Students to sell original artworks at Beaver Valley Mall

CENTER TWP. − Students in grades 6-12 received free lessons from local artists, and now get the opportunity to sell their original art works this Saturday at the Beaver Valley Mall.

The program, called 3E, has three key components: Entrepreneurship, Education, and Exhibition; Students from around Beaver County participated in six weeks of learning their choice of art form and how to market it from professional artists and entrepreneurs.

The students and instructors will be at the former location of the FYE music store at the mall from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. or until everything they created is sold.

Their exhibit is called Winter Market and follows a month’s worth of project planning and advertising through community groups, social media groups and schools that have helped students prepare for the sale.

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3E is sponsored by the Genesis Collective and Duquesne Light Co.

Trainers included: Marlon Gist Cartooning, Rustbelt Mayberry Photography, Nadia Knecht and Felicia Mycyk.

"The Genesis Collective is thrilled to be a part of the development of the young artistic talent in Beaver County," Pamela Rossi Keen, executive director of the arts- and community-minded initiative, said. "We want to help students to realize while they are young that their creative work is vital to a thriving community. To do that, we have to help foster it and honor the creatives behind it. We hope that the exhibit and sale at the Beaver Valley Mall on December 3 will draw a ton of community support and make holiday shopping easier for all of us."

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