Our Lady of Guadalupe © Amanda Lopez. From DiversifyPhoto’s Print Relief Sale.
Over the past few weeks, we’ve received many requests to help spread the word about print fundraisers for COVID-19 relief. Some aim to help artists make ends meet as work dries up. Others specifically benefit medical workers and others at the front lines. We want to support them all. Below is an ongoing list of print sales for COVID-19 relief that caught our eye. We’ve organized these into two sections:
1) Fundraisers from organizations: these include prints from multiple artists.
2) Fundraisers organized by individual artists - some are raising money to support specific organizations; others to support these artists directly during unemployment / limited work.
We look at this as a continuously refreshing resource and plan to update as new leads come in. If we missed you or you have something in the works, please get in touch with a link to the print sale and a few words about your benefit project. Most of these sales are photography-based, but some include other media as well.
In health, warmth, and solidarity,
Humble Arts Foundation
(Last updated May 3rd, 2020)
Organizations/ Curated Print Sales Featuring Multiple Artists
1) Pictures for Elmhurst: A Print Sale Fundraiser for Elmhurst Hospital in NYC
EDITORS NOTE: THIS BENEFIT HAS NOW ENDED, RAISING $1.38 MIllion!
About: In response to this tragic situation, and inspired by a massively successful fundraiser for the Pope John XXIII Hospital in Bergamo, Italy, this benefit rallies creative communities in support of Elmhurst Hospital. All proceeds going directly to Elmhurst Hospital Center in order to fight the COVID-19 emergency.
Featured artists: 96 New York Photographers including Justin Kurland, Richard Renaldi, Sasha Rudensky, Tyler Mitchell and more!
Print cost: $150
Dates: April 10 - April 20 (if you’re reading this after the sale, sorry folks! But we’re keeping it here as an archive/ monument to a great benefit)
2) Diversify Photo Covid-19 Relief Print Sale Supporting Photographers of Color impacted by Covid-19
EDITORS NOTE: THIS BENEFIT HAS ENDED, BUT WE ENCOURAGE YOU TO CONTACTDIVERSIFY PHOTO DIRECTLY
About: All photographs sold will support photographers of color impacted by COVID-19. 100% of proceeds go directly to the artist. You can also donate directly.
Featured Artists: Jessica Pettway, Miranda Barnes, Amanda Lopez. Erik Carter, Cabo Caruso and more.
Print cost: $65
Dates - ends April 20th! act fast! (if you’re reading this after the date, we recommend contacting Diversify Photo directly)
3) BKC + Seeing Collective Present: Artist Relief 20
About: 100% of sales directly benefit artists. Many artists are also donating a percentage of sales to a range of COVID-support organizations.
Featured Artists: Joey Solomon, Svetlana Jovanovic, John Saponara, Marissa Alper and many more
Print cost: $25 and up.
About: These are unusual and uncertain times. As much as we say that we’re all in this together as a society, we’re not. The COVID-19 pandemic has made the class difference starkly clear. As the economy takes a battering, both now and in the aftermath of the crisis, the daily wage laborers will be the hardest hit.
Four Photographers from the confluence collective will be raising funds by selling photo prints for Chiyabagan Sangram Samity.
About: Proceeds will benefit the WHO COVID-19 Response Fund which will act globally, aiming to provide technology to healthcare systems in needs and supporting the research and development of lifesaving vaccines, diagnostics, and treatments. All sales come with a copy of YET Magazine # 11.
Featured Artists: Martina Giamaria, Aaron Schuman, Alec Soth, Amy Li, Maria Strum, and more.
Up through: April 30th, 2020
Print cost: $109+
6) The Drawing Exchange: daily Instagram print sale
About: Since April 6th, The Drawing exchange has been hosting a series of inspiring drawing sales to benefit their members. All proceeds to members who have been hit hard by the crisis. New work posted daily at noon and 3pm ET. Follow them on Instagram (link above) for the daily details.
7) LIFEBOAT - print and artbook benefit
About: LIFEBOAT is a platform that connects photographers to individuals who want to support them.
