Category: Fundraiser

Help keep Project HOPE Art OPEN (for another year!)

October 27, 2015 Melissa Schilling Art Projects, Fundraiser, Join the Team, Partners, Thank Yous, Visual Storytelling

We are skipping our annual Donor Dinner this year in lieu of a Holiday Auction. We are also asking for cold hard cash to keep us open, operating and able to help our friends in Haiti for another year.

Project HOPE Art is now a 501C3! To help support HOPE Art and keep art alive for kids in Haiti, please consider making a tax-deductible donation. Your donation is greatly appreciated!Please give what you can, every teensy little bit helps: https://www.paypal.me/hopeart

DONATE ONLINE NOW! SEND A PAYPAL DONATION TO: DONATIONS@PROJECTHOPEART.ORG

To Donate via Check: Please make checks out to Hope Art, Inc and mail to: Project HOPE Art, 2322 Humboldt Ave, Oakland, CA 94601. Please include a note that contains current contact information so that we can make sure you get a receipt for your donation. We are always open to accept donations, large and small. Thank you for your support!

HOW YOUR DONATION HELPS:

$50 gives art supplies to a hospital $100 provides a classroom of students sketch books to keep a creative journal $250 employs local interpreters for our artists $500 offers the opportunity for orphans to learn a creative trade $750 buys an artist transportation from the US to Haiti $1000 supports “the frame”; what holds PHA together and keeps us creative

Haiti Five Years Later: Women on the Ground

September 15, 2014December 16, 2014 Melissa Schilling Fundraiser, Haitian Culture/Language, Partners, Visual Storytelling

For just $10 you can hear the powerful words of four incredible women.
Join us as we inspire, educate and present: Haiti!

Tue, Dec 2 2014 – 6:30pm
Malya Villard-Appolon, Founder of KOFAVIV
Michèle Duvivier Pierre-Louis, Ph.D., Former Prime Minister of Haiti
Nicole Phillips, Esq., Attorney for the Institute for Justice & Democracy in Haiti
Megan Coffee, M.D., Ph.D., Founder of Ti Kay Haiti

“Gason konn bouke, men pa fanm.”—in Kreyòl
“Women’s work never ends.”

On January 12, 2010, Haiti was hit by a catastrophic magnitude 7.0 earthquake, killing approximately 150,000 people and crippling the nation. The earthquake and its 52 aftershocks exacerbated longstanding challenges of housing, sanitation, health care and gender violence. Five years later, Haiti is still picking up the pieces, often with women leading the charge. Hear the incredible stories of women on the ground, from Dr. Megan Coffee who went to Haiti to treat earthquake victims and never left, establishing and running a tuberculosis clinic in Port-au-Prince, to Malya Villard, a victim of rape in Haiti who boldly founded and now runs KOFAVIV to uplift victims of sexual violence, despite threats against her life for doing so.
Tickets Here

Learn More about This Event on December 2nd, 2014:
CC Site: http://bit.ly/Haiti-info

Facebook: http://bit.ly/Haiti-fb

EventBrite: http://bit.ly/Haiti-EB

4th Annual Donor Dinner || August 8, 2014

July 27, 2014August 19, 2014 Melissa Schilling Fundraiser, Haitian Culture/Language, Visual Storytelling

Join Rara Tou Limen Dance Company & Project HOPE Art as we open RASANBLE! Haitian Arts & Culture Festival 2014
Friday, Aug 08 2014 6:30 pm
Tickets Here!
A Taste of Haiti: An Art Benefit & Dinner
“Art is the Universal Language”

Sample the vibrant culture, flavors and beats of Haiti to benefit Rara Tou Limen’s Cultural Exchange Trip to Haiti this summer, and Project HOPE’s art programming in Port au Prince and the Bay Area

Dance Performance by Portsha Jefferson & Rara Tou Limen Dance Company
Dinner by: Pierre-Richard Leurbourg *RASANBLE! Special Guest
Art Show by Melissa Schilling and Fanel Duce
Wine Bar by Local, California Wineries
Friday, August 8, 2014 at 6:30 PM
390 27th Street, midtown Oakland, CA 94612-3104

N’ap Boule! Welcome to the ticket page for A Taste of Haiti.
We appreciate your support and are gearing up for an explosion of Caribbean food and Collaborative Haitian-American art. Join us for our Friday Night gallery show featuring photos of Rara Tou Limen rendered by Atis Rezistans artist Fanel Duce. Lets celebrate with drums, drink specials and dinner.

