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John Clayton’s oil on board “Sunny Lane,” will be up for grabs at a benefit auction that will help fund a preschool in KwaMpisi. |
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Detail from Sonya Woodman’s “Transkei Dreaming,” an acrylic on Masonite. |
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Cape artists give to help Cape children, in South Africa
By Ann Wood
Banner Staff
When Karin Anderson White visited KwaMpisi, a tiny poverty-stricken village in the Eastern Cape of South Africa, last September, she saw things that most Americans could never imagine.
The Sandwich resident and nurse visited a 70-something-year-old woman who is raising four of her AIDS-orphaned grandchildren. Then there was the child-headed household and the home of an 11-person extended family, where the only man in the family was sick with TB and, along with his wife, recently tested positive for AIDS.
That in a village where 70-percent of its residents are unemployed, more than 30-percent are HIV-positive, and there about 75 AIDS-orphans younger than seven years old. And those orphans have no place to go – no preschool to attend – making it impossible for the grandparents who are raising them to go out and look for work.
Cape to Cape Partnership, a non-profit organization founded by Cape Cod residents to help alleviate suffering in KwaMpisi, has organized an art auction to benefit the children in that village. It will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday at the Red Inn, 15 Commercial St., Provincetown. (Auction attendees can preview all silent and live auction lots beginning at 11 a.m. Saturday.) The live auction features a hand-carved African wood sculpture chair from the Berta Walker Gallery, a portrait of John Lennon by Cape photographer Rowland Sherman, two Robert Motherwell lithographs donated by the Julie Heller Gallery, a “Pink and Red Collage” by Leo Manso, two collages by Varujan Boghosian as well as works by Blanche Lazzell and Peter Hunt. Also included are works by contemporary artists such as John Dowd, Denny Camino, Robena Malicoat, Gail Browne, Oren Sherman, Alice Brock, Nicoletta Poli, Bob Weinstein, Hilary Hoyt, William Evaul and John Clayton. There will also be merchandise and travel packages up for grabs, including deluxe accommodations at The Ritz-Carlton of Boston and the Palace Hotel in Port Townsend, Wash. Terry Catalano will be the auctioneer, and the money for the $5 paddle fee will go towards any purchase. A preview of the works can be seen online at capetocapepartnership.org, and monetary contributions can also be made through that website.
All of the money raised – and organizers are hoping for $10,000 – will be brought directly to the village to fund the KwaMpisi preschool.
(See this week’s Provincetown Banner for the entire text of this story.)
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In the Arts
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Apr 27th, 2006