The Art for Aid Project was developed in 2013 by Ontario Indigenous artist Colleen Gray with the purpose of collecting new and gently used quality art supplies. Those supplies are shipped to resource challenged Indigenous schools and community youth art programs in Canada.
Art for Aid encourages the public to collect and donate art supplies, initiate community drives, attend public events and speaking engagements, and stay up-to-date through social media.
Colleen Gray sells her powerful art to support this project, and in 2019 she was awarded the Governor General of Canada’s Sovereign Medal for Volunteering for her work with Art for Aid.
Colleen believes in the power of art as a vehicle to invite healing and intelligent self-expression.
For Indigenous people the land and the language are intrinsically linked and Art for Aid supports land based learning programs by supplying new outdoor gear. Land based learning provides youth with a solid link to culture, language and the land, introducing youth to skills such as ice fishing, outdoor safety,
survival skills, food preparation, traditional medicines and knowledge, but gear is expensive and hard to come by.
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