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A Home for Artist Sherry Dooley

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UPDATE: 2017 has been a draining year for artist-activist Sherry Dooley, financially and otherwise, but 2018 looks promising thanks to this campaign's contributors and Sherry's adaptability and determination. Our original campaign goal of $7,100 was based on her staying in Portland, Oregon, where the cost of living is high. I am thrilled to announce that Sherry has been accepted as a resident artist at Curley School Artisan Apartments in Ajo, Arizona, which provide qualifying artists with sun-drenched live-in studio spaces at special rates. She can move as early as January, provided she can get there!

With rent there significantly less than it would cost her to live in Portland, I have adjusted our funding goal downward, to $3,900, and we're about halfway there already! In addition to making and selling art again, Sherry already has a job interview lined up at a local coffee shop within walking distance of her new digs. The additional funding I'm requesting on her behalf will cover her long-distance relocation costs, which we hadn't counted on, plus the cost of a rebuilt laptop she'll need to market and sell her art, submit work to juried art exhibits, etc. 

Profiled in the online magazine Art Saves Lives, Sherry has a voice and a vision that are vital in our current sociopolitical climate. Please, help us get her moved and settled so she can make art again.

If you've not followed this campaign from the beginning, here's a quick recap of how Sherry got in her current situation of tenuous housing and no studio space or supplies.

The end of a long-term relationship, subsequent bankruptcy, and other misfortunes forced a cross-country move from New Orleans to Portland, Oregon. Sherry arrived with a six-month plan to save money and get back on her feet. As part of that plan, she is living in a cramped, shared apartment with no room to fully unpack let alone set up a studio and make art. That's not only her loss, but ours.

Read more about Sherry's story here

Sherry's six-month plan was disrupted by (among other events) the death of her father, following a fall. This was a setback, but Sherry at that point expanded her apartment search beyond Portland and qualified for the Curley School residency. 

Sherry already has voiced plans to pay your generosity forward by donating the proceeds of a forthcoming painting to the Bluegrass Rape Crisis Center in Lexington, Ky. , on top of her normal volunteer work and activism. 

I have known Sherry for 5+ years, first as a collector of her work and then as her friend. (Below is a picture of me holding a Sherry Dooley original; the painting with the bird to the right is also hers. Please excuse the bad crop!) All funds raised for Sherry through this GoFundMe account are transferred weekly into my account, and then passed on to Sherry via PayPal. 

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Dawn Klingensmith
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Longview, TX

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