Art show fills Bread Basket
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RONAN — The artists may starve, but clients of the Ronan Bread Basket won’t after Willard’s Starving Artist Show and Silent Auction raised $1,540 in cash and collected 430 pounds (22 boxes) of canned goods and non-perishable foods for the local food bank.
Local artists Julie Moore, Craig Dulmes, Kathy Jaramillo and Tim Piedalue started the annual event four years ago as a way to introduce more people to their art and to benefit the community, each year picking a local charity to help.
“We’ve always had good luck,” Jaramillo said.
On Saturday, from noon on, patrons of Willard’s Bar were charged a “cover” of one donated food item for a chance to browse (and buy) photography by Moore, Dulmes and Jaramillo, as well as a variety of paintings by Moore, who owns Willard’s with her husband. She even painted a mountain scene for the Bread Basket using colors made entirely of food: basil for the trees, huckleberries for the purple mountains, and chocolate, spinach and cinnamon.
