With storms hitting the country week after week and a pandemic crisis still unsolved, we citizens and private groups are taking it upon ourselves to help our countrymen in need. There have already been a number of initiatives put up to help.
[READ: LIST: Donation drives for #UlyssesPH relief]Cartellino, an online platform, digest and shop for Asian contemporary art, has put up First Edition, a two-week sale of archival prints. Running from Nov. 16 to 30, this fundraiser “focuses on one idea: art supporting its practitioners, supporting those in need.”
With a roster of around 120 artists chosen by Cartellino and their partner curators and art collectives, First Edition’s profits will go to the artist, selected beneficiaries, and an artist communal fund.
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Among First Edition’s selected beneficiaries are The Babayenihan Initiative through the Lakambini, which helps Indigenous women and families across the country; St. Luke’s Medical Center, Institute of Urology through Art Rocks, a Viber group of art collectors; Remember Love, “a research-based documentary project focused on the stories told by orphaned youth,” particularly those who lost parents in the government’s war on drugs.
There’s also the Lumad Bakwit School of the University of the Philippines – Diliman College of Fine Arts (UP CFA), Concerned Artists of the Philippines, the Children’s Rehabilitation Center, Philippines, the UP CFA Thesis Grant Fund, and Stickers for Food PH.
And something worth noting for (beginner and veteran) art collectors: First Edition also offers framing options for purchased prints. Frames are available in black, white and natural, while all prints are printed with pigment ink on 300gsm matte archival paper (100 percent cotton). The prints are also signed and numbered by the artists and come with a Certificate of Authenticity.
First Edition launches Nov. 16 on the Cartellino website. For more information, visit their Instagram.
Header image courtesy of Cartellino
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