After reading the article “a good cause can be hard to find” about photographer Gina Glimmer and her struggle to find a non-profit that would be willing to accept the donations her auction was to generate, I got in contact with Gina and had a couple of conversations with her. She struck me as a awesome woman, who was also distressed by the fact that auctioning art and donating to charity could be so difficult. After talking with her and seeing the artwork itself, I decided to participate in the auction.
Even though there were only very few people donating, I had put a certain figure in my mind and pledged that to the cause, no matter what. Due to circumstances, Gina had to cut the auction short by 1 day and I was declared top donator even before I realized it. That however resulted in not being able to donate as much as I had hoped. So now I’m in the process of contacting the Nonprofit Commons administrator, to make sure I can send them the rest of the planned donation.
The Tunick art/photo’s will be available for all the public to enjoy at the SoulManager sim as soon as I finish creating a worthy display for them. Remember that a little charity never hurt anyone and that restriction on art is a restriction on life itself. I’ll post the SLURL to the correct location later.
Tags: art, artwork, charity, gina glimmer, promition, Second Life®, SL®, tunick
April 15, 2008 at 11:45 pm
Thanks for the blog post! Please email susan [AT] techsoup [DOT] org as she is the administrator of the Nonprofit Commons.
April 17, 2008 at 9:29 am
Gina had to leave SL for personal reasons. Her other previously commercial artwork is now availabe for free. See details here: http://stindberg.blogspot.com/2008/04/get-yourself-some-of-ginas-artwork-for.html