KLH Paintings below to be auctioned %
to charity
ART AUCTION
UPDATE: Sadly the owner of the ART FOR KATRINA site closed
the site due to
lack of interested buyers, only 1 month after the hurricane the site closed.
Together we raised about $1000 to send to charity.
Since art for Katrina is closed- I may sell my art directly on ebay with a % of money going to a Mission Fish charity...... look on ebay & search "KLH Art" for my auctions.
In the meantime check out this charity for artists: http://www.yoyita.com/Mississippi_Artists/How_to_help.html
The artists listed have some amazing work click on the above site if you wish to learn more about the effected artists. You can support their hurricane recovery by buying art directly from them, sending them supplies.
Info: Mississippi artists are in great need. They have
lost their house, their studios, their customers and their way to earn a
living with the hurricanes.Organizations as the Red Cross are first
responders, therefore they can not help the individual artists. We need you to
help them. No amount is so small. Atelier Yoyita as a response to the tragedy
is helping the affected Mississippi Artists creating a web page for them to
showcase their art and hosting them at no charge.You can buy their art, donate equipment and supplies, or donate cash.You can place a link to http://www.yoyita.com
to get some exposure to these artists.
You can help asking your local galleries to carry these artists works, or
asking them for opportunities to exhibit for them.You can donate, cash, equipment as
kilns, art supplies, mat cutters, frame cutters, framing equipment, paints,
brushes, etc. we have artists in need who are sculptors, glass artists, fine
art, etc. directly to each artist.
Art For Katrina Auctions--- website down now.
Artists all over the world are organizing and collaborating
to turn their artwork into donation funds to assist the relief effort for
hurricane Katrina. The artists are donating 100% of proceeds to Hurricane
Katrina Relief funds guaranteed through Ebay and Mission Fish charity auction.
All artists are welcome to contribute!
(site closed) Visit the site www.artforkatrina.com
to see all art donated,there are many talented artists who are donating to this cause!The starting prices for these auctions are a significant discount from gallery
prices. Artists have donated amazing paintings, drawings, prints, scarves, shirts, &
unique works.
You may find a piece of art you'd love to have & this is great opportunity to support the arts while giving to a worthy cause! My new painting series is created especially for this auction
Auction Paintings-New Paintings
Art For Katrina Series September 2005
# 1 Art For Katrina Series "Tears in Blue" #2 Art for Katrina Series
"Hope"
18"X24" acrylic on canvas
acrylic on canvas 11"x14"
sold @ art for katrina
sold @ art for katrina
#3 Art for Katrina Series "Bloom" # 4 Art for Katrina Series "Emerging Light"
acrylic on canvas 17"x24"
acrylic on canvas 12"x16"
(sold at artforkatrina.com)
#5 Art for Katrina Series
"Reflection"
#6 Art for Katrina Series "Connections"
acrylic on canvas 11"x14"
acrylic/inks on
canvas 11"x14"
Sold @ art for katrina
# 7 Art for Katrina Series "Colors of Jazz "
Close up of "Colors of Jazz"
acrylic on canvas board 16"x20"
The grey color is "bluer" than this photo
Some of these are left and did not sell at Artforkatrina because the site shut down
... I may send to the STAR Outsider Art Collection in Tennessee , unless someone really wants it and can donate a reasonal amount to a Charity for Gulf Artists or musicians- if so then I will ship the painting to you, once you send receipt for your donation to a art/music charity in Katrina effected areas. If you are interested contact me
#9 Art for
Katrina Series "Tear"
Mixed Media 12"x16" canvas
#9 Close ups of the mixed media above
This mixed media is made with acrylics, newspaper, broken glass, broken mirror,
screen, newspaper print, handmade paper, puzzle pieces, and seeds. When I set
out to paint it I expected the colors to be more harsh or bold, but this is how
it wished to be created. The profile on the side looks like my friend, Dominic,
who was murdered 10 years ago while living down south. I was thinking of painting Martin Luther King,
but this is how the painting turned out. I like to think that my
friend is looking down from a higher perspective...when he died in lieu of
flowers, he had mentioned if he ever died to give donations for the Food Pantry
and homeless shelters....so this is a way of sharing that good will my friend
had with the hurricane victims.
All KLH art is signed by artist and labeled on back "art for kartrina" series # and title
Art is my
passion, my healer, and my hope. I hope that that my art
sparks and speaks to the
creativity within you and that you too discover the
potential of art to bring hope, passion, and healing.
We can share our creativity and each find a way to bring hope to those who need it most.
Art Heals!
Thanks KLH
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Another art charity I came across for artists impacted by disasters:
More info/older news about the closed auction & the charities benefited with a press release are below
NEWS 9/27/05: Well the sun finally came out here today, so I was able to take the paintings outside and take a few photos. They are digital photos, I had lent my good old 35mm SLR to someone and I just got it back tonight. So I am looking forward to taking some more photos tomorrow, I find I have more luck with the colors being true to life with 35mm. In the meantime I am working on some new digital art- so check back this weekend. I'm shipping out 3 paintings to Art For Katrina in NY tomorrow, so bidding will start soon.
