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Students created “alebrijes” — fantasy creatures in Mexican folk art — and are selling them to raise money for student scholarships. They are at Shari Brownfield Fine Art.
Students created “alebrijes” — fantasy creatures in Mexican folk art — and are selling them to raise money for student scholarships. They are at Shari Brownfield Fine Art.
More than three dozen wildly colored beasts of myth will inhabit Shari Brownfield Fine Art starting this week, as the “Creatures for a Cause: Student Art & Mexican Myth” exhibit opens to the public.
The collection of “alebrijes” — fantasy creatures long celebrated in Mexican folk art — were made by area high school students and previously exhibited in the National Museum of Wildlife Art’s show of student work. Shari Brownfield, founder and owner of the fine art advisory and appraisal firm and gallery, admitted to being stunned when she first saw these works.
“I went to the museum,” she said, “and often I don’t actually venture into that corner room, but I happened to this time and I was just blown away. I must have taken 50 photos. I was with another art colleague of mine, and we were both like, ‘Are you kidding? This is student work? This is amazing.’”
Aware that the majority of art made by young people ends up being packed away at best or discarded at worst, Brownfield felt the urge to do something to make sure these pieces would continue to be seen and enjoyed. She reached out to art teacher Gabriel Lopez, whose students created the alebrijes, to see if there would be interest in displaying them in a more commercial setting.
“We started brainstorming a little bit, and I asked him to put the question forth to the students, ‘How do they want to do this?’” Brownfield said. “Do they want to make the money themselves? Do they want to do a fundraiser? He brought it to the students, and they were at first mixed, but in the end — and I love this — they voted to pay it forward. It was just before Teton County Scholarships night, and they were all like, ‘You know what? Let’s sell these and put the proceeds toward future scholarships.’”
Proceeds from the sale of these pieces will go toward the Fund for Public Education and Teton County scholarships. Brownfield said this experience has inspired her to create a new fund of her own, the Shari Brownfield Art Impact Scholarship, which will be open to Teton County high school students.
“My belief system is that art can transform lives, that visual arts has the power to heal, transform,” Brownfield said. “And so the prompt for my scholarship will be: ‘How have the visual arts impacted your life in some fashion? What was an experience that you’ve had?’ And it’s just to have people thinking creatively about art and how it touches their lives.”
One person has already committed $1,500 to the fund, she said.
“Creatures for a Cause: Student Art & Mexican Myth” is on display through June 6, with a free reception with the artists from 4-7 p.m. on Thursday. Pieces are priced as low as $40. For more information call 307-413-9262 or visit ShariBrownfield.com online. 
Contact Michael Carmody via valley@jhnewsandguide.com.
Creatures for a Cause: Student Art & Mexican Myth exhibit
Artist reception 4-7 p.m. Thursday
Shari Brownfield Fine Art
On display through June 6
Pieces are priced as low as $40
ShariBrownfield.com
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