Facilitating Awe Through Art
A Non-Profit 501c3 organization, empowering a community of artists to come together and create art with story, emotion and meaning to bring more hope into the world.
Emotion Based Storytelling
There’s a better way to create art that inspires nations, movements & causes and it requires emotion based storytelling. Dr. Howard Gardner, professor at Harvard University said, “Stories constitute the single most powerful weapon in a leader’s arsenal” and Sarah Lagrotteria of Just Bloom School said “Stories come natural to us and are our greatest gift to share.” We help artists find and create their stories and then create opportunities for them to share those stories with the world.
Our Initiatives
Inspire Artists
Identify & select top professional artists who have compelling stories to share with the world, but haven’t created them yet.
Foster Collaboration
Facilitate collaborative workshops for the artists to learn emotion based visual storytelling from industry experts and develop their stories.
Document the Journey
Document the creative journey and process of the artists to create an engaging experience for viewers, as well as to give artists a direct platform to share their stories.
Exhibit The Art
Exhibit the art created through film and live events, including an exhibition of the art; artwork is sold and split between the foundation and the artist to fund future workshops.
Four Pillars of Inspired Art
Aesthetics (Visual)
Inspired Art is beautiful, but also created masterfully from a technical standpoint with a thoughtful use of the elements of design.
Clarity (Intellectual)
Inspired Art has a clear and focused purpose and is easy to understand. This comes from deliberate and intentional thought in selecting the subject matter and design for the work.
Layered (Intellectual)
Inspired Art includes a thoughtful use of metaphor, symbolism and subject matter to convey meaning in the work. It invites the viewer to ponder the work and learn something new again and again.
Authentic (Emotional)
Inspired Art connects with our shared human experience and feels authentic, revealing to the viewer something new about themselves and sparking moments of awe. The aim of Inspired Art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
“Art can save us. Art has the power to render sorrow beautiful and make lonleness a shared experience and transform despair into hope…the magic of all art is the ability to both capture our pain and deliver us from it at the same time.”
--Brené Brown
