Benefit Concert for the Homeless
Visual artist Willie Baronet will share his experiences at the Benefit For the Homeless at HART lounge. Be there at 6:30 for the artist Meet and Greet and then for a concert with Lisa Sanders, Ross May, The Peripherals, Duke Ventra with Richie Strell, John Kopecky and the Donna Larsen Band with DC Hathaway, Duke Ventra and Steve Larsen.
For more than two decades now, artist Willie Baronet has committed himself to a “found” art project of sorts. Whenever he encounters homeless people with signs he finds fascinating, he offers to buy them from them, usually for $10. Altogether, he now has hundreds of signs that represent a diversity of stories from impoverished people throughout the country.
In recent years, Baronet began displaying these signs as collages and sculptures in galleries. Though people tend to pay little attention to these signs when they encounter them in real life, they’re confronted with the needs and emotions of those down on their luck and are forced to reflect on the circumstances
