JOB DESCRIPTIONS - TALENTS NEEDED
APPLICATION FORM

Executive Board: Requires attendance at Board Meetings usually twelve times a year, second Wednesdays.

Director: Oversees TAS operation, PVAC interface. Conducts Board, General and necessary meetings, final approval for all TAS activities. Mediates, confers, organizes.

Assistant Director: Stands in for Director as needed, aides/assists, often Membership Chair. Board Position

Treasurer: Writes checks, balances checkbook, provides prompt, accurate data to PVAC, on Finance Committee;

Bookkeeper: Weekly entry of individual sales, monthly report to Treasurer, needs computer.

Recording Secretary: Must type. Takes notes at meetings, condenses, Director approves, presents.

Corresponding Secretary: Acts for Recording Secretary, as needed.

Parliamentarian: Heads By-Laws Committee, Nominating Committee, well-versed in Robert's Rules.

TAS Gallery Manager: Oversees and coordinates operation of TAS galleries, creates and provides TAS forms, writes and updates Procedure Books, provides lists and materials common to all galleries.

Fashion Show Manager: Oversees and coordinates Exhibitions of Wearable Art.


General Membership Jobs:

Advertising: Researches areas/costs for advertising, writes copy, arranges for photos, places ads. Random. Full Board.

Art Rental: Tracks paperwork for rentals, may market, on marketing committee. Sporadic.

Assistant Bookeeper: non-board, weekly reconciling and bank responsibilities, both galleries.

Assistant Managers: Helps Manager in operation of galleries. As needed.

Biography Book: Enters/updates TAS/PVAC bios from artist-supplied material. Needs computer. Sporadic.

Biography Book Layout: Adds/updates artist bios and photographs.

Calendar: Prepares three-month staffing calendars, both galleries, computer necessary.

Calligraphy: Signs and posters. Random, as needed.

Carpentry: Installing, fixing, building. Sporadic.

Communications Chair: Prepares TAS mailing materials and schedules mailings for Committee, purchases paper, supplies, stamp, etc., gets copies, etc. March/October/November. Coordinates the Telephone Tree and informs Committee members about information needed to be relayed by phone, sporadic.

Communications Committee: Helps prepare TAS mailings, as-needed. (fold/stuff/stamp) March/October/November; makes phone calls as directed by Chair, Director or Gallery Manager (Telephone Tree)

Display: Satellite or PVAC-3-D work. PVAC, as called, rotates monthly. Usually 5:00-9:30 p.m.

Emergency Staffer: On-call staffer on an emergency basis. Best to live within minutes. Sporadic.

Emergency Leave Staffer: Fills in full-days for those who take a Leave of Absence due to an emergency.

Fashion Shows: All wearable artists plus interested others. Wearable artists, except for Coordinator, also hold other jobs.

Finance Committee Chair: Chairs committee to plan and evaluate annual budget - past Board Member (Treasurer or Director.)

Gallery Aide: As needed tasks on call; ability to follow through when asked. Many one-time jobs; some continuing.

Hanging: Satellite and PVAC. PVAC begins at 5:00 p.m., time required varies, monthly. Satellite = December/July/August.

Hospitality: Refreshments at meetings quarterly, coordinates June potluck and TAS "food" functions.

Inventory: TAS/PVAC, organized, detailed person to inventory boxes and/or plastic bags. Monthly.

Inventory Overseer: Checks for current; weeds outdated inventory sheets.

Mailing List: Requires computer. Maintains mailing list from TAS sales and visitor's books, provides labels from list for TAS mailings and any TAS satellite mailings.

Maintenance: Painting, vacuuming, cleaning windows, etc. Morning after take-in monthly and as needed.

Marketing: Chair/committee. Active, creative group researches ideas and implements. Full Board.

Membership: Chair/committee--coordinates jurying, keeps membership records. Full Board.
Newsletter Assistant: Xeroxes and Mails Newsletter, labels supplied by Gabrielle. End of month, monthly.

Painting: As needed for both galleries.

Photography: As needed photos for advertising/publicity. Coordinates with advertising. Sporadic.

Publicity: Writes and dispatches publicity releases. Awareness of activities in both galleries, able to meet deadlines, coordinate with gallery manager, Director and PVAC.

Purchasing: As needed. Researches best provider, places orders, follows through. Sporadic.

Repairs: Can do or arrange to do, either gallery.

Special Events Staffing: Lines up staffers to work designated hours for special events or additional staffers when needed.

Special Events Organizing: Chairman organizes for special events as needed. (offsite sales, displays).

Special Exhibits: Oversees or aides in securing work and hanging special exhibits. Random.

Special Requests: Familiar with work of all artists; can follow through, arrange for completion of both specific and general requests. Must not procrastinate. Job done mostly by phone. Sporadic.

Staff Openings: Staffs extra hours at evening or weekend events, over and above the required once or twice a year.

Typing: A myriad of jobs could be well assisted by a good typist. As needed.

Wallcards: Cuts wall cards and provides labels for TAS/PVAC. Half day six times a year.

Wall Labels: PVAC, needs person to type from about 5:00-6:30 p.m., accurate. Able to proofread. Monthly.

Wall Letters: Both galleries. Collects, paints and dispenses letters as needed for events.

Xerox: Keeps forms and flyers resupplied as outlined in the book of Gallery Masters. (Monthly.)

APPLICATION FORM

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