Vols Needed for Community Art Project

Milton painter Deanna Sirlin is asking community members to lend a helping hand in a collage project expectedf to shown in Milton this fall.

At two Sunday open houses this month — March 18 and 25 (2 p.m.- 4 p.m.) — Sirlin is asking any one pover 8 years old to help on the projects. The open houses will be held at the Bethwell Community Center, located at 2695 Hopewell Road. (click here for directions)

You can bring scissors, paintbrushes, recyclable paper of any size, color and texture, and "all sorts of weird stuff."

"I'm looking for colors not normal to artists, colors taboo to fine art like emergency orange and fluorescent green," Sirlin said in a press release. "I want people to bring all sorts of weird stuff — envelopes, toothpaste boxes, seed packages, old catalogs. We'll find a new use for them, like how people make quilts from found fabrics."

Everyone who contributed to the project will be invited to the opening reception as a collaborator this fall, she said.

You can register for the open houses by e-mail at deannasirlin@yahoo.com. For more information on Sirlin, visit www.deannasirlin.com. For more information on this project and the mini-grants program, contact Grant Coordinator Amanda Quintana at 678-242-2512 or amanda.quintana@cityofmiltonga.us.

The project is funded through the Better Together: Real Communities - Milton Mini-Grant Initiative. The grants are intended to support projects and activities that engage residents to improve and bring communities together.