It is with great pleasure that we create this post. Firstly we would like to give an enormous thank you to our sponsors for this years prizes for the Annual NZGBA Bead awards. We cannot express enough how much your participation not just as sponsors but as judges means to our community.
Annie Rose sponsored the 1st prize for Lampwork bead category with a Wild Cat torch which Karilea won by a half point with her entry Fireball, the very close and equally deserving runner up, Andrew Firth with his amazing Dawn Elemental Bead which was so precisely created and perfectly exacting that we cannot wait to see Andrew’s entry next year. A special mention is Judith’s bead “Fire” which was also in the to tier (Judy has gone overseas so we will only have a photo available later).
Claudia Borella sponsored the Fused bead section that was won by Vicki Leismann and her amazing concept “Lighter than air” with again a close runner up Karen Irwin with her incredible “Night fire and Burning embers” (unfortunately we do not have a photo, Karen please add it to showcase), a special mention to Michelle Anderson who was in the top tier with her amazing piece (again the piece was taken on the night so no photo, Michelle please add a pic to showcase for everyone)
Gaffer glass sponsored the Kiln formed category which was won by none other than Greg Smith with his bead “Bullet”. Greg we cannot get over the quality of your entries and we are looking forward to next years entries.
The Bead Hold sponsored the jewellery section which was won by none other than Karilea Lindsay-Beale with her incredibly detailed “Bountiful earth” that also won Viewers choice on the evening. Highly Commended goes to Isla Osborne (again photos will be provided when we get the piece returned to show everyone)
The Beginners category sponsored by Born to Bead was won by Holly Budge, a special mention should be made that the bead was created with only 5 hours of torch time!?! amazing well done Holly we look forward to great things from you. Highly commended went to new member Shirlee Wilton who made an amazing “Octopus Bead” again great skill and we look forward to seeing your entries next year.
President – Lisa-Jane Harvey
Vice President – Vicki Leisman
Treasurer – Justine McInally
Secretary – Helen Moore
Editor – Lisa-Jane Harvey
Sub Committee roles announced
Exhibitions North – Isla Osborne
Exhibitions South – Kay Butler
Fundrasing Committee – Karilea Lindsay-Beale & Pam Holmes
Library – Helen Moore as part of Secretary role
Community Initiative Co-ordinator (new role) – Karen Mitchell
Changes to Membership
Membership fee has been raised to $35 for the year starting May 2010 – May 2011
This fee includes the library and the additional $5 will be set aside to grow the library content
Membership Renewal
If you wish to renew your membership, please download this form, complete any details that have changed since last year and post the form to Helen Moore as per the form instructions, until we have new treasurer details added to the form please transfer money into bank account as per form instructions and email Justine McInally the proof of transfer
Well the NZGBA has been around now for two full years, seems hard to believe all we have achieved.
The AGM went off well and we have had a complete change in the executive committee. This is creating some difficulties with regards to hand over and taking over projects but we should back to speed following the first committee meeting at the close of June.
President – Lisa-Jane Harvey
Vice President – Judith Sleavin
Secretary – Helen Moore
Treasurer – Karen Irwin
Library – Frances Hanson
Editor, Website & Exhibitions – Lisa-Jane Harvey
Isla Osborne who was instrumental to the committee has stepped down from her roles to tend to her beautiful family. Isla thank you for your hard work and all the efforts from the start, I only hope we can continue the great work with the Newsletter and Website. Alas I have a lot to learn as you can tell from this newsletter :) not nearly as sexy as Isla’s but we will get there.
We are looking forward to a number of things throughout this year. The bi-annual raffles and silent bead auctions are the most important as we simply do not have enough revenue from membership fees to run exhibitions and marketing events so I would urge all members old and new to embrace this with vigour which will see us through initiatives.
Look forward to this year’s newsletters, website updates, exhibitions, beads of courage, Womenz initiatives, the release a bead project and the bi-annual raffle and silent bead auctions which will assist in funding all these initiatives.
Lisa-Jane Harvey
NZGBA AGM SCHOLARSHIP
Karilea Lyndsey-Beale was the lucky winner of the 2009 scholarship which she used towards the awards evening dinner.
Annie Rose sponsored the 1st prize for Lampwork bead category with a Wild Cat torch which Karilea won by a half point with her entry Fireball, the very close and equally deserving runner up, Andrew Firth with his amazing Dawn Elemental Bead which was so precisely created and perfectly exacting that we cannot wait to see Andrew’s entry next year. A special mention is Judith’s bead “Fire” which was also in the to tier (Judy has gone overseas so we will only have a photo available later).
Claudia Borella sponsored the Fused bead section that was won by Vicki Leismann and her amazing concept “Lighter than air” with again a close runner up Karen Irwin with her incredible “Night fire and Burning embers” (unfortunately we do not have a photo, Karen please add it to showcase), a special mention to Michelle Anderson who was in the top tier with her amazing piece (again the piece was taken on the night so no photo, Michelle please add a pic to showcase for everyone)
Gaffer glass sponsored the Kiln formed category which was won by none other than Greg Smith with his bead “Bullet”. Greg we cannot get over the quality of your entries and we are looking forward to next years entries.
The Beginners category sponsored by Born to Bead was won by Holly Budge, a special mention should be made that the bead was created with only 5 hours of torch time!?! amazing well done Holly we look forward to great things from you. Highly commended went to new member Shirlee Wilton who made an amazing “Octopus Bead” again great skill and we look forward to seeing your entries next year.
