and restaurants. However, I found it after a little blind walking and I was delighted to discover that the gallery is 500 square metres big!
The gallery is aiming to be a new place for the sharpest edge of Finnish contemporary art and right now it is hosting the exhibitions of sculptor Villu Jaanisoo (Estonia) and painter Jussi Niva (Finland).
Villu Jaanisoo has a massive sound installation called "Wave" (2008) in Kalhama & Piippo (although I was quite surprised by this, since I couldn't hear any sound! Maybe the art was broken?).
Jussi Niva's exhibition is called "Diffus", and he is concentrating on the making up and braking down of a situation.
If you want more information about this gallery, you can go to:
www.kalhamapiippo.com
The visiting adress is:
Gallery Kalhama & Piippo Contemporary Ltd.
Mannerheimintie 3 B
5th floor
Tel.; +358-9-2785301
-Elise Gegauff
23 November 2007
Hot Art
Column by Elise Gegauff
AMERICAN ART
Hello everybody, I'm back from Los Angeles!
It was a really exciting city, with great nightlife, sightings, shopping and culture.
But I'm not here to write a travelguide, I'm here to write about art.
And art in Los Angeles was also very interesting.
I went to the J. Paul Getty Museum to look at some photographic art with the Nude Body as topic:
http://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/focus_nude/
One thing that I got very interested in as I was in America, and especially when I went on a road trip north and out of LA, was art with Native Americans as a topic.
As soon as you get out of the city a littlebit, you can find galleries specialized on Native Americans or Art of the West as a theme.
But what's interesting is that most of this art is quite new. The racism agains native Americans are still there today and that is also something you can discover in art.
Of course another racial issue concerning art is where the African American artists fit in American art history.
Actually, already in the slave communities, there were important African American artists. During the period between the 1600s and the early 1800s art took the form of small drums, quilts, wrought-iron figures and ceramic vessels. In the southern United States these artifacts have similarities with comparable crafts in West and Central Africa. In contrast, black artisans created art that was conceived in a thoroughly Western European fashion.
There were many skilled artist that arrived as slaves from Africa, and sometimes they learned to develop their skills as apprentices of other artists, both black and white. Some slaves were even allowed by their masters to earn money from their art, so that they could buy themselves and their families free later on. Usually these masters were people who didn't necesseraly agree too much with slavery.
During the 1920's there was a movement called "The Harlem Renaissance". It was the most important movement for African American artists up till then. This was a way for black artists to start celebrating black history in art, instead of copying the white traditions and ways of art. It was a way of challenging racism and take back their identity.
Most artists that are concidered american have studied or just travelled in Europe and met european artist from London and Paris, such as Mary Cassatt and Whistler. When the modernists came from Europe to America, controversy became a way of life for american artists, and they started to break the norm in art.
When the first World War was over, the Santa Fe Railroad was finished. More and more people travelled and settled across the West, and artist colonies started to grow around Santa Fe and Taos. The artists' main subject became native people and landscapes of the Southwest. All of this new art became a great way for the Santa Fe Railroad to advertise and get people to come to the Southwest.
After World War 2, Abstract Expressionism began to take shape. The artists started to move away from the formal view on real objects and composition. What was in focus now was shapes, colour and space.
In the 50's the Modernism moved into Ne Dada, Colour Field Painting, Post painterly Abstraction, Op Art, hard endge painting, minimal art, shaped canvas painting, Lyrical Abstraction and of course Abstract Expressionism continued. Other artstyles that started not long after this are still very popular in American art and the rest of the world today, such as; Conceptual Art, Postmminemalism, Earth Art, Video, Performance Art and Installation Art.
Closer to our time today is for example a lot of abstaction with mixed media. Photographs are more used than before, and you have paintings with objects on the canvas. Of course there are still quite many artists who concentrate on doing paintings the traditional and naturalistic way.
A lot of american art, especially older work, are very naturalistic and has images of everyday life. Most of it however, shows americans in battle for their new country. It was important for the americans to capture as much history as possible since they "had none" yet.