From the organizers: Photographers are cultural storytellers, artists who teach us to look more closely at our world. They travel to the far corners of the globe to report important news or find poetic moments within their own communities. The coronavirus pandemic has eliminated their ability to earn income, with productions or assignments canceled or indefinitely postponed for the safety of our communities. You can help. Nearly 200 leading photographers are offering prints and limited edition books for purchase. Bring their unique vision and life’s work into your home. Lifeboat is a bright spot during otherwise dark times, and a bridge connecting you to the places and people you have yet to meet.
Featured artists: Annie Tritt, Kate Warren, Jake Naughton, Cassandra Klos, Sarah Rice, Jessy Boon Cowler, Angie Smith, Lauren Grabelle, John Sanderson, and a whole lot more!
Print cost: $100+
8) Art Meets Education - a fundraiser to benefit families in Manilla impacted by Covid19
Note from Humble: This is not actually a print sale - it’s a straight donation, but these folks are doing great work and we want to support them.
About The schools in Manila are closed but our project in the Philippines faces other major challenges. Since all the children have to stay at home, many parents can no longer go to work. They are day laborers who live from the daily income that they earn. Now, this income is completely nonexistent. They have no savings. Our project families live in very cramped, unhygienic homes where the virus can spread very quickly.
Even though the purpose of AME is education, we feel obliged to use our structures and manpower to fight the spread of the virus and its consequences. We will provide Corona Care packages for our AME families (30 families which consist of about 150 people). The packages will cover essential needs like rice, bread, water, soap, dry towels, and vitamin tablets. Basic care is planned for 8 weeks. Our field workers who live on-site will also give instructions about proper hygienic requirements when the care packages are distributed.
9) Spring Fever - Benefit print sale from Treat Gallery. Curated by Ruben Natal-San Miguel
About: this print sale will benefit both the artists and the World Health Organization’s COVID-19 Relief Fund at a 50/50 split. The selected images were previously exhibited at Satellite Art Show and PULSE Art Fair and are available in a limited edition of 5. Each images is a 12x12 unframed print.
Featured artists: Sherri Littlefield, Bubblegum and Whiskey, Emily Duong, and more.
Print cost: $75+
About: The Boston Press Photographers Association (BPPA) and the Boston Women’s Photo League (BWPL) are joining together to support our communities’ photojournalists and documentary photographers impacted by the coronavirus pandemic. Many have had their entire sources of income wiped-out as newsrooms and media outlets stop hiring independent (freelance) photographers, and the side-gigs that many used to subsidize their income have been canceled for months ahead.
Featured artists: Keiko Hiromi, Matthew Healey, Cheryl Senter, M. Scott Brauer, Allison Diner, and more.
Print cost $75+
11) Artists Support Pledge:
Launching in mid-March, this new program and Instagram handle encourages artists to commit to purchasing work from other artists after they have reached $1000 in their own sales. We recently learned about this from one of our favorite photographers - Joni Sternbach, who is participating in the project.
12) A Curator: Benefit for God’s Love We Deliver
About: Donate $200 and receive a print. “God’s Love We Deliver cooks and home-delivers nutritious, medically tailored meals for people too sick to shop or cook for themselves. God’s Love is a non-sectarian organization serving people in need and their children and senior caregivers. All of our services are provided free to clients and full of love.
Featured artists: Janette Backman, Natan Dvir, Eric Pickersgill, Ashok Sinha, Claudia Paul, Robert Herman, and more…
Print cost: $200 (though you can also donate lower amounts just for the great deed of donating!)
13) Dream Sequence Editions
About/ from the organizers: We are selling prints to raise money for charities helping people affected by the coronavirus pandemic. New prints by new artists will be released through the site every week. $50 from each print sale will be donated.
Featured Artists: Andrew Kuo, Ed Templeton, Aurel Schmidt, Petra Collins, Peter Sutherland, Emma Kohlmann, Tim Barber, Jerry Hsu, Spike Jonze and more!
Print cost: $100
14) Give World Benefit for Global Giving
About/ from the organizers: Inspired by these uncertain times, our team came together and found a way to uplift communities around the globe by putting our skills to good use—all without leaving our living rooms. In this model of social giving, we are selling limited edition c-prints from top photographers to raise money for those most affected by the coronavirus. 100% of the proceeds go to GlobalGiving.
