Twist and paint: Healthy Start Sarasota holds annual fundraiser
The nonprofit held its annual Painting with a Purpose fundraiser Aug. 29.
By
Whitney Elfstrom
| 2:08 p.m. August 30, 2019
Sarasota
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Wine was poured, and paint was splattered at Healthy Start Sarasota's Painting with a Purpose fundraiser on Thursday night.
Healthy Start specializes in improving the health and well-being of pregnant women, infants and young children in the community. The annual event raises money for the nonprofit's Safe Sleep Kits, which include a Pack 'n' Play, a sheet, and literature informing moms of the best practices for how a baby should sleep in their crib.
Attendees had the choice to paint the words "sow seeds of joy" on a wood surface cutout or orange and black koi fish on wine glasses. Painting with a Twist donated 50% of its proceeds from the night to Healthy Start Sarasota.
Anne Gains adds a pop of green to her white to her wood panels.
Painters could choose to paint a wine glass or a wood surface cutout.
Barbara Scissors adds paint to her plate to get ready for her wine glass.
Chris Lasiewicki snaps a photo of Mary Dunn as Bob Ross.
Grace Olesen, 11, stands up to get a better painting angle.
Attendees who chose to paint wine glasses painted orange and black koi fish.
Shon Ewens, executive director of Healthy Start Sarasota, uncorks a bottle of wine.
Brooke Boynton begins to add a base coat of white to her board.
Marilyn Lapidus and Dr. Washington Hill
Connie Hanisch delivers directions and jokes to the painters.
The attendees who chose to paint wine glasses begin to add paint to their plates.
Kathleen White takes a different route with her koi fish.
Cydney Menihan and Marilyn Lapidus
Mary Lee and Tiffany Mangold
Instead of sticking to the green outline, some of the painters chose their own backdrop color.
Roberta Caldwell chooses to paint the Colorado sunset on her wine glass instead of a koi fish.
The wood surface cutout featured the quote, "Sow seeds of joy."