All in all, there's a lot of interesting american art. Some of the artist you should check out are: Albert Bierstadt, John Trumbull, Whistler, Mary Cassatt, Grant Wood, Walter Ufer, Bert Greer Phillips, E. Irving Couse, William Henry Jackson, Georgia O'Keefe, Aaron Douglas, James VanDerZee, Jackson Pollock, Andy Warhol, Willem de kooning, Mark Rothko, Clyfford Still, Barnett Newman, Robert Motherwell, Jules Olitski, Kenneth Noland, Helen Frankenthaler, Thoman Eakins, Frank Stella, Cindy Sherman and James Thurber.
-Elise Gegauff
AMERICAN ART
Hello everybody, I'm back from Los Angeles!
It was a really exciting city, with great nightlife, sightings, shopping and culture.
But I'm not here to write a travelguide, I'm here to write about art.
And art in Los Angeles was also very interesting.
I went to the J. Paul Getty Museum to look at some photographic art with the Nude Body as topic:
http://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/focus_nude/
One thing that I got very interested in as I was in America, and especially when I went on a road trip north and out of LA, was art with Native Americans as a topic.
As soon as you get out of the city a littlebit, you can find galleries specialized on Native Americans or Art of the West as a theme.
But what's interesting is that most of this art is quite new. The racism agains native Americans are still there today and that is also something you can discover in art.
Of course another racial issue concerning art is where the African American artists fit in American art history.
Actually, already in the slave communities, there were important African American artists. During the period between the 1600s and the early 1800s art took the form of small drums, quilts, wrought-iron figures and ceramic vessels. In the southern United States these artifacts have similarities with comparable crafts in West and Central Africa. In contrast, black artisans created art that was conceived in a thoroughly Western European fashion.
There were many skilled artist that arrived as slaves from Africa, and sometimes they learned to develop their skills as apprentices of other artists, both black and white. Some slaves were even allowed by their masters to earn money from their art, so that they could buy themselves and their families free later on. Usually these masters were people who didn't necesseraly agree too much with slavery.
During the 1920's there was a movement called "The Harlem Renaissance". It was the most important movement for African American artists up till then. This was a way for black artists to start celebrating black history in art, instead of copying the white traditions and ways of art. It was a way of challenging racism and take back their identity.
Most artists that are concidered american have studied or just travelled in Europe and met european artist from London and Paris, such as Mary Cassatt and Whistler. When the modernists came from Europe to America, controversy became a way of life for american artists, and they started to break the norm in art.
When the first World War was over, the Santa Fe Railroad was finished. More and more people travelled and settled across the West, and artist colonies started to grow around Santa Fe and Taos. The artists' main subject became native people and landscapes of the Southwest. All of this new art became a great way for the Santa Fe Railroad to advertise and get people to come to the Southwest.
After World War 2, Abstract Expressionism began to take shape. The artists started to move away from the formal view on real objects and composition. What was in focus now was shapes, colour and space.
In the 50's the Modernism moved into Ne Dada, Colour Field Painting, Post painterly Abstraction, Op Art, hard endge painting, minimal art, shaped canvas painting, Lyrical Abstraction and of course Abstract Expressionism continued. Other artstyles that started not long after this are still very popular in American art and the rest of the world today, such as; Conceptual Art, Postmminemalism, Earth Art, Video, Performance Art and Installation Art.
Closer to our time today is for example a lot of abstaction with mixed media. Photographs are more used than before, and you have paintings with objects on the canvas. Of course there are still quite many artists who concentrate on doing paintings the traditional and naturalistic way.
A lot of american art, especially older work, are very naturalistic and has images of everyday life. Most of it however, shows americans in battle for their new country. It was important for the americans to capture as much history as possible since they "had none" yet.
All in all, there's a lot of interesting american art. Some of the artist you should check out are: Albert Bierstadt, John Trumbull, Whistler, Mary Cassatt, Grant Wood, Walter Ufer, Bert Greer Phillips, E. Irving Couse, William Henry Jackson, Georgia O'Keefe, Aaron Douglas, James VanDerZee, Jackson Pollock, Andy Warhol, Willem de kooning, Mark Rothko, Clyfford Still, Barnett Newman, Robert Motherwell, Jules Olitski, Kenneth Noland, Helen Frankenthaler, Thoman Eakins, Frank Stella, Cindy Sherman and James Thurber.