Featured Artists: Sam Taylor Johnson, Norman Reedus, Walter Iooss, Balarama Heller, Lynsey Addario, Jake Michaels, Helena Christensen, Misha Taylor and more.
Print cost: $85
15) Sputnik Photos fundraiser to help produce visors for Polish hospitals.
A note from Humble’s editors: please note the website is in Polish - just click the translate button to see it in English.
About/ from the organizers: “Unfortunately, doctors and nurses in Poland lack very basic equipment to fight the COVID-19. It will be produced and delivered by Aneta Nytko and her company Yeti. So far we have collected funds to make 800 pieces of protective gear. Please help us reach the goal of 1000 pieces! In return, Sputnik Photos Photographers, our former students, and invited artists offer signed prints 16x20 cm for only 50 Euros.
16) Prints For Food - open call for artists
About/from the organizers: During this difficult time we are launching a photographic print sale initiative in aid of The Trussell Trust to support food banks during the Covid-19 crisis. We're asking photographers to donate one of their images to sell, with all the proceeds (minus printing costs) going to Trussell Trust charity.
Print cost: £60
17) Photographs - UNIS
About/ from the organizers (translated from French): To deal with the Covid-19 epidemic, the photographers unite for an exceptional sale of prints, all of the profits of which will be donated to the Fondation de France, as part of its joint action with the Pasteur Institute and the 'AP-HP “All united against the virus”. Through this action, these photographers wish to show their solidarity and support for caregivers, researchers, and the most vulnerable people in the context of an unprecedented health crisis.
Featured Artists: Delphine Blast, Robert Maurice Deobois, Cyril Abad, Sarah Bastin, and many more!
Print cost: 100 €.
Ends: May 15, 2020
18) 150 Fotos For Sao Paulo
About/ from the organizers: The pandemic caused by the new coronavirus has arrived in Brazil and we will all suffer at some level from it, however, there is a portion of the population in a greater situation of vulnerability as the residents of peripheral communities and on the streets. Inspired by collective actions that took place in other affected countries, we decided to unite and help those who help these people. We created a virtual collection of 150 images, donated by their authors, which are being sold at affordable prices through an online store created for the project.
Featured artists: Cristina De Middel, Francisco Proner, Vitor Cohen, Marina Scanavez, and more.
Print cost: $30 ($150R)
Ends: May 5, 2020
19) Photographic Center Northwest Limited Edition Print Sale
About: Sales will benefit the artists and PCNW and support their programs benefitting the photography community in Seattle.
Photographers include: Jenny Riffle, Jock Sturges, Richard Renaldi, Paul Dahlquist, Henry Hornstein, and Jane Fulton Alt.
Print cost: $150+
20) MOCA Tuscon Benefit Auction
About: Proceeds from his auction, hosted by Museum of Contemporary Art Tuscon, will benefit a range of recipients including art supplies, youth art classes, teen mentorship programs, and more.
Artists include: Conor Elliot Fitzgerald, Amir Fallah, Mark McKnight, YeRin Kim, and more
Cost: items range from $35 to $5K+
Ends: May 22
21) Photographs for the Trussell Trust
About: Photographs for the Trussell Trust is a print sale of work by British and UK based photographers with 100% of proceeds going towards the Trussell Trust to help those who have been largely affected by the economic and social crisis as a consequence of the Covid-19 health emergency.
Artists include: Hannah Starkey, Jack Davison, Janette Beckman, John Stezaker, Juergen Teller, Martin Parr, Nadine Igewere, and more.
Print cost: All prints - £100
22) Works for Workers
About: Works For Workers is a fundraiser created and run by artists and activists in New York City. We are selling artworks and services by emerging and prominent artists from around the world to raise money for the Coronavirus Care Fund organized by the National Domestic Workers Alliance (NDWA). The NDWA works for respect, recognition, and inclusion in labor protections for domestic workers, the majority of whom are immigrants and women of color. The sale begins on May 4th and will stay open for two weeks, ending May 18th.
Artists include: Natalie Krick, Pia Riverola, Efrem Zelony-Mindell, Molly Matalon, Matt Austin, Erik Tanner, E Aaron Ross, Dylan Hausthor, Corey Olson, Chris Maggio, Campbell Addy, Charlie Engman and more.
