October 2026 General Meeting Minutes

Art League of Fort Bend County

2012 Avenue G, Rosenberg, TX 77471

General Meeting Minutes

October 26, 2026

Call Meeting to Order and prayer at 10:02 a.m. by Linda Pietz

Welcome New Members

No new members at meeting.

Approval of Minutes – September 2026

Motion to approve minutes by Jillian, seconded by Don and motion carried.

Updates from the Board

10/70 anniversaries – 10 years in the building and 70 years as the ALFB.We will be celebrating events each month of next year.More about this when events get finalized.

Financial Report for September 2026

Bank Balances

Checking $20,538

CD’s $37,271

PayPal 0

Stripe $478

Total $58,287

P/L

Sept profit $3,041

Out of the ordinary items:

Rec’d $4,000 HOT tax grant

Income from Art Classes is $1,640, that’s the highest ever in one month for classes by our members as teachers. This doesn’t include major workshops. YAY Educators and Jillian!!

Sue Zelko sold a painting for $2,000!! YAY Sue!! We didn’t get the purchaser’s contact info. We need to get contact info from someone making a major purchase like that so the artist can give thanks. And it might be an art collector.

Bought Velcro hooks for Shows & exhibits for $540.

Hot Tax grant will not be offered for 2027 per Brenda.

Gladys, Tracy and Jill D will be grant writers.Board is requesting ideas for Junior League for anything we need except building needs.We could ask for up to $5,000.

Unfinished Business

1.2027 Budget – Don made motion to approve, and this was seconded by Jill and motion carried by all members.

2.Four positions open for 2027 Board roles. Karen is running again for Treasurer, Fereshteh for Gallery Director and Linda for President.We are having discussions with someone about fundraising position.Linda requested nominations from the floor for anyone interested.There were none.We will vote by acclimation in November.

3.Travis - marketing update read by Linda.We pay Travis for website; not to be on board or do marketing.He is a valuable member of the team.Social media has increased; he’s working on refreshed website; please share ALFB events with others on FB and Instagram.

4.Gladys – no building update but question about mounds of dirt behind the gift shop and problem with ants. Gladys needs to talk to Jen or Natalie.

5.No by-law changes received by board to vote on this month.

New Business

1.Board passed resolution on procedure for expense approvals - members must submit itemized requests to one of the board members for approval for purchases PRIOR to making purchases and getting reimbursed.

2.Art cookbook fundraiser - on-going project and we will provide papers to all at stations like artist trade cards.Number of pages to put together actual book is TBD.Jillian will do cover.

3.On-line access to meetings – Board had voted that we would continue to offer this, but this wasn’t set up when meeting started today.Don said that we need to have an outgoing camera to make it worthwhile.Gladys made a motion to cease the Zoom meeting option; Tom T seconded and motion carried with Don and Brenda opposed to the motion.

Member meetings have shrunk in attendance. Don suggested that maybe that means we are doing okay.

4.Artist Retrospectives – Suggestion about having these for longer standing members.Pay a fee and set up panels to display art.Board needs to discuss.

5.10/70 ALFB Celebration ideas are being accepted now by the board.

6.Jill D, Gladys and Tracy are our grant-writing committee and are researching grants we can apply to for fundraising.

Committee Agenda Items

Community Displays – Brenda

LSAG (which has now gone statewide) 2027 show will be virtual online – date is 6/12/27.Those members who received 1st, 2nd, 3rd or honorable mention are eligible to submit artwork to LSAG.There’s also a calendar which lists all the classes and workshops that members can attend.Check this out at lonestarartguild.org

Fort Bend Museum
Art display next summer with date TBD.

Attack Poverty

Art display changed out last week.

Rosenberg Civic Center
Artwork to be put up mid-November and will stay until January, so get your seasonal art ready.

George Memorial Shakespeare show is being shown in the basement and will be there until this Friday.

Brenda said that she needs an apprentice to take over workshops and community displays.Jill said that she would take over workshops now that she’s gotten a handle on educational needs.

Education – Jill

Murder Mystery event– Jill told us what food is being served for this evening event because there has been a lot of questions.

