Caring Hearts for Children, a central Texas foster care and adoption agency, is displaying its second annual “Caring Arts for Children” art collection, featuring pieces by foster children and their families, at the Cross Timbers Fine Arts Council between May 3-7.
The exhibit is intended to showcase the world of foster care through the eyes of children in care and their families.
A reception will be held in the gallery on Saturday from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.
The gallery (which was recently moved from its River North location to the former Pinspirtation building on the Stephenville square, 148 W. College St.) is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Friday and noon to 6 p.m. Saturday.
Caring Hearts for Children is a nonprofit agency licensed by the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services that provides foster-to-adopt, adoption and kinship care services for boys and girls, ages birth through 17 years. With offices in Comanche, Stephenville and Burnet, Caring Hearts for Children works to provide safe, loving, and appropriate homes to the foster children of Texas. For more information, visit caringheartsforchildren. org.
Founded in 1980, the Cross Timbers Fine Arts Council (CTFAC) is a nonprofit, rural provider of the arts and art related programming. For over 40 years the CTFAC has sponsored or co-sponsored a variety of events which include music, theater, dance and local art exhibits. CTFAC also sponsors children’s theater, youth concerts and exhibits, and art camps to serve the eight-county service area of Bosque, Comanche, Eastland, Erath, Hamilton, Hood, Palo Pinto and Somervell. For more information visit crosstimbersfinearts.org.
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