2025-2026 Executive:
President: Ann Marie Ruether
Secretary & Membership: Blair Dunlop
Treasurer: Dianne Davis
Other Positions:
Model Coordinator: Jessica Logie
Grid Rentals: Blair Dunlop
Our Board and Other Positions:
Anyone is welcome to get involved as a volunteer – send a note to Livessence.Society@gmail.com with your interest.
Livessence is a very diverse and active group; it is what makes us dynamic and exciting! If you can consider giving a few hours of your time (a year!!) that would benefit your group tremendously. Please see the descriptions below to see how you can contribute.
Executive & Annual Meetings:
Meetings are scheduled based on executive availability, usually held every 2 months for around an hour on a Saturday afternoon after the drawing session. Collectively, the executive reviews expenditures, sees what is happening for the year for the membership, encourages growth of the society and benefits for the membership. Not all volunteers are required to go to the Executive meeting.
One or two more meetings (in addition to Executive) are held around exhibition times.
Description of Positions:
President: Calls meetings, sets agenda, chairs meetings, provides direction as needed, oversees grants.
Vice President: back up for President in case not available, chairs meetings when President 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.
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.
Communications
1. Coordinator: Oversees the newsletter, coordinates with the secretary to turn minutes into newsletters. Designs graphics for use in Newsletters and the Website. Updates website with new info such as shows and events.