I mostly follow visual artists on Twitter and haven’t got around to following as many musicians. Many of the artists are very community-minded.
David Sandum is one of those artists– a painter living in Norway. Last year, he and several other artists talked about exhibiting work by artists on Twitter in a public setting. David read in a local paper that funding was cut for the library’s needed books and he called out to artists everywhere to help raise funds by submitting small pieces to display and sell at $32 each. Read more about it on his Posterous site.
I was late to notice the prompt for submitting pieces, but I told him I had a library drawing that suited the occasion and mailed it out. Several times a year, I’ll come across an article about paperless taking over paper and killing physical libraries as we know them. My drawing is a quick sketch of a local library that I frequent. My favorite thing about the picture is that the wooden sign out front is in the shape of a tombstone.
Some 240 pieces were submitted for the exhibit and 112 sold, raising over $3,800. I was delighted to hear that my drawing was one of the sellers. Some of the remaining pieces are in process of going on permanent display throughout the library. See photos of the wall with art hanging.
It was wonderful to watch David develop this cause and see it unfold amongst this online art community.
