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ArtLifting empowers artists who are homeless or have disabilities through the celebration and sale of their artwork.
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A BO UT ART L IF T IN G
OUR OFFE RI NGS
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O UR IM PACT
OUR ARTISTS
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H OW IT WO RK S
OUR COLLECTION
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OUR CLIENTS
CONTACT US
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About ArtLifting ArtLifting empowers artists who are homeless or have disabilities through the sale of their artwork. ArtLifting is about creating opportunity, empowerment, and validation. We offer our artists the chance to secure their own income through the sale of original artworks, prints, and products. By showcasing and selling artwork, our artists gain self-confidence that permeates all aspects of their lives.
As a social enterprise and benefit corporation, we are using “business for good.� Every artist earns 55% from the sale of their work; 1% from each sale goes to a fund that provides art supplies to therapy groups nationwide, and ArtLifting uses the remaining 44% to further our mission. We realize that in order to make sustainable change, we need to run a financially sustainable business.
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ArtLifting Artists’ Locations
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Left top: ArtLifting artist Charles Blackwell (San Francisco, CA) Left middle: ArtLifting artist Seong Chon (Los Angeles, CA) Left bottom: ArtLifting artist Aron Washington (Chicago, IL) Right top: ArtLifting artist Terese Hanley (New York, NY) Right middle: ArtLifting artist Lindsay Abromaitis- Smith (New Jersey) Right bottom: ArtLifting artist Nick Morse and Co-founder Spencer Powers Opposite page: ArtLifting artist Jim Waters and Co-founder Liz Powers
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Our Story “People in need don’t want a handout; they want the ability to change their lives.” - Liz Powers, ArtLifting Co-founder & Chief Happiness Spreader Liz Powers began her mission in Boston when she was eighteen. After securing a grant from Harvard University to create art groups in homeless shelters, Liz was immediately struck by the incredible talent that she saw. Amazing works of art were being produced only to end up forgotten in the closets and basements of shelters. After observing that the same problem existed at thousands of art programs across the country, Liz became committed to helping share their creations with the world. She realized that art could be a transformational path to financial stability for these artists and countless others nationwide; they just needed a way to connect with a larger audience. This invisible talent needed to become visible. In November of 2013, Liz and her brother, Spencer Powers, founded ArtLifting with four Boston artists. During their first week of operations, those four artists earned thousands of dollars and were interviewed by national and local media—truly a life-changing experience for each of them. Today, ArtLifting has helped several artists access housing and has expanded to 20 states across the U.S.
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“ To have people listen, to
have people understand, to have people be receptive and acknowledge you, that can be life changing.
Kitty Zen has experienced chronic homelessness and PTSD, and is proud to be an ArtLifting Artist and an advocate for human rights. 10
Our Impact
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How It Works - Our Artists Self-Empowerment Through ArtLifting’s Platform ArtLifting works with established social service agencies, shelters and their art programs to discover new artists. Artists can also apply on their own through our website, ArtLifting.com. Our curatorial team reviews applicant portfolios to determine placement within the online gallery, ensuring that every individual is treated as a professional artist throughout the entire process. Selected artwork is sold in its original form or reproduced as prints or products, which include notebooks and greeting cards. Through ArtLifting’s digital platform, artists garner self-empowerment, generate income and share their art and stories with the world.
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How It Works - Our Clients
Artwork: White Flowers by Mia Brown
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Our Clients ArtLifting works with corporations large and small, helping them to leverage ArtLifting’s social mission of supporting local and national artists in need and to “Make Their Walls Count.” Studies show that today’s workforce wants to know that the company they work for is committed to giving back and making our world a better place. 75% of millennials would take a pay cut to work for a socially responsible company1 and 86% of those satisfied with their employer’s CSR commitment had high levels of engagement.2 Employees for companies like Staples and Microsoft, who both display ArtLifting artwork on their walls, have expressed how extremely proud they are to have their company involved with a social enterprise like ArtLifting.
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“Once I saw the art, once I met with the folks
at ArtLifting, I saw that we could get beautiful
work for our space while helping the community.” - John Burke, Staples’ Chief Culture Officer “Having Staples purchase my work is just another validation that ArtLifting works. I never would have thought of approaching Staples or any
other large company about buying my work.
ArtLifting is establishing the connections that will allow homeless, disabled and disadvantaged artists to reach their full potential.”
- Allen Chamberland, ArtLifting Artist Left: Deval Patrick, former governor of Massachusetts, with ArtLifting artists Scott Benner and Allen Chamberland at Bain Capital Above: Structuring by Cameron Meek at an apartment complex in Atlanta, GA. Right: Ropes by Allen Chamberland at Staples HQ in Framingham, MA 1. 2.
