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29 January 2014

What Do You Know About Art4Good?

Art 4 Good Foundation, Inc., is located in Downtown Palm Springs in the historic district; within the former Clark Gable Estate. Open to the public on weekends, art “speaks”. Art speaks in 41 languages. Tourists and locals alike can view hundreds of works of art by Renowned and Collectible Artists from all over the world.

Admission is free, and our museum space, consisting of three galleries, is also made available, at no cost, for viable local charities who wish to host fundraising events.

We are very proud to offer works from over 200 Published and Acclaimed Artists from more than 41 different countries.

Our inventory includes many works from artists who have been featured in the most prestigious museums in the world!

WHERE ELSE HAVE THESE WORKS BEEN SEEN?:

The Louvre Museum

The United Nations

The White House

The Smithsonian Institute

The Guggenheim

Museum Musee National d’Art Moderne

Museum of Modern Art

Brooklyn Museum

The Olympics

National Society of Painters

The Whitney Museum

The Fogg Museum

Corcoran Museum

The Cleveland Museum

Galleries Naifs et Primitifs: Paris

The Library of Congress

IN THE MOVIES:

THE LION KING

LILO AND STITCH

CONAN THE BARBARIAN

REVENGE OF THE NERDS

COMING TO AMERICA

POSTAL STAMPS FOR THE US POSTAL SERVICE,

THE UNITED NATIONS POSTAL SERVICE

IN CORPORATE COLLECTIONS INCLUDING:

THE NFL

MICROSOFT

VOLKSWAGON

HONDA

ANHEUSER-BUSCH

FOX BROADCASTING CORPORATION

The Disney Corporation

Exxon Corporation

Universal Studios

Federal Express

The Ritz Carlton Corporation

American Pharmaceuticals

Nissin Foods of Japan

Pepsi-Cola

Red Bull

Lexus

Toyota

Levi Strauss Corp.

Artists have beenCommissioned to paint the official portraits of:

King and Queen of Spain (Royo)

Sir Winston Churchill (Cha)

Marilyn Monroe (Azoulay)

Collected by:

President Ronald Reagan

The Rockefeller Family

President Anwar Sadat

Jerry Lewis

Brooke Shields

Nicolas Cage

Jane Seymour

George Lucas

The King of Saudi Arabia

The Annenburg Family

HRH Prince Charles

President Jacques Chirac

Celine Dion

President Bill Clinton

Curt Gowdy

Barbara Mandrell

Tom Jones

Elizabeth Taylor

Donna Summer

Dinah Shore

Samuel Goldwyn

Jean Wallace

Patty Duke

President & Mrs. George H.W. Bush

Ron Howard

Nicole Kidman

Tom Cruise

Val Kilmer

ZZ Top

The Black Crows

Dick Van Dyke

Hugh Hefner

Ice-T,

Dave Winfield

POPE JOHN PAUL II, ANWAR SADAT, MENACHIM BEGIN, THE DALAI LAMA, AND DESMOND TUTU among their "admirers".

and have received numerous accolades and awards including:

The Presidential Medal

and they have been

GIVING BACK too!

ARTISTS GIVE BACK: "Helping Burgeoning Artists Help themselves and others":The concept of Philanthropic Marketing was the premise of Ms. Busig-Kohn’s participation and presentation back in 1995, when invited to The State Of The World Forum, by then President Mikhail Gorbachev. Advocating that all primary brands “identify” with charities was, in fact, her idea.

Since that time, thousands of celebrities have also added their support to this concept, and thousands of fundraising projects were enhanced by their participation.

In contrast, and substantiated by the NEA, statistics prove that the majority of visual artists in America today, live well below the poverty line. However, our statistics prove that when artists establish their own “philanthropic brand”, it enhances their sales and underscores success in their field.

