Music and art aid Save the Children

NEW HARTFORD — The Saturday, May 16, art and music show in the Hurley Building, the former location of the Ovation Guitar factory, was organized by husband and wife Peter and Christine Greenwood as a benefit for the Save the Children Foundation.  

 “I’ve wanted to do this for a long time to get artists together to show their work and participate in donating to the foundation,” Christine Greenwood said.

She asked building owner David Hurley for the space to hold the show.

“The idea was to get local artists and restaurants to donate the sale proceeds,” Greenwood said. “We are very appreciative that Dave generously donated the space to us for no charge.”

Roger Bowie, a local welder, who takes home scrap metal for his art, showed his metalized mannequins to visitor.

Bowie said the mannequins had meanings behind them.

“This first one shows the media’s idea of a woman, the next one is the mother, sitting on top of the martyr who regrets life,” Bowie said. “The third piece shows what a woman is really like, she’s curvy and the gears in the head show that she’s a thinker.”

Another artist, painter Georges Annan Kingsley, was born in Africa. One of his paintings on display was called “The Mystic Eye.”

“The Mystic Eye is what you call in Africa an eye which can see beyond,” Kingsley said, 

Various bands played at the event, including soul and funk band Soul Tsunami.