About AFTS
Project Milestones
2008
Kristin Kriesel signs on as the first sustaining volunteer, taking the
reins for the project’s publicity and advertising efforts. Dana
Marruffo of BuzzPR joins as PR Chair. Bobbie Moore begins volunteering
as a class facilitator.
2007
15th Annual show brings in $65,000 in art sales and admissions. Michael
Roberts heads the Austin AdFed team providing PR for the show.
Kristin Kreisel heads the Austin AdFed PR team. Alamo Drafthouse hosts a second fundraiser for AFTS by showing AFTS-The Movie, raising $1,165. The show set another record with art sales of $81,000 and admissions of $5,500, for a total of $87,600. 1,800 attended. Eric Verret acts as co-director of the show. Yvonne Baughman and Elizabeth Romanella begin volunteering as facilitators for the weekly classes
2005
Layton Blaylock
premieres Art
from the Streets: The Movie at Alamo
Drafthouse, raising $1,685 for the project. Austin AdFed accepts
AFTS as a sponsored pro-bono project. Karen Ford leads the Ad
Fed PR team. AdFed members donate over $100,000 of in-kind services.
Art sales and donations bring in a record total of $80,600. Eric
Verret begins volunteering as a class facilitator. 3M-Austin
donates framing costs and hosts in its Innovations Visitor Center a
year-long show of work by 15 AFTS artists.
2004
April Jones produces PR for the show. 1,400 attend. $62,175 in art sales
and admissions. ARCH moves into another NEW home.
2003
Show produces a record $75,000 in art sales and admissions and a record
2,400 attendees. Gene Golembiewski volunteers as the treasurer and bookkeeper
for AFTS.
2002
THE 10TH ANNUAL SHOW - November 9-10, 2002. $44,500 in sales. 2000 people
attend. Selected as Capstone
Project for St. Edwards Graduate School of Business. Hold first
outreach meeting held to gather community resources and support for
the project. Begin process to become 501.C.3. Joyce Pohlman volunteers
to be the project’s principal fundraiser (and food donation raiser
for the annual show. Lynn Zwern and Robyn Turner begin helping facilitate
the weekly classes.
2001
$24,000 in sales, Attendance – 1,000
2000
$32,500 raised at the annual show. ARCH moves into new facility next door
to La Zona Rosa.
1999
$36,000 raised at the annual show. Eileen Keller of Ideality.Com
begins association with AFTS as the project's publicity partner. Scott
Van Osdol starts taking photos of the art, the artists, and the
show.
1998
$26,600 raised at the annual show.
1997
10,800 raised at the annual show. Sharon Kolton begins volunteering as
a class facilitator.
1996
$10,000 raised. The first 2-day show. The first show to attract more than
1,000 visitors.
1991
Beverly Bajema and Heloise
Gold begin conducting weekly drop-in art classes at H.O.B.O. (Helping
Our Brothers Out).
1992
H.O.B.O. becomes ARCH (Austin Resource Center for the Homeless). Bill
Jeffers and Lindsey
Lane join the project as volunteers, helping with the classes.
1993
THE FIRST SHOW AND SALE OF ART from the classes is held on a Sunday
afternoon in November in conjunction with National
Hunger and Homeless Awareness Week. Seventy works of art were chosen
for the show. Volunteers solicited framing from local galleries, and
food from local restaurants. The show was a great success, and had a
tremendous effect on the homeless people who had participated. $1,650
worth of art was sold. Christi Pate volunteers to help hang the show
and stays on to help with classes and other aspects of the project.
1994
Second Annual show raises $3,265 in art sales. Art from the Streets
applies for and receives a cultural services contract from the City
of Austin through the Austin Arts Commission. The funding goes to
support production of the 1994 show.
1995
$6,500 raised at the annual show. Marilyn Yank begins volunteering as
a class facilitator.
