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Funding Successful
This project successfully raised its funding goal on January 11.
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For anyone who wishes to donate as a holiday gift on behalf of someone else (donation made by December 18), they will receive a greeting card of a Yamasaki mural (mailed by Dec. 18), describing the project that their holiday gift is making a reality.
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For $25, backers will receive one pack of 6 postcards, 3 of each mural painted.
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For $50, backers will receive one pack of 6 postcards and an 8"x10" print of one of the murals from the project.
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For $75, backers will receive a pack of 6 postcards and 8"x10" prints of both murals from the project.
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For $125, backers will receive a pack of 6 postcards and an 11"x17" archival print of one of the murals from the project.
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For $200+, backers will receive a pack of 10 postcards and 11"x17" archival prints of both murals.
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For $1000+, backers will receive framed 11"x17" archival prints of both murals, a pack of 10 postcards and your name will be painted on both walls in the credits section.
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Katie Yamasaki is an artist based in Brooklyn, New York. She works primarily as a muralist, teaching artist and children’s book author/illustrator. Her work has enabled her to travel and create visual dialogues with children in Cuba, Namibian teens, Japanese auto manufacturers and indigenous women inmates fighting for gender equality and non-violence within the prisons of Chiapas, Mexico.
Katie’s public projects have explored topics that range from the Japanese Internment to Appalachia’s economic crisis to tribalism among Namibian youth. She has worked on a collaborative mural project with members of the Zapatista Army for National Liberation in Chiapas and recently completed public projects in Cypress Hills, Brooklyn,Detroit, Barcelona and Sevilla, Spain.
For years, Katie lead a public art program for young women called Voices Her’d (www.groundswellmural.org), where teen girls address critical issues in the form of large-scale public art. She also teaches art to 4th-8th grade students at Ballet Tech, the New York City Public School for Dance.
Katie earned her Masters of Fine Arts from the School of Visual Arts and currently has illustrated two published books, Honda: The Boy Who Dreamed of Cars (Lee & Low) and Lifelines: The Black Book of Proverbs (Broadway Books/Random House). She is currently working on 'Fish for Jimmy,' her first published book as both author and illustrator with Holiday House Books.
Katie-- I am so happy to help you make this a reality! Let me know what else you might need and let's stay in touch! - Melissa
Thanks so much for today's update. Much appreciated!
Awesome! What a GREAT project! CONGRATULATIONS!!!
Congrats on getting funded, This sounds like a great project. Good luck!
Amazing project. So glad that you posted it :)
Finally! You're coming to EAST HARLEM!!! We all love you so much. Of course we are so proud of you too. Laurencio, Michael, Isabella and I can't wait for you to spread your magic. Besos. -Monica and Ramon
Congratulations on making your goal!! I'm so happy for you and am looking forward to meeting you! I am in awe of your work! Best wishes and good luck on the project Katie!
Jane Cordaro
So excited about this and looking forward to how it all unfolds! best wishes.
$655 left to go! So close, good luck!!
-Dane
Katie-- Excited to help you fund this! What an amazing idea! I will get in touch with you soon re. a school in Ft. Greene that I will be the assistant director of starting Jan 17...half arts curriculum (affordable neighborhood private school) that will probably be right up your alley in terms of mural-making space...Wishing you all the best for 2012. <3
This is an inspiring project Katie!
Best of luck, this is an amazing project!
Best of luck, Katie! Wonderful project.
Great project! Good luck Katie!!!
Retsu and I are so excited by your amazing vision and thrilled to help support it! Good luck!!!!
Wonderful project, good luck Katie!
This is a fantastic project. I hope more people would back this project to make it happen!
Such a beautiful project! : )
So happy to contribute to your valuable and beautiful work!
Beautiful project! Can't wait to see the murals!
Go Katie Go!!!
Katie--
So, so excited to support you in this work. Blessings on you!
derric