We have donated funds to the following charities:

Shakira’s Barefoot Foundation

Thorn/DNA Foundation

DreamCatchers Wild Horse and Burro Sanctuary

Habitat for Humanity

Feeding America

Doctors without Borders

Oxfam

Stand up 2 Cancer

Animal Humane Society

Amnesty International

Autism Speaks

St Judes Hospital

Nothing but Nets

United Nations Foundation

International Rescue Committee

Make a Wish Foundation

Elton John AIDS Foundation

ONE Campaign

Native American Heritage Association

The Prince's Trust

Clinton Foundation

UNICEF

UNHCR

MusiCares

Andre Agassi Foundation

M J Fox Parkinson's Foundation

Lupus LA

Give Back Hollywood

Barbra Streisand CrowdRise Team for Women's Heart Center

The Trevor Project

American Red Cross

Project Arrowhead

Feed A Child 2012

Enough Project

Team Tre: Sickle Cell Disease

Jon Bon Jovi Soul Foundation,

Wounded Warriors,

Reader to Reader,

Native American Heritage Association,

American Cancer Society,

Cure Epilepsy Campaign,

Operation Respect,

BDPA NY Scholarship,

Imagine Scholar Inc,

Will Ferrell's Cancer For College Campaign,

Edward Norton's Maasai Wilderness Campaign

Jason Bateman's City Year Campaign

The Daniel Pearl Foundation

Christopher's Clubhouse Foundation

Angel View Crippled Children's Foundation

Conservation Lands Foundation

Cri-Help

All donations are posted publicly on CrowdRise.com

"Art Speaks": “Inspiring change, with every brush stroke”, it is the mission of the Art4Good Foundation to enlighten the public to the real value of art and creativity. Art is subjective, yet it requires no translator. Art speaks in every language, and can be utilized as a strategic "tool" to engage interest and commonality via education, availability, and exchange of ideas worldwide. Art provides good will, emanating from the United States, throughout the entire world; not unlike the popularity of our best exports of music, films and automobiles, we intend, in the near future, to focus and enhance our mission to "export culture", sharing the works of international artists, beyond our borders.

“Art heals.”: Founding Chairperson, Wendie Busig-Kohn suffers from Systemic Lupus, a crippling disease that was diagnosed in 1992, when doctors told her to “get her affairs in order”. After several strokes and seizures, she chose to eliminate most, if not all of her prescriptions and discovered that when creating, the left brain shifting to the right, her pain would disappear, if only for a little while, when painting. As a result, she became an advocate for “Art and Healing” and published a book of the same title.

ART4GOOD Foundation, Inc. provides a multitude of social media outlets for burgeoning artists to showcase their works, at NO cost. ART4GOOD also sponsors “The Artist In You” blog, where artists can engage others in the inspiration behind their works, and enjoy reading additional creative posts, including, but not limited to poetry and music.

To date, we have also published seven ART and ART/Poetry books, to enhance the stature of burgeoning artists as "published artists". Costs for publication have been paid entirely by ART4GOOD Foundation, Inc., and proceeds from sales are donated to support ARTS in SCHOOLS programs. Previously, we sponsored several underpriviledged children to attend Summer Art Conservatory classes in Palm Springs.

ART4GOOD has also created videos to showcase new artists' works, showcased on The Artist In You TV Channel on You Tube. Art4Good created The Artist In You TV channel on You Tube, which offers thousands of videos for the public to find including educational, creative, and inspirational videos along with full length movies and music videos too.

In summary, it is the mission of the ART4GOOD Foundation, Inc. to communicate, inspire, and support the ever changing world of art,

via education by visualization and participation.

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16 January 2014

STAND UP TO CANCER WITH ART4GOOD!

THIS TIME...it's PERSONAL!

I know that I am not alone. I believe that almost EVERYONE has been impacted by Cancer in their lives; a family member, a friend, even a SURVIVOR or two!

I'd like to dedicate this auction in memory of my mom, who is the inspiration behind our mission at the ART4GOOD Foundation!

The Back Story

Betty Busig To say that my mom is the inspiration behind this project and mission would be an understatement.

It is with my mother's heart for charity, her love of art, that I address this mission every single day.

As a child, my mom was determined to expose me to a world she treasured; a world of the arts. I will never forget a specific weekend trip to the Baltimore Museum of Art. A modern art exhibit beckoned her attendance and the family, my mom, father, sister and I, entered the museum. Unbeknownst to me at that time, that a museum was to be a 'quiet place', this 5 year old blurted out, "I can do better than that!"

My father thought me hilarious, my mother was so embarrassed. I continued, looking up to my father with, "let's go see the mummies!"

Music lessons became the new focus. It was not until many years later that I adopted her love and appreciation for Fine Art. Initially, like many young people, my apartments and rental homes were adorned with art posters and items snatched up at Art Festivals.

