We love our city, and part of having a business in San Francisco means being a citizen of the local SF community. That’s why when Skate This Art reached out, we couldn’t help but go check out their show. Skate This Art is a nonprofit community outreach program that encourages communities to work with artists. The profits from the sale of the art goes back into local charities to help the SF community and the skateboards are donated from local skate shops DLXSF and Mission Skateboards.
This year they held a 3 day long gallery showing of skateboards transformed into beautiful works of art created by over 40 artists. There was even pizza donated from ZA Pizza.
Randall John, the founder of Skate This Art, explained that the elderly, homeless, and most artists often times cannot afford high gallery rents in San Francisco or art studios for themselves. Skate This Art brings local businesses, galleries, and volunteers together to provide this much needed space. He hopes that he can help artists stay and create in our vibrant city.
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We had to go check it out for ourselves. The gallery was full of incredible designs, all on skateboards.
Ride This Art
Randall and Anna Lisa van der Valk, the co-producer, had a surprise for us! There was an Imguraffe skateboard painted by artist Midori who is from Japan and living in SF. We had to have it, and it now hangs proudly on our walls.
New Imgur office art!
If you’d like to get involved with Skate This Art follow them on Facebook here. Their next event will be in April 2016 and are always looking for more artists to get involved from all over the world.