A recent watercolor painting by artist and art historian Lynda A. N. Reyes was juried into the Brand38 Annual National Juried Exhibition.   The exhibition, which is organized and set up by Associates of the Brand Library & Art Center, features works on paper that revolve around the theme “Beginnings”.  It will be held from September 19 to October 23 at the Brand Library Art Galleries, the art and music division of the Glendale Public Library.  The artists' reception and awards ceremony, which is open to the public, will take place on Saturday, October 3 from 5 to 8 pm.

Reyes' watercolor entry, titled “Structure Rising”, was selected from over 700 entries submitted by 305 artists from all over the United States.  The show is comprised of eighty works on paper in a variety of media, including photography, drawings, watercolors and mixed media works, such various print techniques as etchings, linocuts, lithographs and monotypes, etc. The juror of the exhibit is Ruth Weisberg, an internationally renowned artist and the Dean of the Roski School of Fine Arts at the University of Southern California.  Her works are found in 65 major museums and university collections such as the Bibliotheque Nationale of France, Paris; the Instituto Nationale per la Grafica, Rome; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Whitney Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

BURBANK - Kamay at Puso (KAP), a.k.a. Hand and Heart--an award-winning charity organization--announced today that it is turning to popular social networking sites, Twitter and Facebook, for their latest fundraising campaign which will aid UNICEF’s relief effort in the Philippines following the devastating category Typhoon Ondoy (Ketsana) that hit the nation’s capital last Sep 28.

Through the use of Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube viral videos, KAP hopes to tap into the potential power in numbers, calling to the millions of Facebook and Twitter subscribers to pledge donations as low as $5 USD.  KAP titles this latest online campaign What Would Abe Do (W.W.A.D.) which urges online members to donate their five-dollar bill on the Oct. 15 Tweet-a-thon. All funds collected that day on the Kamay at Puso Donation Page will go towards UNICEF’s Typhoon Relief Effort.