As a brand strategy and design agency, our best resource is creativity.
Art with Heart launched in 2002 as a way to combine our creative talents as brand designers with a belief that we should each play a part in making the world better.
Using our creative talents to raise much needed funds for local charities, our South Melbourne studio transforms into a one night only art exhibition.
A True Cause
The theme for this year is ‘True’ celebrating diversity and embracing all of our differences – your true colours.
‘True’ has been selected in honour of our chosen fundraising cause StartOut, a local health promotion charity providing regional outreach and mentorship programmes for young people of diverse sexuality and gender (DSG).
StartOut has developed a unique online mentoring program purely from private donations that provides real role models and mentors to help young DSG reach their potential while reducing the preventable burden of poor mental health.
The service, fully run by volunteers, provides support to those who might otherwise feel they have no one in the world they can talk to.
This year’s goal
Through funds raised, StartOut will be able to pay for the training of 100 additional mentors to support up to 300 vulnerable young people where need for its services is greatest, especially in regional and rural Australia.
A StartOut online role model is someone to talk to who has been there before and can help navigate the tricky stuff. It’s 100% free, online and always confidential, so people can be free to be themselves.
2018 Artists
Donating their time and materials, our Art with Heart artists contribute paintings, sculptures, digital prints and other innovative mediums.
We’re highlighting sneak peeks of our artists work and insights into their support of Art with Heart via Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.
If you would like to be involved as a contributing artist or receive an invitation to Art with Heart 2018 contact [email protected]
Local impact
Since Art with Heart began, Truly Deeply has raised nearly $360,000 for local charities. Each year, more than 150 guests from the design community enjoy a night of education, impact and art with a clear aim to fund and support those who are selflessly doing wonderful things in the community.
We have helped 16 small, local charities fund:
- Preventative mental health programs for teenage boys in schools
- A new shower and laundry bus
- A year of funding to train biographers for people in aged care facilities
- Bicycle education and bicycles for asylum seekers
- A year-long dance program for 20 kids with Down syndrome
- Funds to providing meals, legal, health and support services for asylum seekers
- 335 swags for homeless people
- Funding for Victoria’s only all Indigenous female high school
- Breakfast for 60 primary school children in need for an entire school year
- An additional food van for St Vinnies
- Support for teenagers in youth detention through workplace training
- Food, personal hygiene products, books and toys for women and children escaping family violence
- Support services for children in at risk situations
- Funds towards to the fit-out of a treatment ward at the Royal Children’s Hospital
- Funds for research into improving treatment for ovarian cancer
- Helping fund two houses for at risk youth.