Student Art Sale to Raise Money for The Jeneba Project

The Skidmore Pro-Arts Club encourages awareness about art in the environment and arts influence within the Skidmore community. The student-run club also works to promote and advance Skidmore’s art department and program.
 
This Friday, April 1^st, Pro Arts will host its second art sale, enabling Skidmore students to show and sell their art
to other members of the Skidmore community.  In cooperation with Skidmore’s International Affairs Club, Pro Arts will donate one third of the sale’s proceeds to The Jeneba Project. Started by a Skidmore alum, The Jeneba Project is a non-profit organization that raises money for the construction of a secondary school in Sierra Leone. Their goal is to provide young West Africans with an extensive, sufficient education.
 
In collaboration with the International Affairs Club, Pro-Arts raised money for the Jeneba Project and, this past fall, hosted the first student art sale, donating a portion of the proceeds to the non-profit organization. A great success, the sale yielded a five hundred dollar donation to The Jenenba Project.  Skidmore juniors Becky Donner and Rachel Fisher are responsible for organizing and promoting the art sale this fall and are excited to announce that the second student art sale will take place this coming Friday, April 1^ston the second floor of Case Student Center.
 
This time, Donner and Fisher are hoping and expecting to make an even larger donation to The Jeneba Project. Fisher remarked that the fall art sale turned out to be such a huge success, admitting that her own hand-made metal jewelry sold within the first twenty minutes. Together, Donner and Fisher have worked extensively to increase the awareness about and publicity for the sale, and no one can really predict what the turn out will be.
 
All members of the Skidmore community are welcome and encouraged to come to support the Skidmore students and The Jeneba Project by purchasing some sudent art! A wide array of pieces will be for sale, including prints, jewelry, photographs, ceramics, and more. Students will show pieces not just that they’ve made during
class time, but independently made pieces as well. That said, not all of the artists are even currently enrolled in class but are selling work they’ve made on their own clock. Alongside the sale, the International Affairs Club will be selling fun, chic Jeneba Project T-Shirts, at $12 each. Allof the proceeds from t-shirt sales will be go towards the charity. Thus, members of the Skidmore community can come look at and purchase amazing individual works of art as well as snag a great t-shirt, all for a great cause.
 
There’s still time! All Skidmore students are encouraged to sell any medium of art and at a fair price they elect. Interested? Contact Becky Donner (rdonner@skidmore.edu) for more information.