Why We're Supporting Separated Families at the Border
One of the fundamental tenets of our mission as a team is to use our art to serve others. We set free what we create, offering it into the hands of those who add new meanings and interpretations.
Our art is never ours alone. We offer it to the world, praying it might make an impact that ripples out beyond our grasp.
When preparing for our Mid-Summer Print launch, the crisis of migrant families and children being separated at the border filled the headlines, and our hearts broke. We knew it was time to use this little platform of ours to do something more.
We've decided to donate 25% of all print sales to Together Rising, a non-profit that raises funds to respond to crises as they emerge. Here's where you can learn how Together Rising has been distributing every penny of what they raise to respond to the current crisis at the US border. We'll be donating 25% of all print revenue acquired until July 25th, so we hope you'll consider purchasing some art or making a donation directly to Together Rising or another advocacy organization.
In case you're curious about our theology on this issue, here's a short, non-exhaustive list of very biblical reasons to welcome the stranger in your midst. After all, we follow in the footsteps of one who was born a refugee, one whose parents fled an oppressive, genocidal ruler, one who lived his first few years a stranger in a foreign land.
"In a season full of gentle manger and nativity scenes, I wanted to also show a glimpse of what happens after Jesus' birth: Mary, Joseph, and their newborn fleeing to Egypt to escape the wrath of King Herod. I rendered them minimally, in strokes of black watercolor to emphasize this somber turn in the story. As the figures walk along a barren path, the infant’s eyes lock eyes with our own, as if Jesus, even as an infant, is insisting that we dare to see the humanity in the suffering and the refugee."
—Lisle Gwynn Garrity
Born a Refugee
By Lisle Gwynn Garrity
"In a season full of gentle manger and nativity scenes, I wanted to also show a glimpse of what happens after the birth: Mary, Joseph, and their newborn fleeing to Egypt to escape the wrath of King Herod. I rendered them minimally, in strokes of black watercolor to emphasize this somber turn in the story. As the figures walk along a barren path, the infant’s eyes lock eyes with our own, as if Jesus, even as an infant, is insisting that we dare to see the humanity in the suffering and the refugee."
—Lisle Gwynn Garrity
Museum-quality poster made on thick, durable, matte paper. Unframed artwork will arrive rolled up in a protective tube.
Framing option available.
Arisen
By Hannah Garrity
Inspired by Mark 16:1-11
Museum-quality poster made on thick, durable, matte paper. Unframed artwork will arrive rolled up in a protective tube.
Framing option available.
Peace Be With You
By Sarah (Are) Speed
“In a world that so strongly lacks peace, I was drawn to Jesus' words from the gospel of John—included in this year’s lectionary for Pentecost. These words of peace are some of Jesus' first words immediately following his crucifixion. On the tail end of violence, Jesus still whispers peace—and not once, but over and over again, speaking directly to the disciples’ fears.
Thus, My prayer is that we will not only hear the Spirit move and dance about us like a mighty wind, but will also hear Jesus’ voice whispering peace into our minds, hands, and hearts. Just as we are by the clearest of starry nights, may we be so struck by this beauty that we cannot erase it from our minds. Let it be so.” —Sarah Are
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Framing option available.
Clear Vision
Inspired by Genesis 21:8-21
By Lauren Wright Pittman
“Hagar has every reason to feel God has abandoned her, but she still cries out in the wilderness and asks God to not let her look on the death of her child. She’s not asking for much. All she asks is for God to hold back tragedy from her.
God opens her eyes and she finds a well of water and nurtures her son. She nourishes a great nation. She carries the weight of a nation on her shoulders. For me, Hagar is an icon of strength and sustenance in those dry desert places. She is a well for her son and for many. In the image her hair waves and becomes the water that keeps her and Ishmael alive.
Her eyes are saturated and full, holding the grace that God so freely offered her, the grace that humanity withheld from her. The pattern of her garments echo her clear vision, and the many people of the great nation she holds shimmer around Ishmael’s face like countless stars in the sky.”
—Lauren Wright Pittman
Museum-quality poster made on thick, durable, matte paper. Unframed artwork will arrive rolled up in a protective tube.
Framing option available.