I CAN DO THAT!! Art for All Abilities

My new passion....helping out this non profit group that is bringing art to kids with disabilities in our school system here in Sacramento....two women, Alice Parente and Allison Sertic make the magic happen and the gallery is helping them.....because we care!!!!!    Allison is the marketing and grant guru and Alice is the person who puts the artist into the classroom to make it all happen.  And they need help...financially and artistically..............................we adopted them last year as part of our quest to gain first place in the KCRA A List competition...but we fell short of our goals and really never raised very much money for them with our campaign.  Then I realized that our gallery just wasn't financial able to give them money on a constant basis as we had too many obstacles in the way with lagging sales due to the new arena construction happening causing lower traffic in our doors.

I met with Allison, got a better feel for what they were doing and after talking with her realized that they needed some other type of help...they needed visual help....so I offered them our window space and featured artist space for the upcoming month of January 2015.....right now we all in the throws of making that all happen.....the images above are some of the work I have sitting back in my studio that we are considering to be put in the exhibit and a bunch of us are meeting this Saturday to select the final cut.  We'll have 2D, 3D, cards and matted examples of the kids work for sale/donation during the month of January to help raise awareness and funds for the group.  We're hoping to get a lot of press out of this directly after Christmas and into January and will use social media to boost interest.

It's a lot of work but for a great cause.  After we get the exhibit up, the small group helping me are going to go back to their storage area at the school site and help clean up their inventory so they can get to it easier and to figure out what they actually have for future events.   

It feels good to help a cause do a better job.        lts