Remodeled Austin Home: Traditional, Colorful, Artful(12)

Remodeled Austin Home: Traditional, Colorful, Artful

Fern Santini: Walking the Walk

“I could spend my last dime on art.”

Fern Santini doesn’t just “walk the talk,” filling her own home with the art she professes to love. She shares her passion, not so much proselytizing others to become collectors as encouraging the artists themselves. She is co-president of Women and Their Work, a nonprofit Austin art gallery that’s been giving women artists an opportunity to show their work for 25 years. “It’s a venue for women artists, and it’s the one place they can turn to actually seek help in learning how to do their shows,” explains Fern.

The nomenclature of Women and Their Work may be a bit misleading. The organization doesn’t wait until its target audience is a group of adult women. “We work with 18 schools in more disadvantaged neighborhoods in Austin to provide extracurricular art programs. All school art programs have been cut, but the PTAs in wealthier schools have picked up the slack. We’re trying to reach the poorer schools.” Click here to learn more about this organization.

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