Copyright©2013 by Debra Stasiak
Since 2007, Aspiring Artists® has offered charity events where local youth get an opportunity to help children in need. These events not only help the intended recipients of the fundraisers, but they help empower all the children involved. The children’s participation expands their global awareness and instills the knowledge that we are created to serve this world in a very special and unique way, even at a very young age.
The true message of Aspiring Artists® goes beyond a lovely interpretive rendition of a masterpiece or original design. Aspiring Artists® is honored to give its students a chance to share their artistic talents as a means to inspire and enrich the lives of less fortunate children, both internationally and nationally. Aspiring Artists® students can either participate in an art exhibit, art sale, or fundraiser painting class in order to support the Serving the World through Art™ effort.
Each Christmas, Aspiring Artists® offers a Give Love Fundraiser to benefit nonprofits that serve impoverished youth. Through these fundraisers, local youth get an opportunity to give the gift of love to a child in need at Christmas time.
Hope sells her Aspiring Artists painting at this United Nations event to raise money for Dr. Daou’s maternity clinic in Mali, Africa. The clinic, built by Active Intervention for Mothers (A.I.M.), is dedicated to improving women’s health, so they can have healthy pregnancies and live births in Mali, Africa. Many Aspiring Artists students participated in this United Nations exhibit to raise money for AIM and UNICEF.
To benefit Albanian orphans and at- risk youth, Aspiring Artists® designed these mugs and ornaments using the Albanian children’s artwork. All mug and ornament donations went directly to Hands of Providence International non-profit to help fund their orphanage and Day Center.
In November 2013, Jim Sherlock, founder of Reborn International Outreach™, asked Aspiring Artists® to decorate a village school in Kenya; so several Aspiring Artists’ students made prints of their impressionistic masterpieces to share with the Kenyan children. The Kenyan children are shown here holding the Aspiring Artists’ students’ renditions of famous masterpieces.
In 2007, approximately 30 Aspiring Artists students offered to participate in an art exhibit in Spring Lake, NJ to raise money for a summer art camp for Neptune, NJ youth.