Issue: Art Therapy
Organization: Art Is The Cure
This week, our featured artist was inspired by the previous post, Julie Fordham. Julie passed Rich’s name along to me, and I’m tremendously excited to be featuring him and his organization, Art Is The Cure. Art Is The Cure helps people deal with pretty much any kind of problem imaginable as a positive release of pain and emotion through creative releases. Rich had this to say about how he got started:
Issue: Various
Organization: Various
I continue to be amazed by all the stories that keep coming in from all of you. I hope you’ve all enjoyed hearing the stories of others using their art to affect some kind of positive change. This week, I’m featuring Julie Fordham, an artist that stumbled upon my blog recently and has been an incredible encouragement and has passed several other names along to me that I hope to feature in the future.
I encourage you to check out her blog, which can be found by clicking here, or taking a further look at some of her art, which is posted on her Deviant Art page. Julie considers herself a mixed media collage artist, and says, “I use whatever I can get my hands on.” (That’s the spirit…)
Julie says she’s passionate about so many things, but her art is focused on depression, suicide, self injury, and eating disorders. She’s got a great heart, and shared this story on her art with me:
Issue: Human Trafficking
Organization: Born To Fly
I definitely have a heart for a great number of social justice causes, but I make no secrets about the fact that my true passion lies in ending human trafficking. In the future, I hope to create blog posts that have more of an article slant, informing you all about the issues behind the artists here, where I’ll be able to talk a bit more about my own thoughts and experiences, how they relate to art, and what you can do (as well as featuring guest bloggers who will do the same). My guess is that a good deal of that content will focus around human trafficking, because in my own research, and in my time wandering around social media sites, I’ve come across some major players in the battle to end modern-day slavery, and they have a lot to say.
A couple of those players happen to be Diana Scimone and her friend Leah Widemer. Diana passed some information along to me via Twitter (@DianaScimone) a couple weeks ago about a new project she’s working on with Leah, an artist located in Orlando, Florida, who’s helping her illustrate a new children’s book aimed at combating human trafficking. So, when I got in touch with Leah, she relayed this story to me:
Issue: Clean Water
Organization: Jedidiah USA
Just a quick update this week, as I’ve been working on a lot of design work for clients, but another amazing artist from Jedidiah USA I think you should definitely check out. Jeremy Asher Lynch does a lot of work relating to clean water.
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"Justice at its best is love correcting all that stands against love."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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