Gallery Blu

1633 N 3rd St

Harrisburg, PA 17102

(717) 234-3009

"Embracing Community Through Art"

Thank you voters and readers of Harrisburg Magazine

Gallery Blu
1633 N 3rd St
Harrisburg, PA 17102
United States
ph: 717-234-3009
christina@galleryblu.org

Thanks to the fantastic artists who donated their artwork and to the art-buying public who helped make this all possible.

Gallery Blu is pleased to be able to continue to "Embrace Community Through Art".

Sweet Salvation 100 for $100

An art benefit for the Salvation Army beginning on February 12, 2010 at 7 PM

Bidding continues through Friday, February 26 at 7 PM. Stop in to place a bid or you may call the gallery during business hours at 717-234-3009 to check the status of your bid. You may also email the gallery at christina@galleryblu.org

100 pieces of art from well known local and regional artists will available by silent auction with bids starting at $100.00.

The goal is to raise $10,000.00 to support our local Salvation Army

A Message from Jim Woland

"One of my favorite things about living in Midtown is all the creative people. Right up the street from me is a terriffic photographer, bass player; in the same building is the guy who wrote the definitive book on Harrisburg architecture and architects, a working artist lives over on Herr St. and another up in Capitol Heights. Several years ago, those of us involved with Friends of Midtown decided to "brand" Midtown as an arts friendly area, and now we have the Stage on Herr, the Midtown Scholar and Gallery Blu.... it seems some people took us seriously. We coulda been politicians, we believed our own lies....thank goodness, they were GOOD lies.

So the area has REALLY BECOME artist friendly....performing artists are on the stages in Midtown and visual artists are on the walls of Midtown. Like the new head of the National Endowment for the Arts, Rocco Landsman says., "Art Works".

Art certainly works in Midtown. Several years ago we asked 62 artists to DO LUNCH by painting lunch boxes to help raise money for the Salvation Army and "Loaves of Love", a program of Harris St. Church. Artists worked creating original lunch boxes and over $6,000.00 was raised to support food missions of both organizations.

Christina Heintzelman-Jones, of Gallery Blu, and I are putting Art to Work once again, hoping to raise over $10,000.00 for the Salvation Army located in our neighborhood on Green St. During these tough economic times the line for breakfast at the Salvation Army is getting longer and longer. Artists like Mary Lundeen and Steve Wetzel and Robert Stadnycki have agreed to participte in "SWEET SALVATION 100 for $100". We'll be opening the show at Gallery Blu with at least 100 original Art Works, which will be available in silent auction for a starting bid of only $100.00. Feel free to bid more than that, but imagine being able to walk away owning an original Bruce Johnson or Li Hidley for $100.00. Art Works and you and the Salvation Army Win. The show begins Friday, February 12 at Gallery Blu and runs for two weeks when the bidding ends".