Proceeds from all projects go towards donations to regional crisis centers and associated organizations as listed. If you are a working artist and have a project you would like to propose, please email us with a full description of your project, your cv & website information, and which charitable organization you seek to represent.
Depressed Cake Shop
The Depressed Cake Shop seeks to raise funds for mental health resources and awareness about mental health through the sale of baked goods! This is a grassroots effort started by Art Against Assault in conjunction with The Hive Gallery and the Los Angeles LGBT Center. Over 20 bakers local to Los Angeles will contribute a variety of greyish baked goods with splashes of rainbow to inspire hope. This is just one of many Depressed Cake Shops that have sprung up all over the globe since 2013 raising over 7 million for mental health resources!
Location: The Hive Gallery 729 S. Spring St. Los Angeles, CA
Date / Time: December 18th, 1pm – 5pm
JARRING III: Artists’ Books to Break the Silence
JARRING III is a set of letterpress and handmade set of 3 books in an edition of 50 that share the anonymously submitted narratives of 22 survivors of sexual assault to raise funds for crisis centers.
Learn more about the project here.
I Am Not An Object Tumblr Roll
A social media campaign to create street harassment awareness and sexual assault awareness. Viewable at: iamnotanobject.tumblr.com
Woman for Sale
Woman for Sale is a collaboration between Mirabelle Jones and Daisuke Okamoto. It is a series of photographic prints, posters, and an artists’ book which seek to raise funds for shelters in California supporting victims of sex trafficking. Learn more about this project here: http://wwww.mirabellejones.com/womanforsale
I AM NOT A CAT: Public Anti-Street Harassment Campaign
I Am Not A Cat combines the interactive properties of performance & print to engage with the public on the topic of street harassment. Using public feedback, an anti-street harassment poster campaign, as well as a set of anti-catcalling cards were developed and distributed with the hope of increasing safety on the streets. You can purchase your own set of anti-catcalling cards here. All proceeds from this project go to Hollaback! Project by Mirabelle Jones.
JARRING II. Artists’ Book of Anonymous Contributors
JARRING II is a print on demand artist’s book uniting the anonymously contributed fragmented narratives of 40 survivors. Donations from this project go towards regional crisis centers and RAINN.ORG. Project by Mirabelle Jones. Purchase a copy of the book at BLURB.
Performances
June 14th, 2014 Asheville – NC Michelle Fugate & Mirabelle Jones present “Judge[me]nts” at the Crow & Quill in Asheville, NC. Benefiting Our Voice http://www.ourvoicenc.org/
January 29, 2014 – Brooklyn Wildlife presents 12 days of art Join Brooklyn Wildlife at the Bishop Gallery for a night of discussion, live music and the closing of the BROOKLYN: THEN AND NOW art exhibition that has been running all January. The discussions will focus on the following themes: Where and who are the contemporary female artists? Why is there still an under-representation of the female voice in fine art, media and corporate sponsored art and what are the social consequences of this absence? After the discussion, there will be a live jam session with a bunch of artists from Brooklyn. Live performances from Chaz Van Queen, K Gaines, Que Pac, Ridhima H Hegde, Stonehenge Parnhashnakovsky
