ASV ACTIVITIES AND EXHIBITIONS

Association of Sculptors of Victoria Inc.
Annual Exhibition 7 -18 September 2011
The Light Factory Gallery
21 Brougham Street, Eltham Vic 3095
Judges 2011: Jon Eiseman, Michael Meszaros & Marija Patterson

Conditions of entry can be downloaded from the ASV web site
Category 1
Margaret Gunnersen & William Hoggan Thomas Award (ASV members with over 10 years' exhibiting experience)
Category 2
Tina Wentcher Prize (ASV members and non-member with less than 10 years exhibiting experience)
Category 3
Open section (only ASV members)
Sunday 4 September Bump in 4.30pm - 6.00pm
Sunday 11 September OFFICIAL OPENING 2.00 PM
Sunday 18 September Bump out 4.30pm - 6.30pm
Applications Closed 29 July 2011

‘Sculpture among the Tulips’
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Tesselaar Sculpture Prize 2011

Outdoor Sculpture
Tesselaar (in Silvan, in Victoria’s Dandenong Ranges) annual sculpture exhibition and acquisitive prize is an adjunct to its well-established annual Tesselaar Tulip Festival, which is attended by 50,000 visitors during September and October. For the fourth annual ‘Tesselaar Sculpture Prize’ (hereafter the ‘Prize’) Tesselaar Direct Pty Ltd is offering an Acquisitive Award for a sculpture suitable to be exhibited and maintained permanently outdoors at its business location. This year’s prize-winner will be awarded $10,000 in prize-money.
The winning artist will assign a limited copyright licence to Tesselaar Direct Pty Ltd to allow fair and reasonable use of images of the work for reasons of publicity/promotion and publication.
The Association of Sculptors of Victoria Inc offer a second prize of $1,000.
Tesselaar will also provide a ‘People's Choice Award’ of $500, as well as a prize in-kind to the winning voter.
The Tesselaar Tulip Festival is open to the public seven days per week from 10:00am to 5:00pm for the duration of the Festival, Thursday, 15 September to Wednesday, 12 October 2011. Exhibition times will coincide with those of the Festival.
Applications closed 22 July 2011.

MONTHLY MEETINGS FOR MEMBERS

Please note no Monthly Members Meeting in August due to illness.

ASV NEWSLETTERS

Apologies for late delivery of this news sheet. Delays will recur from time to time due to work priorities of the President and lack of another person to produce the news letter. This edition has been produced without the customary second check due to time constraints.

ASV COMMITTEE MEETING

The next ASV Committee Meeting shall be Wednesday evening 3 August. Items for discussion will include the development of the new web site and sponsoring. Please advise a Committee member of any issues you wish discussed as far in advance as possible of Committee Meetings, which are every 2 months.

ASV ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

The ASV Annual General Meeting held on 13 July 2011 resulted in reappointment of the Committee of Monica Mauer (ordinary member), John Bishop (Secretary), John Ride (Treasurer), Michael Meszaros (Vice President), and Geoff Williams (President). Discussions covered a wide range of activities. Michael Meszaros gave an interesting talk on preparation for major prizes and commissions. More details of the Meeting in next month’s newsletter.

NEW MEMBERS

Welcome to Perry Wagner-Grose (1st VP, Sculptors Queensland), Anne Anderson, Margaret Carey, Chandos Ford, Jake Mikoda.