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The NEPA Animal Welfare Collaborative and the Scranton Area Community Foundation are thrilled to team up with the AFA Gallery for Artists for Animals, a special exhibit that highlights the value, personality, and spirit of the animals in our local shelters, rescues, and sanctuaries. We are asking each shelter/rescue/sanctuary in the NEPA Animal Welfare Collaborative to select up to four (4) animals currently within their care and email their images by Monday, May 2nd to Nora Kern at Nora@safdn.org Artists for Animals will commission a special series of artwork from regional artists based on real animals in local shelters, rescues, and sanctuaries. Pieces from this series will be made available for sale, with all funds donated to the NEPA Animal Welfare Collaborative to support our efforts to improve the welfare of animals in the region.

Artists for Animals

Exhibit Dates: Friday, June 3rd through Saturday, July 9th. Location: AFA Gallery (101 Penn Ave, Scranton PA, 18503).

Exhibit Description: The artists will capture the animals’ aesthetics by utilizing their own unique creative styles, their history, personality, and “spirit” on the canvas. Information on the animal’s past, personality, etc. can be provided at a later date. In addition to an open call to all AFA Gallery members in good standing for 2D or 3D works, AFA is commissioning several artists (covering supplies and stipend for their time) to create large 2D works (30 x 40 canvases) based on images and descriptions of the animals the shelters and rescues will provide.
Thank you so much for supporting this unique project that highlights the beauty and personality of animals in shelters, rescues and sanctuaries in NEPA! Please submit images of up to four (4) animals currently within your care by Monday, May 2nd to Nora Kern at nora@safdn.org so that they will be featured in this exciting exhibit and fundraiser for the NEPA Animal Welfare Collaborative.
The NEPA Animal Welfare Collaborative is a project of The Scranton Area Community Foundation. Established in 2019, the NEPA Animal Welfare Collaborative is a collective of animal shelters, rescues, advocates, and sanctuaries in the region that are interested in coming together to advance various causes in animal welfare and to increase the collective resources available to these agencies. Activities of the collaborative include education, professional development, fundraising and other practices that move the goals of the collaborative forward. The Scranton Area Community Foundation serves as the convener of the NEPA Animal Welfare Collaborative.
To learn more, please visit nepaawc.org.