Artists including Ryan Evans of Count’s Kustoms and The History Channel’s Counting Cars, Josh Culver of Culver’s Customs, Ron ‘Flea’ Fleenor, John Wargo of The Custom Shop, Nub of NubGrafix, Jon Kosmoski of House of Kolor, KC Mathieu of KC’s Paint Shop, Jason Jewett of Red House Custom Paint and more are offering their time and creative skills by painting and donating items to be auctioned off during the SEMA show. The funds received will go directly to benefiting CREF, which gives future technicians the proper education and training for a successful collision repair career.
“This is the very heart of what we love about how car and motorcycle culture and art come together – the unleashed creativity, and generosity, is simply mind blowing!” said Laura Yerkey, Marketing Director, Americas, at Valspar Automotive.
By purchasing the auction items, at the SEMA trade show or online, fans of these artists have a chance to own a unique piece of American history. Monetary donations are being accepted on the Artists4Education website, www.artists4education.org. Great art and a great cause come together in Artists4Education. To view many of the items as they are painted live during the SEMA trade show, visit Valspar Automotive booths #10851, #10655, and #23513.
About Valspar Automotive
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About Artist4Education
Artists 4 Education was created to raise awareness and money to ensure that future Automotive Collision Repair technicians are highly trained and prepared for a rewarding career. It does this by engaging the skills of the industry's expert artists from across the country to share their talents by creating one-of-a-kind auction pieces of which all proceeds go directly to the Collision Repair Education Foundation. For more information, go to www.artists4education.org.
About Collision Repair Education Foundation
Collision Repair Education Foundation is a philanthropic organization committed to awarding substantial annual support, both to students and to collision training programs. It partners with industry donors to fill the funding gap that hinders the collision industry and in its first year, CREF provided more than $1.7 million in grants for collision education. The Foundation is also committed to promoting the collision industry as an excellent career in one of the last real “hands-on” trades in existence—a time-honored trade that offers challenging work requiring skill and aptitude in a field offering growth and opportunity. For more information, go to www.collisioneducationfoundation.org.
