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Media Contact: Erin Alcorn erin@artsmmart.org Press Kit Video ArtSmart’s national teaching artists will be named the Maria Manetti Shrem Mentors ArtSmart, a 501(c)3 national nonprofit, announced today that it has received its first million-dollar donation over five years, given by Philanthropist and Patron of the Arts Maria Manetti Shrem.  Maria Manetti Shrem’s donation demonstrates her commitment to ArtSmart’s successful program model, sustainability, scale, and impact. Together with Co-Founders Michael Fabiano and John Viscardi and the ArtSmart team, this transformative and historic donation will catapult ArtSmart’s impact on a national scale. ArtSmart’s mission is to transform the lives of youth in under-resourced communities across the United States through tuition-free music lessons and mentorship, by paid professional artists. ArtSmart’s vision is to provide students with a pathway to academic, economic, and emotional stability through music mentorship.  “Maria Manetti S...

ANNOUNCING  The Shelley Lazarus Award for Excellence in Watercolor   The Artists Gallery (TAG)  of Los Angeles, Calif., announces the  second annual exhibition and awards ceremony  for  The Shelley Lazarus Award for Excellence in Watercolor.    The juried exhibition honors Shelley Lazarus, a current and Founding Member of TAG since 1993. The full gallery exhibition dates will be March 6th to March 29, 2024, with a gallery reception and awards ceremony Saturday, March 16 from 5:00 to 8:00 PM, where Lazarus will present three cash awards and six Awards of Excellence. (1st Place: $750, 2nd Place: $500, 3rd Place $250) The show will be juried by Lazarus and Sally Lamb, another acclaimed watercolorist.    Shelley Lazarus  is a renowned Los Angeles-based watercolor artist and teacher whose work has been broadly exhibited across the country. Her original watercolor paintings can be found in numerous public, corporate, and priv...