06/09/2020
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WE RAISED $1763.86 !!!!!
Swipe for slides where you can see our raffle paypal donation and the donation from venmo as well. I feel these are necessary to include as folks trusted us with a lot of money.
Additionally the raffle winner is Trinity Miller - they will be emailed. (see stories)
I am SO pleased with my community here. When I organized this I had no idea the support it would get. THANK YOU to every business who participated in the raffle and every single person who donated.
As for myself, I owe it to my customers, friends, and patrons, to let you know how I'm moving forward with my activism and support of the black community after this week. I don't want to be congratulated or thanked. It is just what we should be doing as allies and I just feel as a public art business where people spend money, I have a duty to say where I stand and what I will do.
In my personal life, most of my friends know I have been active for many many years in supporting social justice in many ways, including racial justice. I will continue these actions which include things like attending community meetings, writing my legislators, protesting, donating, learning, reading, teaching my child how to be antiracist. I will be active in the school district as my child enters this year.
However, I realized I never really bring my beliefs here. I compartmentalized this page as just "my art" but it's MY ART and I have a right and a responsibility on this platform to say what I believe in and lift those causes. So I will continue to learn and do better with my online voice.
Going forward I will be using a questionnaire for all businesses I work with (even trades and gifting) to make sure their values align with mine. To make sure they are committed to change as well and to social and racial justice.
I will also ensure future reps share and uphold these values. Any individual person I commission, pay or gift art to that will be representing my artwork, my products etc, will be held to the same standard as companies.
If there is anything else you'd like to see from my business regarding these issues, please let me know.
Love, Alyssa ❤️