P.O. Box 1083
Placitas, NM
87043
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We are excited to partner with local artists as well as artists from around the world. If you're interested in sharing your talents to help make a healthier community, please contact us and let us know!!
A visual artist turned musician, Sheefy McFly uses the concept of creating visual art and applies those methods to developing music. His sound is bass driven and errie sounding to reflect the impulses he feels while creating.
facebook.com/sheefymcfly313
Damon is an up-and-coming Detroit artist. He's a graduate of, and active participant with the Mint Artists Guild, a Michigan nonprofit. They work to educate, employ and engage young artists on career, business and community building skills, so they may explore creative careers and develop entrepreneurial and generous mindsets. Damon has been an early supporter of Art for Hearts.
Kay is a cornerstone of the Detroit community. For decades she's contributed to the arts scene. As owner of Art in Motion on Livernois, and former Pewabic artist, she's helped scores of people with stress relief via self-expression. We were proud to partner with Kay on our first Avenue of Fashion Art Walk with local 6th graders. They were able to create their own ceramic tiles, which was a fantastic treat for them. We look forward to many more. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts, Kay. You are truly a gem.
Mandisa is co-owner of Detroit Fiber Works on Livernois Avenue. She graciously volunteered her skills to give local 6th graders a felting demonstration on our recent Avenue of Fashion Art Walk. Big kudos to her and we look forward to partnering together again in the near future.
Chris is an accomplished DJ and Genevieve is studying to be an art teacher. This beautiful Christmas card was a hand-drawn masterpiece they gave to Roy and Angela. They are a lovely couple with a gorgeous toddler, Jasper. They have incredible talent and we're sure they'll accomplish great things. We're proud to have them as part of the Art for Hearts cause.
Brian is an old friend of Roy's from his childhood in London. Brian did this truly moving work to auction off in order to benefit the Native Americans protesting at Standing Rock. We greatly appreciate Brian's support for Art for Hearts and know his involvement will add great international exposure for Art for Hearts.
Jane was an early believer in the power of Art for Hearts. She donated the design for the Art for Hearts logos all the way back in 2008. She does excellent, historically significant work. Please check out her work on the following links.
https://www.facebook.com/jane.brayne.73
We have purchased 4 abandoned homes in the Cornerstone Village neighborhood on the far East side of Detroit. We are nearly finished rehabbing these homes to their original historic and aesthetic beauty. We're filling the abandoned houses, removing blight, and using the proceeds to bring arts programming to the community. We hope to bring stress relief and self-expression as well as making the neighborhood a safer, more beautiful place to live. We’ve been able to provide one of the homes rent-free to a local Detroit artist and veteran while he recovers from major heart surgery.
We believe in the Cornerstone Village neighborhood and we believe in the houses we've renovated.
Our contractor, Randy McKay, and all of his sub-contractors and employees live locally on the East side. He and his guys do wonderful, high quality work that easily passes City of Detroit inspection. We're so pleased to be able to provide good jobs for deserving people in the local community.
We would like to give a special thanks to the Detroit Land Bank for their partnership and support. They've helped us find the homes on Marseilles and Farmbrook and continue to look out for us in our search for exactly the right properties.
The Farmbrook property
A new roof on Marseilles
Our wonderful contractor, Randy McKay. If you have work you'd like done, you can reach him at randy1160r7@gmail.com
Guardian Building, home of the DLBA
We hosted a one-of-a-kind Detroit Art Walk. We gave local 6th graders a chance to make their own Pewabic-style tile at Art in Motion on the Avenue of Fashion. They got a felting demonstration at Detroit Fiber Works. The arts scene on Livernois is vibrant and exciting and it was so fun to share it with the kids. “We learned how art is uniting our community. And even more importantly, we learned that having creative outlets reduces stress, a leading cause of heart disease. Keep your heart healthy and have fun while exploring your creative side!” recapped Gesu teacher, Mary Hall.
Everyone knows that 6th graders are amongst the harshest critics on the planet and can be brutal in their honesty. Nonetheless, 80% said the Art Walk made them more interested in/more likely to do art in the future, and nearly 3/4 said they felt the knowledge they gained would make them healthier in the long run. We are blown away with this result! We were however not surprised to learn that more than half of the 6th graders didn't know stress was a major causal factor of heart disease. The results give validation to our core message and how important it is to get this message out. It demonstrates that we can and will make a big difference, a seriously big difference.
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Roy and Kim Tandy helping the boys with their tiles
Mandisa Smith giving the kids a felting demonstration at Detroit Fiber Works
Detroit Fiber works on Livernois Avenue
Roy Sims, Angela Sims, Kim Tandy (Detroit's District 2 Manager), Kay Willingham (Art in Motion), Mandisa Smith (Detroit Fiber Works)
Roy in front of Art in Motion
Kay Willingham inspiring the students
Roy thanking the bus driver
