www.mycnews.com • Community News – St. Louis County • July 15, 2015
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‘Painting for Peace in Ferguson’ book proceeds given to local organizations Two North County St. Louis organizations recently each received a $1,000 grant from “Painting for Peace in Ferguson”. One of the original goals Author Carol Swartout Klein had when creating “Painting for Peace in Ferguson” was to give all profits the children’s book made to organizations and small businesses in Ferguson and the surrounding communities. “Although we just reinvested in the book for a second printing, we still wanted to give what we could to the community,” said Klein, who has not and will not personally receive any proceeds from the book. The book has sparked an outpouring of generosity in other forms, which has allowed some early donations to move forward. “We of course, hope this is just the start and we’ll be able to make many more donations in the future through the book’s fund.” The two organizations that each received
$1,000 in funding on June 23 were Pakt and Ferguson Youth Initiative through the nonprofit fund that was set up when the book was created. The Painting for Peace in Ferguson Fund is run through the St. Louis Community Foundation. “These are two organizations that are essential to the Ferguson area,” said Klein. “They were doing good work long before the tragedy on Aug. 9 and have been in the trenches ever since.” “Thank you is not enough for this gift,” said J. Toni Burrow, executive director of Pakt. “You’re helping people you don’t even know, people who don’t have anything.” “This gift,” said Dana Sebastian-Duncan of Ferguson Youth Initiative, “will help support FYI’s monthly Open Arts programming which offers teens a local and accessible safe place for creative self-expression and recreation in Ferguson.”
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National Churchill Museum displays unprecedented Churchill painting exhibit in St. Louis The most significant collection of Churchill paintings ever exhibited in North America will be on public display in St. Louis this fall thanks to the efforts of the National Churchill Museum at Westminster College. “The Paintings of Winston Churchill” will be exhibited Nov. 13 through Feb. 14, 2016, at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum at Washington University in St. Louis. The National Churchill Submitted photo Museum collaborated The oil painting “Boats at Cannes Harbor” by Sir Winston Churchill, which usually hangs in the National with the Kemper Art Churchill Museum on the campus of Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri will be on loan as a part of Museum on this project the Churchill painting exhibition at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum in St. Louis Nov. 13 through as a part of ”Churchill Feb. 14, 2016. 2015,” a worldwide comrepresents five decades of Churchill landscapes, memoration of the life and legacy of Sir Winston seascapes, still lifes and portraits. Churchill on the 50th anniversary of his death. The National Churchill Museum displays three “The National Churchill Museum is dedicated of Churchill’s paintings. Two of them are on to educating Americans about the life and legacy temporary loan for this special exhibition. of Winston Churchill,” says Dr. Jim Williams, ExA self-proclaimed pastime painter, Churchill ecutive Director of the Museum. “This exhibi- did not begin painting until the age of 40. Altion is a major leap forward for our efforts. We though he received no formal training as an artare delighted to be working with the Kemper Art ist, he pursued the hobby with the characteristic Museum to bring this international exhibition to passion he displayed in all his endeavors and it St. Louis.” became a lifelong interest. The exhibition will include Churchill paintings “Art is to beauty what honor is to honesty,” in public and private collections loaned from Churchill said. He fondly referred to his landmore than a dozen different sources, including scapes as “bottled sunshine.” Churchill’s historic family estate, Chartwell, and
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