Print Cost: $85
23) From Here on Out / Broadside Poster Prints
About: From Here on Out’s 3rd exhibition has manifested as a series of rough-cut large format posters that are being sold to benefit mutual aid and covid19 support funds for marginalized communities. To Purchase a poster please visit their Instagram to see what is available on any given day.
Artists include: Rory Hamovit, Patciria Voulgaris, Patrice Helmar, Sarah Pfohl, and more!
Print cost: $5-10 payment via Paypal.
Print Benefits Organized by Individual Artists/ Photographers
1) Isabella Bejarano - IB Print Sale benefitting NY Healthcare Providers
About/ from the artist: 100% of proceeds from existing prints and 50% of proceeds from made-to-order prints will be donated to ArtCube Army - to help NY healthcare providers obtain the protective medical gear they need. As a New York-based small business I want to support those risking their lives at the front lines in our community. ArtCube volunteers have been working directly with doctors and nurses and need to raise funds to get face shields and home-sewn masks directly to medical teams FAST while big manufacturers' PPEs make their way through the supply chain. Thanks to ArtCube volunteers over the past 3 weeks 2,000+ face shields and countless face masks went to 15 hospitals.
Print cost: $40+
2) Brittany Sowacke
About/ from the artist: I am selling prints to help support myself through unemployment.
Print cost: $35+
3) David Rothenberg - print sale benefiting relief for health care workers
About/ from the artist: To raise funds for NYC Health + Hospitals COVID-19 Relief Efforts that provide services and support for health care workers on the front lines of the crisis, I am selling a print edition of this photograph from my project Roosevelt Station, that I made just a few blocks away from Elmhurst Hospital. I will donate all proceeds to the relief effort. The image is printed in an edition of 20, signed, ten inches on the long dimension as an inkjet print on Epson premium luster paper. $75 (domestic shipping included).
Print cost: $75
4) Madeline Cass: Print sale to benefit her practice during times of crisis (in collaboration with Booooooom)
About/ from the artist: Selling these would make a big difference to me right now. This photo was made in the Mojave Desert - a beautiful but unforgiving place, especially in the summer, but for some reason, that is always when I find myself spending time there. The day I made this picture, I was driving around trying to beat the heat and feeling kind of lonely after spending weeks alone on the road. I started following ravens around as something to occupy myself with. I don't own any long lenses so I just had to move slowly and try to get closer to them before they would eventually fly off. Ravens have always symbolized something mystical to me. They make me want to pay attention – they feel prophetic about something unknown about to come.
Print cost: $100 / edition of 40
5) Ryan Walter Wagner - print sale to sustain work
About/ from the artist: 90% of Ryan’s photoshoots have been postponed indefinitely as a result of the crisis. To compensate, Ryan’s been selling prints to cover his losses.
Print cost: $50
6) Joanna Kulesza -print sale benefitting photography organizations with emergency relief funds for freelance photographers
About/ from the artist: I've been brainstorming how I can support fellow photographers and colleagues dealing with the devastating impact of coronavirus – I landed on a *flash print sale.* Visual storytellers and journalists are suffering just like so many other brick and mortar businesses. They are at the front lines reporting on the issues we read and scroll through but don't have the cushion of salary or benefits. 100% of proceeds will be donated to photo organizations that have created emergency relief funds to support photographers during this difficult time.
Print cost: $60+
7) Natalie Krick
About/ from the artist: I’m selling prints to support myself after a recent layoff.
Print cost: $150
8) Evan Perkins
About/ from the artist: Evan Perkins was laid off and is selling prints via Instagram to help supplement his income.
Print cost: contact Evan directly for details.
9) Van Powell - benefit for National Resource Defence Council
About/ from the artist: Starting in early April, Van Powell will be selling prints from his online shop, donating 50% of proceeds to the National Resource Defence Council. While it may not sound like it’s directly related to COVID-19, we firmly believe that environmental issues are deeply intertwined in nearly everything we do and experience, so we’re including this. Follow him on Instagram for updates.
