WPLN News Archive; Elephant Art (Adrienne) 1 28 00; News Archive 1/6/00-2/8/00

through cypress gallery art lovers in rubber noses or should i say trump's more than one thousand pages long and launched long last patch work and found objects delicate art once filled the room genocide my own site guy's gallery she said she wanted to change the show's format this year to include any artist you have a comment about these huge leathery great animals several months ago she put out a call for elegant inspired donations no larger than four by six inches she received more than two thousand entries all proceeds from the show go to the sanctuary it's been really interesting to see a lot of attention aren't as they come from all over the country a laugh at lexington virginia is showing more for the very first

time this was the first time for robert bork to make his work public songwriter by de changer by night is he's won an honorable mention in the judging portion of the exhibit i created a memory from my childhood have a birthday party when i asked for an elephant and i really got the elephant is dead center and then there's a big banner strung across that says happy birthday party and there's me standing in front of the elephants at a little pointed so little hat on with some cake in my hands and i got a big smile on my face in and it says right on a diaspora an elephant for my birthday and it really got one of the hotels the rest the story each year departure raises twenty to thirty thousand dollars for the elephant sanctuary looked at sixty five miles outside of nashville it's the nation's only natural habitat refuge for endangered asian elephants what they need in your donations of at least two hundred fifty thousand dollars sanctuary volunteer there was nights that the show is about more than money she hopes the art might help teach people about the endangered elephants

fascinated by one that one or wild narrative if it's a pencil drawing and he has a leg which i have to say is still true because we have three elephants out there already that have won the triple play and it may have been inspired by the elephant in thailand who have only gone after stepping on a landmine he also says it's just a very sensitive since the sanctuary started in nineteen ninety five its outreach programs have killed more than thirty five thousand middle tennessee students about the endangered asian elephants at least one thousand students contributed to the cloth by donating old the drawings zeitlin thirteen year old daughter and a baby please conspire and the kleenex we mean it

political cartoonist in the anchorman couldn't help but be part of the show he made clear pictures of people as elephant's journey opening he says he's been drawn in since he was five he made an elephant out of the show for a few cities the artist richard mitchell says he got his inspiration when he asked to go by at a local restaurant he came up with the title dinesh to go out and put a picture of a popular indian guy who's fed looks like an elephant in a clear plastic to go box i saw a lot of value on individual sheets of the state in a separatist it's almost like a holographic appearance of these unspoken into vertigo

vox century workers were busy during his eye patch that not present at the gallery they were in route to save another elephant who for years had been abused at the el paso city zoo this wednesday century workers brought secede a whole lot worse to live out the rest of her life for more information about the elephant sanctuary visit its website and daddy daddy daddy died elkins dot com is like a show continues through february fifth for national public radio an injury no no no