Empathy Through Art is a nonprofit that uses art to create empathy for and build community around societal challenges. The first series explores the impact of Alzheimer's and Dementia in Raleigh, NC.
Leader
Charles Adair
Location
300 S McDowell St Raleigh, NC 27601
**The first $10,000 raised will be matched dollar for dollar by anonymous donors! These funds will go to our partner nonprofit, the Dementia Alliance for NC, to support their mission of improving the lives of all North Carolinians impacted by dementia, engaging and empowering them through support, education and research, and to Empathy Through Art to support this project.**
Empathy Through Art is a new nonprofit launching in May, 2019 that uses art in all its forms to build community around and empathy for societal challenges we face today. Empathy Through Art brings together artists, musicians, writers, dancers, and other creatives to work together to build multimedia exhibits and projects that provide a platform for communities to have open conversations about challenges they face. All work is captured via short films and a print magazine that can be shared both in and across communities.
This project is the kickoff series. It explores the topic of Alzheimer’s and Dementia in the City of Raleigh, NC and across NC. The series will produce a visual art exhibit, community events, short film series, and print magazine. The funds raised on ioby help fund these and help support the Dementia Alliance for NC. We have partnered with Imurj to bring our kickoff event and exhibit to downtown Raleigh.
To see the full overview of the project, go to create-empathy.org.
To see a full overview of the project, visit create-empathy.org.
The following summarizes the main target goals of the project. The May events are scheduled and will occur no matter the funding level reached. All other events and deliverables will be dependent upon our crowdfunding campaign.
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We are forgetting how to empathize with each other. This lack of empathy shows itself throughout our society:
At Empathy Through Art, we believe that empathy is the key to helping our communities come together to face social challenges for everything from Alzheimer's to climate change to inequality and more.
Art is the communication of emotion through a selected medium. It provides us with the perfect tools to help foster empathy in others by sharing our experiences, thoughts, and perceptions in ways that are directly relatable. Everyone relates differently - by combining different artistic mediums we have the opportunity to reach all walks of life in the language they understand best.
We bring together artists and community members to create and share exhibits, events, documentaries, magazines, and more to help convey empathy for social challenges so we can start tackling them together.