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Cision PR Newswire: Artists Living with Disabilities or Impacted by Housing Insecurity to be Featured in Bank of America Financial Centers Across the United States
The $2 million partnership with ArtLifting offers artists a national platform
CHARLOTTE, N.C., Feb. 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Bank of America today announced a partnership with ArtLifting, investing $2 million to feature artwork by artists living with disabilities or impacted by housing insecurity. The artwork will be on display in Bank of America financial centers across the country in 2022. ArtLifting is a social enterprise that represents artists who have been traditionally underrepresented in the contemporary art market.
“ArtLifting is on a mission to create opportunity and validation for talented artists who deserve it. One of the most common requests I heard at homeless shelters and social service agencies was for job opportunities, and we are providing the platform for it,” said Liz Powers, co-founder and CEO of ArtLifting. “When individuals’ talents are recognized, it can collectively have a huge impact on the economy and their feelings of self-worth and well-being.”
The program includes prints of the artwork paired with information on each artist’s background and career, allowing the community to learn about each artist’s unique perspective, style, and story, based on the diversity of their lived experiences and innovative processes. Prints of the artwork featured in financial centers are available for purchase through Artlifting’s website. As part of ArtLifting’s “business for good” model, Artists earn 55 percent of the profit from the sales of their work, and one percent from each sale provides supplies to art groups nationwide. The remaining 44 percent goes to ArtLifting to further their mission.
“This partnership with ArtLifting is the latest demonstration of Bank of America’s commitment to supporting the arts and our communities,” said Aron Levine, President of Preferred Banking at Bank of America. “We believe strongly in the power of the arts to help economies thrive and to create greater cultural understanding. We’re proud to provide this opportunity for featured and future artists.”
Nearly 100 financial centers feature works from the program, and will expand to 900 financial centers featuring works from the following ArtLifting artists:
- Damiano Austin (Seattle, WA)
- Olivia D’Addario (Easton, CT)
- Elizabeth Gauss (Denver, CO)
- Mike Gosbee (San Francisco, CA)
- Ted Gram-Boarini (Chicago, IL) **See Ted’s AofL Portfolio Here**
- Rudy Jean-Louis (New York, NY)
- Aneliya Kostova (New York, NY)
- Linda King (Providence, RI)
- Quána Madison (Denver, CO)
- Marc (Dallas, TX)
- Ronnie (Houston, TX)
- Eric Santamaria (Los Angeles, CA)
The response from the artists featured by Bank of America has been meaningful. Artist Damiano Austin said, “No one could have told me when I was living in a shelter, with no place to call my own, that this would happen. The impact is literally immeasurable because without ArtLifting and Bank of America, who would see our art?”
To lear more bout Artlifting and Bank of America, see the full article here.
