Happy Holidays to you & yours!! All of us at PVA are deeply grateful for your continued support of the Arts in our community.
2020 certainly surprised us with obstacles we had never imagined. We hope that you have weathered the challenges that may have come your way and perhaps discovered new (or old) creative interests & skills.
During this historic and unprecedented year PVA volunteers and staff continued to fulfill our mission despite the many challenges. Like you, we explored, learned and utilized technological “tools” that we were unfamiliar with before the pandemic.
To help compensate for the loss of in-person experiences and encourage people to use art and creativity to cope with the stress of the pandemic, we shifted to offer new online events, set up online galleries, learned to use Zoom & Facebook to deliver art events & experiences. We collaborated more closely than ever before with several wonderful community organizations to reach a wider audience. We discovered that live Art Salons, via Zoom, were often better attended than those we had previously offered in person (in the limited space of our Gallery.) We invited artists and poets from a wide geographic area as presenters and guests in online workshops combining art, poetry & dance, these too were deeply inspiring and very well attended.
