Welcome to The Affirmation Project!

It's easy when faced with challenges to look to others for solutions. It's easy to see what someone else should do better. It's easy to complain about what isn't working and who should change it. It's not always easy to look at the good, to look at every effort from every person as an intention for a better experience. It's not always easy to stand for beauty, love, compassion and encouragement and to affirm that in each other.

Small communities all over the world struggle with growth, change and political differences. The youth crave to be mentored into positive directions, the elderly yearn to share their knowledge with younger generations, and the busy working class could use a reminder every now and then that they have gifts of skill, humor, guidance, lightheartedness and experience to offer their communities that are far greater than they know.

Artists (and mothers, fathers, teens, carpenters, shop owners and passersby) in a small town in Southern Oregon have and will continue to collaborate to expand on the vision of The Affirmation Project. The work of the project is to fill windows in vacant buildings with art installations that will include salvage and reuse materials, intriguing use of color, and positive messages that affirm the light in each and every human being. The intention of the project is to encourage the viewers to spark the bravery that is required to let the brilliance of that light to shine in spite of fear, uncertainty, and busy-ness.

We do not need to wait for a reason to shine. We do not need to wait for a reason to be unreasonably happy and we do not need to wait for someone else to bring the light. Let us use our energy for good in any way we can, however small, where ever we call home.

If you would like to donate to support this effort, we thank you deeply.

(go here to read how it all started)