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This project successfully raised its funding goal on December 10, 2010.
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GUMBALL MACHINES UNITE: A little goes a long way in supporting this art adventure. For your contribution, you will have access to all of our project updates, a HOPE Art sticker to show your support and a virtual high-five from Haiti.
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INSPIRE A CHILD: For the caring person who is willing to sacrifice a few lattes in favor of crayons and bring hope to a destitute child, we'll send you a high-res photo for download, so you can “be” with us every step of the way. You'll also have access to all of our project updates plus a HOPE Art sticker to show your support.
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ROCK PAPER SCISSORS: So you're a gambler? You like to mix it up a little and surprise your opponents with the occasional “paper” throw down. Do it the right way, slip us some green so we can splurge on pastels and paints. We’ll send you a printed 8x10 photograph as your prize plus all of the rewards listed in the previous pledge categories.
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PAINT BY NUMBERS: At this price point, we’ll salute you from Port au Prince. But we’ll also gift you original artwork by a Haitian child from the tent camps. This artwork could take many formats - this is intentional whimsy people! We’re not here to stamp out creativity. Please understand that your original artwork may take a variety of shapes and sizes.
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SAN FRANCISCO A-GO-GO: You will be invited to a private viewing of an art and photography exhibit reception - A vicarious Haiti experience for those strapped to desks or frightened of sleeping bags. You may gift this to any stranger on the internet, your Aunt Irma or claim this prize LIVE, details will follow.
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NAME ON A BRICK: (limited reward, 30 available): Just like it says. You will receive not only a 20 x 20 photograph, original artwork from a Haitian child, an invitation to a private art and photography reception, but you will also receive your name adorned with sprinkles, rainbows and fluffy clouds on our websites (JenniWard.com and MelissaSchilling.com), in gratitude we trust. We will dedicate a portion of the artwork created TO YOU, on a special webpage with your name emblazed all over it. This clickable link can be emailed and shared with friends and family so you may brag about all the beauty you helped bring to a dark corner of the world.
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SOLID GOLD: (limited reward, 30 available): No, we're not going to dance on a stage, in gold leotards, in your honor. Instead we'll adorn your name in our art book during Phase II of this HOPE Art project. Additionally will receive not only a 20 x 20 photograph, original artwork from a Haitian child, an invitation to a private art and photography reception, but you will also receive your name adorned with sprinkles, rainbows and fluffy clouds on our websites (JenniWard.com and MelissaSchilling.com), in gratitude we trust. We will dedicate a portion of the artwork created TO YOU, on a special webpage with your name emblazed all over it. This clickable link can be emailed and shared with friends and family so you may brag about all the beauty you helped bring to a dark corner of the world.
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WHITNEY HOUSTON: (limited reward, 10 available): We get so emotional, baby. At this level of support we'd like to sing your praises as loud as we can. You will get a custom coffee table book of this HOPE Art adventure along with the opportunity to serve as a penpal to a Haitian child, using the universal language of art. Jenni Ward herself will provide instruction into this language. Additionally, we'll adorn your name in our art book during Phase II of this HOPE Art project. You will also receive a 20 x 20 photograph, original artwork from a Haitian child, an invitation to a private art and photography reception, AND you will also receive your name adorned with sprinkles, rainbows and fluffy clouds on our websites (JenniWard.com and MelissaSchilling.com), in gratitude we trust. We will dedicate a portion of the artwork created TO YOU, on a special webpage with your name emblazed all over it. This clickable link can be emailed and shared with friends and family so you may brag about all the beauty you helped bring to a dark corner of the world.
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About Melissa:
Having spent the last ten years restlessly roving the planet, Melissa Schilling, a published writer and photographer, has spent time volunteering at an orphanage on the Mayan Riviera, riding bicycles through Patagonia, cooking Basque food in the Pais Vasco and deep-sea fishing off the coast of Cuba. She is a teacher of special needs art and cooking fusion classes as well as instructing the executives of Microsoft, Ebay, Yahoo, Hewlett Packard and Terix how to enjoy themselves with wine and cheese through her work as a terroir-based food instructor. She helped start a women’s collective group aimed at bettering communities in need, Lightingupthesky.org. She is collaborating with Common Ground Relief in New Orleans on a children’s garden program, The Garden of Eatin’. With over 25,000 photographs under her belt and nearly as many published words, Schilling is ready to capture a Haitian tent city through her camera lens and collate a book spliced with children’s artwork and imagery collected during the early part of January 2011. Contact Melissa Schilling: melissa@projecthopeart.org
About Liz:
Elizabeth Ancker has spent the last 5 years working with homeless families as a social worker in San Francisco and has been very active in the homeless community advocating for safe, clean shelters. She also has worked at the Thailand/Burma border doing disaster relief following the 2008 cyclone in Burma, and through her legal background has experience appealing and defending death penalty cases in the deep south. All of her human rights work has stemmed from a love of people and love of the world, so she has also made it a point to be dedicated to laughing, playing, and traveling as much as possible and has been very successful! She also loves all things sparkly, glittery and shiny. Liz manages our federal and state grant applications and maintains our non-profit status.
Contact Liz Ancker: liz@projecthopeart.org
About Sarah:
If she were to be described in one word, it would be vibrant. Sarah Boll was born with a flare for the spectacular and the outrageous. In her early days she fell in love with the stage playing princesses in musicals. Nowadays she translates her creativity into fashion and performance at an array of striking events. Her portfolio includes costume design, catwalk displays and dramatic performances. She earned her BA in Theater and Art and later studied Patternmaking and Design. Boll has worked in professional costume shops and designed for gift and accessory companies. She is one of the founding members of the San Francisco-based theater company the Primitive Screwheads, where she serves as a costume designer and performer. She is best known for her recurring role as the Sparkle Tossing Unicorn. She performs as a dancer with local bands and enjoys creating absurd spectacles with local variety shows. Dress up is her favorite activity and she believes people should wear costumes as much as possible.
Sarah coordinates Self-Expression and Empowerment Workshops through textile design for HOPE Art.
Contact Sarah Boll: sarah@projecthopeart.org
About Sylwia:
Click. Track. Crossfade. We are lucky enough to have a woman on our team who brings chroma key, jump cuts and posterization into our art vernacular. Sylwia Jarosz brings people together to produce varieties of projects ranging from video production, to dance and graphic design. Jarosz picked up her skills getting her Associates of the Arts in Digital Video production and working in a variety of media fields. Her most memorable production experience involves documenting a high school football in Seattle, and producing her own Public Access show to share the team’s success with the world.
A Jill of many trades, Sylwia also loves gardening, animals, and helping other artists and funtrepreneurs jump start their projects and ideas. She believes in the importance of networking people and ideas together. Just like spiders in the beloved animal kingdom, she understand and promotes people to collaborate and weave their beautiful life webs together in harmony.
One of her favorite quotes is attributed to Charles Darwin, “ In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.”
Contact Sylwia Jarosz: sylwia@projecthopeart.org
About Kathy:
Kathy Barbro first earned her B.F.A. at Minneapolis College of Arts and Design, and then enjoyed a 20-year career in graphic design. She now teaches twenty K-5 classes weekly in Sherman Oaks, CA and also conduct an after-school Art Enrichment program. With over 600 classroom-tested art projects posted to my blog, I’m happy to pass on my ideas and experiences to all who would like to add a little more creativity to their lives.
Contact Kathy Barbro: Kathy@projecthopeart.org
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