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Art Show Raises Funds for Art Supplies

My name is Carter Sussman and I am a 7th grade student at Sandy Run Middle School, Upper Dublin, PA. For my Bar Mitzvah Project I have been working with an organization called Fresh Artists, a non-profit dedicated to bringing art supplies into schools which are impoverished and lacking supplies.  I collected art from every grade level — Kindergarten through 12th grade from three Upper Dublin Schools. I also acquired art from family members, my mother’s work friends and from children across the country. The collection of artwork was displayed for a week at Nave Frozen Yogurt, Maple Glen, PA. On […]

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Fresh Artists

www.freshartists.org 3510 Scotts Lane, Suite 3014 Philadelphia, PA 19129 Contact:  Barbara Chandler Allen, CEO, bcallen@freshartists.org, cell: 215-920-3317 or studio: 267-331-8614 Fresh Artists mission is to promote access for all children to the transformative self-expression of art making and philanthropy.  We do this by engaging children as full partners in philanthropy, by widely exhibiting children’s’ artwork in highly visible and unexpected places and by providing art supplies and innovative art programs to children in severely under-resourced public schools. A mitzvah project or community service project to support Fresh Artists includes a Clothesline Art Sale. Clothesline Art Sales are self-guided service projects and fundraisers for […]

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A Student’s Clothesline Art Sale Benefits Even More Students

For Raquel Dunoff’s mitzvah project she will be having a clothesline art sale to benefit Fresh Artists. Fresh Artists provides art supplies and art programs to inner city schools with little-to-no art budget. The art sale will be held at Whitemarsh Township Day on April 28th, 2012 form noon til 5. It is open to the community and we welcome you to come. There are two ways that you can help with Raquel’s project. First, is to donate children’s art for the sale. We are collecting both ceramics and paintings/drawings. There is a drop box for art in the lobby […]

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