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If you’re looking for kick ass art that raises money and awareness for social and environmental causes, you’re in the right fucking place.

4168 bottle caps, each cap represents a species lost to deforestation every month.

mixed media, 2ft x 4ft, constructed from collected chipboard boxes

Series of acrylic paintings featuring Weird Al lyrics and references

Save the Art Barn at UTDallas show, installation featuring art cards from shows throughout Art Barn history

60" x 60" mixed media on canvas tarp, fabric reproductions of pinback buttons worn in the women's movement in the 1970s

1,894 empty frames, each represents 1,000 empty stomachs in Texas in 2012. Yes, that's 1,894,000 hungry children.

Collected power cords and data cables, foam letters on wire. Illustrates US free press statistic.

648 mixed media leaves, 10 feet x 10 feet, each leaf represents an acre lost to deforestation every minute

48" x 60" assemblage of acrylic paintings

Portrait project using colors and patterns found in personal spaces and effects

Art print created using photographs taken in Isabela, Puerto Rico.

Installation made from plastic grocery bags and felt made from plastic bottles, illustrates plastic pollution in the oceans statistic

Trans.lation White Cube Gallery, installation featuring arts education statistics

colored page from Must Add Color: Hawaii, published 2016

Working with Vickery Meadow residents to showcase and monetize their cultural crafts

8" x 8" mixed media painting, Chaos small works show, Ro2 Gallery

Rick Lowe and some of the Trans.lation team in Vickery Meadow - social practice project sponsored by the Nasher

7 feet in diameter, every petal in this giant felt flower represents a language spoken in Vickery Meadow

dissent dahlias

See the dahlias and support access to abortion!

Dissent Dahlias is an installation featuring nine framed works inspired by the overturning of Roe vs. Wade in June of 2022. Nine pieces were created to represent the nine Supreme Court justices. The text featured in the paintings is taken directly from the dissent written by Justices Kagan, Sotomayor, and Breyer in the Dobbs decision. Dahlias were chosen because they represent strength in the face of adversity.

The Dissent Dahlias are currently on display at the Fort Worth Community Arts Center through February 25th, 2023.

collect your thoughts

Steph is thrilled to announce that she and fellow creative Rose Cervantes have been awarded a $10,000 Pinellas Recovers grant for their project Collect Your Thoughts.

Steph and Rose have built 100 art boxes full of collage supplies, written an art journaling guidebook, and are hosting six public events where adults residing in South St. Pete can join them on the journey to improved mental health through the practice of art journaling.

See the work of our art journaling community at the Morean Arts Center through February 18th, 2023!

Collect Your Thoughts is produced with the support of the National Endowment for the Arts, Creative Pinellas,
and the Pinellas County Board of County Commissioners.

feedback: a childhood hunger installation

Feedback: pinellas county generated a donation for

4,800 meals.

Feedback will return to bring hunger awareness and funds to new locations.

Feedback is an art installation featuring 3,404 "plates" made from food packaging waste.

Each plate represents 10 children who are food insecure in pinellas county, fl.

A wood tabletop mounted to the gallery wall allows viewers to “put food on the table”. A $10 donation allows visitors to add a food sticker to the tabletop and provides 50 meals to hungry families through Feeding Tampa Bay.

30 minutes

30 minutes is a 432 square foot art installation consisting of 2700 leaf shapes made from collected chipboard waste.

These 2700 leaves represent the 2700 acres of rainforest lost to deforestation every 30 minutes.

The exhibit has come to an end and I’m so excited to share that 30 Minutes

saved 43 acres

of rainforest permanently through Rainforest Trust.

it's not too late to take action! let's save acres of rainforest together.

You can become a physical part of this ongoing art piece as well as a permanent part of the effort to save rainforests!

The 30 Minutes installation at Creative Pinellas has ended, but the leaves will continue to be displayed in future installations. Plans include an increase to 60 minutes (double the leaves!), new gallery spaces, and leaves traveling up walls and on ceilings.

Every ‘add your name’ leaf stays with the project permanently, because your purchase permanently saves one acre of rainforest.

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