2018-08-07 Services and Organisation Committee Agenda

SERVICES & ORGANISATION COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                                                  7 AUGUST 2018


BRANCH ACTIVITIES                           RECENT ACHIEVEMENTS                              CURRENT PRIORITIES                           THE NEXT QUARTER
Galleries
Plan and deliver a schedule of engaging        Successful delivery of April – June            Implementation for Deborah Kelly’s         Implementation of As Far as the Eye
exhibitions and programs which diversify         exhibitions: Stencil Art Prize travelling        No Human Being is Illegal                    Can See touring exhibition.
and grow audiences                               exhibition and Disruptive Patterns:              exhibition with 2-week artist-in-          Implementation of Rising to the
                                                 Invisible Soldiers and Shrouded                  residence and community                      Surface by Simon Finn.
                                                 Machines by Julian Thompson (4,470               engagement activity.                       Planning for Drawn to the Dark by
                                                 visitors across these exhibitions –            Implementation of Noosa Open                 Godwin Bradbeer.
                                                 including late March 2017);                      Studios preview exhibition.                Planning for
                                                Paris-Noosa: Art, Environment &               Implementation of programs                   ART+CLIMATE=CHANGE exhibition
                                                 Realism by local artist Phil Rolton,             supporting Draw! (High school                2019.
                                                 Have You Ever Wondered by                        student prize).                            Push for entries for Drawing Prizes
                                                 Sunshine Coast artist Miles Allen and          Planning for increased focus on              to be held in October 2018.
                                                 Naked Beauty Displayed by local artist           Drawing Prize to be held in                Planning for Floating Land 2019
                                                 Glenise Clelland (4,600 visitors across          October 2018.
                                                 these exhibitions);                            Development of workshop
                                               Imaginate children’s art festival (8,286         programs.
                                                 total visitors for this exhibition)
Resolve the vacant positions within the        New casual staff recruited for                 Internal advertising to make               Recruit permanent Public Programs
Gallery team                                     exhibition installations                         permanent appointment for current            Officer.
                                                                                                  contracted Public Programs                 Develop Position Description and
                                                                                                  Officer.                                     Recruit for Marketing,
                                                                                                                                               Communications and Audience
                                                                                                                                               Development Officer.
Liaise with Council departments, external      Highly successful partnership with             Partnering with NOOSA alive! To            Implement Lyn McCrea Memorial
artists, partnership organisations and           Libraries team to deliver a series of            deliver preview of Deborah Kelly’s           Drawing Prize and DRAW! In
suppliers to initiate and plan programs          children’s public programs during the            exhibition for the festival.                 partnership with supporters: John
and events                                       Imaginate Children’s Festival                  Partnering with NOOSA alive! To              McCrea; Bruce Dahl; Platinum Tax
                                                                                                  participate at Maze Art Street               Solutions; Noosa Shores Resort;
                                                                                                  Festival.                                    Oxlades and BOQ Noosa.
                                                                                                                                             Continue planning ART+
                                                                                                                                               CLIMATE=CHANGE 2019 exhibition
                                                                                                                                               in partnership with Climarte.
Review Gallery shop product range to           Annual sales forecasts reached at end          Monitor stock & focus on moving            Review 2017-18 sales trends and
improve sales and profitability and              of 4th Quarter                                   current holdings                             plan for 2018-19 product range
Implement the new retail management                                                             Establishing a dedicated ‘Feature
system for the Gallery shop                                                                       Artist’’ section in shop to promote
                                                                                                  local artists aligned with exhibition
                                                                                                  program.


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