Spirit of Mentoring Featured In Photography Exhibition At Sonoma Valley Museum of Art
Compassion and dedication of Stand By Me mentors and mentees captured in moving photography of Nicole Katano.
- Napa, CA (1888PressRelease) June 21, 2013 - The special bond that develops when an adult volunteers to mentor a boy or girl is celebrated in Stand By Me: The Spirit of Mentoring in Sonoma, a photography exhibition at the Sonoma Valley Museum of Art, June 29 through August 25, 2013.
The exhibition features the work of photographer Nicole Katano who has, for more than a year, photographed mentors and their mentees involved with the Sonoma Valley Mentoring Alliance's Stand By Me program. Katano's fine arts photography, along with work by her husband, artist Marc Katano, is featured in a separate exhibition in the museum.
"There's a very special quality to the emotional connection that develops when a caring adult reaches out to an at-risk boy or girl," said Kathy Witkowicki, Mentoring Alliance executive director. "When you look at these deeply moving and often joyful photographs, you realize how marvelously Nicole has captured this bond."
The exhibition, which is sponsored by Peet's Coffee & Tea and Pacific Union, features 16 large photographs of mentors and mentees, with a brief story about each pair. There's also a separate area where visitors can view more photographs projected onto a screen.
The Sonoma Valley Mentoring Alliance has for more than 16 years invested in the community by creating and supervising long-term mentoring relationships between caring adult volunteers and at-risk children needing academic and social support. The organization currently oversees 450 mentoring relationships in the Sonoma Valley, many of them enduring for five or more years. It operates professionally-staffed Mentor Centers at all eight public schools in the Sonoma Valley Unified School District, at no cost to the schools.
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