The Guild hosts lunch meetings for new members in order to introduce the Motion Picture Industry Pension and Health Plans. This helps promote the best use of the plans so the members can make better choices regarding their health care and retirement savings.

To view the New Member Presentation, go to the page linked below:

http://animationguild.org/new-member/

The Animation Guild has discovered an egregious scam being perpetrated upon the visual effects community. Studios are engaging the company Yurcor to act as Employer of Record for artists. Yurcor, acting as the employer, passes down the usual employer taxes to the artist in the form of illegal wage deductions. The Animation Guild has engaged our attorney in an attempt to recover these illegally withheld wages.

If you have any questions, email Steve Kaplan by clicking that link.

Contact Steve Kaplan to help you organize your fellow artists at your current place of employment.

In the pursuit of a smaller “Carbon Footprint”, we are encouraging all interested readers to view the Peg-Board online.

In place of receiving the Peg-Board in your mailbox, you can register to receive an email letting you know that the latest issue is available for viewing. Email Jeff Massie to request to be informed when we post the latest issue (which is a week earlier than we mail it).

We will continue to mail the Peg-Board to all interested parties. Members who are active and on Honorable Withdrawal will receive the Peg-Board free of charge. Members on suspension and non-members can receive the Peg-Board for $15 per year.

This is a list of the employers who are signed to collective bargaining agreements with the Animation Guild Local 839 IATSE and/or the IATSE.

Steve Hulett
Business Representative

Steve Kaplan
Organizer

Lyn Mantta
Office Manager

Jeff Massie
Assistant to the Business Representative/Recording Secretary

Ken Roskos
Computer Lab Administrator

Marta Strohl-Rowand
401(k) Plan Administrator

In this page, we pay tribute and honor members who have passed.

Opening reception on Friday, February 10.

Gallery is open Friday, February 17 and 24
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Dates and shows tentative

February 3, 2012
Bryan Boylan

March 2, 2012
Alex Kube

April, 2012
Gallery Closed for Renovations

May 4, 2012
Circa Group

June 1, 2012
Phillip Cummings