Artist and Non-Profit Group Partner on USA Tour for Children and Art
Summary
“This means that the community - that’s you and me - must do more to ensure All children are taught the skills of observing, imagining, creating and thinking.” The first stop of the tour is the famous Grand Canyon in Arizona.Then Salem and Portland in Oregon, Snowden in Washington, Boise in Idaho, Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming, The Badlands and Sioux Falls City in South Dakota, Minneapolis/St Paul in Minnesota, Green Bay and Milwaukee in Wisconsin, Chicago in Illinois, Lansing and Detroit in Michigan, Niagrara Falls on the US-Canada border, Buffalo in New York, Allentown and Philadelphia in Pennsylvania, Trenton in New Jersey, and the final destination of the tour – New York City.The alliance was inaugurated at the group’s LA headquarters with Leisa presenting an original painting entitled “The Loneliness of Abuse” to the Executive Director of Free Arts for Abused Children, Karrah Lompa.Leisa created the painting to communicate the emotional isolation and despair suffered by an abused child, and to stress the important role that the arts can play in healing a child.Setting out from Los Angeles, the tour promises to be an action-packed adventure and a captivating view of the American canvas from the eyes of an artist.Then Salem and Portland in Oregon, Snowden in Washington, Boise in Idaho, Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming, The Badlands and Sioux Falls City in South Dakota, Minneapolis/St Paul in Minnesota, Green Bay and Milwaukee in Wisconsin, Chicago in Illinois, Lansing and Detroit in Michigan, Niagrara Falls on the US-Canada border, Buffalo in New York, Allentown and Philadelphia in Pennsylvania, Trenton in New Jersey, and the final destination of the tour – New York City.Based in the USA, but international in scope, Leisa is now combining her activist and artistic skills under the motto of Art with a Message.