Brave Arts / Hope Sack
Hope Sack Update: May 2025
We recently received a grant for our "Summer Hope Sacks" project from the wonderful Humboldt branch of Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (a.k.a. WILPF, another DreamMaker project).
With the grant this summer, we'll add sun protection supplies such as lip balm and sunscreen to the tote bags of basic health supplies that Hope Sack normally gives. Hope Sack is a subproject of Brave Arts.
We also appreciate the individual donations we've received since completing our Eureka Natural Foods' Change 4 Change project in March. With your support in May, we'll reach 2000 total Hope Sacks distributed so far. Thank you!
ABOUT BRAVE ARTS
Our goal is encouraging people to use their creative gifts.
At Brave Arts, we've kept our mission purposely broad, to include local art education, art adventure tours, writing workshops, social ARTivism in our own art work, which has been shown in Morris Graves Museum of Art, Strawberry Rock Gallery, Brenda Tuxford Gallery, and Blue Lake Studio/Gallery. We are a big proponent of seeing everything creative as art.
With that in mind, we've added a key subproject to Brave Arts:
HOPE SACK.
Our ongoing weekly project that began in January 2023, Hope Sack distributes tote bags of toiletries, hygiene kits, socks, and other essentials to locals in need of these most basic health supplies. Hope Sack often distributes from resource centers around the county. As of late 2024, we have distributed 1200+ Hope Sacks one by one, while speaking with people individually about their current needs and short-term goals.
Hope Sack Assembly Line
If you have an organized group in mind that would like Hope Sack to visit and create a Hope Sack Assembly Line with you, let us know. It's a fun, positive way for all age groups (with 5-20 people) to actively help locals in need. Each participant can take home a colorful, filled Hope Sack. $100 per visit, all materials included. Contact bluelakestudio239@gmail.com.
Donations
For this mission, Hope Sack depends on the financial support of local grants and individual donors. The cost of each Hope Sack is $15, and for $100 you can "adopt" seven Hope Sacks that we will distribute. If you'd like to contribute, see Donate buttons above. Or send a check made out to "The Ink People," with the memo "Hope Sack." Address: The Ink People, 627 3rd St. Eureka, CA 95501.
Your financial donations go directly toward operations and supplies. Thank you!
Margaret Kellermann, director