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Creative thinking may help a herd of plastic goats find a home and benefit Wake County Public School students.
The Visual Art Exchange will host a silent auction of the goats at Raleigh's City Market 6-9 p.m., Friday, October 6 and the proceeds will be donated to Longview School where Karen Hamilton is principal.
Hamilton remembers her surprise when the school's assistant principal returned to the school with the 21 goats. Longview's staff holds an annual school fundraiser before winter break selling poinsettias. The assistant principal approached Saks Fifth Avenue about buying flowers and returned to campus with a donation of plastic goats.
"What are we going to do with these goats?" Hamilton remembers thinking.
With renovations underway at the school, the goats went into storage, though Hamilton kept one in her office to amuse staff and students. Months passed as the school year rushed by and from time to time Hamilton wondered what they would do with the goats.
Art teacher Robin Foster came in one day. He had a moment of inspiration.
"He had seen one of the wolves from the wolf project and thought we might try something similar," said Hamilton. "I wasn't sure that he was serious when he left my office."
The Raleigh Red Wolf Ramble project involved 102 fiberglass wolf forms painted by selected artists and dispersed throughout the city in parks, campuses, and other locations. The wolves were displayed from September 2001 to March 2002 as part of the City of Raleigh Arts Commission and North Carolina Wildlife Federation project.
Weeks later when Foster returned to her office and laid out his plan for converting the herd of goats into art that could be auctioned off to help the school, Hamilton was surprised.
"He had pulled it all together. Artists happily volunteered to be part of the project and the Visual Art Exchange has been wonderful to work with," said Hamilton. "He was excited, had gotten others excited about the idea and it looked like we would find a home for the goats."
Artists who are taking part in the Longview School Goat Art Project include Andrea Gomez, Mickey Gault, Jock Gault, Madonna Phillips, Adwen Nam, Christin Kleinstreuer, Wendy Painter, Dianne Rodwell, Blair Ligon, Nick Bragg, Vern Samuel, Ryan Cummings, Cheryl Harrison, George Gensic, Trisha Gensic, Rocky Alexander, Anne Jenkins, Wendy Musser and Greg Giles. Foster, the school's art teacher, will assist Longview students with two goats
The event will take place in the City Market the evening of October 6. There will be a jazz band fronted by Wayne Lewis, one of the teachers at Longview, performing from 6-7pm. The goats will be displayed outside under the awnings of the former Greenshields building.
Longview School serves students in grades 6 through 12 who have been identified as in need of Special Education services and whose academic and behavioral needs require intervention.
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