Mill Valley Cultural Arts Umbrella

Open Letter to MVCAU Members:

Membership Fee Reductions:

Mill Valley Cultural Arts Umbrella is in the process of being reborn.  Our slogan, “Arts for the Masses” will truly mean for the Masses.  All membership fees and ad rates are being drastically reduced to better serve our arts community.  

1. Family membership $15 dollars a year
2. Individual membership $10 dollars a year
3. Student membership will be $5 dollars a year  

Umbrella Magazine Redesign:

Our monthly news magazine will become a quarterly Arts Magazine and is being redesigned to better serve our member artists, and will still be delivered to all active members.  All Umbrella related news will be posted on the website, freeing up the magazine to focus soley on the arts, nothing more.  The first issue of the quarterly magazine is scheduled for release in October and will be posted to the website, mailed to members and delivered to select locations within the Mill Valley Neighborhoods of Baltimore.

Umbrella Radio Overhaul:

Umbrella Radio will focus solely on Music and the Arts.  We have given up our studio space in order to drastically reduce costs and refocus our efforts on our Mission Statement.  Umbrella Radio has been a costly diversion from our Vision, but Executive Producer Eric Willison and Producer Chris Gavin are refocusing our energies on our Manifesto.  Gone is the ridiculous fee and advertising price structure required to have a program. 

Umbrella Radio is truly being reborn.  These changes are long over due and are designed to better serve the community.  Please bare with us during this time of change.  We promise it will be well worth the the wait.

The Mill Valley Cultural Arts Umbrella is partnering with Adornment Craft Center and Gallery to host the MVCAU 1st Annual Members Show, Entitled: Under Our Umbrella.  The show will run from July 19th to August 14th at Adornment Craft Center and Gallery.  The gallery is located at 3600 Clipper Mill Road, Suite 130 Baltimore, MD 21211 at the Meadow Mill Center. The show’s public opening reception will be held on Juy 19th from 4 PM to 6PM, with wine, light fare and music provided.  All Umbrella members are invited to provide one or two pieces of art for the show.  Those interested please follow instructions and rules provided below:

Instructions:

1. All art must be ready to hang. Free standing sculptures must not require assembly and must be ready to stand, with a solid stance or heavy base. Sculptures can’t be dangerously tipsy.
2. All work must be for sale, a consignment deal of 70/30 split has been arranged  (70% Artist 30% Gallery).
3. All Pieces for the show must be accompanied by an Entry form and consignment form.
4. Forms are available for download at the blow listed links or available at Adornment Craft Center and Gallery during drop off:
5. Submission Form: http://www.adornment.net/Forms/Artist_Submission_Form.pdf
6. Consignment form: http://www.adornment.net/Forms/ConsignmentAgreement.pdf
7. Pick up hard copies at: Adornment Craft Center and Gallery at: 3600 Clipper Mill Road, Suite 130 (at Meadow Mills) Baltimore, MD 21211
8. Drop off days are from July 14th to 16th between the hours of 10 AM and 8 PM at Adornment Gallery and Craft Center, 3600 Clipper Mill Road, Suite 130 (at Meadow Mills) Baltimore, MD 21211.

Gallery Rules:

1. No BYOB. Wine and light fare will be provided.
2. All art must never have been shown in a Gallery before.
3. No Last minute changes to the show.  Once a piece is dropped off and the forms are signed, the artwork is in the show as registered.
4. No Pornography, but nudes are welcome.
5. Adornment Gallery holds the right to reject any piece of art that does not meet the requirements.
6. At 6 PM the Art Opening is over, we will move the opening to an after party, location to be announced.  

By Mark Sober,

Just a friendly last-minute reminder about the first of our election year “specials” (The Candidate” shows in October):

(Hopefully, there’ll be a good discussion after; in response to my Facebook invtation I received a note from a local writer who plans to come because he wants to see if he still hates Mr. Smith…!!)

FILMTALK, Wheeler Auditorium, Enoch Pratt Free Library, 400 Cathedral St.

• June 14   10AM - - Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

In their second collaboration (after 1938’s You Can?t Take It With You), director Frank Capra and star James Stewart create the character of Jefferson Smith, an altruistic, naïve small-town newspaperman who becomes an erstwhile Senator forced to deal with corruption in politics. The film received an Academy Award (Best Original Story), a New York Film Critics Circle Award (Best Actor), and was placed on the Library of Congress’s National Film Registry in 1989. (USA, 1939, 130 min., b&w)

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