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IUSB Center for a Sustainable Future Rain Barrel Auction Project - Featuring Artist, Kathleen Petitjean

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Rain Barrel Auction Website (Goodrich)

Rain Barrel Project Update: Artist Profile

  Kathleen Petitjean 

(Underwritten by: Lawson-Fisher Associates)
Mark your calendar for the Auction at the South Bend Museum of Art at 7:00 p.m. on Friday, May 6, 2011.  

This is a **FREE** event, open to the public.  Groups will be on hand to share information about Rain Barrels and water conservation. 

At least two unpainted barrels will also be given away in a free drawing.

 The aim is to raise awareness of water as a natural resource and show homeowners how to save money and protect the St. Joe River by capturing rain water.

Evening wear and garden gloves recommended but not required. 

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Over the last several months, we (the St. Joseph County Soil & Water Conservation District) have been sending "mini-features" on a community rain barrel project that will culminate on Friday, May 6, 2011 with a Rain Barrel Auction... The project is being organized by Kathleen Petitjean, a Fellow with IU South Bend's Center for a Sustainable Future.   

Check out Part 16 in this series below:

Written by Kathleen Petitjean: 

 Although most of my professional artwork is pen and ink, I love an opportunity to pick up a paintbrush and play with colors.  In addition to being an artist, I work as an Occupational Therapist with schoolchildren with special needs.  My “green” activism also keeps me busy with projects with the city of South Bend, Oxfam America and the League of Women Voters.

The Fellowship for this Rain Barrel project was granted to me last summer by IUSB’s Center for a Sustainable Future just as I was leaving for my first visit to Ireland.  Knowing I would be painting one of the barrels, I carried my sketchbook on my trip and allowed the art and natural beauty of Ireland to infuse my work.  My artistic goal was to create an image depicting the dependence on water for all life on Earth. 

“Interlace”, the national signature style of Ireland in which bands of motif are intertwined, seemed a natural fit for my design. In Dublin, I was intrigued by the illuminations in the 1200-year–old Book of Kells, and the weaving of ancient Celtic designs with the relatively new stories of Christianity.   From these beginnings, I added our scientific understandings of the development of life on Earth to a work of art I hope serves as a gentle reminder for us to respect the resource we all need for survival; water.

To learn more about Kathleen, visit her website at http://www.quillpenstudio.com/.

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Visit the Auctioneer/Underwriter, Goodrich Auction Company's website to view all 12 painted barrels and to learn more about the Auction at http://www.auction-info.com/viewauction.asp?AuctionID=406

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 Have you missed the previous Parts of our Series on the Rain Barrel Original Art Project?

You can catch up by clicking the links below:


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 Kathleen Petitjean is a Pediatric Occupational Therapist with the South Bend Schools, as well as a locally known artist. She received her Master of Liberal Studies degree from IU South Bend and currently serves on the South Bend Green Ribbon Commission. In order to bring greater awareness to how precious our water supply is, and how we can use it in a more sustainable fashion, she will work with other local artists to create rain barrels out of recycled Coke syrup barrels, and then decorate them with artistic designs. The decorated rain barrels will be auctioned off to local businesses and residences at a Center fundraiser in the spring. Early press on this event began in October, 2010. Read more here.

 

This project is being underwritten by:

Barnaby’s of South Bend
  • The Beehive Salon
  • Coca Cola Bottling Co of Indiana
    • Foegley Landscape Company
  • Gary Mester, Master Photographer
  • Goodrich Auction Company
    • Just Goods
    • Martin’s Supermarkets  
    • Lawson-Fisher Associates
  • Lochmandy Collision Center
    • Purple Porch Co-op
    • Red Hen Turf Farm
  • Cathy Romano
  • Teachers and Therapists of the Special Needs and Abilities Preschool of the South Bend Community School Corporation
  • The Troyer Group
    • If you or your company is interested in becoming an underwriter for this project, you can contact Kathleen Petitjean directly by email at petitk712 (at) gmail.com or contact the St. Joseph County SWCD Office at 574-291-7444 ext. 3. 

