Information from OHC Art Guild and Roland Thurston
The SRMC Wall is now for real.
We need to thank a lot of people who  made this  historic event happen and to bring the Arts to the forefront for ALL of  us to  enjoy. Jim Seifert and Trina Wheeler were the Genesis behind it, with  many who  played a pivotal role in bringing all these ideas to fruition. Among  these are  Stephanie Smith, Wanda Morton, Gail Seifert, Barbara Lykens, Marilyn  Bonacci,  and many others. This will be a First Class operation and we need to do  certain  things to make sure it stays a First Class operation. This will be a  long Email  so if you want just glance at it and delete it but we want to make sure  that  those of you that didn’t make the meetings will understand what is going  to  happen.
 First off this IS a  big deal and like was said a first class big deal, so the old “just  frame it in  a garage sale bought frame” ain’t happening. Gallery wrapped canvases  WILL be  allowed but the painting MUST be consistent ALL around the canvas. You  know what  that means, if you don’t know ask one of the members of the Art  Committee. Any  painting you bring must be for sale, there will be no NFS pieces in the  hanging  and that also means please don’t put such a high price on your work that  it  wouldn’t and probably couldn’t sell. If you try to negotiate a price for  your  artwork hanging on the wall with a client and purposely bypass the Gift  Shop  Auxilliary you will not be allowed to display any more of your paintings  at SRMC  and will be excused from the Art Guild forthwith. The paintings will be  “Family Friendly” as judged by the Art Committee and Stephanie Smith and  others  at SRMC. 
 We will have more  information to give you over the next couple of days and I’m sorry if  this seems  a tad harsh but we really want to make Jim, Trina, Stephanie and all the  others  to be proud that they took on this project and made a wise decision in  doing so.  If it is done right and done right the first time it will benefit many  people,  the Auxilliary, OHC, and the many artists themselves. Thanks for making  Art  exciting again and let’s really make this a “home run” “a hole ine one” a   “nothing but net” a…..well you get the idea. Roland
