It is almost Art Jury Day!! We on the art for life team have been super busy getting ready for our jury to meet and decide which pieces will make it into the auction (both the live and the silent). I wrote last week that we are at 125 submissions, and in just a week we are up to one hundred and fifty seven, with around twenty pieces still to come in before Tuesday. I don’t envy our jury’s job—they have to whittle that down to around 80-90 pieces total, with only 20-25 in the live auction. While they get ready to make those hard choices next week, I have gotten the fun task of looking at all of these artists work and creating a PowerPoint and binders for each juror.

I have genuinely enjoyed working on each artists biography, and working to edit their information. One of the major things that I have learned this summer is how thriving the visual arts scene is in Columbus, with a huge amount of professional artists that are willing to donate their work to raise money for Equitas Health. (I’m especially excited for next week when I can include some of their work once it has been announced that it has been accepted.)

As we head into the final weeks of the summer, I am ramping up to start our social media content for Facebook, with each of the artists’ work and biography showcased on our page.  I am so excited to see the event approaching and start to come together! Everyone that I’ve spoken with at our lead up events has been incredibly excited to (a) get out of their houses after COVID and (b) support Art for Life and our mission to promote LGBTQ inclusive healthcare and provide HIV/AIDS resources.