Exciting stuff for sure

Well here I am trying this blog thing out again, I know some of you out there have an instant update thing for my site, so I am going to try and keep up with you all and give you something worth reading, or looking at anyways (o:

This particular blog posting is in regards to something I have recently had one of my art pieces accepted into. I had submitted the piece added here to a local non-profit organization event called Timeraiser and what they do is they raise volunteer time to local organizations that really need the help. So as opposed to a typical fundraiser which I often donate work to, this particular group auctions off artwork which their select jury has chosen and instead of auctioning for money, they auction the artwork for volunteer hours, at the end of the said winners volunteer time has been fully spent at the organization which they have donated to, that person gets to keep the artwork they literally "worked" for. I am very impressed with this idea and love this concept a lot. This year is my first time working with Timeraiser and I am very pleased to be doing so. At first when I found out where the event will be taking place I could not think of anything else but to post it on facebook right away, and in doing so I had not given the proper acknowledgement to Timeraiser as I should have. The event is being held at The National Art Gallery Here in Ottawa, which is a big thing to have work in by any Canadian artist, even if it is for one event which will probably last only one evening, and this is how I had advertised my acceptance on facebook, by stating that my work will be in the National Art Gallery of Canada. This is a true statement as I will have artwork there, but the point of my writing this is to give full respect, support and promotion to TIMERAISER and their select jury for choosing my artwork and honoring me with such a great opportunity to help local non profit organizations and to be a part of this really great event.

Mind you, as an artist, I will still flaunt with the idea that my artwork Will in fact be in The National Gallery Of Canada, even if just for a day and I only have TIMERAISER to thank for this, So thank you again for such a wonderful opportunity Timeraiser, I look forward to this event and I will post all of the information for all of you out there once I receive it. It will be an event you wont want to miss.

DM