Two Arts – EBSNS Virtual Exhibit 2020 – Part 16 – Fund-raiser

As the EBSNS has already announced, the society has cancelled its 2020 Annual General Meeting because of the public health restrictions in place due to the covid-19 pandemic. As a result, the Echoes of Elizabeth Bishop Gallery exhibit for 2020 has been done virtually. This year’s exhibit, “Two Arts,”  is comprised of twelve Elizabeth Bishop inspired drawings by Minsk, Belarus, artist Natallia Povaliayeva. She has kindly agreed to let the EBSNS offer prints of her drawings as a fund-raiser for the society. All the images are found below this notice. To see the whole list of images together, go to the “Two Arts” page (the link is on the right side of this page).

TERMS OF OFFER

The society offers one framed print of each drawing (12x15 inches) and five unframed (matted) prints of each drawing (10x13 inches). Each framed print costs $50.00. Each unframed (matted) print costs $25.00, plus postage.

Because the cost of mailing the framed prints outside of Nova Scotia would be high, the framed prints are reserved for interested Nova Scotians. The unframed (matted) prints can be mailed anywhere in the world.

If you are interested in purchasing one of the images, please contact Laurie Gunn at laurieegunn@ns.sympatico.ca or Sandra Barry at slbarry@ns.sympatico.ca to discuss payment options and the cost of postage.

Because these times are strange and disrupted for us all, we ask for and deeply appreciate your patience as we work through this virtual fund-raiser process. The prints are quite real, but it will take time for us to get them mailed. We hope that the Nova Scotians who want one of the framed prints might be willing to pick it up at some point, once the pandemic restrictions have eased, but delivery options can also be discussed.

This exhibit would have hung in the church in Great Village until September 2020, so we will keep it and the fund-raiser active on the blog through the summer of 2020.

Thank you for your interest and support.

Addendum: Blogger Bob Maher has made note of "Two Arts" in a recent post on his most interesting blog which covers many subjects, not the least of which is our connection to place and space. He has mentioned Bishop a number of times over the past couple of years and he and his wife attended the EBSNS AGM in 2019. You can read what he writes in this recent post here. Thanks, Bob, for giving "Two Arts" and EB this interesting commentary.