Latest News:
September 2024
In 2014 a chance encounter at a wedding led our founder John Platt to the Rift Valley Children's Village in Tanzania. We are so proud to celebrate 10 years with this incredible organization, where we have watched the kids grow up into young adults. Each year their work gets better and better and we are looking forward to seeing them grow as artists and individuals!
March 2024
Thank you to the Town of Webb School in Old Forge, New York for a generous donation and for hosting us for the week. The school's new mascot is the Timberwolf and we celebrate all wildlife, not just that of Africa, so we painted this with the students!
November 2023
We just had three brilliant fundraisers at Tambaran Gallery, NYC; Keyes Art Gallery, Sag Harbor; and The Reformed Church of Bronxville. Thank you to these venues for hosting our sell-out shows and for helping to fund our programs for 2024!
October 2023
We are back in Malawi where it seems almost every child can draw well! We are trying to manage the crowd but thankfully we have our Malawian Operations Director Chimwemwe Luwanda here to run things. Home of Hope is celebrating 25 years of operations and we love coming back here to see all our friends, especially the 94-year-old founder Timothy John Chipeta, or "Agogo" as we all call him (Chichewa for grandfather).
We are forever grateful to Madonna and Raising Malawi for bringing us here 5 years ago. We started in Malawi doing murals for the Mercy James Center in Blantyre, and each year we add more murals to Home of Hope to honor that tradition.
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