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SPCA, MARKET STREET GALLERY AND MESART.COM
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Nothing But Dogs and Cats art show/benefit is a collaborative effort to promote local artists whose imagery includes dogs and cats and support the San Francisco SPCA. Hosted by Market Street Gallery and promoted by MesArt.com the event features eight Bay Area artists. The show includes works by Xavier Viramontes, a well-known local printmaker, well known to his friends for helping stray cats, and seven other local artists: Linda Lee Boyd, Robert Brokl, Sylvia Buettner, Gabriele Bungardt, Art Hzaelwood, Peggy Jane Murray and Sarah Young.
The Nothing But Dogs and Cats show will mark the first fundraising event of the 140th Year of the San Francisco SPCA, a nonprofit animal welfare organization. Every year the SPCA finds homes for thousands of cats and dogs. Animals awaiting adoption live in a cozy, homelike setting. They get top quality medical care, socialization, exercise and training.
This show is "very exciting for me" says Ron Newman, owner of Market Street Gallery, "it brings together the opportunity to show great art and make a contribution to the welfare of the many needy animals that walk the streets of San Francisco and eventually end up in the care of the SPCA”. Mr. Newman, a cat lover, is donating 25% of the proceeds of sales from the show to the SPCA.
MesArt.com an on-line art hosting business is donating time, money and energy to promote the Nothing But Dogs and Cats show. Tatiana Lyskova, Managing Director of MesArt.com also speaks enthusiastically about planning art shows "as events that not only support artists but also the community".
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