The many hours of writing, painting, singing, bead-work, metal bending, web design, talking and editing, the crowdfunding campaign for my NYC Do School Fellowship has been released from my humming computer to the vast world of the wide web!
I am excited to post regularly during this month of crowdfunding with photos of the new paintings and artworks that I have made, samples of notes from past educational programs, a random video or song thrown into the mix, and some explanations for why I have chosen to focus on these certain offerings and styles.
Below and here you will find a link to the Indiegogo campaign, the links to the pages I have set up here onsite with a sampling of the artworks that I have made to exchange for your generous contributions, as well as some of the text from the campaign. Thank you kindly and please share it on your social networks and such!
Support and share the campaign at igg.me/at/jsto
PAINTINGS
JOB’S TEARS
HEART WAVE DORJES
Greetings! My name is Jo and I am from Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Two years ago I initiated work in South Africa to “upcycle” an old dumping site into the home of the Trash to Treasure Festivals. It is my passion to show people how they can use “trash” beneficially for the upliftment of their communities. I am also a passionate artist and am gladdened by the opportunity to make more art.
I recently was accepted to the Sustainable Cup Challenge Fellowship in New York City with The DO School. The main goal of the fellowship is to prepare and guide young entrepreneurs through the challenges of starting and sustaining a successful project in response to a pressing issue in their communities. I want to build upon the work that I have accomplished in South Africa and establish an eco-brick program in Santa Fe that addresses local plastic pollution.
Your contributions to this campaign will provide me with the support I need to participate in the NYC fellowship, to take my upcycling projects to the next level, and to produce a new series of artworks as well.
CONTRIBUTE TO THE CAMPAIGN HERE!
This is one of the drawings that I have made for the new eco-brick instructions that I am developing for all sorts of applications from business cards and stickers to social media and blogging. Below is the tentative t-shirt design which is available as one of the perks on my ongoing Crowdfunding Campaign to raise money for the Sustainable Cup Challenge DO School Fellowship in NYC. I intend to develop at least a couple more designs and give people the option to pick from a few.
If you would like to learn more about eco-bricks then check out the good work of Pura Vida Atitlan, Hug It Forward, and Ecobricks.org and read further below an excerpt from my Schumacher College MSc dissertation. Here is a bit of writing that I published about a year ago: “Behold, the humble eco-brick – a plastic bottle stuffed with all things…
PLAN FOR PLASTIC 