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Springfield Art Association (SAA) Comment by Bland, James Travis: Relevant Background Info - 12/15 (missing important stuff on environment and does not utilize course concepts) Demonstrates an understanding of org learning - 0/25 (no reference to course materials and does not demonstrate an understanding of the concept or its value) Narrative Flows - 6/10 Sources and Format – - 3 (Not in APA format (no title page, no page numbers) and No reference to course materials) Grade: 18/50 Comment by Bland, James Travis: Your paper is missing the information on organizational learning altogether and makes no reference to course materials

The Spring field Art Association is a non-profit organization based on a community. They promoted and maintain the visual arts. They provide the opportunities for art education for the Springfield area. They preserve the Edward Place and the collection of SAA and interpret their history. Comment by Bland, James Travis: Not in APA format … no title page, no page numbers, spacing and indentation is off Also, need to introduce your work … need to establish the purpose of the paper and provide the reader with some direction Comment by Bland, James Travis: No need for the extra space in between sections or paragraphs

Spring “A mature Art Study Club”

The Springfield “Amature Art Study Club” known as SAA was established by eight women in 1909. Those women were actually motivated to create an atmosphere of art in Springfield. Their purpose was to raise the technical development of the artists at a local level. They have adopted a decent strategy for the development of their project that is each day they met at the house of one of their member and for discussion they discuss arts, they discuss the new techniques and learned from each other. People become more and more interested in Art Study Club with the passage of time. As the interest of the people grew the membership holder also increased in number. By 1913 one hundred people had joined Art Study Club. As the membership of the club increased the admin of the club started seeking for a permanent bigger place where they can meet and work together. Comment by Bland, James Travis: Probably should avoid making an assessment of the strategy Comment by Bland, James Travis: ? There are numerous grammatical errors … I suggest reading your work aloud to see if you can catch them

History of SAA

Elizabeth Capps was the co-founder of the Armature Art Study Club. She was following the grand Italianate mansion which is called as Edward Place. After the death of Helen Edwards which happened 4 years earlier, the place remained vacant. Alice Edwards Ferguson the daughter of late Helen Edward was approached by Mrs. Capps who asked her to rent her two rooms of Edwards Place. But Alice offered the whole mansion to Mrs. Capps for the art club, which they were about to use for the gallery, classroom, and meeting place. They started this project with the belief that through the exposure to arts by understanding it completely, the society can be developed.

The Springfield Art Club secured the charter by the State and Illinois and got incorporated on September 30, 1931. They renovated the Edwards Place within the next 3 months and redecorated the Edward place for the 1941 exhibition of C. Arnold Slade’s work. Almost 1,000 people attended that opening. The vision of Springfield Art Association was growing from the ladies club of smaller size to the giant art organization from its earliest days. They aimed high, there was the goal was to be Springfield, what the Art Institution was for Chicago. They succeeded to achieve their goal in many ways. The most important names of American Art could be seen in the exhibitions conducted by Art Association in the early days. Until 1940’s Edward Place was used as an art school and art gallery.

Many changes in the form of additions and renovation took place at the location with the passage of time like 1937 the addition of fire proof gallery was made on the west side of the house. To an appearance of 19th-century, plans were made to restore the parlors of Edwards Place. Meanwhile, the expansion of SAA campus kept on going. The construction of Condell Studio was completed in 1949 and the classes that were being held at Edward Place moved out from there. In 1963 another addition was made at Condell Studio to accommodate the classes on popular ceramics. In 1991 the metal lab took its place and the ceramics lab was moved to an annex. In 1968 the size of the gallery was expanded to the current size. On December 17, 1969 Edward place was added to the National Register of Historical Places.

In 1964, the Michael Victor II Art Library was created by Benjamin and Devera in the memory of their son. The humble beginning of the library in the studio as a shelf of art books had developed to an outstanding collection of periodical, books, and media of visual arts. In 1978 the Michael Victor II Art library was constructed along with it current offices. The development of SAA can be assessed from its current standard. Today SAA is the non-profit organization that provides a low cost, and high quality of classes, special events, and exhibitions to more than each 90,000 people through its Michael Victor II Art Library, School of Art, Edwards Place Historical House, and Nelson Family Gallery.

