Below are several newsletters from Fairbanks Arts to review to get a feel for:
- The kind of information we send out to our members
- The tone of Fairbanks Arts (trying to frame challenges as opportunities for connection even when it’s challenging) 🙂
- Some challenging situations Fairbanks Arts has been through in the last few years
- a wide breadth of types of programs/activities we host
Here are some general newsletter details:
We use a service called Constant Contact as our e-marketing platform and maintain a number of e-lists. We send out a general quarterly newsletter along with more frequent program-specific F.A.N.s (Fairbanks Arts News)
Here are some newsletters from the past couple of years that offer a wide array of our activities.
-JP
October-November 2018 Newsletter
March 30, 2019 Newsletter: Director’s statement on Fairbanks Arts not moving into Mt. McKinley Bank for the summer of 2019 (reversal of Centennial Center closing) – A couple of months before we hosted the statewide arts conference (September, 2018), we were notified by the borough that we needed to vacate our building the following summer due to construction needs on the building. After the conference and for the remainder of 2018, I made detailed preparations for an alternative space.
On January 2, 2019, after all preparations for our move were in place, the Mayor notified me that it was no longer necessary to move out of the building. It was upsetting for three months of work to be rendered useless, but on a positive note–after 10 years of the bank’s 3rd floor sitting unfinished, this instigated a long-envisioned expansion by the bank and the floor is now in use.
April 3: Arts Action Alert to send letters in support of ASCA w/ template
April 4, 2019: Advocacy success message to members
October 23, 2019 Newsletter: Message following reinstatement of ASCA
November 17, 2019 Director’s Message regarding the Centennial Center’s sudden closure: the Mayor informed me that we needed to vacate our building that same day and that it was being shut down until repairs could occur.
December 28, 2019: End of Year Support and Wandering Bear Grand Opening. A lot of community support flooded our way. In two weeks and 170 volunteer hours, a gorgeous, contemporary space came together. Because laughter is medicine, we named it the Wandering Bear Gallery.
February 6, 2020 newsletter: Gratitude for Wandering Bear Gallery contributors and updated newsletter look We received immediate feedback from an older patron that our text was too small, so now we don’t go smaller than 14 pt font on most things in the newsletter 🙂
Feb-March, 2020-Performing F.A.N.
March 18, 2020 Newsletter: Director’s response to COVID-19 and compilation of creative resources The Wandering Bear Gallery was open for a wonderful 2.5 months before it was closed by COVID-19.
April 23, 2020 Newsletter: Update from Fairbanks Arts amidst closure
July 15, 2020 Newsletter: Covers FAA re-opening following COVID-19 closure