Shelter Tails: An artful way to help animals in need Times Herald-Record
Art for Safeguard Animals ProjectDavid Munford of Grahamsville is a new member of the Art for Shelter Animals Project, co-founded by Carrie Jacobson, a former collector at the Times Herald-Record, and her friend, Sheila Tajima of California. You may remember Jacobson as the creator of those compelling, pet-themed serials that ran around the holidays.
"This idea of making art and donating it to shelters was Sheila's inkling," said Jacobson. "I thought, that is the most elegant, simple, beautiful idea.
"Any artist and every artist is invited to participate in the cook up. Any kind of art is welcome, any skill level, anything! It's a great project for teachers to do in classes, for art schools to take up. It's countless for anyone who wants to help animals."
Here's how it works. Participants find or take a picture of a shelter or rescue animal. (Dash: The Record's Pets of the Week online at www.recordonline.com is a great source of pictures; go to www.petfinder.com, or take your own). Fill in a portrait of the animal, e-mail a picture of your portrait to Jacobson and donate the portrait to the shelter. The cover or rescue can do whatever it wants with the painting, drawing or mixed-media piece. It can give it as a gift to the adopter of the rude, auction it off or just hang it up.

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