WILL DRAW FOR DRUGS: Help Kelly!

WILL DRAW FOR DRUGS: A Sketch Party Fundraiser to Help Kelly Kick Cancer! (FB Event page for more info)

Art with a purpose…a cause…for something greater than ourselves. That’s what we, here at EMPTY KINGDOM, continue to strive for with the work that we do, not just for our site, but with the artists, the galleries, and with the people (you) that we connect with on a regular basis.

This Friday (July 29, 2011) in the beautiful city of San Francisco, California, USA, there will a monster of an art event that no art fiend (which most likely is all of you viewing our site currently) will NOT want to miss!

Held at the infamous Mina Gallery in the heart of downtown San Francisco, there will be an incredible fundraiser sketch party held for Kelly Malone, founder of the greatly beloved Indie Mart & Workshop SF, as she battles against an advanced stage of cancer AND squares off against the mounting hospital bills and chemo drug costs. The line up of artists scheduled to be there in the flesh sketching up a storm would make any of us art-crackheads go ape-shit, making the female Beatles-maniac-fans (of their day) look like obese infants on the Maury Povich Show as he informs them and their single mothers who their fathers are…

Most of the artist are folks that EK definitely endorses, and not to mention, have featured previously on our site! I nearly shit my pants when I found out the artist lineup. Not really.

Okay, I shit just a little bit.

(Adam5100)

(Brett Amory)

Hosted by SF artist Kelly Tunstall and WorkshopSF, this event offers a one-time opportunity to pick up affordable works drawn on the spot by an amazing lineup of Bay Area big guns. There will also be submitted art for auction, as well as special edition designs screen printed on WorkshopSF’s favorite never-leave-home-without-it accessory: the beer koozie. If you can’t make it to the art fundraiser event for whatever reason, you can still help by donating however much you can through Paypal on Workshop SF’s website! The goal is $15,000!

(David Choong Lee)