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From friend of PhotoAwesome, Abezah Tamerat:

Gallery Stokes, located in the Castleberry Hill Arts District of Atlanta will be hosting 150, a two-day exhibition featuring 150 pieces by 150 artists each costing $150. One hundred percent of the sales will go to directly support the Artists for Charity Children’s Home.

Artists for Charity is a nonprofit organization founded on the belief that all people, regardless of place of birth, sex, or current medical condition, are entitled to certain basic rights, especially education and healthcare. In Ethiopia, Artists for Charity has translated its mission into action by focusing its efforts on the care of HIV positive children who have lost both parents to AIDS.

The Artists for Charity Children’s Home was created to provide care for HIV-positive orphans until the age of 18 or graduation from high school. Because the Children’s Home is intended to care for those children who have no other alternatives, the children that come to the Home are usually those who have been disqualified from entering other institutions by factors such as age, health status, etc. The Children’s Home provides excellent services for these children, including the necessities of life such as shelter, food, and clothing, and also ensures that the children are enrolled in school, have regular doctor visits, take medicine, and engage in other extracurricular activities. The Children’s Home is intentionally small to closely resemble the family unit, and focus is placed on the holistic development of the children (mental and social as well as physical). Currently the Artists for Charity Children’s Home cares for 16 HIV-positive double orphans (having lost both parents to AIDS). You can find more information about the foundation, the Children’s Home, and the children at the website www.artistsforcharity.org.

We would greatly appreciate a donation of artwork to support the continued care of these children.

We ask that any donated artwork be valued at less than $1000. All artwork will be sold for $150, and is tax deductible for the artist. We are asking for works on paper, paintings, mixed media, and sculpture. Framed work is accepted, but frames are not necessary.

The dates of the show:
Friday, July 25, 7-10 pm (during the Castleberry Hill 4th Friday Art Stroll)
and Saturday, July 26, 1-5 pm

We must have artwork by Saturday, July 19 in order to include it in 150.

If you are shipping artwork, please send it to this address:
Artists for Charity
925B Peachtree NE 458
Atlanta GA 30309

If you are local to Atlanta, you can drop work off at Gallery Stokes on Friday, July 18th and Saturday July 19th, located at 261 Walker Street SW, Atlanta GA 30313. Do not ship work to the gallery. No one will be there to accept it.

If you have any questions, please call Abezash Tamerat at 404-543-8627, or e-mail Dayna Thacker at gallerystokes@gmail.com

Thank you for your generosity!

Abezah Tamerat