3rd of February

Our second meeting 

At our second meeting we were lucky enough to meet with Shelly who gave us some wonderful advice
on advertising and finding resources.
We decided that if we wanted a public exhibition that attracted people from outside the university
the art world, we would need to be creative with our advertising.
We decided to write to local schools and offer to give talks about taking Fine Art at Leeds
We created a Leeds Visual Art Forum account where we could talk about our show and
ask for help from the local art scene.
We decided to try to advertise in a local newspaper; hopeful that our chosen theme of celebrating Leeds
would be popular.
We decided to use social media to advertise the show and our collaborative group.
We creates a facebook page, a twitter account and a website.

After the meeting Katie went to the centre and took some photos of spaces we would like to use.It
was really useful to have as much information of the space as possible when applying for a space.
Our budget was tiny so having the opportunity to gain some free advice from Shelly was fantastic and
something a fledgling group should never pass up.

From Shelley's advice we looked into several different ideas that we could use to advertise and make
our exhibition family friendly.
Some of these ideas came to fruition but some didn't....
A hope that didn't come to pass was to geocache our show. We wanted to create an interactive treasure trail but this became too complicated at the time of set up and we didn't manage to create it.
Shelly agreed with the idea of a common theme of Leeds and at this point we decided to create a collaborative piece using tiny figures.
As recommended by Shelley we created a logo to be used on emails and correspondence. We also used
this on our business cards.
These were created as a form of advertising as well as being displayed at the final show.



We also decided that soft drinks and sweet were more appropriate than wine at a family event for
our opening night.

To put names to faces on our twitter, facebook and websites 

we took some silly shots.