Art Across the Americas October 4, 2008

Austin Lima Sister Cities Committee

Art Across the Americas – art exhibition
Fundraiser for El Centro Para Madres Adolescentes, Lima, Peru

Oct. 4 - 31, 2008
International Center of Austin, 201 E. 2nd St.

Artists' Reception 6-9pm, Saturday, October 4

The Austin Lima Sister Cities Committee is presenting the art exhibition, Art Across the Americas, featuring Peruvian and North American painters and sculptors at the International Center of Austin, 201 E. 2nd St. Austin, Texas. The exhibition opening will be Saturday, October 4, 2008, with an artists' reception from 6-9pm, which will include music and refreshments. Art work sales from the exhibition will go to the artists and to the Center for Adolescent Mothers, in Lima, Peru. In May 2008, the Lima chapter of the Austin Lima Sister Cities, organized an art exhibition of Austin and Limeno artists, at the Terrazas Club, in Lima. Austin artists featured in that exhibition were Carol Hayman, Angela Hayes, and Becca Hayes.

Some of the featured Peruvian artists, in this year’s exhibition, are Hugo Mercado Tejada, Yolanda Velásquez Reinoso, Rafael Moreno Lozano, Del Nino Ladron (Jose Humberto Guevara Hurtado) and the reknown archeologist, Jose Ocas Cuenca. Local artists will include the Austin sculptor George McFarland and Alonozo Rey-Sanchez.

Admission to the reception and exhibit is free and open to the public. This is a wonderful opportunity for Austinites to see work from artists in one of our sister cities. The exhibition closes October 31st.
For more information please contact the President of the Austin Lima
Sister Cities Committee, Carol Hayman, at 477-3099 or visit the
committee websites at
http://www.ci.austin.tx.us/siscity/lima.htm
http://www.ci.austin.tx.us/siscity/lima_2.htm
http://www.austinlima.org

Official Website: http://www.austinlima.org/