HOPE Art is now fiscally sponsored by Fractured Atlas!

We are always open to accept donations, large and small.
Thank You.

$20
Oodles of Doodles
Supplies are limited in Haiti, but doodling only requires a pencil and paper…then the imagination can take over! Drawing is the basis for all other art forms, is great practice for developing fine motor skills and is linked to learning in science and math. Your donation provides art supplies for one drawing project to a classroom in Haiti.

$40
Up-Cycled Artworks
There can be more than one solution to the same problem, art teaches open-ended thinking and presents a culture of questions rather than a culture of answers. Your donation can provide training on how to turn trash into sell-able art such as bags, wallets and baskets. This can help Haitians think creatively about the resources they do have and turn them into an income for their family.

$50
Chalk the Walls
Children learn through their senses and by examples from their educators. Chalk boards allow teachers to express their ideas visually — making for a better learning experience for both them and the children they teach. Most schools in Haiti don’t have chalkboards. Your donation will paint the wall of a school or orphanage with chalk board paint and provide a supply of chalk.

$85
Teeny Greenies
There is no garbage service in Haiti and trash is either burned or dumped. This project provides education to children and their families about ways to re-purpose, up-cycle and compost much their trash with artistically designed symbols for each container. Projects like this builds self-esteem and community pride, increases motivation, communication, nurtures teamwork, and strengthens our relationship to the environment.

$100
Crafty Kids
Over 400,000 children are orphans in Haiti, with resources and supplies stretched thin, artistic expression falls to the bottom of the list of needs for orphans. This donation provides the supplies and instruction for 3 art projects to be created at an orphanage. Children can share and reflect on their art to learn about themselves, each other, and the world in which they live.

$120
Artists-in-Training
Everyone knows that practice makes perfect, so that’s why providing sketch books and drawing tools to a classroom will give students the opportunity to perfect their drawing skills. Art allows one to grow from making mistakes, opens the heart and mind to possibilities and fuels the imagination. Art is a process of learning to create ourselves and experience the world in new ways.

$170
Painter’s Palette
Nothing changes a neighborhood like a community created mural, it will never be graffiti-ed or damaged because art brings the community together. This donation will provide all the supplies and resources needed to create a mural in a neighborhood or a school. Parent and guardian involvement in school governance and volunteer activities generates a love of learning and openness to new ideas that is there for all to see and respect.

$250
Color Wheels
Travelling to a village 20 miles outside of the Port-au-Prince area can take up to two hours and gas is expensive. Resources do not reach the surrounding villages of the capital easily, including those projects aimed to provide at-risk children with stimulating activities beyond their daily lives of survival. In order to bring the joy of art to a broad base of children from orphanages, schools, and medical clinics; reliable transportation is paramount to spreading the love. This generous donation will provide transportation for five days to the HOPE Art team to travel to and from each location in Haiti.

$500
Imagination Station
A years worth of art supplies delivered to a school in Haiti will not only make a lot of kids really happy, it will also strengthen focus, increase attention spans and develop hand eye co-ordination in those students. Art requires practice and strategic thinking and involves interacting with the material world through a variety of tools and mediums. Studies show that children who do art read better and do better in math and science… and you thought it was just paint and paper!

$850
Abstract Ideas
With this donation, teaching artists will pay it forward and provide Haitian teachers with hands on training, skills and materials to use art as a teaching tool in their daily classrooms. When art is integrated with other curriculum areas children become more engaged in the learning process. And children who are engaged in the learning process become adults who are creative, confident, inventive leaders.

$1000
“A” is for Art, “B” is for Books By, “C” is for Children
Only 50% of the Haitian population is literate and 33% of kids are visual learners, so art books just make sense for learning and growth. This generous donation will publish art books using the children’s drawings of words translated into English, Haitian Kreyol and French and distribute them to schools and orphanages in Haiti.

$1500
Art Space
Art is a means of communication and stress relief for many children who cannot express themselves in any other way. An Art Space donation provides an area for kids to come and have access to art supplies and space to express themselves. Creativity and self-expression has always been essential to our humanity. Our earliest creative expressions were recorded in petroglyphs, cave paintings, and ancient sculptures. One of the first things kids do is play, draw, and use their imaginations.

$5000
Creative Dream
Keep the magic alive and bring the creative dream to Haiti. Art opens the heart and mind to possibilities and fuels the imagination. Art is a process of learning to create and experience the world in new ways. You’ll provide a week of HOPE Art programing to kids in schools, orphanages, tent cities and hospitals. This contribution will bring teachers, students and art supplies together in an explosion of creative energy!

$10,000
Artists’ Studio
Art builds community and this over the top donation will help build and stock an art center with equipment, supplies, training and materials to create jobs, a sustainable income from art work sold and a place for community members to express their creativity. Art reaches across racial stereotypes, religious barriers, and socio-economic levels and prejudices. Seeing other cultures creative expression allows everyone to be more connected and less isolated. Art creates a sense of belonging.

Any Amount
Blank Canvas
Art nurtures the human soul! It feels good to do it! You can feel good about giving a donation of art because you choose how much you’d like to give and we’ll make sure your gift goes to where it is needed most.

Gifts made to HOPE Art represent a gift to the entire mission. To help the most number of children involved in creative expression, HOPE Art does not use its limited resources to track gift tiers from donation to distribution. We use your gifts where they can do the most good by pooling them with the gifts of others to help transform entire communities. And, because you are, giving the gift of creativity, your gift is tax deductible.

Resource Information from the Oakland Museum of Children’s Art (MOCHA), KinderArt and artist Mark Wagner