Oakland, California
Rara Tou Limen Dance Company has an objective to help nurture and grow Haitian dance and musical traditions in the Bay Area. Accompanied by dancers, vocalists and celebrated musicians, the company brings to the stage a wide spectrum of diverse Haitian dance forms, from vibrant rituals of Vodou, the turbulent legacy of political struggle, to the celebratory and festive dances of Carnival, Rara Tou Limen is at the cutting edge of the evolution of Haitian dance and music in the Bay Area. The use of traditional rhythms, chants and movement integrates the grace, strength, fluidity and precision of Haitian folkloric dance.

Port-Au-Prince, Haiti
Project Hope Art gives a voice to those survivors of the Haitian tent Camps. Project HOPE Art uses art as a vehicle to inspire, to educate and to create intentional whimsy. We work with children in hospitals, orphanages, schools and communities in disaster stricken areas, utilizing art to help establish self esteem, self expression, self respect and stress relief for our students. We create art for art’s sake, while educating through our art, science, nutrition and literacy programs. We twirl in tutus and face paint because it’s good for the soul. Since our inception in January 2010 we have made multiple trips to Haiti and have recently launched a Visiting Artist Program, creating a sustainable way for artists in any medium to share their creativity with our kids and project partners as we strive towards our mission to inspire, heal and improve the quality of life for children in need.

Support.

We will be co-hosting 1 amazing night in August. @ The Humanist Hall in Oakland, CA
Tickets in Advance $35
Tickets at the Door $45
Childrens Tickets $25

Art Show and Wine Bar 6:30pm
Dinner 7:30pm
Raffle Prizes Announced 8:30
Dance Performance 8:45
Silent Auction Winners Announced 9:30
Doors Close 10pm

Rara Tou Limen
presents:
RASANBLE! Haitian Arts & Culture Festival 2014
August 8-10

Humanist Hall
390 27th Street
Oakland, CA

Folkloric Dance Workshops * Kreyol Language Classes * Vodou Song Class * Drum Circle * Haitian Cuisine * Lectures * Performance * Vendors *
Art Benefit * Gallery

3 days of immersion in spirited conversations, open inquiries, dynamic technique analysis, and community exchange with traditional artists from Haiti.

RASANBLE! Haitian Arts & Culture Festival is made possible with the generous support of Alliance for California Traditional Arts, Zellerbach Family Foundation, Everyday Magic, and the Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation.

www.raratoulimen.com
www.projecthopeart.org

Rooz Cafe presents . . . The Industry Collaborative Show!

June 12, 2014June 12, 2014 Melissa Schilling 2014 Gardening Class, Fundraiser, short story series

Join us for a Happy Hour Reception at Rooz Cafe.
1918 Park Blvd, Oakland CA 94606
Thursday, June 12th 6-10pm

Mimosas, Beer and Espresso await you along with the sounds of Brass Tax dj’s Ernie Trevino, Alex Mace and maybe a sneak attack by Denim Ding Dong (DDD)aaaand an ambient musical performance by local, Oakland duo Charlemagne Charmaine and William Korte.
(Catharsis for Cathedral, Brasil, Drifting House)

Featuring POP-UP PONCHOS by SuperSugarRayRay
and a pop-up jewelry show by Tidalware Jewelry (Sharla Pidd).

