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Art Club fundraises for Shah art gallery through baked goods, sweatshirt sales
Art Club members Zara Vakath (10), Connie Xu (11), Katrina Liou (11), Charlie Molin (11) and Donna Boucher (11) organize baked goods sales outside Manzanita during the club’s club week. “We’re trying to fundraise for an art gallery in Shah, and basically we need these boards that kind of look like walls, but it’s easy to put drawings on them without ruining them. We also need really good lights and stuff like that, so Mr. Martinez said we need about $3,000,” Art Club member Kaitlyn Nguyen (12) said.
March 23, 2018
Art Club raised funds for a new school art gallery through sales of baked goods and hoodies for their club week this week.
After school on Monday and Tuesday, club members sold homemade cookies, and on Wednesday, club members sold bagels, two types of homemade cookies, brownies and fried chicken from Tapioca Express. Throughout the week, the club accepted payments for pre-orders of sweatshirts they will be making later this year. Art Club will be using the profits from the food and sweatshirts to create an art gallery in Shah Hall.
“We’re trying to fundraise for an art gallery in Shah, and basically we need these boards that kind of look like walls, but it’s easy to put drawings on them without ruining them,” Art Club officer Kaitlyn Nguyen (12) said. “We also need really good lights and stuff like that, so Mr. Martinez said we need about $3,000.”
The club used both traditional payment methods, and the new Harker Pay system implemented by HarkerDev, in their sales.
“[The sales] followed usual Harker Pay protocol—scanning QR codes and charging money,” Neil Ramaswamy (11), a developer of the Harker Pay system, said. “Harker Pay worked magnificently well given that this was the first week we were deploying it. It definitely lived up to my expectations.”
On top of the food, Art Club also began pre-orders for the hoodies they will be making, which cost $35. After much deliberation, club officers decided to spray paint the phrase “THE GALLERY” across all of the sweatshirt as a reference to the art gallery for which they are trying to fundraise.
“Finally, we took the idea of spray painting and instead of just having it on the torso, you’re going to have it on the entire top part of the body. So like a little bit on one arm, a little bit on the chest and a little bit on the other arm,” Kaitlyn said. “We have a lot of color options available because it’s pretty easy to make, and we know people will want to personalize it.”
Art Club member Katrina Liou (11) spray paints an Art Club sweatshirt for the organization’s fundraising sales. To raise money to install an art gallery under a Shah staircase, club members sold fried chicken
There was a chalk-drawing event planned during the week, but it was cancelled due to rain. Club officers say that the event will likely be rescheduled in the future on a larger scale by collaborating with Harker Spirit to make it a more public activity.
In the future, Art Club hopes to host more meetings that allow members to just create art or get help from experienced artists like the officers of the club.
“We’ve been trying to schedule more meetings where students will just come in and just draw or do whatever art they need to do, because we have a lot of club members that do a little bit of everything. It’s like you just bring whatever artwork they want to work on, and we just help you out with it,” Kaitlyn said.
Interact will be holding their club week next week.
