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List of first directors of Eye Level Gallery Society

Item is a list of the first directors of the Eye Level Gallery Society, created on November 21, 1974. The list identifies ten individuals who were to serve on the board until November 18, 1975: John Greer (artist), David Haigh (artist), Joyce Hanson (artist), Julia Schmitt Healy (artist), Mary Kenny (photographer), Keith Laws (accountant), Karl MacKeeman (artist), Hatti Prentiss (writer), Donald Purdy (businessman), and Roger Savage (artist).

Minutes of a board meeting

File is a handwritten document presumably consisting of a board meeting's minutes of the Eye Level Gallery. Topics discussed included slide bank, gallery assistant, information about their general meeting, classes and the art college.

General membership meeting memo

Item is memo for a general membership meeting that happened at the Eye Level Gallery on April 17, 1975. The letter identified agenda items, which included a discussion policy, the slide bank, a gallery newsletter and a new space for next year. The letter is from Julia Schmitt Healy.

Resignation of David Haigh

Item is a letter from David Haigh outlining the reasons why he resigned from his position on the Board of Directors of Eye Level Gallery.

Photograph of a photograph displayed as part of Locations/National group exhibition

Item is a photograph of a photograph displayed as part of the Locations/National group exhibition. The photograph shows a mural with the phrases "Our government places corporate development and profit before people" and "Fight cutbacks" written next to a lion with the text "single mom" and a female gender symbol. The photograph was made by Barbara Lounder or Cathy Quinn.

Photograph of letter detailing John Murchie's One Way Ticket proposal for the Locations/National group exhibition

Item is a photograph of a letter from John Murchie to the Eye Level Gallery Board of Directors, sent on June 7, 1983. In the letter, Murchie details his proposal for the Locations/National exhibition. Murchie proposed One Way Ticket, a work "intended to respond to some of Canada's political, social, and geographic specifics." Murchie proposed to send an invitation to John Bentley Mays, art critic for the Globe and Mail, to speak in Halifax during the opening of the Locations/National exhibition in Halifax. Murchie also proposed to send Mays a cheque for $99.00, "which is equivalent to the fare for a one-way ticket from Toronto to Halifax, or Halifax to Toronto, on a Via Rail Coach."

Photograph of Eye Level Gallery Directory Garry Conway

Item is a photograph of Eye Level Gallery Directory Garry Conway sitting in the gallery office in 1977. In front of Conway in the binder is minutes from a Board of Directors meeting at Eye Level Gallery from May 24, 1977. On the desk there also is the third page of a report entitled "Parallel Cooperative Galleries" visible.

Photograph of Eye Level Gallery staff

Item consists of a photograph of Eye Level Gallery employees in Garry Conway's office. Pictured on the desk is a document of minutes from an Eye Level Gallery meeting on May 24, 1977.

Letter from Julia Schmitt Healy to Ron Shuebrook

Item is a letter from Julia Schmitt Healy to Ron Shuebrook concerning his omission from the Board of Directors of Eye Level Gallery. In the letter, Healy reveals that the selection process was "basically fascism prompted by our Catch-22 situation: To apply for the grant we had to have a board of directors yet we had no members who, under a true co-operative would elect the board." She invites Shuebrook to contribute a piece to the gallery's first show, Peggy's Cove Syndrome.

Letter from Marina Stewart to Michael Fernandes

Item is a letter from Marina Stewart to Michael Fernandes regarding a deficit Stewart was alleged to have left at the end of the 1981 fiscal year. In the letter, Stewart asks Fernandes to bring up the matter at the first Eye Level Gallery meeting of the 1982-1983 gallery season.

Letter from Mary Kenny to Roger Savage

Item is a letter from Mary Kenny to Roger Savage written on July 2, 1974. In the letter, Kenny accepts an offer from Karl MacKeeman to serve on the Board of Directors of Eye Level Gallery. Kelly offers her services as a photographer or as coordinator of TELED's Media Resource Centre.

