Artist Lolo Dederer is promoting prints on her Instagram to lift funds for Altadena-area households impacted by the fires. (picture courtesy Lolo Dederer)
During the last week, artists, studios, and galleries have launched paintings gross sales and raffles to fund hearth reduction efforts. The proceeds from these efforts profit impacted people, mutual assist networks, and nationwide organizations such because the American Crimson Cross. A few of these gross sales and raffles are rounded up in an inventory on the finish of this text.
Thomas Pilnik and his husband Jake Carvallo, who run the Los Angeles-based design studio Feia, evacuated their Highland Park neighborhood safely with no injury to their residence.
Pilnik’s “BIG TUFTED CIGGY” is the primary prize in Feia’s fundraising raffle. (picture courtesy Thomas Pilnik)
“I realized just how much of what I have cultivated around me contains whole universes of meaning, and just how devastated I would be if I lost it all,” Pilnik instructed Hyperallergic.
The couple is now internet hosting a raffle on Feia’s web site for 3 artworks by Pilnik, together with a big tufted cigar sculpture and a ceramic tangerine and pair of cube. The funds raised by their raffle, $15 per entry, shall be donated to particular person artists on GoFundMe and the Mutual Help LA Community.
“This series of fires has filled Los Angeles with a raw kind of grief,” Pilnik mentioned. “We can do our part to offer solidarity, empathy, and some secure footing so those who have lost everything can build new meaning, new foundations, and a clear path forward as quickly as possible.”
Outdoors LA, artist and up to date Columbia College graduate Lolo Dederer has been promoting linocut prints on her Instagram account since Friday, January 10. Dederer, at present primarily based in Washington, is asking for donations of a minimal of $10 in trade for her prints, which depict a human coronary heart with phrases comparable to “LA Forever.”
Pilnik’s “Ceramic Tangerine” is the second prize in Feia’s fundraising raffle. (picture courtesy Thomas Pilnik)
After just one submit on her Instagram story, which has slightly below 1,000 followers, Dederer mentioned she raised $450 and donated it to a GoFundMe for an Altadena household that misplaced their residence to the Eaton Hearth.
“It feels empowering to rally my community and provide something that provides joy and comfort and that can be a powerful tool to help people,” Dederer instructed Hyperallergic.
Dederer mentioned she selected the linocut medium for its relative effectivity, which permits her to supply many prints in a comparatively brief period of time. “I would encourage other artists to use [their skills] to redirect funds at this time — people underestimate it as a fundraising tool,” Dederer mentioned.
Beneath is an inventory of artwork fundraisers to help hearth restoration efforts. Be aware that Hyperallergic couldn’t individually vet every sale.
Feia Raffle: The design studio’s raffle is open till Wednesday, January 15, at 5pm Pacific Time. Tickets might be bought for $15 on Feia’s web site.
Lolo Dederer’s mutual assist linocut print Instagram drive: The minimal donation requested is $10 and is ongoing. Funds shall be donated to particular person GoFundMe campaigns, principally within the Altadena space. DM the artist to request a print.
Shepard Fairey’s limited-edition prints: Serial marketing campaign artist Shepard Fairey, most famously identified for designing Obama’s “HOPE” and Kamala Harris’s “FORWARD” posters, printed a design that includes a sparrow hovering above a flame, symbolizing resilience. Fairey wrote on Instagram that he’ll donate 100% of income from the sale of this LA-specific design, going for $80 every, to the American Crimson Cross and different vetted organizations supporting California wildfire reduction efforts. Pre-orders of the print opened on Monday and can stay on sale till Thursday, January 16 at 12pm Pacific Time.
Fairey mentioned he’ll donate 100% of income from print gross sales of this LA-specific design to the American Crimson Cross and different vetted organizations supporting California hearth reduction efforts. (picture courtesy Obey Large)Artwork fundraiser for Alec Egan: The artist, who was getting ready for a January 25 exhibition at Anat Egbi gallery, misplaced his residence and studio and all of his artworks for the present within the fires. Anat Egbi is promoting posters that includes work from his 2022 present Look Out; the entire proceeds will assist Egan. You should buy the poster right here for $100. Moreover, Kinstler Puzzles is promoting a 1,000-piece puzzle model of Egan’s oil portray “Cupcake with bouquet of flowers (dessert)” (2022) for $50 and donating all proceeds on to the artist.
Hashimoto Up to date Artwork Raffle: Over 30 artists, together with Devra Fox, Carlos Rodriguez, and Madeline Tonzi, have donated to an LA profit raffle hosted by the San Francisco and New York-based Hashimoto Up to date gallery. Entries are $10 every and the raffle closes at midnight Pacific Time on Wednesday, January 15.
Soey Milk Chine-Collé Raffle: Seoul-born artist and Pasadena-educated artist Soey Milk is raffling off a debossed Chine-Collé print to fundraise for affected people together with the founding couple of Fugu Fugu Press, an Altadena letterpress print enterprise that burned within the Eaton Hearth.
Pilnik’s pair of ceramic cube is the third prize in Feia’s fundraising raffle. (picture courtesy Thomas Pilnik)Brendan George Ko Butterfly Prints: The Ontario-born photographer, identified for his nature images featured within the New Yorker and New York Instances, is promoting prints of two butterfly pictures for $220 every. Proceeds will go to Mutual Help LA Community. DM the artist to order.
NY Loves LA T-shirt: The Brooklyn-based display screen printing studio Kingsland Editions is promoting a $50 T-shirt design that includes “New York” and “Los Angeles” sandwiching a large pink coronary heart. Proceeds will go towards the Mutual Help LA Community. You may order a shirt right here.
