Seattle’s C Gallery seeks JPEG images of visual art of any medium to benefit Susan G. Komen for the Cure (Breast Cancer awareness and research.) 30% donation of the sale price for every art piece sold.

C Art Gallery in Seattle invites artists of all mediums to submit entries for an exhibit to benefit Susan G. Komen for the Cure during breast cancer awareness month this October.

The key themes related to this exhibit are:

Hope, Awareness and Celebration of Life

Deadline for entries is September 10th, guidelines and contact information here: http://www.seattleartists.com/blog/?p=81

Art on the Farm – Northern San Francisco Bay Area group of visual artists who travel around to local organic farms and paint on location. Anyone may show up, sign an insurance release, and draw/paint at any of their listed events, and 50% of sale price gets donated to charities such as local farmers’ and environmental or organic organizations. http://www.artonthefarm.org/callArtist.html

Groups for quilters to donate their work to children in need around the world: http://www.theartlist.com/dir/art_directory/Crafts/Quilting/Charity/Charity.html

Multicultural art events in the New York metro area, ten percent of proceeds per artwork donated to an international or local humanitarian charity chosen by the group of featured artists. Past beneficiaries include Doctors without Borders, Action Against Hunger, and other groups. Visual art, dance, music, photography, writing…do not know if you need to live near New York or attend the events to be featured, feel free to email and ask them.

These are widely attended and widely publicized art events, more information here: http://www.globalfusionart.com/id26.html

Singer/songwriter Katie Reider (featured on Dawson’s Creek and elsewhere), who passed away last year from a rare form of eye cancer, has a benefit page online where people can purchase her music for donations to her family, who’s still paying off thousands of dollars in medical bills. Some songs can be downloaded for only $1 each from the site.

The family is looking for people to pass on the link to more people and get 500,000 more hits this year. Perhaps other musicians and artists could email and contact them and offer their work on the site for donations too?

http://www.500kin365.org/

Calls for submissions for writing from mothers or writing related to motherhood: http://www.literarymama.com/interact/blog/archives/cat_calls_for_submissions.html

Not all necessarily charitable benefits…but a listing of markets for women’s short fiction and nonfiction essays – related to motherhood, children, or choosing not to have children.

CALL FOR submissions – Beyond the Pink Ribbon. Anthology on living wtih breast cancer. Addressing survivor struggles with fertility, sexuality, identity, disfigurement, effect on relationships, change in life expectations/expectancy, etc. Seeking honest, eloquent and informed essays about survivorship challenges. Send by August 21 to livingwithbreastcancer@gmail.com. Example essay: www.themorningnews.org/archives/personal_essays/replacing_things_lost.php

Poets and Writers Online – list of classifieds for all types of short and long pieces, on topics ranging from skiing to the recent presidential election in the USA to fathers and daughters. http://www.pw.org/classifieds