Pongos Helping Pongos:
Paintings by Orangutans, for Orangutans
Pongos Helping Pongos Art Auction and event
March 27th, 2010 G Gallery in the Heights 6:00-8:00 p.m.
301 East 11th Street, Houston, Texas
The Houston Zoo’s 4th Pongos Helping Pongos Art Event will be held at the
G Gallery beginning at 6pm on March 27th. This very special evening will feature over 40 individual paintings done by our orangutans, elephants, siamangs, babirusa and clouded leopards. Each painting will be professionally framed thanks to our partners at YolArt Fine Arts and accompanied by conservation information and an animal artist biography.
The paintings will be displayed at G Gallery in the Heights for a single night in a fine arts setting, including a wine and hors d’ouevre reception and photographic portraits of the featured artists (but taken by humans). Professional photographs of wild orangutans and Bornean elephants will also be available for sale thanks to Houston photographer Paul Swen.
The auction event concludes at 8:00 p.m. Pongos Helping Pongos has raised over $100,000 for the Kinabatangan Orangutan Conservation Project and Elephant Conservation Program in Sukau, Sabah, Malaysia and $20,000 in support of field conservation efforts at Indonesia’s Gunung Palung National Park.
http://www.houstonzoo.org/php/
