Executive Board Meeting 11 Aug 2009 Agenda item no. 9 Prepared by: Don McMichael, Membership Secretary Date: 7 August 2009 Topic: Membership Report 1. Recommendations 1.1 That the new members admitted by the Membership Secretary, listed in Attachment 1, be approved by the Board; 1.2 That the Board decide what course of action it wishes to follow in relation to new PIMA Board members; and 1.3 That the membership statistics in Attachment 2 be noted. 2. Background 2.1 Dr Joanna Wills did not seek re-election as Membership Secretary at the Annual General Meeting. Do Don McMichael was elected to this position. 2.2 Processing of membership applications and renewals, banking of subscriptions, issuing of receipts and dispatch of stickers to renewing members continues to be done efficiently by Office Manager Ms Lee Scott. Persons/Institutions applying for membership for the first time are referred to the Membership Secretary for approval before being invoiced. Upon payment of their subscription, a new member’s details are advised to ICOM headquarters, from where ICOM cards and current year stickers are issued. 2.3 Membership is down by about 70 from the 2008 total, but some additional renewals and new memberships are in process and more will probably come in during the next few months, especially as unfinancial or lapsed members plan their overseas travel for the summer. The numbers as at 31 July 2009 compared with the numbers at end 2008 are set out in the table at Attachment 2. 3. Issues 3.1 Because the ICOM Rules for National Committees require admissions to membership of ICOM to be approved by the Executive of the National Committee, the names and details of new members admitted by the Membership Secretary since the April 2009 are set out in Attachment 1. I recommend that they be approved. 2/6 3.2 At its February 2009 meeting, the Board approved that we again pay the ICOM subscriptions for 2009 for the seven members of the PIMA Board and its Executive Secretary. This was done. However, at it AGM in July, two of those Board members (Hon R Regenvanu, Director, Vanuatu National Cultural Council and Dr Emmanuel Kasarherou, Director, Tjibaou Cultural Centre, New Caledonia) stood down and two new members (Mr Marcellin Abong, Vanuatu Cultural Centre and Mr Anthony Ramirez, Museums of Guam) were elected. In addition, the Executive Secretary, Dr Kim Selling, has announced her resignation. 3.3 While it would be possible to immediately pay the 2009 subscriptions for the new members, it is getting close to the end of the ICOM year and any payments made after 30 September would give membership through to end 2010. It may therefore be wise to decide now to pay the 2010 subscriptions for all PIMA Board members, as well as the new Executive Secretary when appointed, but to do so soon after 30 September, which would save us about $300.00.The Board is invited to decide which course of action it prefers to follow. 3/6 Attachment 1 Institutional Member Category C National Portrait Gallery, King Edward Terrace PARKES ACT 2600 [Director: Andrew Sayers] Contact: Margaret Shaw. Librarian (Resumption after lapse of some years) Individual Members Ms Megan Almeida Front of House Team Leader National Gallery of Victoria 180 St Kilda Road MELBOURNE VIC 3004 Ms Helen Attrill Education Officer Bendigo Art Gallery 42 View Street BENDIGO VIC 3550 Mr Ian Bracegirdle Director, Mothers Art Productions Pty Ltd 7 Raleigh Street SPOTSWOOD VIC 3015 Ms Marah Braye Chief Executive Officer Biennale of Sydney 43-51 Cowper Wharf Road WOOLLOOMOOLOO NSW 2011 Ms Trudi Brinckman Visual Art Project Officer Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery 40 Macquarie Street HOBART TAS 7001 AUSTRALIA Ms Marika Clemow Art Researcher Art Guardians PO Box 3094, Domain LPO SOUTH YARRA VIC 3141 Ms Anne Cummins Director, Sydney Artefacts Conservation PO Box 306 CAMPERDOWN NSW 1450 Mr Eduardo De Luca Consultant Global Art Projects 292A Carlisle Street BALACLAVA VIC 3183 4/6 Professor Andrea Hull Member of Council National Museum of Australia 130 Victoria Street ALBERT PARK VIC 3206 Ms Stella Loftus-Hills Gallery & Curatorial Assistant, Monash Gallery of Art 860 Ferntree Gully Road WHEELERS HILL VIC 3150 Ms Dianne Mangan Director, Wangaratta Exhibitions Gallery 1 Lower Stanley Road BEECHWORTH VIC 3747 Mr Bernard Ollis Former Director, National Art School Corner Forbes and Burton Streets DARLINGHURST NSW 2011 Ms Sara Parker Assistant Collections Manager, Museum of Victoria GPO Box 666 MELBOURNE VIC 3001 Ms Toni Roberts Development Manager, Mothers Art Productions Pty Ltd 7 Raleigh Street SPOTSWOOD VIC Ms Lee Scott Manager, Museums Australia PO Box 266 CIVIC SQUARE ACT 2608 Mr Nicholas Selenitsch Conservator Centre for Cultural Materials Conservation University of Melbourne 99 Shiel Street NORTH MELBOURNE VIC 3051 Jeanette Syndikas, Lecturer, School of Creative Media, RMIT University GPO Box 2476 MELBOURNE VIC 3000 Student Members Ms Angela Di Fronzo PO Box 605 EAST MELBOURNE VIC 8002 AUSTRALIA She is a Ph D student in Fine Art at Monash University, 5/6 Ms Carol Ann Gilchrist Graduate Studies in Art History School of History and Politics The University of Adelaide, ADELAIDE SA 5000 She is a Master of Arts student in Curatorial and Museum Studies Ms Justine Phillip 31 Lynch Street FOOTSCRAY VIC 3011 She is a Masters student in Museum Studies Deakin University, Burwood Campus 6/6 Attachment 2 ICOM AUSTRALIA - MEMBERSHIP NUMBERS TO END JULY 2009 Category Paid to Paris Numbers at end Numbers at end 30 June 2009 July 2009 Dec 2008 Ordinary individual 178 182 233 Retired Professional 58 58 72 Student (non-voting) 12 13 13 Institutional A 6 6 7 Institutional B 3 3 2 Institutional C 16 16 20 Total 273 278 347 Note: The following Institutional Category C Members have not as yet renewed for 2009. All were sent individual invoices on 1 January 2009 Australian War Memorial National Archives of Australia Queensland Museum South Australian Museum State Library of NSW However, the National Portrait Gallery has resumed membership, making the net loss 4 members. .