The second-annual Goat Money fine art exhibition and silent auction takes place at the Baron Gallery in Gastown, Nov. 8.
Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»artists donate their work, while the proceeds from the event go towards helping the small village of Olkoroi, Kenya, through the Naretoi Community Projects Society, which was started and maintained by Langara College instructor Catherine Glass.
The name Goat Money comes from a fundraising effort by one of her students at a birthday party in 2010guests dropped pocket change into a jar that had a hand-drawn picture of a goat on it. The money was enough to buy a goat for the village. That effort evolved into the first Goat Money art auction in 2011.
Previews for the second-annual exhibition are scheduled from noon until 6 p.m., Nov. 7 and 8, while the silent auction runs from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m., Nov. 8.
Featured artists include Saul L. Miller, Robyn Lake, Jimmy Liang, Jonathan Erickson, Jan Little, Erica Wilk, Randy Grskovic, Jenny Long, Andy Dixon, Sarah Gee and Michelle Stoney.
Chris Johnson makes his artist debut at the event. Photographs by Johnson, a senior product manager with Glacier Media Digital and a longtime friend and colleague of the Courier, depict the regions natural beauty and often focus on birds and flowers.
The Baron Gallery is located at 293 Columbia St.
See barongallery.ca for more information.
