Help Make "The Garden of Hope" Permanent!

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Office Nomads currently is the lucky "temporary home" for "The Garden of Hope," a gorgeous piece in our main conference room by Bellingham artist Kuros Zahedi. We have been housing it for over a year now, and would love to make this amazing piece a permanent part of the office! We need your help to do it. Here's the story:

"The Garden of Hope" was created as a part of Sustainable Capitol Hill's 2008 summer festival - Imagine Capitol Hill. Much of the festival was planned out of Office Nomads, with weekly volunteer meetings and volunteer trainings happening in the space. Kuros responded to an RFP we put out for the event for creative, collaborative art pieces. For his piece, Kuros gathered a group of volunteers the day before the festival to collect trash from around an area of the neighborhood. After it was all collected, he spent the entire day of the festival putting the trash onto these four doors with the help of any festival attendees who wanted to come. The result was awesome!

After much time art-sitting this piece, Office Nomads would love to make The Garden of Hope a permanent installment at Office Nomads. Not only would it be great to know it's going to stay, but it would support the work of an artist we greatly respect (and who has been a featured artist in the space before!) Kuros has adjusted the price significantly for our purchase of the art, as he really wants us to have it. So, we need to raise $2500 to secure these pieces for Office Nomads' future.

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Want to chip in?

We could use the help! Office Nomads is accepting donations (not tax-deductable, sorry!) of any amount to raise the funds to buy this gorgeous piece. If you are a regular user of the main conference room, you know how great the panels look in there, and how they brighten the room. They also tell a great story of the type of projects Office Nomads loves to be a part of. We'd love to keep the story alive and collectively raise the money to purchase this piece and support an artist we adore.

If you're interested, head over to the front desk and let us know how much you can contribute. You can write a check, add on an amount to your monthly bill, or empty your spare change into the jar on the front desk. :) Anything helps!

All the love,

Susan, Jacob, Alexandra, and the rest of the ON crew