2016 Cone Communications Millennial Employee Engagement Study Kenexa Research Institute Study
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Design as Social Change ArtLifting works directly with interior and workplace designers to bring socially conscious art to offices and public spaces. When companies use artwork to make their values visible, they are not only creating a more beautiful and engaging space. They are creating access points for conversations about inclusion, representation, and social change. They are reducing stigma around homelessness and disability.
“If values are the foundation of a company, then why not use our values to create the company’s space?” - Mikhael Banut, Environmental Graphic Design Project Manager, LinkedIn
“ArtLifting makes my job a whole lot easier. Art is the finishing touch that makes clients love the space and makes it feel complete.” - Renita Falana, Renita Falana Designs Artwork: Triangle Mandala and X4 by Shannon
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As Seen In Microsoft’s purchase of ArtLifting works was featured in the New York Times and San Francisco Chronicle. Staples decorated their world headquarters and their impact was featured in the Boston Business Journal. Creative Office Pavilion was featured in the Washington Post.
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Our Offerings • Artwork curated for your space and budget, available as originals or reproduced on fine art paper or mounted canvas. Each artwork comes with a museum-style acrylic label featuring the artist’s story. • Co-branded corporate merchandise for client and employee engagement including notebooks, greeting cards, and gift cards. • Wallcoverings including conference room glass graphics, vinyls, and other large-scale installations. • Image licensing for any product. We enable brands to have visible corporate social responsibility by attaching our inspiring story and imagery to their brand.
Top Left, down: Notebook featuring Dale Wayne’s Seaside Horizon at Dawn, Breath of Winter Ocean by Lori-Anne Fay, Untitled 35 by Scott Benner with Google employee. Top Right, down: Greeting card featuring Midnight in Denver II by Laria Saunders, wallcovering mockup featuring Like a Rollercoaster by Geanna Shattuc.
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Corporate Wall Art ArtLifting offers curated artworks available as originals or reproduced on fine art paper or mounted canvas. Each artwork comes with a museum-style acrylic label featuring the artist’s story.
Our Print Materials Our Fine Art Paper is bright white heavyweight matte finish paper, engineered for crisp reproduction. Fine Art Paper prints are framed with classic contemporary authentic wood measuring 7/8” w x 7/8” h, and a 3” mat. Prints are finished with premium 1/8” clear acrylic. Our Mounted Canvas prints are stretched on a wooden frame of 1.5” x 1.5” stretcher bars (gallery wrap) with outer edge of the image mirrored on the wrap. Our mounted canvas prints can be framed in floating authentic black or white wood measuring 5/16” w x 2” h. All prints come ready to hang.
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Corporate Gifting We offer co-branded corporate merchandise for client and employee engagement including notebooks, greeting cards, and gift cards.
Notebook with artist story on the inside cover
Featured Artwork Left: Wilted Petals by Marc Notebook: 4 Horses by Shannon Greeting card: Village on the Water (France) by Jim Waters
Greeting card with artist story on the back
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Wallcoverings
In addition to traditional artworks, we offer wallcoverings including conference room glass graphics, vinyls, and other large-scale installations.
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Left: Golden Flock by Marc. Wallcovering available through a partnership between ArtLifting and Area Environments. Above: Zakim by Allen Chamberland as a Conference Room Glass Decal. Right: Manhattan, NY 1840 by Allen Chamberland as a Conference Room Glass Decal.
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Eyewear collection with ThinOPTICS. Artwork: Bipolar Inspiration by Randy Nicholson
Image Licensing
Our art can be printed on any product. We enable brands to have visible corporate social responsibility by attaching our inspiring story and imagery to their brand.
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Limited Edition Starbucks Cards
Ski Collection with Parlor Skis
Gift Bag and Greeting Card Collection with The Gift Wrap Company
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Artists ArtLifting artists are individuals impacted by homelessness or disability. They have unique stories and come from all walks of life. The one thing they have in common is the desire to change their lives for the better through art. ArtLifting offers them assistance in their path to financial stability, but more important is the empowerment, inclusion, and validation they gain from the production and sale of their artwork.
