“Bears and Squares” Projects Celebrates 100 Years With Unique Artistry
--Crowd Sourced Artwork Goes On Sale for Scholarship Fund--
Harcum students, faculty, and community members have already made an impressive offering to the growing collection of artwork that is to be auctioned off this coming September to raise money for the Centennial Scholarship Fund. The project– in accordance with its namesake– specifically involves artwork done on 10x10 inch canvas squares that the college has distributed to any volunteers, and on sizeable plaster bear statues that have been awarded to promising artists.
Bears and Squares” has reached a great number of artists outside of the Harcum family. Substantial contributions have been made by art students at Lower Merion High School and by residents of the Dunwoody Village retirement community.
The bears that have been submitted are truly marvelous in the range of techniques, themes, and styles employed. People will be able to see everything from a bear with artificial foliage and a working light embedded in it’s stomach, to a bear covered from head to toe in pieces of an actual beehive. Artists of the canvas squares have taken the prompt of showing “possibilities” and expressed the idea in a similarly dazzling number of ways, including three-dimensional textile collages, representative acrylic paintings, abstract riots of color, and much, much more.
A Bears & Squares Preview Party will be held on September 10, from 4-8 p.m., where all artwork will be displayed. After that, an online auction will feature all items available for bidding at harcum.afrogs.org. Bids will be accepted through October 22. All proceeds benefit the Harcum Centennial Scholarship Fund.
The online auction will also include fragrances and candles from Harcum’s own Scentennial collection, engineered by Dr. Alexandra Hilosky and her General Chemistry Class.