The Executive 2026-27
President: Blair Dunlop
Treasurer: Louise Scheider
Operations & Model Coordinator: Jessica Logie
Social Media Coordinator: Jen P
At Large: Roger C
At Large: Ann Marie R
At Large: Brianna N
Executive meetings are held every 2 months. Collectively, the executive reviews expenditures, plans events, encourages growth of the society and benefits for the membership. (Not all volunteers are required to go to the Executive meeting.)
The Livessence Annual General Meeting is held on the last Saturday in June and acts as a final meeting to end to our drawing season prior to the summer hiatus.
Our Board and Other Positions:
Anyone is welcome to get involved as a volunteer – reach out to livessence.society@gmail.com with your interest. See the volunteer descriptions below for some examples of ways you can support our society.
Description of Positions:
President: Calls meetings, sets agenda, chairs meetings, provides direction as needed to operations coordinator (contracted position).
Vice President: back up for President in case they are not available, actions items in support of the President.
Treasurer: Responsible for the financing and bookkeeping of the Society.
Secretary: Types minutes, gets agenda out to the Executive, takes care of forms as needed, creates and updates membership list in documents as well as email addresses.
Model Coordinator: Books our models prior to sessions, maintains the calendar, onboards new models, answers model questions, and recruits new models. Prior modeling experience is an asset.
Social Media Coordinator: Oversees social media activity. Designs graphics for online use.
Exhibitions (Depending on the type of show)
1. Coordinator: Acts as Chairman. Applies for the show, makes the plan for the grid placement (if grids are required).
2. Curator: Installs the artwork for the exhibition.
3. Grid Handyman: Transports, sets up and takes down the grids. This should be more than one person, hopefully three or four.
4. Volunteer Coordinator: Makes the schedule to have our members man the shows.
5. Label Coordinator: Makes the labels for the exhibition.
6. Registrar: Registers artwork coming in, including fees and gives labels to artists for their work, records artwork going out.
7. Lighting Manager: Installs and removes lights at the exhibition (if needed).
Workshops
1. Coordinator: Looks for instructors for workshops, communicates with them re scheduling and cost, passes this info to the Communications coordinator.