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    IUSB Center for a Sustainable Future Rain Barrel Auction Project - Featuring Artist, Jill Wygant LaFountain

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    Rain Barrel Project Update: Artist Profile

      Jill Wygant LaFountain 

    (Underwritten by: Just Goods
    See it at: 714 East Jefferson Boulevard )
    Mark your calendar for the Auction at the
    South Bend Museum of Art at 7:00 p.m. on Friday, May 6, 2011.  

    This is a **FREE** event, open to the public.  Groups will be on hand to share information about Rain Barrels and water conservation. 

    At least two unpainted barrels will also be given away in a free drawing.

     The aim is to raise awareness of water as a natural resource and show homeowners how to save money and protect the St. Joe River by capturing rain water.

    Evening wear and garden gloves recommended but not required. 

    ~ ~ ~ ~~

    Over the last few several months, we (the St. Joseph County Soil & Water Conservation District) have been sending "mini-features" on a community rain barrel project that will culminate on Friday, May 6, 2011 with a Rain Barrel Auction... The project is being organized by Kathleen Petitjean, a Fellow with IU South Bend's Center for a Sustainable Future.   

    Check out Part 15 in this series below:

    Written by Jill Wygant LaFountain: 

     Ever since I was a young child I have loved creating things with my hands and expressing myself through art.  Having worked in several mediums, I find I have a certain knack for photography but do enjoy painting with acrylics.
    Up until now, all of my paintings have been for my pleasure.  This is the first time I have been tasked with trying to convey an important message with my artwork. For months this barrel sat, primed and ready to receive its colors. As I searched for inspiration, I started to think about what the barrel would hold; this life source we, as a country, tend to take for granted.  I thought of those who thirst and the feeling of having that thirst quenched. I imagined diving into an ocean of water to escape the heat.  I thought of the water that drenches my husband's garden, helping the plants to stand a little taller; refreshed, revived and healthy! Keeping those feelings in mind I began to paint without any plan or picture, I just let the paint swirl and move until the barrel was covered with my vision of water.
    I am humbled to have been asked to paint a rain barrel for this important project and to be among this group of amazingly talented local artists.  With my rain barrel, I hope for these things; that you gain a greater appreciation of our natural resource of water, you will work to conserve and protect it and that you will share your knowledge with others.  In addition to these things, I hope my rain barrel brings you pleasure when you look at it!  
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    Visit the Auctioneer/Underwriter, Goodrich Auction Company's website to view all 12 painted barrels and to learn more about the Auction at http://www.auction-info.com/viewauction.asp?AuctionID=406

    ~ ~ ~ ~~

     Have you missed the previous Parts of our Series on the Rain Barrel Original Art Project?

    You can catch up by clicking the links below:


    ~ ~ ~ ~~

     Kathleen Petitjean is a Pediatric Occupational Therapist with the South Bend Schools, as well as a locally known artist. She received her Master of Liberal Studies degree from IU South Bend and currently serves on the South Bend Green Ribbon Commission. In order to bring greater awareness to how precious our water supply is, and how we can use it in a more sustainable fashion, she will work with other local artists to create rain barrels out of recycled Coke syrup barrels, and then decorate them with artistic designs. The decorated rain barrels will be auctioned off to local businesses and residences at a Center fundraiser in the spring. Early press on this event began in October, 2010. Read more here.

     

    This project is being underwritten by:

    Barnaby’s of South Bend
  • The Beehive Salon
  • Coca Cola Bottling Co of Indiana
    • Foegley Landscape Company
  • Gary Mester, Master Photographer
  • Goodrich Auction Company
    • Just Goods
    • Martin’s Supermarkets  
    • Lawson-Fisher Associates
  • Lochmandy Collision Center
    • Purple Porch Co-op
    • Red Hen Turf Farm
  • Cathy Romano
  • Teachers and Therapists of the Special Needs and Abilities Preschool of the South Bend Community School Corporation
  • The Troyer Group
    • If you or your company is interested in becoming an underwriter for this project, you can contact Kathleen Petitjean directly by email at petitk712 (at) gmail.com or contact the St. Joseph County SWCD Office at 574-291-7444 ext. 3. 

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    St. Joseph County Soil & Water Conservation District
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    Ste 4
    South Bend, IN 46614

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