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HELP US STOP BULLYING IN SCHOOLS

Help bring Dignity For All, our bullying prevention program, to 1,000 schools across the country!   With the purchase of this set of 4 tee shirts with art by iconic artists- Bisa Butler, Andrew Brischler, Shinique Smith, and Brian Kenny – you will help launch our Dignity For All anti-bullying program to create safe and supportive school communities.

Bisa Butler

Bisa Butler was born in Orange, NJ and raised in South Orange, the youngest of four siblings. Butler's artistic talent was first recognized at the age of four when she won a blue ribbon in the Plainfield Sidewalk art competition.  By age five, Butler was named the "artist of the month" at her nursery school.  An American fiber artist known for her quilted portraits and designs celebrating black life, Butler's quilts are enchanting works of art.  These quilts communicate art, emotion, heritage, tradition, and beauty.  The quilts of Bisa Butler represent a merging of artistic excellence and quilting magic.  Butler typically works in bright jewel tones rather than representational color.  Her quilts often feature portraits of famous figures in black history, such as Paul Laurence Dunbar, Jackie Robinson, and Josephine Baker.  She uses a variety of patterned fabrics, which she carefully selects to reflect the subject's life, sometimes using clothing worn by the subject.

Andrew Brischler

Andrew Brischler explores what he calls “the pathology of abstraction” in his own mixed-media canvases, in which he ranges through the many manifestations of this mode of painting, foregrounding its enduring beauty while questioning its seriousness.  On battered, stained canvases, he paints hard-edged, minimalist forms weighted down by the thickness of their own paint; saturated fields of graded color, too rainbow-like to suggest sublimity; and abstract expressionistic scribbles and brushstrokes that appear either absurdly meek or exaggerated.  By working such intentional awkwardness and humor into his compositions, and tilting his paintings after song lyrics, pop cultural events, and lines from movies, Brischler simultaneously references and rejects the storied history of 20th-century abstraction.  Claiming, “Abstract painting can get really heavy with reference and psychological baggage,” he posits a lighter vision of abstraction for the 21st century in his own works.

Shinique Smith

Shinique Smith is an American visual artist, known for her colorful installation art and paintings that incorporate found textiles and collage materials.  She is based in Brooklyn, New York.  Shinique Smith combines fine art media with everyday materials, such as found objects and clothing.  She began to include used clothing in her work after reading a New York Times Magazine article about secondhand garments shipped to Africa from thrift stores.   She describes her process as a personal one: "It all begins with emotion, an expression and I allow myself to go on a journey in the making of each work, a journey of associations between object and color, between lyrics and fabric, between the viewer and me."

 
Brian Kenny

Brian Kenny is an American multidisciplinary artist who has exhibited in galleries, museums and alternative venues around the globe.  Kenny's first solo exhibition was held in 2008 in New York City.  He had a solo exhibition at Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art as part of SUPERM in 2013.  In 2011 he exhibited at La Petite Mort Gallery in Ottawa with Slava Mogutin.  He participated in group exhibitions including Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, Station Museum of Contemporary Art in Texas, Haifa Museum of Art in Israel and Schwules Museum in Berlin.  He has created commissioned works for Yacine Aouadi, Walter Van Beirendonck, Petrou\Man, Max Kibardin, Bruno Magli, Matthias Vriens-McGrath and Please Do Not Enter.  In 2014, Kenny collaborated with the Visual AIDS foundation to raise awareness of the disease.

Item Special Note

Tee shirts are 100% cotton.

sizes available are M, L, XL

Size S will be available soon