New Harmony Hosts Art & Soul Benefit to Benefit Katrina Victims

While I usually don’t publish much that happens outside of the Evansville area, I figure New Harmony is close enough to tell you about this good cause. New Harmony will be hosting the art and artists of Hancock County, Mississippi in its first annual ART & SOUL benefit this Saturday. The goal of ART & SOUL is to utilize the arts to make a difference in the lives of at least 50 artists in five Gulf Coast communities over the next five years. Artists accompanying their work on the journey from the Gulf Coast to New Harmony have been invited to stay in town as overnight guests of resident art patrons.

Hancock County visual artists and their work will be featured at a special reception, exhibition and sale in the New Harmony Artists’ Guild’s Community House gallery. Visitors to the gallery will meet several of the 14 Gulf Coast artists selected for the juried show. Original paintings and sculpture will be available for purchase.

In conjunction with the exhibition, the film “The Art of the Storm” will be screened in the Artists’ Guild gallery during the reception. In this documentary, filmmakers tell the story of how Hurricane Katrina nearly decimated the art colony situated along the Mississippi Gulf Coast. The film introduces artists and provides personal accounts of their survival and their art.

If you happen to go, be sure to snap some photos and send them to me. I’d love to spotlight them on the site.