More painting possible at Iowa City nonprofit thanks to giving campaign

IOWA CITY, Iowa (KCRG) – Iowa Metropolis nonprofit United Motion for Youth has hundreds of extra {dollars} of artwork provides due to a giving marketing campaign at a neighborhood enterprise.

In the course of the vacation season on the finish of 2022, the Blick retailer just some blocks away from UAY’s Youth Middle requested clients in the event that they needed to make a donation to the nonprofit. The shop ended up gathering about 500 donations, totaling near $14,000.

That’s far, far bigger than the nonprofit’s artwork finances, which is “round $1,000 a 12 months,” based on Lauren Linahon, Arts Program Coordinator UAY.

“It hasn’t actually sunk in but,” Linahon stated. “Like, I haven’t cried but.”

She added their usually small finances means “we now have to, like, lock up the great things, what I imply?”

“We have now to maintain the canvases away for, like, a particular workshop, or we now have to, like, conceal the great markers, what I imply? And so now with this donation, we’re going to have the ability to have all these items out. And we’re not going to have to love, fear about, , not having one thing,” Linahon stated.

The giving marketing campaign at Blick for UAY has been happening for a number of years, nevertheless it’s by no means collected this amount of cash.

12-year-old Fenix Slemmons was one of many children on the Youth Middle when TV9 visited Saturday. They stated they go to UAY “three or two instances every week” and portray is among the issues they do after they go to.

“With artwork, it’s actually good to love distract your thoughts off of issues,” Slemmons stated.

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