Every year a different venue hosts the Twitter Art Exhibit to raise funds for a nominated charity.
Originated by artist David Sandum of Norway in 2010, it is now into its 13th year.
What exactly is the Twitter Art Exhibit?
Twitter Art Exhibit is a fundraising event that utilizes social media and public engagement to generate income for charities and nonprofit organizations.
(Up until 2019, the charities kept 100% of the proceeds. Due to higher overhead costs that #tae has had to absorb, the charities now keep 80% of the proceeds)
The first exhibition’s goal was 140 entries, symbolic of the 140 characters used on Twitter.
The response was so enthusiastic that 260 cards were submitted from 24 countries, and David Sandum raised enough funds to buy 221 new children’s books for a struggling library in Moss, Norway.
This is when I heard of David’s ambitious and generous hearted project and began donating an artwork each year.
I love creative thinking to help problem solve and even more so when it is driven by the desire to help a cause in need.
This was a cause close to David Sandum’s heart and in his neighborhood. No one could have imagined how large this project would grow and how many charities it would help in the years ahead.
This is a beautiful example of how one person with a vision to help others, succeeded in ways not imagined at the time of conception.
#TAE provides an opportunity for artists around the world to donate a postcard sized work to raise much needed funds to help the chosen charity. The only cost is your time creating and the stamp it costs to send in your work.
This year the recipient is The Encephalitis Society . You can click on the link following to register a donation as an artist if you are so inclined. I highly encourage doing so as it is such a good feeling to create for a wider good and to be part of such a creative and positive project, knowing you are helping in some small way, to fund an important charity.
You can click on the link to register a donation too or just share the tag #TAE22 to help promote the exhibit on social media.
Of course you can purchase my artwork or one of the many 100’s of artworks that come in over the next few weeks to support this wonderful cause.
Social media plays a major role in Twitter Art Exhibit. It is the intention to tweet, share, seed, and promote the artists to thank them for their participation, and to make this event a huge success. The reach is much larger than one person alone and who doesn’t love a positive use of social media?
My donation this year is titled ‘Unity’.
It seems an obvious theme to almost everything going on in the world this year so far and echos the intention of #TAE from the get go.
We are so much stronger when we stand together and of course when we stand in love.
May this beautiful world of ours and it’s peoples find love and unity once and for all…and if not in this moment, may we keep on trying in whatever ways we can.
Thank you to David Sandum for your creative vision and Mathew Bose for curating this exhibit in the historic city of York for the benefit of the Encephalitis Society this year.
Wishing you all the very best of engagement.
‘Unity’ #TAE22