I'm working on compiling my
original paintings and digital art to make a new KLH ART DVD set to original
music for charity."KLH Art DVD for Katrina". I was thinking about
which charity and just became aware of The Katrina Musician’s Relief Fund and
the specific Habitat for Humanity of New Orleans. Marsalis is Honorary Chair for
Habitat for Humanity's New Orleans Relief effort and has also established the
Hurricane Katrina Musicians Relief Fund. For
more info about the
Music
Fund is here.
Contact KLH Art-
email list to be notified when the "KLH Outsider Art DVD For Katrina"
is done. You can then write a check or money order directly to the Music
Fund or Habitat and then I will mail you the DVD
NEWS Sept 24-2005: Art For Katrina is now mixing up the charities that benefit from their art auctions. Each painting up for auction has a notice of which charity the funds are going to with information about the charity in a link. If you buy a new piece of art, your are giving to hurricane relief + you get tax deduction and a piece new artwork.
ART NEWS- ART AUCTION
Press Release- September 14,
2005
All artists are welcome to donate art for the charity auction fundraiser, Art For Katrina. One artist who found a way to contribute is KLH, an outsider artist whose artwork is archived in The STAR Outsider Art Collection at Vanderbilt University. She has created and donated a brand new series of paintings to raise money for hurricane relief.
She was raised in Massachusetts and has witnessed firsthand the destructive forces of several hurricanes over the years on Cape Cod. She also has lived in the south, both Virginia and near Nashville, TN. She now resides in
New England. Her bold abstract art has been exhibited at The Global Art Project,
The House of Blues Cambridge, and New England art festivals and cafes.
Being a self taught, outsider artist easily categorizes her as a starving artist as well. But when she saw the sadness and despair in the Gulf States after Hurricane Katrina she knew she had to find a way to contribute to the relief efforts. While searching online
she found a group of artists joining together to raise money for Katrina evacuees at Art For Katrina. After talking to the site’s creator artist Collin David, of N.Y. she decided to join the efforts. Art For Katrina series are paintings created especially for the hurricane relief auction.
Visit the art auction at www.artforkatrina.com
to see the grassroots outpouring of beautiful artwork donated by talented
artists. Everyone is invited to contribute and participate, whether you are an artist who can donate artwork or an art aficionado looking to buy a new piece of artwork.
More specifics about Art For Katrina:
The present Art For Katrina auctions are being donated to the charity Direct Relief International (note: as of Sept 24th- the Katrina art auctions are going to various charities, all 100% through Mission Fish Charity auctions)
Here is the Direct Relief policy on Hurricane Katrina Donations read below or the link here for more info.
If
you designate your contribution for Hurricane Katrina, we will use 100% of the
contribution for expenses directly related to Katrina and nothing else. We
believe this is a simple concept, but we also think it is important to spell out
what exactly it means to us when we receive a donation designated for Hurricane
Katrina relief.
Direct
Relief never uses a specific tragedy for general fundraising efforts for our
organization. We also do not use a specific incident such as the Katrina
emergency to solicit funds for a loosely defined “disaster fund” or a fund
“to help these victims and others victims of tragedy.”
This
is not because other tragedies deserve less – we have responded to
humanitarian crises for 57 years – but because we believe it is wrong to show
a picture of current victims in a particular place without committing to help
those specific victims with money that is given for their assistance.
We
will not use Katrina funds to pay for any salaries, rent, administrative
expenses, or anything else that we had already anticipated in our budget -
despite the fact that we are devoting these resources extensively now to the
Katrina relief effort.
We
always have the significant challenge of raising money for these expenses, but
we do not believe it is appropriate to cover these pre-existing expenses with
money that is clearly intended to help victims of Hurricane Katrina. We don’t
consider funds we receive specifically for Katrina “Direct Relief’s money”
but rather money people have given to us to do the right thing for victims of
Katrina. We believe it is for them and that we are trustees – to both you and
them – to make sure it serves them in the most effective way possible.
Here’s
what we will spend your money on:
We will spend Katrina-designated donations on new expenses directly related to
Katrina that we have not anticipated in our budget. These expenses will include
such things as purchasing medicines that are otherwise not available and packing
and shipping costs to health facilities in the region. This is our particular
area of expertise and the needs in this area are significant.
If
we have available funds, we also will provide cash assistance to front-line
health facilities to cover their increased expenses. If what we do ever becomes
not what is needed or is otherwise addressed through a better source, we will
give the money to a trusted, credible organization in the region that can help
address other essential needs for the people.
For
credit card donations, as on this site, we must pay a fee of approximately 2% to
the credit card processing company. This is an unavoidable “administrative
expense” that we believe is right to use the money you contribute to pay the
cost of this transaction. We want to be clear about this because, in effect, it
does reduce a dollar to 98 cents, but it is an unavoidable expense for us and
not one that pays our salaries, or electricity bills, or other expenses.
This
policy is consistent with our actions following September 11 and the tsunami
last December. Those policies are on this website, and you can read about how we
spent money in strict accordance with these policies. General undesignated
contributions to our organizations are always much needed for us to function.
Indeed, because we receive general funds, we have been able to respond fast and
extensively to the Katrina emergency.
However,
we want any person considering making a contribution specifically for Katrina to
know that we will honor that intent and how we will do so.
Thank you for your generosity,
Thomas Tighe
President and CEO
Posted: September 9, 2005
Thanks for visiting and I hope the spirit of creativity has gently landed on your shoulder!
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