Yesterday I offered a sneak preview of the New Amazon Bishop Gibbons Art Supply Wish List for 2023.  Today is the official launch of a Wish List to support an excellent program. It’s already just about half gone. We have a ways to go but to be honest, Sue points out that the list is 3/4 sold.

Please look at the list; it’s the least expensive and most practical Wish List we have ever launched. In this segment of our very successful refugee art program, we are not asking people to buy things, rather we are asking for them to donate things they aren’t using anymore or are stuffed into draws and attics.

We are seeking the tools Sue Silverstein says she needs to create the art so many of you have made possible by donating and shipping truckloads of discarded and abandoned jewelry, clothes, toys, fabric, brushes, canvas, and even wood that she and her very excited art students turn into art.

We’ve practically invented the use of wish lists for non-profit purposes. We’ve been successful 100 percent of the time. I am certain we can do it again, even in changing times. The Army Of Good Never fails.

Please look and see what you can afford; the items run from $7.99 to $22. We are planning a rich surprise for Sue’s art students when they return to school and come looking for personal art projects they can choose from. Sue offers one surprising and popular alternative to Tik-Tok and one of the few that work.

She is making artists at a time when they are desperately needed.

The Wish List has 18 items left as of this writing – practical tools like boards, sealers, and paint – there were 37 when I offered a sneak preview and linked to it. There were 16 when I last checked. I’d love to get these supplies to her son, so she can open them, store them, and be prepared for the looming Fall opening of Bishop Gibbons. It’s our most modest Wish List ever.

Sue has pulled off a miracle; the eight cubicle sections of her art program are teeming with students making everything from dresses to teddy bears for poor children at Christman.

The Wish List is pre-programmed to send your donations To Sue Silverstein, Bishop Gibbons High School, 1600 Albany Street, Schenectady, New York, 12304 if you need the address. Feel free to send funky discarded items in your attic or basement to Sue anytime. She will use them. She is a wizard and a saint and can turn almost anything into art.

This is important. These are the tools these children need to make the art we send them. Without us, there is no way she can do many of the things she has been doing and that her students love to do.

As usual for us, these are complex and sometimes disturbing times. Doing good feels good, and these worthy children need help. Please do what you can do. you can look at the list here. Let’s get it done, and thanks.