5 p.m. - Balinese artist exhibit begins tomorrow, proceeds to go to Erica’s House
February 25th, 2008
5 p.m., Feb. 24 — Renowned award-winning Balinese artist Made Wianta will exhibit and sell his art pieces from beginning tomorrow through Thursday at the Julale Center in Hagåtña.
His art pieces will be exhibited and will be available for sale Feb. 25 and 26 at the Hilton Guam Resort & Spa’s Gallery and July 27 and 28 at the Julale Center’s center court gallery.
Portion of the proceeds will benefit Erica’s House, a family visitation center in Tiyan.
The artist was born in Apuan, Tabanan, Bali, and he has created 14,000 works of art and has held exhibits nationally and internationally, with donations benefiting many social causes such as helping poor regioins of Bali in 1995, the sale of several paintings to help AIDS research in San Francisco, Calif., and the earthquake victims of Flores, Indonesia in 1993.
Wianta has collaborated with the Ford Foundation to help preserve endangered traditional art and culture in Bali, and held an art camp in Apuan, Bali, to bring together many Indonesian scholars and contemporary artists.
For more information on the exhibit, call Krystal Leung at 648-8888, Diana Castro at 642-4020, or Nancy Tan at 477-7500.
Source: http://www.guampdn.com/apps/
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