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Tuesday, September 25, 2007
Project Open Hand and SF Artist Gary Bukovnik
A meal from Project Open Hand is like a meal from your mother. It is healthy, tasty, rich and full of love. Project Open Handprovides food and nourishment to improve the quality of life for the men, women and children it serves. Project Open Hand was founded by an amazing retired grandmother by the name of Ruth Brinker, one of San Francisco's true heroes.
In the photo: Agathe's Roses, a 2002 watercolor by San Francisco artist Gary Bukovnik.
Project Open Hand programs include meal, grocery and nutrition counseling for people with symptomatic HIV and AIDS;congregate lunch and nutritioneducation for people over 60 years of age;and meal service forhomebound and critically illpeople under the age of 60. Services are available to eligible clients regardless of their race, color, national origin, age, gender, sexual orientation, religious affiliation, disability or ability to pay - in true San Francisco style.
You can help Project Open Hand by buying your 2008 calendar from them. This year, don't get your wall calendars from the office supply store or from the drugstore. They make enough profit. This year, spend your money with Project Open Hand and do some good.
Project Open Hand 2008 calendars featuring the beautiful watercolors of acclaimed San Francisco artistGary Bukovnikare now available for purchase. For $15, you can enjoy a series of artwork entitled “Food on the Move”and help support Project Open Hand’s mission to serve ‘meals with love’.
Cleveland-born and educated Gary Bukovnik has lived in San Francisco for over 25 years. Bukovnik’s art conveys a monumental quality. Primarily using the mediums of watercolor, monotype, and lithograph, Bukovnik fuses sensual vitality with fluid yet powerful colorations, creating floral images of great depth and intensity.
In 2003, the American Academy in Rome invited Bukovnik to attend the academy as a Visiting Artist and provided him with a room and studio for six weeks. He was asked to attend a second session in February 2005. In 2001, he was selected to create a poster for the prestigious List Collection, which creates posters to commemorate programs at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York. Lincoln Center past contributors have included Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Robert Motherwell, Helen Frankenthaler, Alex Katz, Elizabeth Murray, and Donald Sultan. To purchase your Project Open Hand 2008 calendars, please call .
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