On the eve of her civic tour, Across the USA from the Eyes of an Artist, beheld artisan Leisa Collins (http://www.leisacollins.com) reaffirmed her charge to accouchement and art education, basic a affiliation with Free Arts for Abused Children (http://www.freearts.org), a accumulation committed to accouterment opportunities for accouchement to apprentice and actualize art. The accord was inaugurated at the group’s LA address with Leisa presenting an aboriginal painting advantaged “The Loneliness of Abuse” to the Executive Director of Free Arts for Abused Children, Karrah Lompa. Leisa created the painting to acquaint the affecting abreast and anguish suffered by an abused child, and to accent the important role that the arts can play in healing a child.
Setting out from Los Angeles, the bout promises to be an action-packed adventitious and a arresting appearance of the American canvas from the eyes of an artist. It will culminate in New York abreast the end of September. The adventure marks the re-emergence of Leisa into the art apple afterwards two decades of all-around campaign and amusing activism. The circadian blog for the bout is www.leisacollinsartwithamessage.blogspot.com.
During the bout Leisa will abduction the breathtaking adorableness and humans of America in aboriginal paintings while teaming up with Free Arts for Abused Children accessory groups throughout the country on art lessons, kids art projects and added activities to accession acquaintance and allotment for art education. Her website offers accurate prints of her painting, The Loneliness of Abuse, with 50% of the profits traveling to Free Arts for Abused Children to abutment their advancing projects for accouchement and art.
“Today in the USA, over 40% of elementary academy accouchement don’t accept art teachers. With every accompaniment in the nation adverse banking crisis and account cuts, art is generally one of the aboriginal items slashed,” said Leisa. “This agency that the association - that’s you and me - have to do added to ensure ALL accouchement are accomplished the abilities of observing, imagining, creating and thinking.”
The aboriginal stop of the bout is the acclaimed Grand Canyon in Arizona. Further stops will cover Las Vegas, Death Valley, the Sierra Nevada Mountain Regions of Sequoia and Yosemite. Then San Francisco and the Redwood Forest followed by the city-limits of Eureka, California. Then Salem and Portland in Oregon, Snowden in Washington, Boise in Idaho, Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming, The Badlands and Sioux Falls City in South Dakota, Minneapolis/St Paul in Minnesota, Green Bay and Milwaukee in Wisconsin, Chicago in Illinois, Lansing and Detroit in Michigan, Niagrara Falls on the US-Canada border, Buffalo in New York, Allentown and Philadelphia in Pennsylvania, Trenton in New Jersey, and the final destination of the bout – New York City.
Based in the USA, but all-embracing in scope, Leisa is now accumulation her activist and aesthetic abilities beneath the adage of Art with a Message. The absolute bout avenue can be begin on the Art in Action page of her website, www.leisacollins.com, area you can aswell assurance up for her account newsletter, Art in the Making.
Free Arts for Abused Children is committed to allowance abused, abandoned or at-risk children, as able-bodied as families active in crisis. Through alive art programs Free Arts works to access self-esteem and body absolute appearance by unlocking the acuteness and adroitness of the victims of adolescent bribery and homelessness. The Free Arts website is www.freearts.org.
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