Extra Touch Gala and Auction
            Attend the Auction! October 18, 2008 is the Extra Touch Gala and Auction which will be held at the Bell Harbor International Conference Center on Seattle’s waterfront. 
            Last year we netted over $77,000! Proceeds, after expenses, are dedicated to the Touch of Comfort Fund, to enhance resident care.  Let us know if you would like an invitation or if you want to volunteer!
            We will again honor a senior with the Dr. L.C. Foss Award for Excellence in Aging.  This year’s honoree is Jack Link who has demonstrated a long lifetime of service to our community.  Previous honorees have included Phil Smart Sr., Dr. Lester Sauvage Sr., Alice Sandstrom, Dr. Dale Turner, Shirley Lansing, Cleo and George Corcoran, Dr. Margaret Brand, Justice (retired) Charles Z. Smith and Kay Bullitt.
Contact the Foundation Office at (206) 834-2581 for more information.

Special Senior Appreciation Reception

Senior Appreciation Week is October 11 – 18, 2008.  Foss Home and Village will be recognizing seven special seniors, one for each day of Senior Appreciation Week, who make our community a better place.  These special seniors have been nominated from churches, the media and senior centers from around the greater Seattle area.  A special reception will be held in their honor on September 17, 2008.

 Artwork for Sale!
            Several gracious donors have donated these works of art to Foss Home and Village.  The Foundation is putting them on the market.  The proceeds from the sale of the artwork will benefit the Touch of Comfort Fund which provides for our residents’ needs.  We are able, through donor generosity, to provide important “extras”: personal items like dentures or clothing, special equipment to enhance our residents’ health and safety and special experiences to lift their spirits.  To make an offer on a piece of art or to inquire further please contact the Foundation Office at (206) 834-2581 or eyoung@fosscare.org.

Nina Crumrine (1889 – 1959) Alaskan Landscape Pastel 16” x 20”, framed $1,200.00             A regional artist of Alaska, Nina Crumrine is most recognized for her pastel works of mid-19th century Native Alaskans.  Nina Crumrine was born in Indiana and trained at the Art Institute of Chicago. She lived in Seattle, where she gave birth to her daughter, Josephine (b. 1917), also an Alaska artist. In 1923, mother and daughter moved to Alaska to live with Nina's uncle, H.V. McGee, in Ketchikan.              In the 1930s and 40s, the Alaska Steamship Company commissioned mother and daughter artists Nina and Josephine Crumrine to paint Alaska scenes and portraits to decorate offices and to use for menu covers on the steamships themselves.  In 1998, the Skinner Foundation donated twenty of these historical paintings.

Milton Glaser Limited Edition Print 17” x 21”, framed $500.00             Milton Glaser, preeminent American graphic artist whose works have influenced design development world-wide, directed his genius to a graphic interpretation of the American Association of Homes for the Aging’s primary achievement creating AAHA’s 25th Anniversary commemorative poster.  This is a signed, limited edition print.

E.B. Dunham (or Emmett Dunham) 1907-1909 from the Pennsylvania School The Old Mill Oil Painting 12” x 18”, framed $1,500.00

. Morris Cole Graves (1910-2001) Woodpeckers Print 21” x  31”, framed $250.00 - $500.00             Early 1940’s was a period of his heightened sensitivity to impulses of the modern world.  His motivation he declared was to paint something felt not something seen.  Darkness represented an emotional state in his nocturnal visions. Light feels like a fleeting moment of relief from harsh realities.  Birds were among his favorite subjects

E. Alazán (1970) Untitled Painting 31.5” x 43.5”, framed $350.00