Austin Artist Using Exhibition Sales To Support Charities
July 3rd, 2015 - Austin, TX
Award-winning Austin mural artist, Dan Terry is using his art in local exhibitions to help local non-profits raise funding as lower levels of government support and charitable giving leaves many charitable organizations scrambling for funding.
Terry says, "Sometimes people who are in a position to give back to the community for their good fortune, just need a little incentive to do what they want to anyway. So I decided when I started to begin exhibiting my fine art work after a twenty year hiatus from painting to teach and work in film and television to use my art as such an incentive to support charities that are doing good things for people that give them hope and help."
To that end, all sales that result from his current exhibition "Women & Myth" at the S. Lamar location of winery Water2Wine running through August will support the local branch of Autism Speaks, the charity selected by Water2Wine's proprietor, Letecia Finley to receive twenty percent of every sale. Terry says 'That percentage is lower than typical only because an additional 20% from the sale price is already pledged to each of the models who contributed their time, talent and inspiration in the creation of the paintings in the series." A full fifty percent of all sales is pledged for all sales that occur at the upcoming one man exhibition scheduled to open at the Lake Austin YMCA on July 8th. That exhibit of landscapes and what the artist calls musicscapes will run through the end of August and culminate in a live auction of all unsold works to support the Y's fundraising and charitable programs supporting wellness and health education.
Terry's mural work can be seen at 316 E. Sixth Street in the Davinci Patio Pub in the back of Roppolo's Pizza and at Terry Blacks Barbeque on E. Barton Springs Road, soon to be unvieled. Other mural work was on display in downtown San Antonio at both the Witte Museum, where a near lifesized Humpback Whale mural was created for the "Animal Sense" exhibit and at the historic Alamo's Long Barrack's museum where the life sized figures of a Texican defender and soldier from Santa Anna's invading force greeted millions of visitors annually. Those works remain in the respective museum's permanent collections. His work, both murals and exhibition art are also viewable at www.austinmuralartist.com.
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CONTACT: Dan Terry 512 262-7688 or magiclumen@aol.com