I am so excited and proud to announce the release of the Art That Helps Project partnering with A Beautiful Idea. 20 artists from around the country all created their depiction of the words and phrases: Art for the greater good, Haiti, helping, serving, creativity, love wins, people, compassion, humble, humility all while using only 4 specific colors. After all submissions were received I compiled all of the artwork together in a collage style to be sold in all of our Etsy shops. %100 of the profit of all the sales goes towards the Haiti relief fund through A beautiful idea and World Vision.
A beautiful idea was started by my friend Evie from Evie-s.com. The idea is that artists/Etsy owners create a certain product to sell in their shop and then they partner online with A Beautiful Idea to donate the money to a charity via A Beautiful Idea’s donation center. That is JUST what we did…but this time we did it as a group. Below are the final collaborative art pieces. Some Etsy owners even went as far as to create other products with these final prints. See image above with the postcards, magnets, greeting cards, etc. SO fun.
Sometimes the world tends to see art as fluff, as extra, as… not necessary. And honestly sometimes I can start to believe them. But its organizations like A beautiful idea that get me excited about finding unique ways to be a blessing to others with my art. It’s organizations like them who jump-start my inspiration to not back down. That is why I LOVE what A Beautiful Idea is doing. They are creating yet another way for us to contribute to the World with our artwork. They are creating an outlet that lets us support world causes, get the word out, and help others WITH OUR ART!!!
This collaboration has been amazing in the fact that it literally displays people coming together to help/make something happen. Even if their part or artwork is small… it fills up the blank space and has a unique reason for why its there. It reminds me that we all need others.
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