FAKTURA PROJEKTS

ABOUT US

Andrea and Jacquelyn getting Gypsy Bean ready for adoption

About our Board of Directors

Jacquelyn Jackson Johnston- Art Liaison

Andrea Seamans- Rescue Liaison

Faktura Projekts began as the offspring of Faktura Gallery's series of charity art events in 2005. Gallery owner and artist Jacquelyn Jackson Johnston laid dreams to paper and Faktura Projekts incorporated March 28 2006. After just one year from its official begining, Faktura Projekts has applied for and is currently pending determination of IRS 501(c)3 Tax Exempt status.

Fakutra Projekts Official Statement

Faktura Projekts, Inc is a not for profit organization comprised of artists who come together to create projects that benefit the community through public education, animal rescue, community outreach through art, and charity. The projects include: Pimp My Kart; Faktura Pet Rescue; Newcube.tv; Public Outreach Performances; and more ideas in planning stages.

Faktura Pet Projekt is the oldest non-profit project initiated by the Faktura group of artists. After opening Faktura Gallery in Little Haiti, a low-income area near downtown Miami, the stray pet population came to the immediate attention of gallery owner Jacquelyn Jackson Johnston. She invited the first abandoned street dog into her gallery in May 2005, which inspired a photographic art exhibition by Johnston in June 2005. This exhibition used photography to raise awareness about the untimely deaths of many stray pets’ in Miami and the exhibition caught the attention of local press. (See attached article, “Pup Art” about Johnston’s rescue efforts). For the artists of Faktura Projekts, pet rescue is an everyday activity. Every artist, board member or just passive participant, is constantly aware of the issues facing the growing number of abandoned pets living on the street of Miami. At any given moment, our group is fostering, either in private foster homes or in the gallery with Johnston, any where from 3 to 15 rescue dogs or cats. Each rescue receives daily attention, training and medical treatment where necessary. Andrea Seamans acts as our official Rescue Liaison and oversees all adoptions. The entire network of artists helps in spreading the word about adoption and pet owner responsibility. The funding for each rescued pet varies. The first year the board members donated everything from their personal income: housing, food and medical treatment. After non-profit incorporation in March 2006, Faktura Projekts began receiving public donations from public events as well as some larger donations from individuals who become aware of the group’s activities. All expenses are documented in detail and receipts and vet bills are kept for every rescue case.

Pimp My Kart is a homeless benefit art exhibition held annually at Faktura Gallery at the end of each year since 2005. Art Liaison Jacquelyn Jackson Johnston uses her contacts in the art community to invite a growing number of artists (40 artists in 2006) to donate original artwork made out of found abandoned or discarded shopping karts. The exhibition opening night asks for a donation at the door (30% goes straight to the chosen charity, 70% to help cover the costs of the exhibition) as well as extending an open invitation for everyone to bring clothing and non-perishable donations. The week following the opening, the participating artists are encouraged to take their mobile works of art around city to raise awareness of the issues facing the homeless. Media coverage has been very kind in helping to spread the word about aiding the homeless and using emerging artists’ creativity to generate new energy toward charity. The exhibition happens once annually, but planning for the events begins in March for the event in December. Johnston is the head of organization for selecting artists, gathering information, selecting events locations, booking entertainment, coordinating donations drop locations, and all press contacts. Faktura Projekts board of Directors chooses the charity to benefit from the event by July. In the previous two years, all expenses incurred during the preparation of Pimp My Kart have been funded by Faktura Gallery and Johnston. 70% of the money collected during the first day (opening night) goes to help cover a portion of these expenses. All other donations, including 30% of the door money, is donated directly to the chosen charity. In years to come Faktura Projekts plans on making this event better and larger, to reach more audiences and further the goal of raising awareness and donations for the homeless. We hope to receive some funding through grants to help us further develop this project.

Newcube.tv is a conceptual experiment founded by Jacquelyn Jackson Johnston in 2003. The project uses funding raised through donations during public art performances to buy commercial advertising space to display socially conscious art for wider public view. Such venues include bill boards, television commercial spots, magazine advertisements and event video projections onto public spaces. All of the art displayed will be for the sole purpose of communicating a new idea through visual means, and directly challenge the over powering presence of commercial advertising in our everyday lives. Due to lack of funding and time, this project has not yet taken shape in Miami. Faktura Projekts hopes to make this a priority in the coming year to further our goals: of humane treatment for all pets; increased participation in alleviating the problem of homelessness; and generating a wider interest in the social value of having art in our everyday lives.

Public Out-Reach Performances function in the very same way as Newcube.tv. These projects work together to intervene in the public’s everyday acceptance of commercial visual communication to encourage a hightened sense of critical analysis toward the images we see every day.

Faktura Pet Rescue Documentary: beginning with resuce work in spring 2006, Johnston and Seamans have consistently collected video footage of many rescue attempts on the street, puppies being born, dogs suffering from mistreatement, and the happy adoption days of our rescue dogs. In 2007 Faktura Projekts will work to raise enough funding to put this footage together in a documentary style video that can stand as a visual narrative to help educate the public on the problem of animal care. We hope this video will both cause disgust toward the current situation and provide hope for the efforts being made to change and protect all pets. Johnston and Seamans are both skilled in video editing and hope to put together this video with minimal funding so that the majority of all donations always directly to serve the rescue pets.

About our Board of Directors:

Jacquelyn Jackson Johnston- Art Liaison

Andrea Seamans- Rescue Liaison

Art Liaison

Jacquelyn Jackson Johnston earned a BA in Visual Arts and Art History from Barnard College, Columbia University in 2004; a highschool diploma with a concentration in Visual Arts from Walnut Hill School for the Art in Massachucettes; interned for three galleries in New York City; founder and curator of Faktura Gallery in Miami since April 2005.

Rescue Liaison

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Faktura Projekts, Inc is a not for profit organization comprised of artists

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