-Elise Gegauff
03 October 2007
Helsinki International Artists’ Association Logo Competition
Logo Competition
HIAA's logo competition is now officially opened! Don't hesitate to give us your view of how this association should look. You find competition information below.
Criteria
We are looking for a logo and visual image that will reflect both the mission and spirit of the association. A good fit for us would include the following:
- The logo should be able to be understood globally and inoffensive to all cultures.
- The design should be able to be reversible and use both light on dark and dark on light.
- The logo will be used for a myriad of print and online applications; full colour and black and white, gray scale etc.
- The visual image should include the font, colours and style(s) to be used in both print and online applications. You can also submit only a logo.
Submission Criteria
- Logos should be submitted in JPEG format.
- Submit you entry via email attachment to: hiaa.competition@yahoo.com
- All entries have to be emailed no later than midnight of November 15, 2007. You may submit several logos.
- Entries should include:
Your Name
Email Address
Phone number
Physical Address
Two to three sentences on your design inspiration and process. (optional)
Selection process
The winner will be selected through general vote. All the entries will be communicated to all members via email and all members of the HIAA are eligible to vote for the winner in an e-mail vote, which will end midnight of December 15, 2007.
-Submit your vote via email to: hiaa.competition@yahoo com
What do you win?
The winner will receive one year’s free membership of the HIAA and lots of fame! The website of the association will be realised based on the winning design.
Competition Rights
Any teams submitting materials in connection with the competition shall agree, by the act of submitting such materials, that all materials shall become the property of HIAA and the association may delete, destroy or otherwise dispose of such materials without any obligation whatever to any entrant to return such materials following the competition.
In addition, by entering this competition you agree that the rights of the winning logo will be transferred and held by the HIAA. The winning entrant will be recognized on our future website.
Good Luck to all entries!
Susan
25 September 2007
News from the Founding Meeting
Dear Artists,
Last Thursday we held the founding meeting of our association. The board was elected, the association’s rules approved and the membership fee agreed on. We also decided next year’s group exhibition’s theme. In addition we discussed next year’s action plan and decided to hold a designing competition to find a logo and look for the HIAA.
The Competition
HIAA needs a logo and look that will express our nature as an international artists’ association. Now you all have a chance to put your creative brains to work and make a design that will speak for itself!
We’re looking for a logo and a total visual image, including colours, fonts, styles etc. to be used in our website and printed materials. The competition is open to all and the winner will be selected by general vote. More information about the competition will be sent to you soon.
The Board
The first board of HIAA includes the following members:
Susan Wilander, chairperson
Canal Jägerroos, deputy chairperson
Sini Anttila-Rodriguez, secretary
Tea Jarma-Vartiainen, treasurer/membership secretary
Hong Liu, webmaster/IT secretary
Elise Gegauff, deputy member of the board
The Membership Fee
The membership fee for the year 2008 is 25 euros. This will be due after we’ll get the association registered and can open a bank account. I’ll inform you all later on about this.
2008 Activities
Next year’s action plan has three main points:
-HIAA website including e.g. member’s gallery
-HIAA group exhibition - theme ”HOME” (working title)
-recruiting new members to make possible even more interesting activities for us all
Naturally the meetings will continue every six weeks or so and other informal activities are also welcome. As it is up to us all to make this association a lively one, don't hesitate to suggest any activity you would like to have or would like to organise yourself.
If, for example, you're arranging workshops in some technique, send an e-mail to the mailing list. If you find an artwise interesting place to visit or have good/bad experiences about exhibiting somewhere, let us know. One thing I'm sure all of us would be interested to know is to find the best value-for-money art supply store in the capital region. And, as usual, let us know about your coming exhibitions!
Then the approved rules of HIAA:
Rules of the Association
Association’s name and domicile
Association’s name is Helsinki International Artists’ Association ry. and its domicile is Helsinki. The languages of the association are English and Finnish.
Association’s purpose and nature of its activities
The purpose of the association is to promote contacts and cooperation between visual artists of different nationalities; to facilitate immigrant artists’ integration into the Finnish society and art world; to promote its members as artists; and to create opportunities for artistic activities and exhibiting members’ work in Finland and abroad.
In order to fulfil its purpose, the association will organise activities based on its members wishes, with the voluntary help of the members. Activities can include meetings, art exhibitions, seminars, training courses, excursions and day trips, and it can publish publications related to its field of activities.
