The Brookline Arts Center is organizing a major project to place art by Brookline artists throughout the community in April 2010. The Palette Project was created by Brookline Arts Center board members as a community-building project to raise awareness of local art, Brookline artists, and the art education programs at the Brookline Arts Center.

Spearheaded by the Brookline Arts Center’s Color Your World Spring Gala committee, the project brings together many well-known professional artists, designers and architects  who reside in Brookline, along with a number of local personalities who have signed up to design a palette for the Brookline Arts Center.

The list of Brookline artists creating palettes includes such nationally-known figures as Arthur Golden, author of Memoirs of a Geisha; Gary Wolf, the creator of Roger Rabbit; Director Malcolm Rogers of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston; Boston Herald journalist and radio talk show host Margery Eagen; photographer Abelardo Morrell; painter Karen Moss; the journalists of WBUR-FM, and 100 other artists and personalities.  More information can be found on the Brookline Arts Center website atwww.brooklineartscenter.com/events/exhibitions/palettes.html

“We are thrilled at the number of Brookline artists who are contributing to this town-wide exhibition,” says Brookline Arts Center President, painter Manika Srivastav. “There will be fun and interesting local artworks on view all over Brookline:  we hope people will explore the Town as they find them all.”

“Brookline itself has always been a center for creative talent,” adds Board Member Jill Streck. “Thanks to the artists’ generosity and enthusiastic response to our project, we can build on that tradition. The whole town of Brookline is a kind of a big art gallery, and this month, we are throwing the doors open to everyone.”

The palettes will be auctioned as part of a silent auction during April and early May. The proceeds from the silent auction will benefit the art education programs of the Brookline Arts Center, a community non-profit that provides art education, scholarships, gallery exhibitions and artist talks for children and adults.

There will be also be a live auction of a few of the palettes at the arts center’s spring fundraiser. The live auction will be conducted by Stanley Paine at the Brookline Arts Center’s Color Your World Gala celebration on Saturday, May 8 from 7 to 10 p.m. Tickets for the Gala party are $100, and are available from the Brookline Arts Center by calling 617-566-5715.

For more information, visit www.brooklineartscenter.com or call 617-566-5715.www.brooklineartscenter.com/events/exhibitions/palettes.html