On September 29th, the Marblehead Festival of Arts had its Annual Meeting at St. Michael’s Church in Marblehead. Moderated by Eric Knight and Bill Smalley, they updated members on the finances and reviewed the 2015 Festival.

There were 45 corporate members in attendance and 20 elected ones. As described on the Wicked Local website,

“Pictures were shown of the many events that the Festival puts on during the ‘off season’ outside of the July 4th weekend. The Festival participated in the Chamber’s Holiday Walk, the Logo Premiere in January which revealed the winning 2015 logo, the Winter Film Festival held in February at the Abbot Library, the ArtsFusion Auction held in conjunction with the Marblehead Arts Association, a special talk by Pete Muller, a photojournalist stationed in Africa about his pictures of the Ebola Crisis, and the Film Retrospective of films from past Film Festivals.”

They announced the members who were elected as officers and directors for the 2016 Festival as well. These included: President: Bill Smalley, 1st Vice President: Maggie Smist, 2nd Vice President: Patricia Patrick, Treasurer: Kathy Hempel, Secretary: Maggie Raftus. Directors: Patricia Baker, Harry Foster, Matt Freedman, Ellen Garvey, Patricia Kane, Jo-Ann Murphy, Patrick Paquette and Ryan Siden.