2018-05-08 Services & Organisation Committee Agenda

BRANCH ACTIVITIES                             RECENT ACHIEVEMENTS                            CURRENT PRIORITIES                           THE NEXT QUARTER
                                                   opened 24 March
Resolve the vacant positions within the          New Gallery Director commenced               Review vacant Gallery positions            Review gaps in current Gallery team
Gallery team                                       6th   February  and    completed             New casual staff recruited        for        structure and plan to recruit staff to
                                                   induction                                      exhibition installations                     address these against current
                                                                                                                                               unused EFT allocation
Liaise with Council departments, external        Program planned in partnership with          Assist Library with delivery       of      Finalise planning for the Imaginate
artists, partnership organisations and             Libraries team to deliver a series of          programs during refurbishment                Children's Festival
suppliers to initiate and plan programs            children’s public programs during the
and events                                         Imaginate Children’s Festival
Review Gallery shop product range to             Annual sales forecasts reached at            Monitor stock and focus on moving          Review 2017-18 sales trends and
improve sales and profitability and                end of 3rd Quarter                             current holdings                             plan for 2018-19 product range
Implement the new retail management
system for the Gallery shop
Ensure appropriate WH&S policies and             WH&S added as a permanent                    Reviewing Gallery WH&S policies            Continue to implement, monitor and
procedures      are     actively being             agenda item on Gallery team                    and procedures                               improve    WH&S     policies   and
implemented                                        meeting agendas                                                                             procedures
                                                 Gallery team up to date on Take 5
                                                   WH&S online modules
Actively seek opportunities to obtain            Submission of funding applications           Await outcome of grant applications        Gallery Director to identify potential
external funding to support Gallery                to Australia Council for the Arts and          submitted                                    external     funding    opportunities.
programs and activities                            Arts      Queensland     to    support                                                      Priority projects for support include
                                                   Imaginate Children’s Festival.                                                              Deborah Kelly’s No Human Being is
                                                 Secured $3,000 from Regional Arts                                                           Illegal,   Noosa     Drawing    Prize
                                                   Development Fund for Deborah                                                                (working title) and Biosphere during
                                                   Kelly’s artist fee for her 2-week                                                           ART+CLIMATE=CHANGE (tbc).
                                                   artist-in-residence     during      the
                                                   exhibition No Human Being is Illegal.
Plan and delivery of a range of initiatives      Friends of Noosa Regional Gallery’s          Planning for a series of professional      Finalise planning for No Human
which support local arts practices                 annual exhibition, Taste of Art,               development workshops for local              Being is Illegal and Noosa Alive! VIP
                                                   delivered featuring 121 works                  artists                                      event
                                                   predominantly by local artists.              Planning for Deborah Kelly’s artist-       Call for entries for Lynn McCrae
                                                 Program of 5 local artist talks and            in-residence project, working with           Memorial drawing Prize and Draw!
                                                   workshops delivered as part of Taste           local artists to develop a new               Student Drawing Award
                                                   of Art                                         collaborative art work as part of No
                                                 Free drawing workshops delivered               Human Being is Illegal
                                                   for local year 10, 11 and 12 students
                                                   in preparation for their entry into the
                                                   Draw! Art Prize



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