Imagineer Joe Rohde has created this fundraiser for the Santa Barbara Community Arts Workshop, an effort of the non-profit Santa Barbara Arts Collaborative. All proceeds from the sales will go to the building and sustaining of the Community Arts Workshop. A note from Joe:

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For much of my career I’ve used art to foster awareness and inspire action. My paintings have mostly been used to raise money for wildlife conservation. But in this case, the cause is closer to home, the Community Arts Workshop here in Santa Barbara. 

 

On any given day you’ll find a group art show on the walls, kids dangling from the ceiling in an aerial dance class, and the once-garages-now-workshops buzzing with artists creating handmade giant floats for one of Santa Barbara’s signature events, the Solstice Parade. It is more than a place. It’s a kind of perpetual event.

 

CAW's focus on cross-disciplinary collaboration, space for innovation, and community engagement is vital. I know this firsthand as I’ve been welcomed here as a relative newcomer and been able to benefit from CAW both as an artist and as a citizen. Though facilities are not quite finished, CAW exists today because people who had a vision invested their time, their energy, and their creativity. But there’s more to be done and that’s why, as a grateful new member of this community, I wanted to contribute these prints to help fundraising efforts.

- Joe Rohde