First Festival

On October 18th, hundreds of people came out to see Jarabacoa's first festival of "Art and the Environment", put on by the Touristic Cluster. Even the U.S. ambassador to the DR came and bought three paintings. This year's theme was 'Native Birds of the Dominican Republic' and more than 30 local artists had works entered, including Francisco, our art student Luis Miguel Perez and me, Amy Babb. Below are some photos from that night.

Priscila and Rembrandt Natanael, dressed to the nines checking out the art


Me in front of my common barn owl


Me with our prodigy art student, Oliver


One of Fran's paintings

Part of our challenge at the art site, working with the ultimate goal of community development, is finding venues for our accomplished students to sell their work so that they can see the viability of their God-given talent. There are not many opportunities in Jarabacoa and so having something like this art show that our students can enter and show their work is an answer to prayer. Pray with us for more opportunities like it!