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Art Auction Benefits Nonprofit Serving Socially Minded Businesses
Own a contemporary painting by Farmington artist Kate Emery, and support reSET's work on behalf of socially minded Connecticut companies
Support the arts, mindful entrepreneurship and ultimately the community good when you bid to own Elemental: an original abstract landscape of frothy sea and orange sky by Connecticut oil painter Kate Emery. Her latest online art auction, which runs through June 1 at 8 p.m. at KateEmery.com/auctions, raises funds to benefit reSET: a Hartford-based nonprofit that propels socially minded startups and encourages all Connecticut companies to embed social impact in their business models.
A second-career artist who works full-time from her Farmington-based studio, Emery partners with charitable organizations so that each of her works sold benefits a community cause. Giving back is a commitment that has permeated Emery’s professional and personal life. Her Farmington-based technology and digital marketing services firm, The Walker Group, donates one-third of any distributed profits to community projects, and she founded reSET to support entrepreneurs who likewise wish to use business as an engine for solving community or environmental problems.
“We need more businesses to put people and purpose ahead of profit and to recognize that the bottom line is a health metric rather than the be all and end all it has become for so many companies,” says Emery. The pursuit of profit “too often causes business leaders to ignore happiness, health, justice, community, climate change and so many other important aspects of our world,” she says. Emery is proud of how reSET’s staff and volunteers work to “raise a more holistic class of entrepreneurs and ensure that they thrive and grow for the benefit of us all.”
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Elemental, a panoramic 12x24-inch painting, is one of several works in Emery’s “New Dawn” series of landscapes inspired by the hope she feels as the pandemic storm begins to subside.
Emery will donate 75 percent of the price realized for the painting, framed and valued at $850, to reSET to further the nonprofit’s efforts to support mission-driven businesses. Interested bidders may see the painting on the artist’s website (KateEmery.com).