Ready. Set. Gift.: Classes to tastings offer a special experience

By Sophia Markoulakis

Updated 12:36 pm, Friday, November 28, 2014 on www.SFGate.com 

For the Genealogist—Heidi Hardin Family Portraits

Please scroll below for the Markoulakia's SF Chronicle listing...

"Images from family photos provide a window into the shared human experience. Consider documenting your family unit with a photo sitting resulting in an original oil portrait by fine artist Heidi Hardin. Hardin, founder of Think Round, Inc., a San Francisco-based art nonprofit, has been painting family portraits for more than 30 years and is currently working to archive families as part of the organization’s Paradise Project. Commissioning a family portrait is a fantastic gift for parents or grandparents as it gifts the entire family the experience of assembling for a snapshot in time that results in lasting enjoyment. Family portrait commissions begin at $500. (415) 771-2198. www.thinkround.org under tabs: INQUIRES and OUR PRESENT.

Please inquire with Heidi Hardin by email: heidi@heidihardin.com or by calling 415.771.2198." 

Scroll below for other four other unique holiday gifts ideas for you and your family members that can also benefit Think Round, Inc.'s Paradise Project.

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Also for the Genealogist/Family Historian

You can support Think Round, Inc., by purchasing (through in-kind service, volunteering, cash, mileage or gift cards) any of the following unique, experiential gifts:

1.      Become a subject in the Paradise Project… 18 families remain to be selected whose journey to America will be told in 20 paintings created from family photographs.  Apply to become one of the final twenty-eight families in this project. Please see guidelines* below. For more information about this project visit our OUR PRESENT found on our homepage.

2.      Videotape an oral history of your family’s story (told using family photos if you have them)

3.      Join a family art making classes to explore portrait painting from old family photos or selfies

4.    Sign up for individual painting instruction for yourself or your children

5.      Or, as detailed above in the SF Chronicle notice, sit for photos taken by Heidi from which she will paint commissioned family portraits

Contact Heidi at (415) 771-2198, email: heidi@heidihardin.com for details.

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*GUIDELINES for becoming a Paradise Project... Subject Family:

Think Round needs 18 more families of different ethnicity who are practicing these world religions:  Judaism, Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism/Confucianism, or Primal/Native. 

To be selected, you will need to have family photos to share with the artist that provide and overview of your family's story. You and those portrayed will also need to sign adult model releases and photo permission forms. Selections will be based on how well your family's origins and photos fit very specific perimeters of this project. 

Apply today by contacting Heidi at (415) 771-2198, email: heidi@heidihardin.com for details.

We will love to hear from you!