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Wednesday, April 1, 2009

World Autism Awareness Day

I just noticed today is World Autism Awareness Day. I'm part of the Etsy for Autism team because my brother, Teddy, has autism. I also have a few items in my shop that use the official autism awareness fabric.

Autism Awareness Journal


This uses a really pretty blue paper on the inside. 50% of your payment for this item will be given to a charity that helps promote artists with autism.

I also have a mini autism journal (which is the same journal as above, but smaller), but I gave it to the shop that's selling a couple of my items (if you're in Chicago, check out a shop called Light Speed, the address is in the announcements in my etsy shop). The money from that item doesn't go to charity because it was so small and I didn't think it'd be enough of a profit to give to a charity, but it's still a good way to raise awareness.



Speaking of charity, I'm trying to find a place to volunteer while I'm in college for next year. I'm self designing my own major that I think I'm calling Art and Social Action (I haven't officially decided on the name yet - I still have to officially declare it) where I'm studying how art can be used to change the world. I think it's a good idea to do some volunteer and maybe work with some type of art in the community so I'm looking at places now. Tomorrow, I'm going to a place called America Reads where I help tutor kids. It's not exactly art, but I'm trying a bunch of places and it should be fun.
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