Celebrating Pride Month with ART FOR CHANGE

Celebrating Pride Month with ART FOR CHANGE

Posted on By Divya Gangwani

Celebrating Pride Month with ART FOR CHANGE
Shop a collection of prints benefiting LGBTQ+ Organizations

Here at ART FOR CHANGE, we’re proud to showcase the incredible talent of our artists along with the causes they are passionate about. This June, we honor those who share a commitment to uplifting the LGBTQ+ community. As Pride Month draws to a close, we invite you to explore the collections and join us in celebrating this important cause. 

The featured artists share a deep commitment to advocacy and giving back, with proceeds from their works supporting LGBTQ+ organizations. As artist Brian Calvin shares, “I strongly support the Ali Forney Center’s mission of providing housing and healthcare to LGBTQ+ youth experiencing homelessness. It is essential to protect and support this vulnerable community.”

A portion of proceeds from the prints below benefit several LGBTQ+-focused organizations, including The Ali Forney Center, The Audre Lorde Project, Destination Tomorrow, and Callen-Lorde Community Health Center.

 

Featuring Calvin’s trademark style, 'Sadie Jane' is a surrealistic portrait of a female character who gazes back at the viewer with doubled eyes. For the artist, the image recalls Frankenstein’s Creature—a whole sewn together from disparate parts—from Mary Shelley’s famous novel. 

 

Osorio notes, “As a first-generation Dominican-American, gender non-conforming individual from Washington Heights, I have personally endured the violence, fear, and loneliness that is often experienced within the queer community. My community, chosen family, and I are forever grateful to organizations such as the Destination Tomorrow because, with their help, we are able to live unimaginable and at times, unprecedented lives. Every morning I start my day by listing off the things I’m grateful for, and in this list is always a community center or organization that has helped create the person I am now.”

 

Jeanine Brito is a painter who creates autobiographical explorations of memory and desire, while employing a visual language informed by surrealism, theater, fairy tales and folklore.'The evening’s affairs leave her bereft' stems from a new series based on an original fairy tale imagined by Brito, wherein each painting portrays a specific scene as though it were in a ballet or opera production. 

 

ART FOR CHANGE will donate thirty percent of the net proceeds from print sales to Callen-Lorde Community Health Center. Transforming lives in LGBTQ communities for over 50 years, Callen-Lorde provides comprehensive health care free of judgment, regardless of any person’s ability to pay. In addition to providing quality care at the Callen-Lorde Community Health Center in New York, they also serve as a hub for education, research, strategic partnerships, and advocacy for New York State public health budget and policy initiatives.

 

'Candlelight Vigil' depicts a nighttime scene wherein Young appears besides a genderless, ancestral figure who is intended to represent a lineage of his family. The duo walk side by side along the edges of Boston’s Charles River, a place that the artist often visits for solitude and relief. ART FOR CHANGE will donate 20% of the net proceeds of each edition to Destination Tomorrow.