When my career took me to many different cities throughout the United States and in France, I began to acquire on a whole new level. Most people take coffee breaks where they work. On locations changing from day to day, I took 'Art Breaks'. I would venture into every gallery along my path, and fell in love with the works of Erte, Alvar, and Frederic Hart.

On one tour, I managed to squeeze in a gallery event honoring Alvar, and met him in person for the first time. My next stop on my tour was a visit to see my mom, then on to New Jersey to meet with my clients at M&M Mars. My mom asked me if she could 'keep' the invitation to the Alvar event as she wanted to frame it.

Yes, my mom, a beautiful heart of a woman, loved art so much, she would actually buy Art Calendars, cut the photos out and frame them! I surprised her that Christmas with "The Tree of Life" and "The Tree of Knowledge" by Alvar! She treasured them and I finally felt like, perhaps, we had come full circle together.

When Betty Busig died, she left those Alvars to me, along with every penny she could save with intent to help me in the future, knowing that due to my SLE/LUPUS, I was unable to 'work' like I used to do!

She lived such a modest life. The most important thing anyone needs to know, to truly understand why she continues to be my inspiration is this. My mom managed to live on $30.00 a week for her groceries, and yet, despite her modest means,donated to at least 20 different charities every month of her life until the day she died. Putting others first was a given. She was selfless, charitable, and totally modest. She was and will always be my angel of inspiration.

When she died, I, too, had been making monthly donations to a selection of my favorite causes. I began to think about how I could do more, much more, and expand those funds she left me; appropriating with a more continual and heightened capability, a method of giving back like she did, until the day that I die.

This, all of this, was made possible and inspired by Betty Busig!

Thank YOU mom!

One LOVE, now and forever,

Wendie Busig-Kohn

CEO/Founding Chairperson

ART4GOOD Foundation, Inc.

The A4G: STAND UP 2 CANCER auciton is now open. The auction will run from January 13, 2014 to January 19, 2014, with proceeds going to ART4GOOD Foundation, Inc. in order to support STAND UP 2 CANCER. Auction items range from collectible Fine Art, Jewelry, Couture Accessories, Collectibles and Memorabilia and exotic vacation getaways to donated items guaranteed to delight and surprise. So, tell your friends, family, community. Let the bidding begin!

Now is your chance to not only get all the great items you want, but to do it knowing you are helping support our organization and mission.

Stand Up 2 Cancer is a non-profit organization/website/TV show that aims to raise money for cancer researchers and scientists to come together and reach their common goal: the cure for cancer. Since it's launch in 2008, Stand up 2 Cancer has pledged over $80 million to accelerate ground-breaking research and bring new treatments to patients as quickly as possible.

Stand up 2 Cancer has received support from many notable celebrities including Meryl Streep, Katy Perry and Patrick Swayze.

It is our goal, in tandem with ART4GOOD Foundation, Inc. to raise $1,000.00 in direct donations and proceeds!

I hope you will share our commitment and enthusiasm and join the team! You can donate 10 bucks, vote, invite others to jam with us, or simply keep track of OUR progress!

Join with us on CrowdRise Here:

http://www.crowdrise.com/A4GSTANDUP2CANCER/fundraiser/Art4GoodFoundationInc

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07 January 2014

"Autism is not a tragedy. Ignorance is the tragedy": For those who CARE about making a difference and WINNING something AWESOME!

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The A4G: AUTISM SPEAKS Auction is now open. The auction will run from January 6, 2014 to January 12, 2014, with proceeds going to ART4GOOD Foundation, Inc. in order to support AUTISM SPEAKS. Auction items range from FINE ART, Collectibles, Jewelry, and Exotic vacation getaways to donated items guaranteed to delight and surprise. So, tell your friends, family, community. Let the bidding begin!

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What Is Autism?

What Is Autism? What is Autism Spectrum Disorder?

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and autism are both general terms for a group of complex disorders of brain development. These disorders are characterized, in varying degrees, by difficulties in social interaction, verbal and nonverbal communication and repetitive behaviors. With the May 2013 publication of the DSM-5 diagnostic manual, all autism disorders were merged into one umbrella diagnosis of ASD. Previously, they were recognized as distinct subtypes, including autistic disorder, childhood disintegrative disorder, pervasive developmental disorder-not otherwise specified (PDD-NOS) and Asperger syndrome.

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