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My Own Two Hands
2011's theme image, "In the Current," by Susan Luckey_Higdon
My Own Two Hands 2012,
"Lookin' Up!"
The 2012 My Own Two Hands Celebration will be April 13 and 14, with the Community Parade, Art Stroll & Performing Arts Evening on the 13th, and the Art Auction & Party on the 14th at Ponderosa Forge & Ironworks.


My Own Two Hands began in 2001 as a fundraiser for the Sisters Americana Project, the educational outreach component of the Sisters Folk Festival. The project began with 'Painted Strings.' Utilizing donated, unplayable guitars, area artists embellished each of the instruments in their individual style. Painted Strings was followed in 2002 with Kite Strings a community Kite Fly and Kite-themed auction and party.

For the past eleven years, My Own Two Hands has celebrated how one individual can change their community for the better by using their own skills in a positive way. The two-day event is a community celebration of the arts; from performance to visual to the written word. My Own Two Hands has it all.
View Art Auction Donations Online.
If you need a proxy bid sheet, download one in Doc or PDF.

After a city-wide show of visual and performing arts at our Art Stroll on Friday, April 13, the donated works will be put up for auction the next evening for the benefit of the Sisters Americana Project and arts education in the Sisters public schools and community. Our Saturday night Art Auction and Party, held at Ponderosa Forge & Ironworks, brings together the art, the artists and the community in a fun evening of celebration featuring great food, live music and both silent and live auctions.


Americana ProjectEntering our twelfth year in the Sisters School District, the Sisters
Americana Project, an educational outreach program of Sisters Folk
Festival, has made a positive impact on thousands of students and
a tremendous contribution to the community of Sisters and Central
Oregon.

The support we receive from the community throughout the year
and during the My Own Two Hands celebration helps us continue
the innovative and award-winning arts-education programming.
We thank you for your contribution and support.

Below is a list of programs we are providing in the arts through the Sisters Americana Project in the Sisters School District.

Sisters High School
  • Scholarship awards for students in visual and performing arts
  • Scholarships to Americana Song Academy and Song Academy for Youth
  • SHS Americana Project class: teacher support, materials, guitars/ instruments, recording studio, songwriting, and performing opportunities
  • National, regional and local guest artists/mentors in classroom
  • Audio engineering instruction/production of Americana Project CD
  • Common Canvas Community Arts Day
  • Annual gift to SHS art, choir and music departmentsAdministration and funding for Americana Community Luthier Program
  • Annual gift to Sisters High School Guitar-building Program
Sisters Middle School
  • SMS Americana Project class teacher, visual-arts instruction,
    materials, guitars/instruments, songwriting, guitar playing,
    performing opportunities
  • Workshops/materials to all three Sisters Schools for My Own
    Two Hands
  • Americana Project Guitar Club funding for after-school art
    classes
  • National, regional and local guest artists/mentors in classroom
Sisters Elementary School
  • Visual-arts teacher training at SES by local artists to ensure 100%
    student participation
  • On-staff arts coordinator for My Own Two Hands
  • Materials in support of My Own Two Hands art workshops at SES
  • National, regional and local guest artists/mentors in classroom

What's New & Upcoming Events
2012 Winter Concert Series with Martyn Joseph!
Feb. 10, 7 p.m. at SHS
Tickets on sale now

My Own Two Hands Art Intake Day
Feb. 24, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Sisters Artworks
2012 Winter Concert Series with Red Molly!
Mar. 8, 7 p.m. at SHS
Tickets on sale now

Make A Donation to Sisters Folk Festival!
Sisters Folk Festival Inc. is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization.
Donations to Sisters Folk Festival Inc. and its programs like Sisters Americana Project and My Own Two Hands are tax deductible.
2011 MOTH Sponsors

Bruce and Marleen Rognlien

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