Top Left, down: ArtLifting Artists Judi JMW, Anthony Taylor with piece Chakra Homeworld Top Right, down: ArtLifting Artists Susan Brandner, Stacey Williams, Jeff Roysdon
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Artist Spotlight Scott Benner
Above: Before Hand After Hand by Scott Benner
Intrigued by the works of M.C. Escher and Robert Crumb,
Scott Benner began his relationship with art at a young age,
Benner experiences cluster headaches and bouts of confusion
as a result of Horner’s syndrome, which he developed in
doodling on graph paper left around the house by his father,
2012. After a series of unfortunate events left him homeless
perseverance, Benner honed his talent and amassed an
others were also touched by his work. After meeting with Liz
dedication and pure craft (if not tens of thousands).
com and has since found housing. Benner does not, however,
an electrical engineer. After years of practice, patience, and
ever-growing portfolio representing thousands of hours of
Masterpieces such as the grandiose Before Hand After Hand—
and without a job, Benner found solace in his art and saw that
Powers in 2014, he began selling his creations via ArtLifting.
plan on stopping there:
which itself took over 1,000 hours to complete—typically
require that Benner create multiple smaller ‘versions’ of
the piece before finalizing a larger vision on paper. With
each iteration Benner completes, he refines his technique and pattern, ensuring that he does not go overboard with
additions and spoil hours or even days of work. “When you
do abstract art, you need to know when to say enough is enough,” Benner explains. “If you go over that point, [you]
end up ruining it, like over-seasoning a sauce.” By the time he began work on “Before Hand After Hand,” Benner’s goal was
to find the biggest piece of paper he could, along with the
sharpest, finest tipped pen, and push himself to new levels of
complexity. “That was the whole point—to see how far I could go with it,” he describes.
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“My focus right now is really working on my art as a full-time thing. This is the first time in my whole life that I can focus this way. When you just draw every now and then, every time you start up, you’re kind of starting from scratch. Now, I’m involved in this never-ending process [where] my ideas are flowing and feeding off each other. I’m actually pursuing it as something I can [do] on a full-time scale. That’s where I’m aiming for now.”
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“Art is a place where I can make what I want to see happen.”
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Left top: Scott Benner exhibition opening at Google in Cambridge, MA Left bottom: Benner’s artwork in office setting: Self-Portrait and Untitled 34 Right top: Benner speaking to Google employees in Cambridge, MA Right bottom: Benner discussing his artwork at his Google exhibition.
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Artist Spotlight Linda King Linda King is a 64-year-old African
American woman, driven to make art from within and inspired to create
from the context of her life. “I refer to
that a teacher offered me a dollar to
make bigger. I didn’t care about that.
Drawing was my playmate. Years later
want to own the ancestral and existing
homelessness- I rediscovered my love
work.” Linda’s artwork is heavily
the sustenance to embrace my gift.”
cultural influences that impact my influenced by African American
at the age of 59 - during a period of
of drawing and painting and found
culture, her own experiences, and
Linda began making art through
hip-hop and rhythm and blues. She
House, a meal site and program
art seeking to evoke qualities of
and other enrichment programs
is fascinated with exploring and
enjoyed using found objects and
music such as jazz, celtic, classical,
creates both abstract and figurative movement, gesture, and dance. She recreating the intricacies present in facial expression.
Linda has overcome many obstacles
in her 64 years, which have created a
an art program offered at McAuley that offers hospitality, social services,
for people who are homeless. She
creative materials supplied by the
weekly Tuesday workshop - to create
original works of art. Linda explains
that “the encouragement of the staff,
art supplies and art shows, helped
sense of inner strength and resilience
everyone of us to grow.”
experiences she writes:
Linda has since gained housing
“The brunt of violence and alcoholism
and is overjoyed to finally have an
that is reflected in her artwork. Of her
and the deficiencies of teenage
pregnancy caused my parents to
divorce. My brothers and sister were split up between relatives. As the
only child of a middle aged aunt who
believed children belonged outside or playing in the basement, I learned to
Art Jam, Linda King
in school when I produced a drawing
myself as an African American woman
and mention my age, 64, because I
Misty, Linda King
The pieces began to come together
play by myself. While she worked long
hours doing laundry for middle class white families, I drew pictures in the
dirt in front of the church next door.
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through the Housing First program
art studio of her own where she
continues to develop her art practice.
Linda now works both in her home studio and attends art groups
regularly at McAuley house as an
important part her community, artistic
growth and support circle.
“I am committed to art as my passion and vocation. Sometimes painting is a prayer or a marker of how I got over an obstacle in my life.�
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“ I feel free and
empowered when I am creating art.
Artist Spotlight Lindsay Abromaitis-Smith “I am most proud of the fact that I am still thriving despite my body becoming differently abled. I think my best work has come out of pushing against my limitations.” Lindsay was diagnosed with ALS in 2012. Unable to use her hands, she uses her feet to paint. Luna, Lindsay Abromaitis-Smith
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Artist Spotlight Eric Santamaria Eric Santamaria lives with cerebral palsy, and paints with the wheels of his wheelchair to create captivating artworks. Variations in size, shape, opacity and color of marks are complemented by organic splatters of color.
