Life > January 31, 2008
Auction strives to end global poverty
By Lillian King | Contributing writer
The third annual student-led art auction will complete the week of “kNOw Poverty,” a poverty awareness week with events sponsored by the university’s Student Working Against Poverty organization (SWAP), on Feb. 1.
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Other events of the “kNOw Poverty” week included a panel discussion, a 5K run, a meal packaging initiative and a PBS documentary screening.
SWAP hopes that these events will allow them to carry out their mission statement which is “satisfying the needs–mental, physical, emotional– of impoverished people worldwide by promoting poverty awareness on campus and by providing outlets of action for students, by encouraging conversation and unifying students in action towards satiating the needs of others.”
SWAP has already met its goal of unifying students and faculty from various backgrounds in the fight against poverty.
The “stArt Student Art Auction” alone has already reached a great number of students.
The auction will feature work of astudent artists Emily Brooks, Ali Carroll, Vincent Cimino, Sallie Doss, David Faber, Alex Hitchcock, Michael Mabray, Betsy Rives, Thaddeus Stephens, Caldwell Tanner, Jessie Vogel and Emily White.
The art will include many kinds of work including sculptures, graphic art and paintings – among other various pieces at the auction.
Doss, a freshman contributing work to the auction, is planning to minor in studio art.
She has contributed a charcoal sketch of hands wringing out a towel and a pastel landscape of mountains and a lake.
The auction is already looking to have a great turnout as it will be held in a gallery that is part of the First Friday Gallery Hop.
The First Friday Gallery Hop is a monthly event in which the shops and streets in the art district along Sixth Street close and are turned into a festive and artsy area open to the general public.
Physical art of university students will not be the only art displayed at the Gallery Hop.
The university’s own string quartet, including musicians Jermyn Davis, Karen Drake, Elizabeth Martin and Eugene Shyu, will be brightening the atmosphere with music.
Additionally, the event will offer hors d’oeuvres for its attendants, courtesy of Ollie’s Bakery and City Beverage.
All proceeds made at the “stArt Student Art Auction” will benefit the Crisis Control Ministry, a Christian-based organization whose mission is “to assist people in crisis to meet essential life needs and to become self-sufficient.”
Everyone is encouraged to come out to the event and support SWAP and its mission, as well as the university’s artists and musicians.
The event is free and open to all university students.
The auction will last from 7-10 p.m. Feb. 1 at the Downtown Arts District Association’s Community Center located on 526 N. Liberty St – only about five minutes off Sixth Street.