REQUEST FOR HELP FROM THE LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF ART:
Animation Co-op member Dori Littell Herrick (Animation Chair at Woodbury University in Burbank) sends the following appeal for help from Stuart Baron, Director of the Louisiana State University School of Art:
[color=#400040]Dear Colleagues,[/color]
[color=#400040]I am asking for your help in the ongoing efforts to aid the people of New Orleans and Louisiana. Here in Baton Rouge we have a great need for art supplies for the evacuees who are being housed and educated in the city and at LSU. We have four cohorts in desperate need of supplies: children and adults now living in shelters throughout the Baton Rouge area, children who are entering the public schools whose budgets are currently overtaxed and overwhelmed by the doubling of enrolled students, college art students from New Orleans now enrolled at the School of Art at LSU, and professional artists who have lost not only their supplies but their life's work. The East Baton Rouge Parish School System is a separate entity and one that I cannot speak for, but the others are those that I can directly reach in this effort. [/color]
[color=#400040]Any art supplies, especially drawing pads, sketchbooks, pencils, markers, watercolor sets, crayons, charcoal, printmaking supplies, sculpture tools, papers, rulers, t-squares, and anything else that is not toxic or dangerous (e.g. oil paint chemicals) is sought to give these souls ways to express their feelings and impressions of this unmatched national tragedy as well as diversion and solace in their uprooted circumstances. [/color]
[color=#400040]Of course, any gift in kind to the University has tax benefits, but your heartfelt willingness to help us in this time of abject need will not go unappreciated or publicly unnoticed. I cannot possibly explain to you the depth of hardship that now exists and the necessity for life-sustaining support. Art is such a powerful means of achieving those true expressions of loss, fear, confusion, grief, and, most importantly, hope, which words alone cannot convey. No donation would be too small. Please, please help us by providing what you can. This is only one form of positive intervention, coming quickly from the entire country, that will enable the people and artists of the greater New Orleans area and Mississippi to sustain any possibility of a future whatsoever. [/color]
[color=#400040]Respectfully, [/color]
[color=#400040]Stuart Baron [/color]
[color=#400040]Director, School of Art [/color]
[color=#8080c0][color=#400040]Louisiana State University [/color][/color]
Donated supplies may be dropped off at Woodbury University, 7500 Glenoaks Blvd., Burbank CA, 91510. Please label your box or bag with the contents. If you wish to make a cash contribution to this effort, please make your check payable to "Woodbury University" with "LSU art supplies" written in the memo line. All checks should be mailed directly to Dori Littell Herrick at the Woodbury University address listed above.
[I]Kevin Geiger
Director & Co-founder
The Animation Co-op
http://www.animationcoop.org/[/I]