Print cost: $80+
10) Jake Salyers - Skylines benefitting the Food Bank of New York
About/ from the artist: I’m doing a print sale and donating 20% of the profits to Food Bank of NYC. It’s a series of abstract skylines called New York is Burning.
Print cost: $50+
11) Melissa Golden - side hustle print sale
About/ from the artist: Because of COVID-19, my normal work and income have been suspended but my bills have not. Like a good boot-strapping American, I'm exploring alternative hustles and offering signed limited edition prints of my photography for the first time ever. Acquire some today and feel good about being a patron to the arts.
Print cost: $150+
12) Donna Ferrato - print sale benefitting COVID relief / Sanctuary for Families
Print cost: $100+
13) Tanja Hollander’s pay-what-you-can benefit for arts and hospitality
About/ from the artist: The arts and hospitality are industries that have always been connected. I am working with my sister, Emma, to start a fund for out of work staff. We’re kicking it off with her restaurant, Trina's Starlite Lounge / Parlor Sports and their friends Paddle Inn and Vinal Bakery. Mention either one of them at checkout, and 50% of sales will go directly to staff.
14) Katie Shapiro “Filter Quartz” Print Sale - (via Instagram)
About/ from the artist: I'm trying to raise funds in these dire times. I know there are a million places your money could go but please consider supporting the arts!
A little statement on the work: There is never anything conclusive, just an endless series of tests The title for this project, There is never anything conclusive, just an endless series of tests, is taken from a book of short fiction titled Self Help by Lorrie Moore. Moore’s book references the confusion and anxiety often induced through medical tests. The feelings of disorientation, displacement, and the misperceptions associated with tests are a source of inspiration for my recent work. Drawing on the scientific aspects of photography, I am experimenting in my studio using fracture and movement to create this body of work.
Print cost: $125
15) Chelsea Patrakis - benefit for PDX Covid Mutual Aid
About/ from the artist: I am a very small business owner and have lost all of my income from the quarantine, but wanted to do something besides just generate income for myself. This will support the PDX COVID-19 Mutual Aid Network - a volunteer-run, grassroots group operating in the territories of the many tribes who have made their homes near the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia Rivers. The funds raised will be used to support the community through buying food and supplies for those in need, as well as reimbursing volunteers for transportation and other related costs. Priority will go to the unhoused, sick, disabled, undocumented, trans, queer, POC and those who have been displaced from Portland to nearby areas…
16) Annie Flanagan - Instagram print sale
About/ from the artist: Annie is donating all proceeds to Familia Sunidasen and Southern SOlidarity - two organizations working to provide meals and support in New Orleasn before ad during Covid-19.
Print cost: $65
17) Eric Kunsman - Photographer Support Pledge
About: Like many photographers, Eric is taking the pledge – organized my Medium San Diego’s Scott B. Davis – to purchase another photographer’s work once he’s hit $1000 in sales.
” I will be offering five images from several bodies of my work. These prints are an open edition and have image sizes of 8”x8” on 10”x10” Canson Edition Etching Rag paper, printed utilizing the Canon Lucia inks. Prints are shipped in a handmade custom folio with Duo bookcloth for the cover, custom photo corners to match, and certificate of authenticity. Images are signed on the (Verso) back, dated, and a description of the series.“
Cost: $200
18) Lane Coder Print Sale to Benefit Covid-19 relief (with ClampArt)
From the artist: Lane and ClampArt are offering a set of limited edition prints and donating a percentage of sales to COVID-19 relief. Prints are in an edition of 25, at $250 each. Lane is a proud supporter of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.
19) John Mireles/ Gray Market Editions: Free poster prints for working artists
From John Mireles: “Through my Gray Market Editions lab, I'm offering three free 16x20 poster prints to any US artist. (I'm requesting $5 to help pay for postage if they're not in the San Diego area.) I want to give artists something that they can either share with friends or sell at a lower price point so they're not just selling original work at a cut rate because of the Coronavirus economic meltdown.
20) Corners: COVID-19 Relief Fund by Deb Leal & Syra McCarthy
About: This brand new body of work from Leal and McCarthy examines how strength and vulnerability coexist within us all. The artists will donate 100% of proceeds to four non-profit organizations combatting the impact of Covid-19.