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Local Artists to Auction Art To Support Levitt Pavilion

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Dayton artist Amy Deal opens her studio tonight to invite people to learn more about the Levitt Pavilion coming to Dayton..  Friends of Levitt Dayton have raised all but $300,000 of the $5M goal and at tonights event you can bid on local art featuring Dayton’s own MB Hopkins and Doug Fiely, and Nigerian Artist & Dayton Friend, Ben Ibebe as well as art by Ms. Deal.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here’s a sneak peek at some of the art that will be up for bid in the silent auction:

This beautiful 11″ plate created and donated by

Esther Kadash of Rising Moon Glass Studio,
also located in the  Davis-Linden Building

It’s titled “Bird Love.”

 

 

Retired Wright-Patterson Air Force Base Engineering Researcher turned Photographer Lew Hann has graciously donated a beautiful 20″ x 30″ framed, one-of-a-kind, giclée.  Hann, a true lover of the arts sang with the  Bach Society of Dayton and Musica!, recorded German soundtracks for American movies and was a disc jockey for Dayton Public Radio for about 15 years. He’s taught
photography classes at  Bethany Lutheran Village, where he currently resides.

Because of an anonymous donor all funds raised this Friday will be doubled. All art sales will be doubled! Make sure your calendar is marked for this Friday 5-8:00pm. F

Open Studio @ Deal Studio
Music, Drinks, Nosh, and Friends
Art for Sale – ALL proceeds go to Levitt Pavilion Dayton
Your chance to GIVE to the Dayton Levitt Pavilion
Parking at 116 Davis Avenue and follow the signs. Your vehicles will be monitored. No parking in the courtyard.

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Wear a Work of Art From Local Artist Mb Hopkins

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Dayton artist Mb Hopkins created this painting entitled “Huddled Masses,” and was giving prints to people in exchange for their contribution to the local Unitarian Fellowship for World Peace. This organization provides no-fee mental health services in several languages to refugees and immigrants.

 “Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”
                                                              — Emma Lazarus
You can now sport this message on your chest and proceeds will also go to the Dayton nonprofit, Unitarian Fellowship for World Peace.  Order your t-shirt online.
The original painting, which is 2-ft by 4-ft, will be sold to the highest bidder at the DVAC Annual Auction on April 28, 2017, with all proceeds from that sale going directly to DVAC, to help offset their operating expenses.  If you would like to own your own print, you can find them at Eclectic Essentials and CLASH in the Oregon District and at Sam And Eddies Open Books in Yellow Springs!

Mb Hopkins Art Raises Funds For Mental Health Services for Refugees

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Bill Franz, local photographer who captures so many great thing in the Miami Valley and shares them on his  Dayton at Work and Play site snapped the picture below.  He met artist Mb Hopkins last night at Courthouse Square as he was photographing the Emergency Protest Against Trump’s Refugee Ban.

Mb had created a beautiful art work and was giving prints to people in exchange for their contribution to the local Unitarian Fellowship for World Peace. This organization provides no-fee mental health services in several languages to refugees and immigrants.

“The best part of last night — well, there were many best parts — was getting a big hug from a woman in a hijab, and having several teachers who wanted multiple posters to share with their teacher friends and to put up in their classrooms. Teach your children well! Great, loving crowd”,  says artist Mb Hopkins.

If you would like to own your own print, you can find them at Eclectic Essentials and CLASH in the Oregon District and at Sam And Eddies Open Books in Yellow Springs! All money goes to Unitarian Fellowship for World Peace.