Featured Artist

Dean Stanton

Biography

It is with great pride that SHARP’s Arts For Hope first featured artist is Dean Stanton. Dean has been an outstanding contributor to the Calgary landscape and art scene with large, joyous, colourful murals on many schools, fences, electrical boxes and other structures and inside corporate offices and homes. They personify fun, laughter, dignity and hope. In the past few years Dean has worked with many groups including SHARP to develop truly collaborative art; creating the design with participants and then having them paint it.

Dean allowed the SHARP Foundation to celebrate its 20th Anniversary in grand style with the creation of a 4’ x 8’ mural painted with the help of over 50 residents, staff, board members and community partners. This mural was proudly displayed at SHARP’s 2011 Annual General Meeting and will be a permanent fixture in SHARP’s upcoming initiative to provide independent apartments for aging HIV+ individuals with diminishing health and access to resources.

SHARP is greatly appreciative of Dean’s contributions to SHARP but more importantly to making Calgary a great place to live!

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What is Art For Hope?

SHARP has always had a strong connection to the arts with many of the clients we serve being artists and the strong support from the Calgary arts community.

Proceeds go to the 24/7 care and support of our community’s most marginalized people living with HIV / AIDS and encountering many other barriers.