ART And Nonprofits

I'm grateful for the beautiful places I have been, and I use my artwork to raise funding and awareness for causes I care about. When I earned my forestry degree, I made a professional promise to be a steward of the land in my work. This is how I’m honouring that promise in my new career as an artist.

With my collectors’ support, we have raised over $55K USD for conservation and humanitarian causes with this small business since 2017. As a cancer survivor, I feel motivated to give back and continue to grow as an artist. Giving back a portion of each series pushes me to try new things and take bigger risks in my art. It’s a privilege to help causes I care about, one that would not be possible without this group of collectors behind me.

list of Nonprofits

In 2017, I began work on a goal to raise $100K USD for conservation and humanitarian nonprofits with my artwork. This is my progress so far:

2023 Marine Education and Research Society $1000

2023 Pacific Wild $1000

2023 Surfrider Pacific Rim ($400 from the 2023 Repurpose Series).

2022 Marine Education and Research Society ($400 from the 2022 Repurpose Series) and $2400 Kelp Forest Series.

2022 Monterey Bay Aquarium ($400 benefit piece)

2021 Komera.org ($3200, 2021 Garage Sale of seconds art)

2021 Surfrider Pacific Rim ($1100, Northern Waters series)

2021 Pacific Wild, ($900 for salmon monitoring from the 2021 Repurpose series)

2020 Doctors Without Borders (course fundraiser $5000, Unbroken series $2000)

2020 Canopy.org, ($1000, Things We Found In The Creek series)

2020 California Fire Foundation ($500, print sale benefit)

2020 Equal Justice Initiative ($1,300 print sales benefit, in support of Black Lives Matter)

2020 The Community Services Agency (CSA) ($5,000 Garage Sale benefit)

2020 GlobalGiving.org Costa Rica project (Repurpose series, $800)

2019 Conservation International ($5,900 benefit series)

2019 National Forest Foundation ($250 flash benefit)

2019 Leave No Trace ($500 flash benefit and $5,225 benefit series)

2019 Monterey Bay Aquarium ($1000 flash benefit, 2020 $210)

2018 California Fire Relief via NVCF.org ($500 flash benefit)

2018 Save the Waves ( $4,300 benefit series)

2018 The American Cancer Society ($1,800 memorial benefit)

2018 The Sequoia Parks Conservancy ($3,500 benefit series and $800 print benefit)

2018 RAICES  ($2,000 flash benefit)

2017 The Nature Conservancy ($1,000 benefit series)

2017 Doctors Without Borders (2017, $1,000)

I’m always accepting submissions for nonprofits for my future benefits. Follow me on Instagram or subscribe to my collectors’ list below to get updates.