will pollock (photography, mixed-media)

"artists reaching through" ~ Benefiting Positive Impact ( Return Home )

will pollock (photography, mixed-media)

"artists reaching through" ~ Benefiting Positive Impact ( Return Home )

will pollock (photography, mixed-media)

"artists reaching through" ~ Benefiting Positive Impact ( Return Home )

will pollock (photography, mixed-media)

"artists reaching through" ~ Benefiting Positive Impact ( Return Home )

(ATLANTA :: 9 December 2009) - It’s become a year unlike any other... Who could have imagined five artists in 2006 could grow to nearly 30 in a mere four years?

Actually, it makes a great deal of sense. People want reliable, hip and engaging home for their generosity, and hopefully ARTvision accomplishes that goal while remaining a reliable steward for its end beneficiary,
Positive Impact. If you don’t know this organization, you should. They provide crucial mental-health and prevention services for people in metro Atlanta living with HIV.

That means the folks who are living with the disease can be treated with top-tier counseling - and people *without* it can learn their status and stay negative.

My contributions for this year’s event stand alongside selections from the nation and the world’s most accomplished, traveled, seasoned, talented artists. They give freely of their artistic vision to advance creative activism - helping to effect change and grow funding for
our beneficiary.

All bias aside, I can think of few other places where people can a) make a donation to charity, b) take a last-minute tax deduction AND c) have something to take home - all rolled up in one package.

The idea for ARTvision came one evening on Dec. 31st, 2005, when we received our fifth bottle of wine as a thank-you for hosting the New Year’s Eve party. I thought to myself, “Why not try and channel that goodwill into something bigger and better?” And so, here we are.

I am consistently humbled by people like Michael Baker and Michele Segre, both of whom are critical to this event; my mother, who is showing her work for the second year (if you haven’t seen her pieces yet, you should, they rock), and who imparted at least a fraction of her artistic talent on me; by all of our artists who listened to the call for collaboration, and demonstrated it in numerous ways; and the entire O’Connor family, who are well represented in this year’s event. More on that in a later post.

If you are on the fence about a purchase, consider this: we are anticipating passing the $10,000 cumulative mark this year in funds earned for charitable organizations throughout ARTvision’s history. Help us blow past that mark, and in turn, provide PI with some much-needed end-of-year support!

Yours in artistry -
WP

(Photos shown: “
Swept Away,” photo-to-canvas, $195; and “Answered.”, custom-framed photo on archival paper, single artist proof, $895)