Brave Arts / Hope Sack
Generous locals in our community have been asking us, "How can I donate?"
So many ways. You could call The Ink People at (503) 442-8413 and specify that you want to donate to Brave Arts or Hope Sack. You could write a check to "The Ink People," memo: "Hope Sack" or "Brave Arts." But the easiest way is probably this:
1. To donate to this DreamMaker project, Brave Arts -- which this year aims to ramp up its offerings of Art Hikes in beautiful places around Humboldt (with scholarships for locals in need) -- click on any Donate button on this web page, and specify "Brave Arts."
2. To donate to our subproject Hope Sack -- which by January hopes to top 2600 tote bags of hygiene kits distributed to locals in need since 2023 -- click on any Donate button on this web page, and specify "Hope Sack."
Thanks so much!
Brave Arts Update -- Successful art show! -- October 2025
Thanks to Ink People, Old Growth Cellars, Humboldt Honey Wine, and many friends and neighbors for supporting our September benefit art show for Brave Arts, exclamatorily called Art and Chocolate! Several original abstract seascapes of Margaret Kellermann in Gallery Marceau* were sold to discerning art buyers (hm!) and people enjoyed the warm, minimalist art space with wine and chocolate.
Four chocolate tasting samples were voted on. The race was tight, but the winner of the chocolate voting was a tasty fudge from the Eureka group, Benefit for Ukraine.
*Gallery Marceau is a private space, open to the public only on certain occasions. Special honors and thanks go to Marceau Verdiere for inviting Kellermann to show her work at his gallery.
To see Kellermann's paintings, see Instagram @coastally242
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
Archived Updates
Brave Arts Update -- Art and Chocolate! -- August 2025
Painter Margaret Kellermann offers “Art and Chocolate!” an art show of her color-soaked seascapes. 25% of proceeds of art sales will benefit Brave Arts, a DreamMaker project encouraging locals to tap into their creative potential. The art sale runs three days: Fri., Sept. 19, 4-8 p.m.; Sat. Sept 20, 2-6 p.m. with a chocolate tasting; and Sun. Sept 21, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Event is free; donations welcome. At the studio gallery of Marceau Verdiere, 386 Howard Heights Road, Freshwater. Visit inkpeople.org/dreammaker-data/brave-arts.
Kellermann's work has been shown across the country, as well as in Canada and Mexico. Locally, her work in painting and 3-D social ARTivism has appeared in galleries including Morris Graves Museum of Art, Strawberry Rock Gallery, and her former Blue Lake Studio Gallery, where she instigated Blue Lake Arts Night.
"Trinidad Bay Sunday Morning," Kellermann
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!