HOLIDAY SHOW E-MAIL DEADLINE EXTENDED

There’s more time to e-mail your images for the upcoming holiday show!

New e-mail deadline for show at Pearson Art Gallery in White Plains: Saturday, November 28.
There will be an on-line gallery of these images. E-mail your 72 dpi image to: artpartners@aol.com
Drop off donated work in White Plains: Monday, December 7.

**If you are submitting work to the show at the New York City gallery, that deadline remains this Monday, November 16.**

Art in a Box is launching a new art and literacy program in New York and your participation can help make it a success!

Art in a Box Holiday Fundraiser coming up! Call for entries!

The deadline for e-mailing images for the holiday fundraiser is coming up!

In keeping with our holiday fundraising tradition, we will host a special exhibit benefiting Art in a Box. Art in a Box partners with communities in need, assisting them in recovery and empowerment through art and education. Every year, Art in a Box presents a one-night exhibit/sale at Cheryl Pelavin Fine Art gallery in New York City. This year Pearson will host an additional exhibit of donated work and you can be a part of this exciting event! All are invited to submit artwork for this special show. All media 11" x 14" (including frame) and smaller is accepted. Choose to exhibit in New York, White Plains, or both. Work from both galleries will also be available for sale online.

If you—or someone you know—would like to donate artwork to help Art in a Box help children around the world, please e-mail a 72 dpi jpg image by Monday, November 16 to Artpartners@aol.com. Make sure to include the title, media, dimensions, and which exhibit you wish your image(s) to be part of (Pearson, Cheryl Pelavin Gallery in New York, or both.) This image will be part of the on-line gallery. If you have a question, call: 212.691.2543.

Delivery of art for Cheryl Pelavin show in New York City is 11/21/09. Reception and exhibit is Thursday 12/3/09. Unsold work will travel to Pearson unless other arrangements made.

Delivery of art for Pearson show in White Plains is 12/7/09. Opening reception Thursday 12/10/09. Exhibit will be until 2/1/10.

Please see http://www.artinabox.org/Home.htm for more info about the shows and what Art in a Box does.  

In addition to the donated artwork, our show will feature art by Cambodian children and handcrafted gifts by Cambodian women and girls. All works will be for sale and all proceeds will support programs for at-risk children around the world. 

~and looking further ahead~

Winter Show Travels: Asia
Following the success of last year’s Travels: Africa show, we are continuing the theme with Asia. If you have any work related to Asia and would like to participate, please let us know. The show will open early February. Exact date TBD.

Best of Westchester: Grass-Roots Gallery!

We've been awarded the Best of Westchester: Grass-roots Gallery!

Thanks to all for your hard work, talent, support and a special thanks to Elzy Kolb for nominating us!
This is great news as we have just celebrated our 3 year anniversary!

http://www.westchestermagazine.com/Westchester-Magazine/July-2009/Best-of-Westchester-Arts-amp-Leisure-Editors-039-Picks/

Travels: Africa exhibit getting ready to close

The beautiful show Travels: Africa will be coming to a close on May 19. This group show features work of six Pearson employees who created photos and art from their travels to South Africa, Tunisia, Morocco, and Cape Verde. Some proceeds went to the Pearson Foundation to help with the ongoing work in Cambodia.

Mission accomplished! Cambodia children receive bikes and license plates

CLICK HERE to view slideshow of photos and read about the tremendous success of the bike program!

Bikes for Cambodia

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In the fall of 2008, Pearson Education ELT employees in White Plains, New York, initiated a “bike drive” to collect money to purchase bikes for school children in Cambodia. In the area outside of Phnom Penh, bicycles are often the only means of transportation for Cambodian children attempting to get to school. In a two-month period, Pearson employees raised over $1500, and the Pearson Foundation matched each employee donation. Between the donations and the company match, the White Plains office now has enough money ($3000) to buy more than 50 bicycles for children in Cambodia who need them. Not content to give money alone, Pearson employees and their friends and families created bike “license plates” for the kids to attach to their bikes. Fanciful, diverse, and appealing, these small wooden plaques are works of art in themselves—and a testament to the heart and creativity of the Pearson employees in White Plains. To purchase and distribute the bikes, Pearson Education has teamed up with a charitable, non-denominational organization, Jewish Helping Hands. On February 14, Rabbi Joel Soffin will be traveling to Cambodia to dedicate two schools and an orphanage. He has kindly agreed to purchase the bikes for the Pearson Foundation and distribute them to needy school children. Based on Rabbi Soffin’s schedule, he will also try to take photographs of the children with their bikes and license plates so that each donor and artist has the satisfaction of seeing the fruits of this office-wide effort.

Pearson Art Gallery in the news!

Check out this article from the January/February issue of Pearson's Global Link newsletter! (Click on the article to bring up a larger view.)

Again, thank you Pearson Foundation and Lehman College for making this wonderful event happen.