About Us
A Letter from the PresidentMay 23, 2008
Welcome to ArtWorks.
This month members of ArtWorks will be joining up with the Capitol Arts Alliance and will be participating in Saturday in the Park with Art in Bowling Green’s Fountain Square on May 31. Artists will be demonstrating how art is produced, selling original art pieces, and enjoying the day on the Square. A portion of the proceeds will support the Houchen’s Gallery and ArtWorks Young Artist Grant Program. There is also a juried show tied in with this event that will be held at Vitrace Restaurant located right off the square. I would personally like to thank 440 Main/Mikki’s Restaurants for helping sponsor this event. The public is invited free of charge to mingle with art and artists. Tell all your friends and family to come and enjoy the day.
ArtWorks continues to grow. We have nearly 90 members, our 501(c)(3) status is nearly complete, and our coalition is moving forward. A fall festival is being planned, the Young Artist Grant Program will soon be implemented, ArtWorks t-shirts have been ordered, and our very own pamphlet will be published shortly.
I would like to take this opportunity to thank all of our members who have jumped in and helped with a committee, particularly Jenny Lowe, our membership director, for getting ArtWorks pamphlet in the works, Laura Bain-Selbo for heading up the t-shirt committee, and Lynn O’Keefe, our communication’s chair, who continues to get the Artworks name out there.
I would also like to thank those supporters who have financially contributed to ArtWorks. Without your kind generosity, ArtWorks would not be where it is today.
Hope to see everyone May 31, at Fountain Square, 1 – 7 p.m. enjoying Saturday in the Park with Art.
Donnie Firkins
President
Mission Statement
ArtWorks: a Visual Arts Coalition is a non-profit organization of artists, patrons, and supporters dedicated to creating a sustainable art community by increasing visibility, vitality, and economic growth for the visual arts.Vision Statement
ArtWorks: a Visual Arts Coalition will be a driving force in the area of Bowling Green, Kentucky. We will actively participate in our community while promoting, protecting and preserving the vitality and visibility of the visual arts. Artworks will commit to empower visual artists through financial support, exhibition opportunities, and professional seminars. We will educate the community and its leaders and policy makers on the economic benefits gained by enhancing our local culture through the works of visual artists.Central to our Vision is a philanthropic plan designed to assist and strengthen our community at large which in turn will help ensure a successful future for our coalition of visual artists. As an organized body of visual artists which took root from the seeds of philanthropy, Artworks will pursue strategic investments and partnerships in projects and initiatives that inspire visual artists to imagine new horizons and to create new visions that will catalyze the cultural arts movement in our community. This will include funding our working visual art members for projects in our community through grants and contributions.
Artworks will become the voice of leadership for the visual arts.
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