Mapping Three, Eric Santamaria
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Our Collection ArtLifting collaborates with art therapy programs and shelters around the country to discover talented artists and give them the chance to earn recurring income through the sale of their artwork. ArtLifting’s curatorial team evaluates each artist’s portfolio to ultimately determine the commercial viability of their work. • Our collection features a wide breadth of mediums, including oil painting, photography, collage, papercut, and alcohol ink. • We have over 2,000 artworks in our collection, with a wide variety of styles, from modern and conceptual to realism and portraiture. • Artworks range in size from 10” to 72”. • Artists have shown at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts, San Francisco’s DeYoung Museum, Art Basel Miami, and contemporary galleries in major U.S. cities.
The following pages feature a small representation of our artwork collection. All original artworks and prints can be viewed and purchased at www.artlifting.com
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GEOMETRIC Geometric artworks engage in a playful dialogue with the viewer. These contemporary works energize the spaces they occupy with their intricate compositions.
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Previous Spread, Across: Jeff Roysdon
Rubic Jeff Roysdon
Modern Sculpture Left, Down: ERIC LEWIS BASHER
Box And Lollies MIKE GOSBEE
Confetti 2463 Right: shannon
Triangle Mandala
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Above: tim strouss
A Pleasant Duo Right: ROBYN KENNEDY
Metallic Oxide
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Above, Across: Cameron Meek
Structuring miKE gosbee
Collage 2481 Right CHARLES UNTERBERG
Patch Quilt
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BLACK & WHITE Whether through intricate ink drawings, meticulous paper cutouts, or classic photography, these black & white artworks are a timeless, elegant addition to your home or office.
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Previous Spread: allen chamberland
Tree Left: SUSAN SPANGENBERG
Jackson Heights DAVID MCCAULEY
Bridge 1 Above: JeFURI
Birch
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Left: MIKE HEDRICK
Smoke in the Mountains Right, Down: Scott benner
Untitled 2 Scott benner
Untitled 45
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Left: allen chamberland
U.S.S. Constitution 2 Above, Down: allen chamberland
Mast allen chamberland
Dead Eye
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Right: Shannon
4 Horses
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CITYSCAPE Iconic cities are celebrated in artworks through graphic street art, city skylines, and complex urban landscapes. These images provide a glimpse of America’s beloved cities through the eyes of its astoundingly talented inhabitants.
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Previous Spread: Kenneth Williams
City Streets 1 City Streets 2 City Streets 3 Above: HENRY VAN VOAST
Off Broadway Left: HENRY VAN VOAST
Interstate Five Right: Ruben lopez
Life in This Beautiful City
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Left: DOUGLAS PENDLETON
Blue
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Lucas farlow
Music in the Crowd LUCAS FARLOW
Rainy City
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Above: ALLEN CHAMBERLAND
Zakim Left, Clockwise from top left: KITTY ZEN
Green View JACKIE CALABRESE
Rooftops DAMIANO AUSTIN
City Lights
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LAND & SEA Land and seascapes are some of the earliest forms of artwork known to humankind, providing new views of familiar places throughout time. The wholly unique perspectives of ArtLifting artists are immortalized in their work—resulting in stunning interpretations of nature and life that stand out amongst the constantly shifting fabric of society.
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Previous Spread: DALE WAYNE
Auvers In Autumn Left: jim waters
Louisiana Bayou Lake 2 LUCAS FARLOW
Boulder Flatirons Right: MICHAEL ROGAN
Rocks and Water
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Above: CAMERON MEEK
Earth And Sky Left: MidorI
Poppy Keshi JIM WATERS
Village on a Fjord
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Above: Jeff Powers
Georges Island Left: INGRID LAI
Waves Right: jim waters
Untitled 1
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ABSTRACT Art in the abstract is expressive and inclusive, created in a universal language which is open to all for interpretation. These bold and imaginative artworks add color and energy to any room.
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Previous Spread: kimberly williams
Untitled 7 Above: Christina constantine
Cretan Scape 1 Right: Grace Goad
Jackson Pollock
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MIA BROWN
White Flowers Artist Mia Brown, who lives with cerebral palsy, painted this piece using a brush attached to a helmet.
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ALICIA STERLING BEACH
Blue Landscape Abstraction ALICIA STERLING BEACH
Cosmic Mobile #2
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Left, Down: Marc
Rings of Honor Marc
Golden Flock Right: Marc
Fortitude
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