To support its activities the association collects membership fees, and can e.g. accept donations, testaments and financial support, collect participation fees for its activities and apply for grants. In addition the association can organise lotteries, raffles and fund-raising campaigns, and own property and other assets necessary for its activities. The association does not aim to make financial profit.
Members
Anyone who accepts the purpose and rules of the association can join to the association. The board of the association accepts new members by application.
Resignation and dismissal of a member
A member can resign from the association by giving notice to the board or to the chairperson or by informing the association at its general meeting so that the resignation can be noted in the meeting minutes.
The board can dismiss a member if she/he has not paid the membership fee, or if she/he in some other way has not fulfilled her/his obligations to which she/he has committed by joining the association, or if she/he has by her/his actions harmed considerably the association, or does not anymore fulfil the conditions of a membership stated in the law or in the rules of the association.
Entrance and membership fee
The annual general meeting decides on the entrance and membership fees.
The Board
The board manages association’s activities. The board consists of a chairperson and at least two other board members and two deputy board members and at maximum nine board members.
The term of the board is the period between two annual general meetings.
The board will select among its members a deputy chairperson, and will appoint a secretary, a treasurer and other necessary managers, who may or may not be board members.
The board meets when convened by the chairperson, or if she/he is unable to summon the meeting, by the deputy chairperson, whenever they consider a board meeting necessary or when at least half of the board members request a meeting.
The board meeting has a quorum when at least half of its members, including the chairperson or deputy chairperson is present. A simple majority wins when voting is necessary. In case of a tie, the chairperson’s vote will decide, however, in elections lots will be drawn.
Signing the name of the association
The name of the association is signed by the chairperson, deputy chairperson, secretary or treasurer, always two of them together.
Accounting period and audit
The association’s accounting period is a calendar year.
The closing of the books with the related documents and the annual report by the board has to be given to the auditors at least three weeks prior to the annual general meeting. Auditors have to give their written report to the board at least two weeks prior to the annual general meeting.
Association’s meetings
The annual general meeting of the association convenes annually between January and May, on a date decided by the board.
An extraordinary annual meeting is convened when association’s annual general meeting so decides, when the board finds it necessary, or when at least 1/10 of the members with a right to vote request it from the board in writing and for a specific reason. The meeting must be held within 30 days of presenting the request to the board.
Every member has one vote at meetings.
When voted, the suggestion supported by over half of the attending members of the meeting will win, unless otherwise stated in the rules of the association. In case of a tie, the chairperson’s vote will be decisive, in elections lots will be drawn.
Convening a meeting
The board must summon the association’s meeting at least seven days prior to the meeting, by e-mail.
The annual general meeting
The following items will be on the agenda of the annual general meeting:
-Opening the meeting
-Electing the chairperson and secretary for the meeting, two members to review the meeting minutes, and when necessary, two members to count votes
-Verifiying of the legality and quorum of the meeting
-Approving the agenda of the meeting
-Presenting the financial statements, the annual report and the auditors’ report
-Approving the financial statements and discharging the board and other managers from liability
-Approving the operating plan the budget and the entrance and membership fees
-Electing the chairperson and other members of the board
-Electing one or two auditors and their deputies
-Other items on the agenda
In case a member requests an item on the agenda, she/he has to inform the board in time to include it in the invitation.
Changing the rules or resolving the association
The decision to change the rules or to resolve the association must have at least ¾ of the votes of the meeting. Invitation to the meeting must mention the intent to change the rules or to resolve the association.
When the association is resolved, its assets will be used to benefit the purpose of the association in a way decided by the meeting that decides to resolve the association. If the association is discontinued, its assets will be used for the same purpose.
So, this was the founding meeting in a nutshell. Have sunny September days and see you soon!
Best regards,
Susan
Last Thursday we held the founding meeting of our association. The board was elected, the association’s rules approved and the membership fee agreed on. We also decided next year’s group exhibition’s theme. In addition we discussed next year’s action plan and decided to hold a designing competition to find a logo and look for the HIAA.
The Competition
HIAA needs a logo and look that will express our nature as an international artists’ association. Now you all have a chance to put your creative brains to work and make a design that will speak for itself!