Exhibitions and events at Eye Level Gallery

Item consists of a list of exhibitions and events that occurred at Eye Level Gallery between October, 1977 and June, 1981. The list identifies the year, the artist, the title and the medium or material of the exhibitions.

Minutes of a meeting of the Eye Level Gallery Board of Directors

Item is typescript set of minutes of the first meeting of the Board of Directors of Eye Level Gallery, held at Pier One Theatre on October 24, 1974. Roger Savage was elected chairperson, Julia Schmitt Healy was elected secretary, and Keith Laws was elected treasurer. The decisions made at this meeting demonstrate the artists' forced struggle to manage the administrative and commercial aspects of operating an alternative gallery. The board decided that Healy would fill the salaried position of gallery coordinator even though she was also a sitting board member. The board also ensured that the artists on the board had more voting power than the non-artists who were there primarily to provide guidance on the administration of the gallery. But, in an effort to avoid conflicts regarding programming, the board also decided to make sitting members ineligible for one-person shows.

In terms of the commercial aspects of the gallery, the board decided that the gallery priorities "would be to exhibit innovative work not necessarily "saluble" work." The board also decided that "sales would be encouraged" and that they might "mount a membership auction of artwork." The board approved a Christmas-time show called "50 bucks and under" to provide an opportunity for members to sell works that would be affordable to consumers who might be shopping for Christmas presents. These decisions reflect an effort to balance the financial needs of members of the Eye Level Gallery Society with the membership's concerns regarding the commercialism of the mainstream art world.

Museum Assistance Programmes : [report]

Item is a typed document entitled "Museum Assistance Programmes" from the National Museums of Canada organization based in Ottawa. The report lists the different methods an institution can qualify to receive funding.

Letter from Marina Stewart to Roger Savage

Item is a letter from Marina Stewart to Roger Savage addressing Savage's resignation from the gallery. The letter is dated August 13, 1979. Stewart notes that the gallery is "moving right along" and that Savage's dreams are being fulfilled.

Eye Level Gallery Board meetings and related records

File contains meeting minutes from the Board of Directors of Eye Level Gallery and general meetings of the gallery that took place between 1984 and 1987. File also contains correspondence, notes, proposals, and other material that accompany the meeting minutes.

Minutes from a board of directors meeting held on May 4, 1976

Item consists of meeting minutes which had members Greer, Savage, MacKeeman, Hanson, and Leverman present. Topics discussed at this meeting includes: life-drawing sessions, gallery closing over July and August, a Vancouver-based performance group "Circus Minimus" performing at the gallery, finances, Halifax City Grant, CANPAC, funding, facilities, and future exhibits.

Agenda for a members meeting

Item consists of an agenda for a general members meeting. Topics listed for discussion are: the gallery's progress, grant applications, Parallel Gallery meeting in Ottawa, summer closure of the gallery, event proposals and volunteers.

Minutes from a board meeting held on March 3, 1977

Item consists of minutes from a Board of Directors meeting at the Eye Level Gallery. The members present at the meeting were Roger Savage, John Greer, Peter Leverman, Marina Stewart, Garry Conway and Felicity Redgrave (observer). Topics discussed at the meeting included: equipment, business tax, a part-time assistant, grant applications and exhibitions.

Minutes from board meeting held on May 24, 1977

Item consists of minutes from a Board of Directors meeting where Roger Savage, Peter Leverman, Garry Conway, John Greer and Marina Stewart attended. The meeting began with a "review of old business" from the last meeting, which included board members, exhibitions, and catalogues. The meeting also discussed issues about grants, committee members, exhibitions and the slide bank.

Minutes from board meeting held on May 24, 1977

Item consists of minutes from a Board of Directors meeting at Eye Level Gallery which had Roger Savage, Peter Leverman, Garry Conway, John Greer and Marina Stewart present. The meeting discusses both new and old businesses, which had included grants, exhibitions and Roger Savage resigning from the Board of Directors.
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