Our Mission:
To educate and empower individuals with developmental disabilities to realize their full potential.
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Our Mission:
To educate and empower individuals with developmental disabilities to realize their full potential.
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Student’s here participate in Sophie’s Gallery, creating art in many different mediums for themselves and for selling in Sophie’s Gallery.
Sophie's Gallery
St. Madeleine Sophie’s Center Receives Grant from CECO.
Margaret Fraenz
During the Annual CECO Awards Breakfast at the Spring Valley Community Center in March of this year, St. Madeleine Sophie’sCenter was presented with a check in the amount of $365.
This donation will support Sophie’s Gallery Art Program for 300 adult students with developmental disabilities who benefit from the program every week. Sophie’s Gallery Art Program is designed to help our students gain self-sufficiency and inner fulfillment through meaningful work and self-expression.
Specifically, these funds were used to purchase safety supplies and paint for mosaic projects in our many shows and events. This includes our Wings & Snow show, where our artists are working on mosaic birdhouses that will be featured in our holiday show at our El Cajon and Kensington galleries in December 2014. A total of 45 mosaic birdhouses will be on display and for sale at both locations (Sophie’s Gallery in Downtown El Cajon and Sophie’s Kensington Gallery on Adams Avenue in San Diego).
Dorothy Bicknell
The San Diego County Employees’ Charitable Organization (CECO) has been the charitable arm of the County of San Diego and San Diego Superior Court since 1956 and strives to ‘lend a hand’ to the community by way of grants to local non-profit programs and assistance to employees and retirees in crisis.
Thank you CECO! We are deeply grateful to CECO for their caring generosity and ongoing support of St. Madeleine Sophie’s Center and the individuals with developmental disabilities that we serve.
To learn more about CECO visit their website at http://www.sdcounty.ca.gov/ceco/.
Juried by Christine Knoke from the Mingei International Museum.
The show opens on Friday October 4, 2014, at the Kensington Gallery, 4186 Adams Avenue in San Diego.
To submit artwork download the detailed directions and the application below.
ENTRY DEADLINE SEPTEMBER 19
Vertigo © Mark Smith