Portal to Pets and People Together

Meet the artists

Portals placed in shelter housing are gateways to happier, healthier cats and dogs. We invited emerging California artists to create portals for us: gateways to pets and people together and the communities of care we’re growing now. With the understanding that our future is shaped, first, by how we envision it and then by how we act to bring it into being, we asked them, “What do communities look like when we’re stronger side by side? What does More Pets and People Together mean to you?” What emerged are visual stories of communities rooted in mutual care, joy, and connection among animals, nature and one another, where everyone belongs.

Jaia Linden-Engel loves it when her art can invoke a specific feeling, most often of the curiosity and enthusiasm of childhood and the joy of nature.

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Jade Howe is an illustrator and printmaker based in San Francisco. She strives to make work that appreciates the little things.

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Cami Morgan uses a wide variety of mediums in her practice and has a wide variety of interests, such as acrylic painting, ink drawing, risograph printing, fashion illustration, surface design, and children’s illustration.

Marianne Wilson is an artist living in San Francisco.

Ann Liu is an illustrator who is passionate about human emotions, social issues, and the ways how these can be translated into visual arts.

Erika Ilumin-Wahlberg is a California based writer-illustrator with a love for fantasy and the fantastical. Her work centers around stories with happy endings, because she believes that dreaming of a better future is how we can imagine solutions to reach it.

What does more pets and people together mean to you?

What does it look like when we’re stronger side by side? Contribute your own art by November 11 for a chance to win $5k for your community.

What does being together with a pet(s) mean to you? What feeling or ideal represents how you value pets in your life, and the lives of others? Answer those questions with your artwork and you could win a $5,000 grant for your local shelter!

There are two ways to enter the contest:

Post your original art to Facebook or Instagram with the hashtags #PetsAndPeopleTogether #MascotasYPersonasUnidas by November 11, 2023.
OR pick up a flyer from your local shelter or download and print one using the button below. Draw, paint or color your vision on the front of the flyer and return it to your local shelter. Make sure to include your name, email and phone number on the back.

All ages and skill levels are encouraged to apply. Don’t have a way to get to your shelter or print a flyer? That’s OK! Draw, paint or color on any piece of paper, then take a photo of your art, or create your original artwork digitally and post to Facebook or Instagram with the hashtags #PetsAndPeopleTogether #MascotasYPersonasUnidas. If you choose to drop off your entry at your local shelter, be sure to write your name, email and phone number on the back.

If you’re not a visual artist but want to share what More Pets and People Together means to you, email your story to together@californiaforallanimals.com.

Entries will be judged by the California for All Animals Advisory Council.

Portal to Pets and People Together

Meet the artists

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