Community members will have the opportunity to view and purchase limited-edition prints of personal artworks created by art students, alumni and associates of Hopewell Valley Central High School in Pennington during a first-ever jointly sponsored art sale through Friday, June 19.
All net proceeds from this art sale — “Sharing Visions: Art Students for Kenya” — will benefit ongoing Hopewell-Keroka Alliance health, education and infrastructure-improvement projects planned or underway in support of residents of the Keroka area of western Kenya in eastern Africa.
These prints of contemporary “masterworks” — created primarily by past and current students of the HVCHS visual arts department — range in topic from portraiture, fantasy, still life, narrative, scientific and zoological.
Co-sponsoring this student art sale along with the Pennington-based nonprofit Hopewell-Keroka Alliance are members of the HVCHS Model World Health Organization and Global Connections Club student organizations.
“This art-print sale will showcase the wide-ranging talent of participating student artists at Hopewell Valley Central High School,” said HKA co-founder Dr. Lillian Rankel, of Pennington. “This special sale offers these students an opportunity to help fund projects in the Keroka area of Kenya, thereby, helping improve the lives of village residents half a world away. In its first seven years, HKA, an all-volunteer collaboration, has raised more than $160,000 to upgrade roadways, improve health care, electrify school buildings and install rooftop rainwater-collection tanks on school and community buildings, among other efforts, in this particular area of Kenya.”
Members of the community are invited to visit and consider the student artwork on display in the high school’s front hallway any weekday from 8 a.m. through 4 p.m. and Saturday, June 13, from 8 a.m. through noon.
The 11-inch by 17-inch limited-run prints — on heavy-weight paper stock — will cost $25 each. Order forms with further details and instructions will be available in the main foyer. Checks may be made out to HKA. Purchasers will be contacted as soon as their artwork is ready for pickup at the high school.
The Hopewell-Keroka Alliance acknowledged the hard work, creativity and artistry of HVCHS art instructor Dr. Robert O’Boyle and his students. In addition, the Hopewell-Keroka Alliance thanked the Hopewell Valley Arts Council for its donation toward the printing of the student artwork for sale and related materials.
Hopewell Valley Central High School is at 259 Pennington-Titusville Road.
For more information about this art sale or about the Hopewell-Keroka Alliance, contact Dr. Rankel at 609/737-8345 or visit www.hkalliance.org.
