Art With Heart Cards

By Mark Kaufman
We just completed a project for Art With Heart, a great organization that provides non-traditional mental health support to youth facing trauma, illness, family dysfunction or homelessness. Art With Heart’s books and artistic workshops give kids a way to express both their suffering and strength. We designed 20+ greeting cards using the work of such  illustrators, designers, cartoonists and artists as Katherine Streeter, Mark Todd, James Yang, Coco Masuda, Vivienne Flesher, and Joe Ciardello. I have admired these and the other artists that donated their work to this great organization, and we were delighted to help out Art With Heart in our own small way. The cards are not up on the site yet, but I’ll give an update when they are. Since the artists donated their work I don’t feel comfortable putting any of their images up on my blog, so instead here’s one of our type treatments for a card by Elwood Smith.