I've been working on ensuring we have a guest speaker at every meeting this year. In January we had our own Jaycee Jeff Lank talk to us about how to recruit people into the Jaycees. As always Jeff was wonderful! This month I have booked a newly local artist Anne Jenkins. (Please see following press release.) In March we will have performance life coach Fred Melichore. I have also spoken to some other people about coming to speak to us including: a representative of the National Popular Vote, a real estate broker, and a senator. President Liz has given me another lead on someone that does personality assessments. My goal this year is to really draw in our membership and the general public (who hopefully will become members) with some knowledgeable and entertaining guest speakers!
ANNE JENKINS ART GALLERY
127 NW Front Street, Milford, DE 19963
Tel: (302) 393-6629 www.annejenkinsart.com
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: Anne Jenkins, artist owner
Tel (302) 393 6629
ARTIST PRESENTATION TO JAYCEES DOVER CHAPTER
Milford, Del. - Milford artist Anne Jenkins will give a presentation on The Vukusakhe Art Project, and The Bag of Hope, to the Jaycees Dover chapter on Monday, February 13. The group meets at 6:00pm at Fraizer's on the Waterfront at 9 E. Lockerman St. in Dover.
This exciting new project benefits AIDS orphans in South Africa and is a collaboration between artist, Anne Jenkins, and the Amandawe Support Group in KwaZulu Natal. The ladies in the support group create fabric landscapes and Jenkins incorporates them in to her art. The series is called "The Vukusakhe Project" because in Zulu this means 'standing up and doing it for yourself'.
"It's really spreading hope with every stitch ... and now, paint," Jenkins said. "We are truly a grassroots organization of women helping women."
Each piece will be on a 36x24 inch wooden panel. Jenkins attaches plexiglass dowels to the panel to support the fabric landscape above her painting. This will protect the fabric piece, keep it as an individual piece of art and will 'float' over her scene. Each completed piece will bear the signature of Jenkins and the designer of the fabric landscape.
Jenkins will have a couple of the completed pieces to display and discuss at the meeting. She will also have a sample of The Bags of Hope. The bags are also decorated with the fabric landscapes and was the original collaboration effort between Jenkins and the Amandawe group. The website is http://TheBagofHope.com.
Jenkins, a British citizen born and raised in South Africa, lived in six European countries for 25 years and traveled the world extensively before settling in the United States. New Orleans was Jenkins' adopted city for a few years until Hurricane Katrina. After Katrina, she owned a gallery & studio in Georgia before moving to Delaware in 2011.
A self-taught artist, her acrylics and watercolors can be found in many private collections in Europe, Japan, South Africa, Canada, all over the United States. Among her corporate clients are HBO and Universal Studios, Hollywood, Calif., the Ritz-Carlton at Lake Oconee, Ga.; Datacert Inc., Houston, Texas; TravelTalk Radio, San Diego, Calif., and Entergy Power Company, New Orleans, La. Jenkins has shown at some of the major shows in the nation, such as Bayou City in Houston, Texas, and Norcross Art Fest and Slotin's Art Festival in Atlanta, Ga. She participated in an invitation only show in Quebec, Canada in 2004 and spent three weeks as an artist in residence in Colorado in 2009. Her art is on display in a number of galleries in the South East. For information on Jenkins, call (302) 393-6629 or go to her website http://annejenkinsart.com
The Jaycees are The U.S. Junior Chamber Emerging Young Professionals group. Call Rachel Dunning (302) 670-7666 for more information on the Jaycees.
Rachel Dunning
