Dignify the Displaced - An Art Auction

An art fundraiser highlighting auction-style and fixed-price art from local Houston and regional artists. Come bid for and buy beautiful art to support the work of Every Shelter, meet local artists, and enjoy an evening of live music, craft refreshments and cocktails, and an immersive Billboard Shelter Experience. Valet parking will be provided.

Thank you to our event co-chairs, Scott and Judy Nyquist.
 

Buy Art. Good Art. Beautiful Art. And Support Refugee Families.

Featuring artists including: Paul Kremer, Jack Massing, Shane Allbritton, Erick Calderon, Wawaa, Patrick Renner, Will Bentsen, Divya Pande, Sarah Sudhoff, Matthew Reeves, Tommy Gregory, Natasha Bowdoin, Krista Birnbaum, Casy Arguelles Gregory, Peter Bernick Allbritton, Charlotte Seifert, Riley Miller, Julie Devries, and more

Of the world’s 100 million forcefully displaced, millions live in shelters—effectively camping for an average of 27 years.

Every Shelter helps refugees create home by providing stability, agency, and opportunity.

CONTACT US

Please email austin@everyshelter.org

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

  • Over 100 million people are currently displaced from their homes, becoming refugees disconnected from basic rights and human dignity. This is one of the most pressing global issues of our time, and one that we believe does not receive enough awareness, attention, or understanding. Every Shelter focuses on refugees living in long-duration camp settings in urban squalor, and as such, they are unseen and out of mind for our community. Every Shelter works at a systems level to provide a safe and healthy future to dignify these displaced communities through a three-pronged strategy:

    • The design, creation, and deployment of superior shelter provisions,
    • The active disruption of an archaic global refugee system through intelligent interventions and economic empowerment opportunities for refugees,
    • Advocating and fundraising for an often voiceless and powerless group of people.

  • In short, Every Shelter is using the proceeds to help launch Shelter WorkShop | Uganda - a space for refugee-led businesses to enjoy free rent, free use of machines, and training as they launch their own shelter businesses. Our first cohort of refugee enterprises is focused on upcycling used billboard vinyls into 10-year shelter roofs.

  • Our pilot product, Bashe Bora (Better Tarp in Swahili) transforms discarded billboards into shelter tarps that protect refugee families. The tarps have proven to be durable– outlasting existing imported tarp products and are able to be produced locally at an affordable price point. We have created a mobile demonstration shelter to give us the ability to share our work and vision in a very tangible manner!

  • Expected attendance in excess of 100+ art enthusiasts, friends of our organization, and members of our community.

  • Every Shelter will release a catalog of pieces two weeks before the date and will circulate this catalog to everyone on the RSVP list.

  • Thank you to our generous underwriters, we are able to extend free admission to this event, but we encourage attendees to be generous with their donations and art purchases.

  • No! We assume most people will prefer to be smart casual or casual cocktail.

  • Please fill out this online form for sponsorship.

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