Art Benefiting Japan
This post needs no long, drawn out explanation. My heart aches for Japan, and I’m amazed by all the creative people out there right now donating their profits to the earthquake relief efforts, and proud of the blogging and creative community coming together like this. I rounded up my favorite 100% profit donation shops/items (because otherwise the list would be impossible to choose! There are countless people donating a portion of their proceeds as well), please feel free to leave in the comments others you know of doing the same.
1. Joseph O. Holmes print on 20×200
2. All sales at Yokomono Studio
3. All sales at Cake With Giants til Sunday
4. All sales in Mike Perry’s shop during the month of March.
5. W+K Help Japan Poster
6. Handmade For Japan Auction, March 24-27
7. Birds in the Bush print, by Susan Schwake at Working Proof Studio
8. Debbie Carlos raffle for any of her prints
9. All sales at Hilda Grahnat’s print shop
This is taking the place of Friday Bits because I’m taking a four-day weekend to spend quality time with my bestie who’s flying into town and I won’t have time before then to pull something together. No better time than now to spend time with those you care about that you don’t get to see very often, and thank your lucky stars that you get to. The earthquake has also made Will and I realize that we need to make an earthquake kit, stat. It’s been a long time since I made one.
Bits Of My Weekend won’t come til Tuesday, but that doesn’t mean you should stay away on Monday, because I have something very fun in store for you.
Take care, friends.
March 17th, 2011 at 8:52 am
youre a gem. thanks, Kate. :)
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March 17th, 2011 at 9:59 am
Have a wonderful weekend, Kate!
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March 17th, 2011 at 1:08 pm
hey,
hello sandwich has amazing info/ updates on japan (as she lives in Tokyo) + she is also selling her zine to donate all to Red Cross.
praying for my homeland xx
http://hellosandwich.blogspot.com/2011/03/3-11-earthquake-japan-please-help.html
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March 17th, 2011 at 1:10 pm
oh so awesome Kate!!!
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March 17th, 2011 at 1:27 pm
Amazing. Such beauty even amidst the broken. Thanks for sharing! xoxo
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March 17th, 2011 at 2:01 pm
That eggs of australia print is crazy pretty. I actually bought the working proof print along with some Thousand Cranes cards from TOTA Press. http://shop.totapress.com/product/thousand-cranes-japan-earthquake-and-pacific-tsunami-relief-edition Also 100% donation.
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March 18th, 2011 at 3:24 am
My heart swells when I see so many people trying to help, it’s amazing. Thanks for gathering these shops!
I’ve come across another idea here: http://www.hirondellesblog.com/2011/03/unemployed-on-wednesday-lets-make-wish.html
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March 18th, 2011 at 4:46 am
These look all great. Thanks for sharing! And I hope your weekend is very very good!
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March 19th, 2011 at 4:08 pm
I purchased this one I found through mymodernmet. All proceeds go towards Japan relief efforts. I love the other picks as well, and my heart goes out to the people of Japan. Wonderful post!
http://fullbleed.imagekind.com/store/imagedetail.aspx/a8eff957-6b4b-45a2-a965-5cb4ca7c7643/Help_Japan
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March 19th, 2011 at 7:25 pm
heartwarming :) and so beautiful :) oh, japan…
have a safe weekend, come back soon x
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March 19th, 2011 at 10:16 pm
Added your post as a link on my blog to help spread the word.
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March 27th, 2011 at 11:35 pm
Thankyou for compiling this wonderful list Kate! I am an artist/designer for Takara Gallery Japan, and would like to let people know that artists are cuttently donating 100% of their profits from the online store to the Japan red cross!
http://www.takara-garo.com/?mode=grp&gid=86087
Everyone can help no matter how small a donation you can manage – it’s all useful to the people who need it most! And with all these great art initiatives going on you can even get something super rad in the process!
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