We’re looking for a logo and a total visual image, including colours, fonts, styles etc. to be used in our website and printed materials. The competition is open to all and the winner will be selected by general vote. More information about the competition will be sent to you soon.
The Board
The first board of HIAA includes the following members:
Susan Wilander, chairperson
Canal Jägerroos, deputy chairperson
Sini Anttila-Rodriguez, secretary
Tea Jarma-Vartiainen, treasurer/membership secretary
Hong Liu, webmaster/IT secretary
Elise Gegauff, deputy member of the board
The Membership Fee
The membership fee for the year 2008 is 25 euros. This will be due after we’ll get the association registered and can open a bank account. I’ll inform you all later on about this.
2008 Activities
Next year’s action plan has three main points:
-HIAA website including e.g. member’s gallery
-HIAA group exhibition - theme ”HOME” (working title)
-recruiting new members to make possible even more interesting activities for us all
Naturally the meetings will continue every six weeks or so and other informal activities are also welcome. As it is up to us all to make this association a lively one, don't hesitate to suggest any activity you would like to have or would like to organise yourself.
If, for example, you're arranging workshops in some technique, send an e-mail to the mailing list. If you find an artwise interesting place to visit or have good/bad experiences about exhibiting somewhere, let us know. One thing I'm sure all of us would be interested to know is to find the best value-for-money art supply store in the capital region. And, as usual, let us know about your coming exhibitions!
Then the approved rules of HIAA:
Rules of the Association
Association’s name and domicile
Association’s name is Helsinki International Artists’ Association ry. and its domicile is Helsinki. The languages of the association are English and Finnish.
Association’s purpose and nature of its activities
The purpose of the association is to promote contacts and cooperation between visual artists of different nationalities; to facilitate immigrant artists’ integration into the Finnish society and art world; to promote its members as artists; and to create opportunities for artistic activities and exhibiting members’ work in Finland and abroad.
In order to fulfil its purpose, the association will organise activities based on its members wishes, with the voluntary help of the members. Activities can include meetings, art exhibitions, seminars, training courses, excursions and day trips, and it can publish publications related to its field of activities.
To support its activities the association collects membership fees, and can e.g. accept donations, testaments and financial support, collect participation fees for its activities and apply for grants. In addition the association can organise lotteries, raffles and fund-raising campaigns, and own property and other assets necessary for its activities. The association does not aim to make financial profit.
Members
Anyone who accepts the purpose and rules of the association can join to the association. The board of the association accepts new members by application.
Resignation and dismissal of a member
A member can resign from the association by giving notice to the board or to the chairperson or by informing the association at its general meeting so that the resignation can be noted in the meeting minutes.
The board can dismiss a member if she/he has not paid the membership fee, or if she/he in some other way has not fulfilled her/his obligations to which she/he has committed by joining the association, or if she/he has by her/his actions harmed considerably the association, or does not anymore fulfil the conditions of a membership stated in the law or in the rules of the association.
Entrance and membership fee
The annual general meeting decides on the entrance and membership fees.
The Board
The board manages association’s activities. The board consists of a chairperson and at least two other board members and two deputy board members and at maximum nine board members.
The term of the board is the period between two annual general meetings.
The board will select among its members a deputy chairperson, and will appoint a secretary, a treasurer and other necessary managers, who may or may not be board members.
The board meets when convened by the chairperson, or if she/he is unable to summon the meeting, by the deputy chairperson, whenever they consider a board meeting necessary or when at least half of the board members request a meeting.
The board meeting has a quorum when at least half of its members, including the chairperson or deputy chairperson is present. A simple majority wins when voting is necessary. In case of a tie, the chairperson’s vote will decide, however, in elections lots will be drawn.
Signing the name of the association
The name of the association is signed by the chairperson, deputy chairperson, secretary or treasurer, always two of them together.
Accounting period and audit
The association’s accounting period is a calendar year.
The closing of the books with the related documents and the annual report by the board has to be given to the auditors at least three weeks prior to the annual general meeting. Auditors have to give their written report to the board at least two weeks prior to the annual general meeting.
Association’s meetings
The annual general meeting of the association convenes annually between January and May, on a date decided by the board.
