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Date Posted: Fri. Jan 7, 2005 9:26 am
Author: J. Auclair
Subject: "Passiflora Art Show Benefits Greenpeace," Winsted Journal, 1/6/05



Passiflora Art Show Benefits Greenpeace

Winsted Journal

01-06-2005 -- BY MELISSA JORDAN-REILLY Staff Reporter

Excerpt:

NEW HARTFORD — An art exhibit running through Jan. 15 at Passiflora is bringing together a diverse group of artists in a benefit for Greenpeace.

"Art for Mother Earth" is the brainchild of 18-year-old Julia Tyson, whose mother Kathy owns Passiflora, a tea shop and apothecary in New Hartford Center.

The show, which kicked off yesterday, features about 60 pieces, including paintings, photographs, pottery, textiles, jewelry and even a cast-iron and glass headboard by Collinsville artist Heidi Olson.

"There are so many different mediums represented," Tyson said enthusiastically. "People really wanted to help out and they also were happy for the chance to get their work out there."

A few days before the official opening found Tyson, who also helps out at Passiflora when home from college, calmly working to finish hanging and cataloging Art for Mother Earth. Though its the first exhibit she’s ever organized, Tyson remained unfazed, even though a few of the participants had yet to finalize what they’d be showing.

"They’re artists, so they’re inherently disorganized," she laughed.

Twenty percent of any artwork sold during the show will go directly to Greenpeace, the international nonprofit organization which works to protect the environment. Passiflora is also donating 20 percent of all meals and products sold Jan. 4. The tea shop, which normally takes 15 percent in exchange for gallery space, is forfeiting its fee during Art for Mother Earth.

"It’s really natural to tie Passiflora and its customers into [the Greenpeace benefit], because we use herbs from nature here, and we all care about protecting the earth," said Tyson.

In fact, Julia and Karen Tyson and a group of friends recently became certified in "level one" aromatherapy after attending a weekend workshop.

Although Tyson, a freshman at Connecticut College, is focusing her studies on theater and politics, she said a recent "angel reading" at Passiflora convinced her to spend more time in front of an easel.

"It sounds a little funny, but Michelle Spuck gives angel readings here, and she told me, ‘You need to get more involved with painting, because that’s where your heart is,’" Tyson recalled....

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