New Orleans recovery- live art

This weekend, I got a last minute request to provide art for a conference around the rebuilding effort in New Orleans. 500 Katrina refugees gathered in downtown Dallas and connected with 5 other sites around the country via satellite.

They gave me a corner of the room and asked me to create illustrations based on what I heard. It wasn't hard to come up with imagery for such an important cause, such a lively town, and such affected people. The freedom of being asked to create whatever I chose is something I'm really thankful for.

I used a lot of different art supplies (thanks to Jenn for assistance with everything). Markers and colored pencil and crayons and airbrush dye and several different types of paper. It was a blast.

At the end of the day, they did a really nice tribute to the artists at each site and broadcast images of all our work across the country to each site. I was proud to have my art shown to everyone and it got a great response. There were ooohs and aahhs when they showed the image that says "the courage to HOPE in the midst of crisis".

This is the type of work I'd like to see more and more of come to my life.
And it seems to be happening.