Give-away: Map Mint VHS Print

I'd love to be hosting this lovely give-away, but unfortunately it's not me today.  It's my sweet friend Sage, and she's giving away one of her fun VHS Prints.  All you have to do is pop on over to her blog MAP MINT, leave a comment, and then post about it on your Facebook, Blog, etc.  Plus check out her Etsy shop for lots of other lovelies that you can purchase and support her fellowship trip to Vermont!  Good luck!

This prints title: VHS 1: Dream a Little Dream, Lethal Weapon II, A Mom for Christmas.

Edition 1/1

love, emmy-ray

From Here to There: Hand Drawn Maps

If often use this blog to brag about my wonderful friends and their accomplishments.  I think that in the world of independent business, and the arts nothing could be more important than sharing information and promoting one another.  My friend Sage Dawson who I've mentioned before in past posts is an amazing printmaker and now a published artist.  One of her pieces is featured in a new book "From Here to There" all about hand drawn maps.  The book's receiving good reviews and recognition, and has some really lovely images.  Here's some of these and a little synopsis:

 

Sage's piece.

    "From Here to There celebrates ephemeral documents—usually forgotten or tossed aside after having served their purpose—giving them their due as artifacts representing stories from people's lives around the world. There is the young woman suffering from juvenile rheumatoid arthritis who created maps of the Humira injections on her stomach and thighs to help her remember the sites, and give them time to heal. Or the young boy who imagined a whole country for ants and put it to paper...The maps featured in From Here to There are as varied and touching as the stories they tell." This and more information at Amazon.

Making a Difference: Home of Hope

Hello loves, I want to take a minute this Wednesday morning to share something with you.  It's a little more "serious" of a topic than I usually delve into, but one that is important with an uplifting message.  Please read this full post. 

I met Sage and Jarrett when I was getting my undergraduate degree in Springfield.  Sage is a printmaker, like me, and is now a teacher at a few of the colleges in Springfield.  Her work is so lovely, and to see it up close there is so much going on, I could look at it for hours. 

 

I was lucky enough to become good friends with both Sage and Jarrett throughout our time in college, and can say that they are one of my favorite pairs of people (I like them separately as well), and I recently got to spend a weekend at their lovely house in Springfield catching up. 

During her time in graduate school Sage traveled to India to work with Project Rescue, an organization that works to stop sex trafficking in India.  More specifically the Home of Hope where Sage worked in 2008 offers a safe place for children of sex trafficking victims to have a clean bed, do homework, eat meals, build community, and begin to have their childhood restored.  They have eleven homes throughout India.

Sage and Jarrett are both planning to travel back to India this summer to do more work with Project Rescue.  They plan to head there in August, and the reason for my post (other than to raise awareness) is to let everyone know that they are having an art auction right her in Kansas City in June to help raise additional fund for their travels.  It will be First Friday, June 4th, in the Crossroads district at the gallery owned by Stacey Schmitz, at 217 W. 19th Terr.  They will be auctioning prints created by the children from the home in Nagpur where Sage stayed in 2008.  Come check out the art, enjoy the community, and hopefully give to a good cause!  Find out more about Sage and Jarrett's trip and Project Rescue on their blog Home of Hope.