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Moringa Tree Planters

June 30, 2012 by hyperenthusiasm

Project Hope Art is ready to go with our Moringa Tree Planter Project using recycled materials! In this case, we have coffee sacks and wire coat hangers. First, you take apart the hanger and make a circle. Then thread it through the open top of the coffee sack, which may have to get cut down depending on how large you want to make it. Use any excess wire to hang your planter! I’m thrilled to share this experiment with the […]

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Why Choose Art?

June 8, 2012 by hyperenthusiasm

One of the most powerful stories of inspiration for this mission came from the diary of Lieutenant Colonel Mervin Willett Gonin, who was amongst the first British soldiers to liberate the concentration camp, Bergen-Belsen in 1945. “It was shortly after the British Red Cross arrived, though it may have no connection, that a very large quantity of lipstick arrived. This was not at all what we men wanted, we were screaming for hundreds and thousands of other things and I […]

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Project Hope Art gears up for The Bounce Festival!

June 6, 2012 by hyperenthusiasm

  Birds! Flowers! Art! This year The Bounce Festival is pairing up with Project HOPE Art, a group of artists who provide art healing workshops for kids in Haiti. You have a chance to make a difference, support the Intentional Whimsy movement and take your very own piece of The Bounce home! This year’s stage design will have cut outs of animals and flowers designed by the children in Haiti that Project HOPE Art has been working with for the […]

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