There are three new classes this month – one will be on the first week of November and two others over Thanksgiving.Eugenia will be providing a class for the kids to do art while their moms have time off.Janet Green will do a family class, making an ornament.Diane Wooten will do a decorating pumpkin for the holidays class on 11/2. These classes are listed on the website under Classes.

Carol Binford has offered to do three classes in 2027 – on consecutive Saturdays.

Eugenia will offer her developing personal artist voice classes – 4 sessions – next Spring.Let her know if you are interested so she can work with you on the best time to schedule this.

Mannequins have been ordered for January event and price will be included in cost to participate.Board needs to decide cost.

Fundraising – position open.

Gallery – Fereshteh out - Diana Miller

November Featured artist on Nov 14 is Jim Fuchs.

Conference room has been smelly – please clean up after yourself if you use that room.There is a sign-in sheet to use the conference room.Add to the gallery workers’ checklist to check the conference room at end of day.

Question that was asked that we couldn’t answer - When is the next change out?

Gift shop – Jules – didn’t attend meeting.

Linda mentioned that the grand reopening event at the gift shop was a success.

Marketing – Travis - didn’t attend meeting.

Membership – Fahmi – didn’t attend meeting.Linda mentioned that it would be preferable to have new member orientation BEFORE the featured artist event.

Rosenberg – Kathy Golden

Oct 31 Boogie Bash – ALFB needs volunteers to serve at this event, so please sign up in Team up.Event is from 5:00 to 8:00 p.m.Streets closed.

Nov 19 Christmas Party Another Time Soda (RAA) at 5:00 p.m.

Nov 21 Wizard Walk – 12 noon to 5:00 p.m. We can participate in this and wear costumes if we want.There will be a game and that’s provided by Ann’s Bakery.

Nov 28 Shop Small Saturday (RAA) – This is from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

and is not a cookie walk so we need to take that off our information.Let Travis know.

Window decorations for Christmas – did we want to do this? If so, needs to be done by Nov 28.We can paint the windows.Linda will talk to Fereshteh about this so an email can go out to all members.Maybe adopt a window to decorate?

Decorate a tree at 3rd Street Park?Kathy will sign us up for this because Sparkle Sisters volunteered to tackle this project.

Nov 28 ALFB Book Show. We will be offering a 10% discount on everything in the store.ALFB to absorb this expense. We may also do this on Dec 10 and Dec 17 holiday nights events.

Dec 5 – Hometown Holiday (City) – from noon to 8:00 p.m.Streets closed.

Dec 10 and 17, Holiday Nights from 5:00 to 8:00 p.m. (RAA) – streets open.

Website – Travis – He had let us know that new website should be in place by mid-November.

Special exhibits and events

Miscellaneous

Black Bear Diner contacted Linda about having another event.

ALFB events:

2026

Nov – board elections

Nov 9 – Board meeting

Nov 14 – Featured artist Jim Fuchs from 3 to 5:00 p.m.

Nov 14 - Murder Mystery event from 6:30 to 9:00 p.m.

Nov 16 - General meeting

Nov 28 - Book sales event from 12 – 5:00 p.m.

Dec 12 – Featured artist Gary Frisk from 3 to 5:00 p.m.

Dec 14 - Christmas party and board meeting. Party will be from 10-12, and there will be a sock swap.Board meeting is at 1:00 p.m.

2027

Jan 16 - Mannequin Challenge

Feb 6 - Fashion and Jewelry Show – Grace Haggerty to lead this and Jules will assist.

March 10-12 – Nola’s Workshop on 14 things to do with wool.

April 10 – Spring Show

July – Two summer camps

Oct 9 – Fall Show

Oct – 10/70 anniversary event

Nov - Luanne Rimmel Workshop

Dec 13 – Christmas party

Next Meetings

Board of Directors Meeting:Monday, November 9, 2026

General Member Meeting: Monday, November 16, 2026

Adjourned

Motion to adjourn by Michelle, seconded by Jillian and motion carried.Meeting adjourned at 11:05 a.m.