Hello again!

DRAW-A-THON 2014!

Hello fellow Gourdians! Mark your calendars! I am pleased to announce that this year's Draw-A-Thon will take place starting 8:00 p.m. on Friday, November 21, 2014, and finish up at 8:00 a.m. that next Saturday, November 22. This is an all-night event, so do prepare and sleep up! You do not have to stay the whole night, but please try to stay at least two hours or so. If you don't have any supplies that you would like us to get, we will be passing around a form that will allow you to tell us what you'd like. Just make sure you're on our mailing list.

Well, that's all for you! See you then!

Are You Ready for Draw-A-Thon?

It's up, people! Sign up for 18 hours of art awesomeness. Live music, free
food, and of course your selection of any medium you want to work in.*

Draw-A-Thon Charity will start November 8 at 6:00 PM and end November 9 at
12:00PM at Under The Couch (Student Center).

So what are you waiting for?

*Sign up quickly and declare the mediums you want. You are not guaranteed your
medium will be available but the earlier you sign up the more likely you are
to get it.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1uIjbspGh-Lok77ZdCtakGlxEdAapyWDDeYcFq-yHcec/viewform

Don't know what Draw-A-Thon is? Well...

Draw-A-Thon is a continuous 18 hour charity event. Artists make art with the
materials provided, which will be ordered to the demand of artist sign-ups.
During this time the event is broadcasted live over the internet and for the
general audience to view. Audience that would like to contribute to the cause
can donate money and/or buy works created in Draw-A-Thon through e-Bay
auctions.

Draw-A-Thon Charity will start November 8 at 6:00 PM and end November 9 at
12:00PM at Under The Couch (Student Center).

The charity that Gourd Visual Artists will be helping is Child's Play
(http://www.childsplaycharity.org/). This charity will help us by promoting
our event on the internet as an official event of Child’s Play as well as
facilitate the donation process and make most if not all proceeds go directly
to charity.

Since we will be having the help Child’s Play, this year’s theme will be video
games and its pop-culture. All mediums are welcome and provided. Oh! Did I
forget to mention free food?

For more information, visit our site at www.gtgourd.com

We cool? Sign up and feel free to send me any questions! Remember, the world
ends with you.

-Francisco Martin (AKA El Presidente)

And the Fall is here!

HEY GUYS!!

First of all, to all the Freshman, welcome! To everyone else welcome back!
Let me start by apologizing for the lack of communication. Being under the
CoC, we do not have a meeting the first week of class. As president I should
have made this clear, but alas did not. Now that I have strike, I'll make sure
that it doesn't happen again.

So enough with the mopey-dopey. Time for the good stuff! Welcome GOURD Art,
the one and only visual arts club at Tech. We will be having our first
OFFICIAL meeting NEXT FRIDAY FROM 4:00 PM TO 6:00 PM.

It will be the official opening for the 4th Generation of Gourd Art. We will
be presenting what's in store for the rest of the year and socializing. As
always there will be food!

So see you then! Once again, sorry!

-Francisco Martin

TL;DR: Come to GourdArt next Friday from 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM.

FASET #1: Success!

Wow!! To be honest we didn't expect this many people to stop by our table we got over a dozen people sign up at our wonderful table:

Anyways a bit beat from this weekend, to all our new freshman friends, welcome! We look forward to meeting y'all real soon.

I'm trying to thing of a signature to leave with but for now I'll stick to this: Francisco Out!

Hey Gourdians! And soon to be Gourdians!

Last week was the first of many FASET's to come. It was loads of fun to meet all the prospective Artists coming to our club. I mean where else can you find a paper craft of Lapras on campus?

Anyways, we hope to see many more of you these coming FASETs!

FYI, we have a new member sign up so that you get all good word via e-mail, so sign up here.

Well that's everything, Francisco out.

Only ONE draw-a-thon a year?

Probably not! We were thinking about how often we should have Gourd's draw-a-thons (that's when we spend a night drawing and painting and sketching and spraying...with loads of food and of course, ice cream!) We had one last semester (Spring 2013), and there's a stop-motion video of that too!

So, as I said, we were thinking about how often we should have our draw-a-thons. Somebody said it had been a yearly thing. Here's Tan expressing his surprise on this:

Tan Zu Puayen, suggesting a draw-a-thon every semester instead!