12 September, 2006

The Friends of the Hunt Museum are organising a very special fundraising event for October 7th and 8th when the gallery will be filled with hundreds of postcard-sized works of art, which have been generously donated by artists from all over Ireland and other countries.

On those days, intending collectors may buy tickets in the museum for €50 each, which will then be exchanged in the gallery for the postcard of their choice. Each work of art is signed on the back, so that the identity of the artist will be revealed only when the purchase is completed. Each customer may buy up to four tickets at the outset.

The monies raised will go into the Hunt Museum Exhibition Fund. It will be used specifically to help the disadvantaged communities of the Mid-West with a special emphasis on children so that they can visit the Museum and enjoy its varied exhibitions, along with all its educational programmes.

This promises to be a really fun and exciting event when buyers will have the opportunity to acquire a desirable piece of art which might just prove be the work of a highly prestigious artist.

Amongst the hundreds of artists and writers who have already contributed, as we go to press are: Jack Donovan, Charles Harpur, Seamus Heaney, Rita Ann Higgins, Brendan Kenneally, Michael Longley, Cathal O’Searcaigh, Neil Showcross, Imogen Stuart, Martyn Turner, Gabriel Rosenstock, Maria Simmonds Gooding, Thomas Ryan, Donald Teskey, Walter Verling, Michael Viney, Nancy Wynn Jones.

A full list of artists and details of the event can be seen on The Hunt Museum website, www.huntmuseum.com or telephone/ fax 061-312960.

Friends of the Hunt Museum
Hunt the Postcard Sale
Saturday 7th October, 10am to 5pm
Sunday 8th October, 2pm to 5pm

Andy McCarthy
Friends of the Hunt Museum

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