6-7:30 Charlemagne Charmaine and William Korte
7:30-10 Brass Tax

…About the Art Show…
Industry: an activity or domain in which a great deal of time or effort is expended a group show examining hard work in specific artistic genres and spheres of life

Martin Goicoechea: Women
Exploring the female form through a variety of mixed media methods including: acrylics, transfers, watercolor, ink, wood block and charcoal.
Contact: Martin.Goicochea@me.com

Melissa Schilling: Automobile Photography
The automotive industry in the United States began in the 1890s and, as a result of the size of the domestic market and the use of mass-production, rapidly evolved into the largest in the world. These photographs represent frozen in time moments in Havana, Cuba where many cars from the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s permeate the roadways and garages.
It was such a thrill (on blueberry hill) to experience car travel the way my grandparents experienced it.
www.melissaschilling.com

Nick Huckleberry: Recycled Creations
Its overwhelming what is thrown out these days. A large busy metal shop may throw out bunches of pieces as general waste to them but gold to the artist. I have salvaged most of my materials, always trying to bring nature to the pieces by incorporating organic shapes. Bringing new life to old waste is a way of using energies of the old and introducing them to the new, creating a balanced harmony.
www.trueburningreality.com

Project HOPE Art: Cyanotype
Art in Haiti usually requires less materials and more creativity. For this project we needed only the sun, vegetables from our garden and a few chemicals.
Cyanotype is a photographic printing process that produces a cyan-blue print. Engineers used the process well into the 20th century as a simple and low-cost process to produce copies of drawings, referred to as blueprints. The process uses two chemicals: ammonium iron(III) citrate and potassium ferricyanide.

Students in a Gardening Class in Port au Prince, Haiti created these cyanotype prints in February 2014. This was their very first time mixing chemicals and using their “design” eye to arrange kitchen utensils, fruits and vegetables on textured watercolor paper for 10 minutes under the brilliant Caribbean sun.
www.projecthopeart.org

Sarah Miller: Textile Photography
Laundry and People on the streets of Calcutta.
Contact: sarahmiller23@gmail.com

Let’s Get Messy! Art Class Fundraiser

May 6, 2014 Melissa Schilling Fundraiser

RSVP: Click Here

Where: 416 Dolores Street, San Francisco, CA 94110
When: Wednesday, June 4th, 6-9pm
What: Want to try out your artist’s hand but not sure where to start?! Come get creative with me! PAINTING PARTIES in my studio workshop!! Classes cover a wide array of topics and mediums, and you will learn color theory, gesture, composition, and brush stroke techniques…and if all goes well, you will take home a finished piece each class! Plus, there is WINE involved! And lots of dates to choose from!

Here are the deets:
• Classes are 6-9pm, but start/end times are flexible, as I know that people are coming from work and heading out to hot dance parties. (right?)
• $40 per class ($35 if you pay in cash) and ALL supplies and a glass of wine are included! (I accept cash/check/credit/paypal)
• Shoot me a message or call/text 303-817-5830 to reserve your spot or if you have any questions!

* Tuesday, May 6th, 6-9pm: Playing With Color: Learn the Color Wheel, Mixing Color and Brush Techniques!

* Monday, May 19th, 6-9pm: Replicating a Master Painting: Van Gogh! (Specific image yet to be determined…let me know if you have preferences!)

* Wednesday, June 4th, 6-9pm: Oil Pastel Rothko Class: Experiment with mixing and blending color and create your very own set of Rothko-inspired Drawings! [FUNDRAISER CLASS!!!! All the proceeds from this class benefit Project HOPE Art and my upcoming workshop I will be teaching in Haiti!! Please Spread the word!]

*Classes must have at least 3 people to run, or they may be subject to cancellation. Tell your friends and feel free to add them to this event!

There are lots of upcoming classes, but I’m always happy to add on new classes, so feel free to let me know if you have any great ideas, would prefer a different topic or medium, or if you have certain evenings (or weekends) that work better than others! I’m VERY flexible and want as many people as possible to be able to explore their artist side! If money is an issue, let me know and maybe we can do a trade or find a creative solution!!

Can’t wait to get messy with you beautiful people!