High Desert Arts and Literary Festival Fundraiser has:
- Provided scholarships for women at Victor Valley College
- Supported the Celebrating Women in Math & Science STEM Conference for three hundred local 8th–grade girl students
- Sent local 7th-grade girls to Tech Trek, a science and math camp at University of California, Irvine for one week.
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HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE
This art show started as an Art Tour at AAUW member’s homes.
Bernie Schwertfeger and Evelyn Blocker, two of the inaugural members of the first art show in 1996.
Trever Bennett, a well-known artist and member of the Victor Valley Branch, had a dream of an Art Tour for the Victor Valley. The whole idea was to tell people about the great number of talented artists in the High Desert, and to fund women returning to college to better care for themselves and their families. The first AAUW Victor Valley Branch Art Tour was in 1996. It continues today as a successful and festive event.
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