Artists Gifting the World

A portion of CFAI funding goes into our support of these world charities.

 

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Charity Navigator, America's premiere independent charity evaluator, works to advance a more efficient and responsive philanthropic marketplace by evaluating the Financial Health and Accountability and Transparency of America's largest charities.  CharityNavigator.org




UMCOR    http://new.gbgm-umc.org/umcor/about/  Debbie Lincoln has personally worked with people who both volunteer and are on UMCOR's payroll. Efficient, cost effective, caring, brave people who go where there is suffering and make it better - all with Christian love and without judgement.



Salvation Army  http://www.salvationarmy.org/ihq/www_sa.nsf

Most people do not know that the Salvation Army is actually centered in London, not the US. Not only are they are worldwide in their relief operations but they also work in drug rehab, homeless help, youth camps, services for the elderly, etc. And they continuously rank high in percentage of actual money spent on services and NOT administration. The CFAI board participate independently ringing a kettle bell every Christmas season. 



Childcare Worldwide is FABULOUS 

 http://www.ministrywatch.com/profile/Childcare-Worldwide.aspx



The Good Card from www.networkforgood.com allows the card's recipient to give to more than 1.2 million charities.



The American Institute of Philanthropy also publishes a charity rating guide on more than 500 charities.

It costs $3 and ordering information can be found at Charitywatch.org




Global nomad and award-winning artist Conni Tögel was born in Winfield, Illinois, on July 24, 1965 as a daughter of German immigrants.


In 1993, she graduated from the Kolping College of Design & Multimedia Communications in Stuttgart, Germany. Currently Conni and her family reside near Lake Hartwell in Upstate South Carolina.


Conni’s journeys throughout Europe shaped her perception of the world and of what art could or should be. Whether it was sitting under a tree in the Provence, painting an old rusted jalopy, or sipping cappuccino on the Piazza San Marco in Venice with her sketchbook in her lap – capturing emotions, colors, and light became her obsession in her art.


Check out Conni's website for her world collected artwork of fairies, wizards, sheep and landscape paintings.


The Five Graces

Founder of Artbyus.com

Co-founder AGTW

Founder of Sheep Incognito

Professional Member CFAI

As splintering light fractions into thousands of colors, Laurie's journey in life has encompassed many careers, from runway model to graphic artist, from musician to singer, from teacher to artist. She believes the greatest influence in her life is God. It is His magnificent handiwork that inspires the gift to create.


A degree in Art, eight years with an advertising agency, and twenty-five years of teaching art has come full circle to top honors yearly at international art shows in oil, watercolor, and photography.  She loves working with oils, intense colors, a palette knife and brushes,  believing energy transfers to the canvas and then to the viewer. Each painting becomes woven into the life of the collector’s home.  She has been a featured in Cowboys & Indians, Western Art Collector and American Art Collector.


WAOW associate

OPA associate

American Watercolor Society

The Five Graces

Daily Painters

EBSQ

Co-Founder Artist of Texas

Founder Daily Painters of Texas

Co-founder AGTW

Signature Partner CFAI

An avid outdoors woman and self-taught artist, Diane paints what she loves best: wild animals, Montana Mountains, and farm animals.


She is praised for her bold brushstrokes and vibrant colors which make her work come alive. Born in Spokane, Washington, and the second of eight children, art education was not affordable or practical for Diane.


She earned a degree in Business, while dabbling in oils. Originally determined to study to be a veterinarian, Diane feels she has combined her love of animals and oil paint to make the perfect marriage of creativity.


WAOW associate

OPA associate

The Five Graces

Daily Painters

EBSQ

Founder Artists of Utah

Co-founder AGTW

Professional Member CFAI


I paint what I love, and I hope to evoke an emotional response with my artwork, to touch others who also understand the closeness, warmth and comfort of family and the animals whom they consider members of their family.


Color, composition, form and light are the tools I play with to present the familiar subjects of horses, animals and humans in my paintings, bringing life into the surroundings of the viewer, so that the work is not only my personal expression but also an extension of the viewer's and animals personality.


The Five Graces

Founder Daily Painters of the Pacific

   Northwest

Founder Daily Painters of Washington

Co-founder AGTW

Signature Partner CFAI

A 30 year resident of Erath County, Debbie Lincoln travels the country searching for subjects for her paintings. Many, however, are found in her own backyard of Morgan Mill, Texas.


Deborah Grayson Lincoln was raised in Dallas and always knew she'd be an artist. Her maternal grandmother, Ivey Causey Oliver was an art teacher and instructed her as a child. Art courses at Texas Tech University and Highland College in Illinois continued her education.

As a First Place and Best of Show winner in the acclaimed B'Nai B'Rith Invitational art show in 1978, she was invited back the following year to be the featured artist, with one of her paintings used as a promotional poster for the event that year.


Raising children in the 80's diverted her temporarily from fine art, but she continued to use her talents as a graphic artist/desktop publisher, working from her home while her children were small. Now that her children are grown, she has found a renewed interest in pursuing her artistic interests and is trying a number of styles and mediums. Her favorite is oil, but watercolor and pencil are also ways of expressing her love of the beauty God has brought into her life, with favorite subjects being her family, friends, Texas landscapes, wildlife, and horse related events.


The Five Graces

Daily Painters

Co-Founder Artist of Texas

Co-Founder Daily Painters of Texas

Co-founder AGTW

Professional Member CFAI


conni tögel

laurie pace

diane whitehead

mary jo zorad

debbie lincoln