HEB Art Fest To Celebrate One City, One Book
Written by Post Public Information Representative, Sep 17, 2010, 0 Comments
Courtesy Xochitl Mora,
Event designed for artists, non-artists of all ages to help promote the power of the paintbrush in literature
(Laredo, TX Sept 17, 2010) This year’s One City, One Book campaign features not one, but two, very moving stories: Into the Beautiful North is a fictionalized quest in search of heroes and Mr. Mendoza’s Paintbrush is a fictional graphic novel tale in search of the truth, both by Luis Alberto Urrea. While most of the One City, One Book activities have focused on Urrea’s latest novel, next Saturday’s HEB’s One City, One Book Art Fest is an event designed for artists and non-artists of all ages, to help promote and celebrate the power of the paintbrush in literature.
On Saturday, September 25, 2010, from 11:00 a.m. until 3:00 p.m., the Laredo Public Library HEB Multi-Purpose Room, located at 1120 East Calton Road will be transformed into an art studio for the HEB One City, One Book Art Fest, where everyone can come in and express their love of literature by painting, coloring, or drawing a scene, image or feeling from their favorite book or story.
The event is free and open to the public; however, participants are asked to bring in five non-perishable food items to donate to the South Texas Food Bank. Thanks to a generous donation by HEB, who is Helping. Here., all art supplies will be provided for participants. Art instructors from Laredo Community College will be on hand to help give lessons and assistance on artwork. Budding Picassos and Frida Kahlos are encouraged to wear clothes that can be ruined, just in case.
“This is going to be such a great event for the public, because it will allow everyone to express their creativity and imagination in such diverse ways,” said Maria G. Soliz, manager for the Laredo Public Library, one of the organizers, in partnership with Food for Thought, a local non-profit organization made up of Laredo educators, dedicated to fighting hunger in our community, of the yearly One City, One Book campaign. “Whether the artist chooses watercolors, oil paint, markers, crayons or pencil, it will be a great visual representation of literature and how it moves us all.”
