Dog Art Today

Tag: shelter dogs

  • Shelter in Place by Nancy Diessner

     

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    Nancy Diessner and her images, Jacob Belcher/Daily News and Wicked Local

    Nancy Diessner's Shelter in Place show at the Bromfield Gallery in Boston depicts portraits of rescued dogs beside portraits of the women who saved them.  Diessner, who worked at the Save a Dog shelter knows all the dogs and owners personally and learned from her time at the shelter "that the bond that grew between often-abandoned or abused dogs and the people who adopted them was 'direct but not simple.' "

    Chris Bergeron of Daily News and Wicked Local has an interview with Diessner, a review of the show, and a detailed explanation of the artist's printmaking process that incorporates digital photography, photopolymer gravure printmaking, and Japanese paper.  Read the full article here.

    My favorite quote from Diessner, "What I see in the eyes of dogs and in the connection we have with them can, for me, only be expressed visually."

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    Shelter in Place at the Bromfield Gallery, Boston, runs until April 30, 2011.

    Nancy Diessner's website.

     

  • Project71 Dog Beds

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    Robin Arouty is one of the most passionate dog advocates I know.  She devotes endless hours to the Houston shelter, BARC, and now has created a program to help dogs on a national scale.  It's called Project71 and it's based on the finding that within the first 72 hours of an animal entering a shelter it will either:

    1) be united with their owner

    2) enter an adoption program

    3) be euthanized

    …so the first 71 hours are their most crucial.  Robin designed these beds to comfort the dogs while volunteers like her work at reuniting or placing rescue dogs.  To contribute to this amazing project you can purchase a bed for your own pup and know that all the proceeds go to animal rescues.   Or you can buy one (or many) to be shipped to your favorite shelter.   The beds cost $45, very reasonable for their cool design and their waterproof , durable build.

    I think it is a wonderful program that gives dog-lovers tangible means to comfort homeless dogs.  Something concrete to keep them off the concrete. 

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    The beds are available at etsy and ebay.  Consider donating some beds to your favorite animal rescue as Christmas gifts this year.  Visit Robin's Project71 blog to learn more.

  • Shelter Dogs: Priceless T-shirt

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    Oops…I’m a little late with this…October is Adopt a Shelter Dog Month at the ASPCA. Celebrate the glory of your found hound with this cute Shelter Dog: Priceless T-shirt. For more colors and styles for men, women, babies and kids click here.