April Arts Marathon Participant: Madeline Fan

Mission: I want to focus on ink drawing and cartooning something funny everyday…but failing that…anything can happen.

Message: Please consider sponsoring me to make and share art with you throughout April to help settle asylum seekers in Southern Vermont. I am challenging myself to make you laugh repeatedly in April, as everyone needs a little joy to feel our connection with each other.

The April Arts Marathon is the Community Asylum Seekers Project’s key fundraiser. CASP hopes to raise $50,000 this year. In spite of our often confusing politics and policies, one thing we know for sure is that people who are experiencing violence and terror in their home countries will continue to seek asylum in this country. Sponsors like you are critical to CASP’s cultivation of a supportive community for asylum seekers in Southern Vermont. All proceeds will go towards fulfilling asylum seekers’ basic needs and accompanying them on their journey towards building a better life in this country.

How does it work? As an artist, I pledge to try to make you laugh through cartoons or jokes five days a week during the month of April. As a sponsor you will pledge a donation to CASP and, in return, you will receive a genuine Fan mail art email with a link to my blog post every day I fulfill the promise.

Your sponsorship, thus, encourages and holds my creativity accountable to assure funding to help asylum seekers with living expenses, housing, legal support, emergency needs, and accompaniment services.

Thank you for joining me on this journey to use my talents to help our new and increasingly vulnerable neighbors in a direct and meaningful way.