Louisville artist Mark Barone sets out to paint 5,500 portraits of euthanized dogs
https://www.pbs.org/video/an-act-of-dog-o1fr7v/
“Artists have a powerful medium for reporting on the consciousness of our current civilization and can paint visual records of the unpalatable realities of our time. The aim is to move the viewer to feel those realities and engage them in a dialogue towards recovering our lost humanity.” ~ Mark Barone
Mark Barone has paved the way for compassion by creating a stirring collection of 5500 portraits of shelter dogs, (illustrating the approximate number destroyed every day), and with his wife, Marina Barone, they run their charity (An Act of Dog); using the power of art for social change. PBS created a 30-minute documentary about The 5500 shelter dog project.
An Act of Dog uses art to educate for change and donates to Semper Fi Service Dogs because they save shelter pets with 72 hours left to live and train them to be service dogs to zero out the 22 Veterans who commit suicide every day.
Mark has been an Artist for over 40 years, with his work featured in top art publications, awarded, and exhibited throughout America, with much of his work hanging in private and corporation collections around the world. https://artofsobriety.org
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