An extraordinary annual meeting is convened when association’s annual general meeting so decides, when the board finds it necessary, or when at least 1/10 of the members with a right to vote request it from the board in writing and for a specific reason. The meeting must be held within 30 days of presenting the request to the board.
Every member has one vote at meetings.
When voted, the suggestion supported by over half of the attending members of the meeting will win, unless otherwise stated in the rules of the association. In case of a tie, the chairperson’s vote will be decisive, in elections lots will be drawn.
Convening a meeting
The board must summon the association’s meeting at least seven days prior to the meeting, by e-mail.
The annual general meeting
The following items will be on the agenda of the annual general meeting:
-Opening the meeting
-Electing the chairperson and secretary for the meeting, two members to review the meeting minutes, and when necessary, two members to count votes
-Verifiying of the legality and quorum of the meeting
-Approving the agenda of the meeting
-Presenting the financial statements, the annual report and the auditors’ report
-Approving the financial statements and discharging the board and other managers from liability
-Approving the operating plan the budget and the entrance and membership fees
-Electing the chairperson and other members of the board
-Electing one or two auditors and their deputies
-Other items on the agenda
In case a member requests an item on the agenda, she/he has to inform the board in time to include it in the invitation.
Changing the rules or resolving the association
The decision to change the rules or to resolve the association must have at least ¾ of the votes of the meeting. Invitation to the meeting must mention the intent to change the rules or to resolve the association.
When the association is resolved, its assets will be used to benefit the purpose of the association in a way decided by the meeting that decides to resolve the association. If the association is discontinued, its assets will be used for the same purpose.
So, this was the founding meeting in a nutshell. Have sunny September days and see you soon!
Best regards,
Susan
20 September 2007
Hot Art
Column by Elise Gegauff
Art Baron
This time I wanted to talk about another gallery.
This is a gallery that always drags me into it everytime I pass it, and it’s called Art Baron. In fact, I got a business card from there and it has three names on it: Art Baron, Art Russian and Art Jack. I guess you can choose your pick.
Like one of these many names suggests, the main art that this gallery sells is russian art.
It’s mostly classical art, a lot of nature paintings with russian history and subjects, but also some more modern style paintings. They also have a whole room dedicated to religious icons. Keep in mind that there is also a whole basement full of paintings, so don’t forget to take a look there as well.
The prices for paintings varies a lot, and the frames around the paintings (most of them are very well framed) are included in the price.
I must say that I got very dissapointed when I checked out their website though, it is very unprofessional, with blurry photgraphs of the pieces, some of them even has the reflection of a flash. The advertisement is also very badly written and especially in english.
However, don’t let that scare you, you should go to the gallery and get a real impression.
The people there are very friendly and will help you with any question, and the atmosphere of the gallery is warm and welcoming in my opinion.
Go and check it out!
The adress is:
Art Baron
Fredrikinkatu 38
FI-00100 Helsinki
Tel/Fax: + 358 (0)9 685 2201
Art-russian@kolumbus.fi
For the website go to:
www.art-russian.com
-Elise Gegauff
Art Baron
This time I wanted to talk about another gallery.
This is a gallery that always drags me into it everytime I pass it, and it’s called Art Baron. In fact, I got a business card from there and it has three names on it: Art Baron, Art Russian and Art Jack. I guess you can choose your pick.
Like one of these many names suggests, the main art that this gallery sells is russian art.
It’s mostly classical art, a lot of nature paintings with russian history and subjects, but also some more modern style paintings. They also have a whole room dedicated to religious icons. Keep in mind that there is also a whole basement full of paintings, so don’t forget to take a look there as well.
The prices for paintings varies a lot, and the frames around the paintings (most of them are very well framed) are included in the price.
I must say that I got very dissapointed when I checked out their website though, it is very unprofessional, with blurry photgraphs of the pieces, some of them even has the reflection of a flash. The advertisement is also very badly written and especially in english.
However, don’t let that scare you, you should go to the gallery and get a real impression.
The people there are very friendly and will help you with any question, and the atmosphere of the gallery is warm and welcoming in my opinion.
Go and check it out!
The adress is:
Art Baron
Fredrikinkatu 38
FI-00100 Helsinki
Tel/Fax: + 358 (0)9 685 2201
Art-russian@kolumbus.fi
For the website go to:
www.art-russian.com
-Elise Gegauff
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