Mena Art Gallery
607 Mena Street
P. O. Box 871
Mena, Arkansas 71953
479 394-3880
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Mena Art Gallery Donations Page

 

Southwest Artists, through the Mena Art Gallery, has been providing Mena and Polk County with art of all kinds: paintings, photographs, sculpture, and much more.

We have displayed the work of local artists and brought you such nationally known artists as Bill Garrison, Tim Ernst, Barry Thomas, and Tyrone Lewis.

Successful community art activities:

• Established a sculpture garden on the courthouse grounds for everyone to enjoy. After the devasting tornado in 2009, we are still waiting to rebuild this project.

• Recently completed our 4th open studio tour where two dozen artists opened their studios for three days allowing over 250 people to watch these artists and artisans at work in their studio environment.

• Recruited new sponsors which have enabled us to offer two shows a year with cash awards near $3,000 for each show.

Quality Education, Shows and Competitions:

• For twenty-four years we have sponsored an annual high school show.

• 2012 will be our sixth year for a children’s art show.

• We hope to offer classes in 2012 in everything from beginning drawing to oil painting, and workshops from creating Shaker wooden boxes to making glass beads and plein air painting.

• Once a month we have children’s classes at the gallery; our artists work with many of the art classes in local schools to give students a glimpse of what they might do in this field.

Now we need your help.

Funding for the Executive Director position through grants available at that time, ceased on January 1, 2009. It has been only through generous donations of gallery members and members in the community that we have been able to retain a part-time Executive Director at the cost of $15,000 annually plus Social Security withholdings.

We are seeking your support in two ways:

· Make a donation, using the form linked below, to donate whatever amount fits into your charitable budget for this year, and

· Become a member of the Mena Art Gallery, if you are not presently a member, by indicating so on the same form (see link below)

Donations greater than $25.00 are tax deductible, and we can provide the form for your use in preparing your Income Tax report.

Please consider what you might be able to give, either as a lump sum now, or as increments paid over the coming year.

Please return the attached form to the gallery at 607 Mena Street, Mena, AR 71953. And thank you very much for considering joining and/or supporting your Polk County Mena Art Gallery.

Very truly yours,

MENA ART GALLERY

Rick Chrisman, Chairman of the Board




Click here to make your donation or just become a member.




 


Support for SouthWest Artists is provided, in part, by the Arkansas Arts Council, an agency of the Department of Arkansas Heritage, the National Endowment for the Arts and the Walton Family Foundation.
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Southwest Artists, Inc. (established 1945) is a non-profit corporation promoting the arts in southwestern Arkansas. Southwest Artists, Inc. dba the Mena Art Gallery at 607 Mena Street, in Mena, Arkansas, the Ouachita Art Trails, as well as various classes, workshops and seminars conducted throught the year.