pressing matters

I just sent out the press release for my next event! Let's see if anyone picks it up...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Local artist's "Paint-a-Thon" campaign for charity continues

Brunswick artist Maria Castellano-Usery continues her groundbreaking work of "art philanthropy for the budget-conscious (tm)."

On Saturday, February 27^th, to celebrate her growing program, Brushstrokes with Impact (tm), she invites the community to join her at Wyler's (150 Maine Street, Brunswick), where Maria will be having a "pop-up" art show and “Paint-a-Thon," complete with a raffle featuring the finished painting as the prize.

Maria will set up her easel at Wyler's and have a day-long “Paint-a-Thon” during business hours (10am to 6pm, roughly). Raffle tickets for the completed 8” x 8” acrylic painting will be sold both in person and online ($5 each, 3 for $10) with the winning ticket being drawn the evening of Saturday, February 27th. Maria will be donating 50% of the proceeds from ticket sales to ArtVan.  Additionally, 10% of all Maria’s art sales from her "pop-up" show at Wyler's (excluding magnets) will be donated to ArtVan.

This is the third event in her groundbreaking series "art philanthropy for the budget-conscious (tm)," where Maria will be working with other local businesses and various charities that are meaningful to her. Maria started Brushstrokes with Impact (tm) as a "Paint-a-Thon" that took place in December at The Mix and raised nearly $375 for the National Foundation for Cancer Research's "Play4TheCure" program; her second event raised over $200 for the Mid Coast Hunger Prevention Program's "BackPack Program". If you are interested in creating a future collaboration, please email maria@brushstrokesbymaria.com. 

For more information about this event on Saturday, February 27th, please go to www.brushstrokesbymaria.com (click on “current shows” and follow the links) or you can make a donation online and enter the raffle here https://www.carii.com/#/register/BrushstrokeswithImpactbyMaria and join her community of giving.

That's right: my next "Paint-a-Thon" event will benefit ArtVan! I'm calling it "VANtastic". I'm having a little too much fun with these titles! Anyway, here's the Facebook event page if you'd like to share it: https://www.facebook.com/events/1679660962290648/ ...it's a public event, so please feel free!