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lives, and we see so many people are just really having a hard time with life in general. People take for granted that there are others who have gone through those same things, but they chose a path of art and creativity to release it, and it's literally saving their life." Making art accessible to the viewer is life-affirming as well, she explains. "During covid, there's no one that could say they didn't lean on to some type of arts and culture, whether it was listening to music, whether it was watching live theater, whether it was watching movies … anything you've looked at — it's art. And it makes me sad that people take it for granted. Because those that are pouring into it really deserve to be highlighted and to be appreciated and supported. Not just visually, but financially, so they can continue to create." Edwards encourages those who can to participate in their Art Angels membership program to help support the plethora of programs offered by Art Ventures. "When people become an Art Angel, what they're doing is they're either making a one-time donation, or they're signing up to be a monthly donor. The monthly donations can be as low as $10 a month, which is low, but it gets people in the mode of giving consistently. And then kind of forgetting about it, right? Just leave us in your budget and walk away. If we had enough people that just did that $10 level, we can at least sponsor our first Thursday events or just have some consistent funds coming in to cover supplies for our K through 12 Gallery Initiative or for our art program. "We want to get people more consistent with their giving so that we can kind of be more consistent with our programming," she adds. Keep up with Art Ventures at artventures-nwa.org. January 15-21, 2023 What's up! 39 Feature Art Ventures Continued From Page 9 Art Ventures is based at 20 s. hill ave. in Fayetteville but also shows its represented artists' work in special exhibits at the Chamber of Commerce, the Faulkner Center, theatresquared, the Medium and more. (nWa Democrat-Gazette File photo/David Gottschalk) In collaboration with TheatreSquared, art Ventures installed some of the works from the show "Frame of Mind: Critical Black theory" in 2022 to run in conjunction with t2's production of "the Mountaintop," a fictionalized account of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s final evening before he was assassinated. (nWa Democrat-Gazette File photo/Monica hooper)