#support arts

I can't keep quiet about this another second!

@wizwoe did this for me, a comission, and it's amazing and awesome and so very very Andrew, I need to share it!

They're going to have prints of it very soon, at their etsy store, that's HERE ---> https://www.etsy.com/shop/foolstemper/

This Giving Week, we are looking at the Northern Michigan University student organizations that give back to our local community. 

Meet the Arts of the U.P. organization, newly founded in the winter semester of 2019.

What does the organization do?

The intent of the organization is to help support and fund arts programs within public schools locally in the Upper Peninsula. We do a lot of volunteer work for the Michigan School Band and Orchestra Association (MSBOA). We help them with events such as Honor Band, solo and ensemble, and band festival. We also volunteered for the Percussive Arts Society last semester with the percussion camp that they ran here at NMU. 

What events does your organization put on or participate in?

Arts of the U.P. just finished our very first big event (Halloween Havoc), which was a Halloween party that included a costume contest with prizes provided by dining, live music, pumpkin painting, and treats/refreshments. It was very successful and all proceeds go towards art programs within the U.P.

This semester, we came up with an organized plan to help all of the different art forms that exist. We will be supporting creative writing/poetry in the month of February, March is music and theater month, and April is visual arts month. Each of these months will have an event/fundraiser held to support the corresponding art. Events such as poetry slamming in February or a photography competition in April will take place to support those forms of art. 

A lottery will also take place each month of the winter semester to support local schools. Each participating school's name will be drawn from a hat and depending on what art we are supporting in that month, they will receive supplies to support that specific art program within their school system. We also have fun creative fundraisers once a month that go towards supporting the arts.

Further comments about your organization? 

#GivingTuesday - November 27, 2018

Help support the arts in the #SunsetDistrict of San Francisco by supporting Sunset Music and Arts.

Sunset Music and Arts  is dedicated to providing innovative, high-quality, affordable music and arts programs to people of all ages, in the Sunset district of San Francisco. In addition, we occasionally conduct a variety of workshops focusing on the arts. The initiative is a community offering generously provided by the Episcopal Church of the Incarnation, San Francisco, where we have the use of the beautiful space, wonderful acoustics, and the use of a grand piano and pipe organ.

You can support us financially via PayPal (https://sunsetarts.wordpress.com/donate/)  or sending us a check payable to:

Episcopal Church of the Incarnation 1750 29th Avenue San Francisco CA 94122

This is the online hub for Gislebertus hoc fecit, a two-person artist collective comprised of Nicole Brown and A. Gislebertus.  We make all kinds of work, and are also available for commission, so email us at [email protected] if you’re interested in that.

Additionally, Nicole is a founder of a student artist collective in the five college area of western Massachusetts called Hotbed.  Hotbed will be producing and distributing zines later this month which will be FREE.  We’ll post a link to the online version when they come out!  Hotbed is an activist student group which is working to critique and push back against the myriad institutional problems in the art world and to reinvent the presentation of art.  Hotbed hopes to inspire growth for artists and art-consumers.  Though Hotbed is specific to one geographic location as a group, the work will be more broadly applicable, and the publications will be open source online, so if you’re interested, check it out!  We have a facebook page and an email [[email protected]].