MISSION TO GIVE COLORADO ARTISTS A CHANCE TO EXPRESS THEMSELVES

I created an exhibit where the artist's piece represented a social issue that matters to them. I also secured 3 curators and donated all the screen printing. $3,650 sales went to the artists, $1,375 to Headwaters Protectors, $1,375 to the Black Loves Mural Festival, and $600 went back to Ink Lounge to cover event materials, muralist costs, and shipping.

MISSION FOCUSED ON BUILDING A RELATIONSHIP ACCESS GALLERY WEBSITE

Access Gallery is an inclusive nonprofit organization that engages the community by opening doors to creative, educational and economic opportunities for people with disabilities to access, experience and benefit from the arts. I've run workshops & speaker presentations, assisted & printed to included their artists in our openings, and donated proceeds from events.

MISSION TO SHARE MY RESOURCES WITH INDIVIDUALS AND NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS

I am privileged to be paid well for the commercial work I do, so I donate resources to individuals and organizations to support their work. Everything from design, covering open studio fees, reduced or donated printing, even providing screen printing instruction. It's the least I can do to help others who are taking the initiative to do good things for the world.

MISSION TO GET IN THE WAY

I created a first amendment event and voter registration drive with the help of great volunteers. For the exhibit I designed, screen printed, and fabricated 12 6ft signs to form a sculpture garden and 200 standard size to sell. 50% of sales benefited BLM5280 and Future Coalition. My wife and I also completed the tests to receive our Voter Registration Drive certificates.

MISSION USING MY PRIVILEGE TO HELP OTHERS

During the stay at home order, I created an online art exhibit to benefit 25 artists and Access Gallery, a local non-profit. For each artist I printed 100, CMYK screen prints at 50% my normal rate. I donated the printing to the 4 Access Gallery artists and with the exception of shipping fees, all sales went directly back to the artist with a portion also benefiting Access Gallery.

MISSION THE POWER OF PRINT

The main reason I design social posters is to give people a message to display on their wall to remind them daily of why they were protesting. Over the past 3 years I've handed out close to 2,000 posters that I've self-funded as way for me to use my skills and resources to get in the way. My wife, and a few others, have been super cool and helped me distribute!

MISSION CREATE UNIQUE EVENTS TO BENEFIT MANY

An fun outdoor summer market where all the vendors had products for your pooch. 100% of beverage sales went to MaxFund Animal Adoption Center and many of the vendors also donated a portion of their sales that day. It was a great day where the diversity of the audience was only outmatched by the breeds of dogs.

MISSION CREATE UNIQUE EVENTS TO BENEFIT MANY

Holiday ManCraft ran 2011-2015 and ManCraftival from 2015-2016. It seems weird now, but at the time guys were just starting to stumble into craft markets. The markets venues were intentional from a whiskey distillery, to a VFW, and finally The Forney Museum of Transportation. The last 3 years the non-profit venues received 100% of the drink sales.