Help Arianne Build an Artist's Sanctuary #legacy

Hi, my name is Kris, and I'm fundraising to help my friend Arianne King Comer build an artist's sanctuary on Wadmalaw Island in South Carolina. Arianne is an artist, teacher, art consultant, indigo advocate and steward of the earth. She dreams of creating a place where artists and creatives can engage and practice their craft in a natural setting, living sustainably and intentionally on the land as artists. The sanctuary, situated on already secured land, would include an educational studio, an open-air studio, dye gardens, sculpture gardens, an administrative office and an artist's residence.

Artist rendering of the educational studio, artist residence and dye gardens:

This campaign is for Phase 1 of the project; the funding would cover the costs of the following items:

1. Landscaping preparation and construction of an apron to provide vehicular access to the site.

Approximate cost: $4,000

2. Materials to construct the open-air studio.

Approximate cost: $4,000

3. Underground trenching for water and electrical for future structures and administrative office.

Aproximate cost: $1,000

4. Retrofit and paint administrative office camper.

Approximate cost: $1,000

5. Begin plot for crop research of African indigo and hybrid sweetgrass startlings.

Approximate cost: $500

6. GoFundMe transaction fees.

Approximate cost: $315

About Arianne King Comer:

Arianne King Comer, a BFA graduate of Howard University, resides in North Charleston, SC as an artist, teacher, art consultant, and indigo advocate. In 1992, King Comer received the UN/USIS grant to study under the renowned Batik artist Chief Nike Davies-Okundaye in Oshogbo, Nigeria, where her passion for indigo manifested. Arianne has developed and led community-based textile and multi-media programs, including Yoruba Design Workshops at John C. Campbell Folk School in North Carolina, custom design classes for SPACE Gifted Student Program for Charleston County Schools, and the SC Statewide Art Teacher's Workshop in Textile Design and Indigo Dyeing.

Arianne's work has been exhibited widely at prestigious institutions and galleries, including the Columbia Museum of Art, Charleston's City Gallery at Waterfront Park, The Penn Center, and Zenith Gallery in Washington, DC. She is a board member of the International Center for the Indigo Culture (ICIC) and an SC representative for Economic Empowerment through Crafts through Bloomberg Philanthropy Project. Arianne is also an active member of the Gullah Society's Artist Program established in 2018.

While in residence at the Gibbes Museum in 2021, she focused on several projects involving quilting a unique piece for the Acres of Ancestry Initiative to a batik painting in remembrance of the Reburial of Enslaved on the ground of the Galliard at Anson and George Streets and in honor of the recently departed Doctor Ajani Ofunnyin.

I appreciate your consideration of helping my friend build her dream and legacy! - Kris