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Update #3: If Walls Could Talk Update!
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Posted on February 3
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Update #2: Thank You!!!
Dear Supporters of If Walls Could Talk,
Thanks to your generosity of resources, energy and networks, If Walls Could Talk reached its fundraising goal this morning!!! I cannot begin to express the gratitude I feel to this incredible community of backers and believers for making this project a reality.
As we move now to specific programming and project details, I will continue to post updates on the project that you have all made happen. Any funds raised over the goal will go towards using even higher quality/longer lasting materials and will also allow us the option to scaffold a larger wall in East Harlem. I will also post information about the mural dedications and hope that perhaps you can join us for the dedication in East Harlem.
I am eternally grateful for your support and enthusiasm for this project. Now I cannot wait to get started! I wish you all a very happy and healthy 2012 and thank you so, so much for making this idea become a reality.
Love,
Katie Yamasaki
Update #1: 55% !!!
Dear Friends, Family and Supporters,
With 24 days to go (out of a 40 day campaign), we are making wonderful progress thanks to you. Today, we reached 55% of the total goal, at $8,858.00 from an amazing 145 backers. You cannot begin to imagine how humbled and thrilled I feel by your support and enthusiasm for this project.
So many of you have tweeted, facebooked, emailed, and campaigned on behalf of the project and I am so grateful. Today I got an email from dear friends who will be hosting a fundraising event for the project at their yoga studio. Amazing.
We still have a ways to go, but with the power of networks, social media and most importantly old-fashioned perseverance, I am confident we will reach our goal. Thank you so much for your support and for continuing re-post, re-tweet and re-email the message to your networks.
Love,
Katie
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Funding Successful
This project successfully raised its funding goal on January 11.
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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.
yeeeey!!! congratulations Katie!
You are amazing, Katie! What a brilliant project - I'm so glad it worked out!
Congratulations! This is a very important project and I am glad to be a part of it in my own little way... Very exciting... lookiing forward.