AN ARTISAN COMMUNITY
Focus on hART is a community for Oklahoma Artisans to showcase their talent and receive exposure of their creativity and talents. In turn, the proceeds will go directly to Focus on Home, a charity based in Oklahoma City.
The purpose of Focus on Home is to help families integrate into a healthy family lifestyle. We work closely with partnering agencies to identify clients in need and on their personal path to improvement. Our clients are families who are currently living in sub-standard environments. Once a client has been referred to our program, we will work with them to create a personalized home environment based on their specific needs. We will work with the community to repurpose gently used furniture and housewares in the creation of the client’s home. Enabled with the help of volunteers, Focus on Home will set up the new home environments for our clients; helping those families put their energy, time and resources into creating a positive future. Through our encouragement of volunteerism we are contributing to a stronger sense of community by helping and serving others. Visit Focus on Home to learn more.
HELP FOCUS ON HOME FILL THE HOUSE!
Focus on Home could not exist without our wonderful community who supports our organization by donating your gently used home items. In addition to donations, we also supplement our Focus Family move-ins with your generously donations. We spend approximately $500 per Focus on Home family to complete their move-in. With each purchase from Focus on hART, you are helping us FILL A HOUSE. Each month, we will showcase how many homes were filled with your Focus on hART purchases.
ARTISAN SPOTLIGHT
Sarah Day-Short Art
https://www.sarahdayshortart.com/
My top priorities are making art affordable and giving back to my community. I believe in making fine art accessible & incorporating it into everyday life. I have a line of functional art and offer payment plans on larger items to make affordable art a reality. I want the person in the coffee shop, restaurant or office to see my art & know that it is not out of reach. Whether it’s a piece on the wall or something you set your drink or snacks on, I want you to feel like making art a part of your life is easy. I am dedicated to giving back to my community and making a difference with my creativity. Every month I donate a portion of sales to The Homeless Alliance in OKC and various other charities.
Bio photo: Katelyn Swanson photography
Art Fusion
We are mixed media artists and have been collaborating together as Art Fusion Studio for about 19 years. We enjoy working in many materials including glass, metal, wood and acrylic fabrication. We are a husband and wife team with different and complementary abilities that allow us to design and fabricate very unique art.
We are both drawn to mixing materials that highly contrast each other, like glass and concrete, or acrylic and rusted steel. This dichotomy of these materials leads you to examine each more closely, to notice the natural blend of colors in the rust and the complexity of reflections on a polished surface. In particular we love to include an element of transparency by creating openings or adding glass, so that lighting, natural or otherwise, becomes an important part of the sculpture. The transparency also adds depth as the layers of construction are revealed and the landscape on the other side becomes a part of the design.