Reported by Cassie Tammy Wang
Greater Princeton AYLUS, NJ Branch (GPA) hosted a successful Benefit Art Exhibition with a focus of “Art From Heart, You Could Save A Life”on Friday, June 7th, 2019 (6:30 pm – 9:30 pm). This Award Winning Art Exhibition was sponsored by GPA and Sharron Art Center (SAC, sharronartcenter.com, 2009 US-130, Monmouth Junction, NJ 08852).
Beneficiary: Wei Su, a professional teacher for 20 years in Princeton area. She was diagnosed with cancer and had surgery in 2018. A new tumor later showed up; to cut it out might cause death. Although she has no income or family for support, Wei always faces everything positively with big smiles. No matter how long her life will be, she lives every day as wonderful as can be. She will donate her body to serve the medical field. Many thanks to everyone for the support and effort to help her fight cancer, and she is to do her best to return the love people give her!
Featured Artists:
Cassie Tammy Wang, a ninth grader at WWP HS South, has been a student at SAC for 7 years. Winner of many national and global art competitions. Since 2017, she has received 1 gold from the national Scholastic, and 10 gold, 8 silver, 12 honorable mention from the regional Scholastic competitions. Cassie created a volunteering organization – Greater Princeton Alliance of Youth Leaders in the United States (GPA) and received President’s Volunteer Service Awards gold medals for her service in 2016-2018. Also selected Art Editor-in-Chief for a newspaper Junior Reporter Times, Cassie is diligently leading her fellows to better serve the community and to make a difference. Works for exhibition: 25
Xinyi Christine Zhang, an eighth-grader at Crossroads North Middle School in South Brunswick, New Jersey, does many activities like violin and debate and is apart of her school Science Olympiad team. Xinyi has been a student at SAC for 7 years, and winner of many national and global art competitions. Since 2018, she has received 1 silver from the national Scholastic; 4 gold, 4 silver, and 4 honorable mention from regional Scholastic competitions. Works for exhibition: 12
Georgia Liu, a senior at Pingry High School, has been a student at SAC for 5 years. She loves art and does fencing at school. Georgia rarely participates art competitions, while recently, her art earned her 3 gold (including her art portfolio for her dream school – Brown University), 3 silver, and 3 honorable mention from the regional Scholastic competition. Georgia has been accepted to Brown in winter 2018, and will be attending starting Fall 2019. Works for exhibition: 12
Olivia Tang, a senior at Governor Livingston HS, has been a student at SAC for 6 years, but her passion for art has been around much longer. Her goal as an artist is to open a dialogue with her audience that can communicate ideas that can’t be expressed adequately using language. Her art has earned her 7 gold, 2 silver, and 10 honorable mention from the regional Scholastic competitions. Olivia has been accepted to Carnegie Mellon and Rhode Island School of Design with scholarship. She plans to attend Mellon starting Fall 2019. Works for exhibition: 12
Special Events: Music performance by GPA members; Presentations by featured artists; Questions and Answers
Featured Guests: We were honored to have West Windsor Township Council President Alison Miller and Vice President Yingchao Zhang at the Benefit Art Exhibition. Both Ms. Miller and Mr. Zhang enjoyed the 61 creative artworks being displayed, and highly appreciated GPA youth leaders for being so passionate to better serve the community.
Participants: Cassie Tammy Wang (host), Xinyi Christine Zhang (host), Lana Cheng (reception), Pengyue Gao (reception), Amy Lin (piano), Dingji Kevin Yang (piano), Nicole Liu (cello), Kevin Liu (viola), Catherine Feng (piano), Jie Gao (piano), Sophia Gao (piano), Jennifer Liu (piano), Gina Shen (piano), Xin Chen (volunteer), Larry Liu (volunteer), Jeremy Liu (volunteer), Jiale Mary Ma (volunteer), Kelly Yan (volunteer), and Ziheng Ma (volunteer).
Service Time: 3 hours for all (6 additional hours for Xinyi Christine Zhang to create the video)
Fund Raised: By the end of art exhibition, GPA raised $249! Cassie Tammy Wang added $51 to make it $300 for Ms. Su.
More Charity Opportunities: Even if you could not make it to the art exhibition tonight, please consider joining us on June 29th for the Benefit Music Performance in Princeton, or make donations online to support Ms. Su:
http://rescuemusic.org/rescue-music-foundations-next-concert-in-princeton-nj-with-aylus/
For more photos, click here: https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=1HQRO73PyfWKhJ8ummXaXKNP2ZCgLdbS8