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It’s whimsically being billed as the “Get Your Goat” exhibit and reception, but the July 25 event at an Allied Arts Guild studio is a way to get your art fix and at the same time help Nepalese girls get educated and liberated.
Twelve artists have donated work with a goat theme for the event, from 1 to 3 p.m. at the Art Fun for Everyone Studio at Allied Arts, 75 Arbor Road in Menlo Park.
The show, organized by studio owner and artist Mary Kay Fitzgerald Kew, is a fundraiser for a program sponsored by the Nepalese Youth Opportunity Foundation, which raises money to give goats to destitute families of young girls in the Tharu region of Nepal, and to educate the girls.
In exchange for the goat, the families commit to abandoning the practice of selling their daughters as indentured servants.
Ms. Kew traveled to Nepal, Nicaragua, and Mexico, working with kids in after-school programs, for three years after retiring as an art therapist, she says.
She established her Allied Arts studio, near the old barn, in January as a way of helping the people of the countries she lived in during those years. Artwork, textiles, metalwork and woodcut block prints made by artisans in those countries are sold, benefiting the artisans, she says.
The Saturday reception is open to all. Ms. Kew says she will offer coffee and some Nepalese “bites.”
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