Our next group meeting has been scheduled! Please try to stop by. We’ll be discussing a lot of material, including exciting future directions and opportunities for the group.

When: Friday, July 13th at 1 p.m.

Where: Flying Star Cafe near the Cottonwood Mall
Map of 10700 Corrales Rd Nw Albuquerque, NM 87114-9254, US

Photos of the Corrales Rd. location: Wow, Pretty!

There is inside seating and a nice outdoor patio.

What: We’ll be discussing a wide range of exciting new opportunities, ideas, and plans. It’s sure to be productive (and fun)!

Some of the topics on our agenda:

• Transformation of our Etsy-based street team into a full-fledged, local arts guild with bigger goals.
• Our team website; turning it into a cool portal for potential customers to shop and potential members and arts community folks to read.
• Advertising tools: our blog, MySpace, our up and coming website
• Street vending
• Shows database
• Albuquerque Arts Alliance group show idea
• Permanent monthly meeting scheduling ideas
• Group events, contests, and events (local)
• And other goodies!

We’re holding our next meeting at another Flying Star Cafe. We’ve decided to use them as our primary meeting place(s), because they are scattered all over the valley and they tend to be accepting of artists and group get-together (plus, they’ve got great drinks and food).

We’re going to rotate our meeting spot each time, so that it occurs at a different Flying Star Cafe, at a different location. We hope that by doing this, it will keep members from always feeling like they are the farthest away, or have the longest drive (by rotating, sometimes the meeting spot will be closer to you–sometimes farther away).

The Flying Star Cafe on Corrales Rd. is very close to the Cottonwood Mall and is also near other interesting shops (including Papergami and the Sunflower Organic Market).