Thesis Statement

Here we will explore the Springfield Art Association. How this non-profit organization facilitates the community? Comment by Bland, James Travis: I am not following the organization of your paper … Your thesis should be established as early as possible

Management of SAA

SAA is administered by 25 member Board Directors. SAA comprises of energetic staff that design strategies and implement those strategies to engage, motivates and educate the people.

Purpose of SAA

Springfield’s community visual art center is a resource for creative expression, education, exploration, and fun. In 2016 prairie Art Alliance and Springfield Art Association did an agreement. Through this Prairie merged with Visual arts and committed to promoting the awareness of the community and to participate in visual arts. It played an important role in developing the member artists and to serve the public by exhibits, community, and classes outreach programming. Comment by Bland, James Travis: Have some good info here but the flow of the narrative is disjointed and doesn’t follow the logic of the assignment … Did you review the materials provided, including the template?

Prairie Art Alliance started its services in 1979 with the support group of an artist called the Art Alliance of women. The main purpose of this organization is to promote and encourage the artists by providing workshops, exhibition opportunities, and the artistic development. In 1985 the Alliance incorporated as a nonprofit organization. In 1995 the name Prairie Art Alliance was changed to reflect the admission of associate members and male artists. The classroom and Gallery facility was open just north of downtown Springfield in 1995 because it was adjacent to the Springfield Art Association. In 2004 the Prairie Alliance moved to the “Hoogland Center for the Arts at 420 S. Sixth St”. By the merger they continued to work in H.D Smith Gallery; SAA collectives.

Services offered by Springfield Art Association (SAA)

Springfield Art Association (SAA) offers the community the summer art camp, art classes, and scholarships for the people of any age. The scholarships offered are based on financial needs and artistic merit. Maintain the historical places such as Edward Place; it has historical significant on the national Historic Register and it is the oldest house in the Springfield, IL and provide the public tours. It represents the local artists that formerly known as the Prairie Art Alliance. It provides art promotion and appreciation program that known as Art Outreach for area schools and it facilitate 8,000 students monthly. It facilitates more than 98,000 people through the art of high quality and community outreach events and programs such as fine art fair, film festival, paints the street, and roasted hot pots and pork. Each year the calendar of SAA is filled with different and special events. Through their various events, they strive to entertain, engage and inform the visitors. Each year they held and celebrate these events in unique style. SAA celebrate following events around the year: film festival, art critiques, artful reader book club, alliterations, brunch and brush, canvas and cocktails.

SAA arranged the annual events such as film series (January to February) clay date night (February), dancing (February), celebrity bartender battle (February), roasted (April), and fine art fair (September).

It offers membership to individual/family, artists and corporate. By the family/ individual membership; an individual is able to increase the support of the whole organization and community a valuable resource. As a corporate membership of any business; benefits the employees and offer distinctive opportunities for advertising while supporting a great and non-profit organization.

School of Art

Providing a quality education in visual arts is the core mission of Art Association. The school of Art provides summer art camps, workshops, classes. Art Outreach and many social events for the people.

The classes they offer include painting, drawing, Ceramics, Digital media, Metals & Jewelry, Stained glass, sculpture, photography, mixed media, fiber arts, printmaking, pastels and all the courses that target the youth of the society. SAA has a well-qualified faculty of professional artists and talented and skillful instructors who designed the contents of the courses up to date the courses time to time. The school of Arts always strives to give best to its students.

The Condell Studio provides different facilities like 2D facility, Mixed Media Lab, Mac Computer Lab, Ceramics Lab, a Jewelry metal Lab.

Support

SAA is doing great things for people. They raise funds of about $800,000 to make Community Visual Arts Center best in the region of central Illinois. They collect charity for general public. People generously donate here which shows their trust on Springfield Art Association. They provide different options to the donors. A donor can give gift or cash to help SAA to fulfill their immediate needs. They pledge a commitment of 3 years for contributors. Comment by Bland, James Travis: Would like to see you discuss the environment utilizing concepts such as complexity and uncertainty …

The doors of SAA are always open for volunteers to work for the betterment of the society. They allow public to help them in several ways by providing them different options like Donation, volunteer, capital campaign, and sponsorship.

References

Springfield Art Association. (n.d.). SAA Visual Art Center. Retrieved Feb 19, 2017, from http://www.springfieldart.org/about.html