Sale of CU artists' prints, Dec. 6-7, will benefit environmental group

Leigh Craven '01, a fine arts major, displays a self-portrait that will be part of the fourth annual Holiday Art Show and Sale in Tjaden Hall, Dec. 6 and 7. Frank DiMeo/University Photography

Original art created and donated by Cornell students and faculty will be on sale Dec. 6 and 7 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. in Tjaden Hall on campus.

The fourth annual Holiday Art Show and Sale offers a selection of prints -- most by fine arts undergraduates but including a few by graduate students and visiting faculty. The prints will be priced from $15 to $60. The art show and sale will take place in Tjaden's first floor hallway, by the gallery.

Associate Professor Elisabeth Haly Meyer, the exhibition's chief organizer, said, "Holiday shoppers have an incredible opportunity to purchase original art for less than the cost of mass produced posters and at the same time support a great cause." Students will select this year's beneficiary in December. Meyer has proposed profits go to primatologist and A.D. White Professor at Large Jane Goodall's Roots & Shoots, which has a branch at Cornell.

Meyer began the annual sale four years ago as a way to involve young student artists in helping society and giving back to the community. "I wanted it to be a model for teaching students about social responsibility," she said.

Last year, the sale raised more than $2,000 for Marian Wright Edelman's Children's Defense Fun, a national organization supporting disadvantaged young people. Other past recipients have been the international organization Doctors Without Borders and Hospicare of Tompkins County.

On sale this year will be about 90 prints -- etchings, monoprints, silk-screens and lithographs -- from more than 60 student and faculty exhibitors. For more information, contact Meyer at 255-6721 or ehm2@cornell.edu.