[DAC] Save the date! This Thursday, 8/24: Dot Art's Summer Exhibition & Auction

[Leslie MacWeeney]

Dear Fellow DAC members:

Save the date! The Dorchester Community Center for the Visual Arts (Dot Art)
is proud to announce our 9th Annual Summer Art Exhibition & Auction, ³FACE
TO FACE: Veterans¹ Portraits ² happening THIS Thursday, August 24, 2006 from
5:30pm-7:30pm in the Upper Hall of All Saints¹ Church at 209 Ashmont Street
in Dorchester. Join Dot Art for the unveiling of paintings and drawings of
men and women veterans by talented students aged 12-20 from our Teen Studio
Summer Program. Works will also be available for purchase through a silent
auction. 

5:30-6 view work/silent auction bidding begins
6-6:30 introductions of guest speakers by James Ryan, board member
        Opening Remarks ­ Kevin Bowen, Joiner Center for the Study of War &
Social Consequences at Umass Boston
        Talk on Student's works - Judith Brassard Brown, Montserrat College
of Art
6:40-7:00 silent bidding closes
7:10-7:30 winning bids announced
    
Refreshments will be served.

Kevin Bowen, Director of the William Joiner Center for the Study of War &
Social Consequences at UMass Boston will open the exhibition. Judith
Brassard Brown, co-chair of the Foundation Department at Monserrat College
of Art will also be conducting a talk on students¹ works.

Dot Art collaborated with the Veterans Upward Bound Program at UMass Boston
and the William Joiner Center for the Study of War and Social Consequences
at UMass Boston in order to provide new experiences for youth to engage in
an intensive studio art program along with the opportunity to connect with
veterans about their experiences abroad, and their reflections since coming
back home.

Join Dot Art in celebrating and congratulating the youth who¹ve created the
works, and meet the veterans who posed for these amazing works of art. Young
artists in the program have worked five days a week, six hours a day, for
seven weeks, learning to master many artistic principles, applying their
acquired skills in the development of portraits that capture the character
of veterans in the community.  Portraits from this summer¹s program
contribute to Dot Art¹s ongoing Dorchester Portraits Project, now in its 9th
year.

Hope you can join us!

~ All of us at Dot Art


dot art
dorchester community center for the visual arts (dot art)
1775a dorchester avenue
dorchester, ma 02124
617-265-3503   www.dotart.org