Update

Thank you to everyone who has contributed to this campaign. I’m thrilled to announce that I have reached my goal early. If you contributed — THANK YOU! Your support means a lot to me. 

Further proceeds will be used to cover the following expenses:

1.  An additional $2,000 (for a total goal of $7,000) will cover the printing costs of the greeting cards.

2.  An additional $500 (total goal $7,500) would cover the Indiegogo, Paypal and postage expenses, and allow me to use all of the contributions towards my residency.

3.  Finally, if I can raise an additional $2,000.00 (total goal $9,500), I would have the funds to extend my stay at the residency for an additional month. The additional time would be ideal to further develop my large-format drawings. I would apply to extend my stay at the residency, if it is looking like a possibility through the campaign and from amazing support of the contributors.

Please note: I have added an additional perk to the campaign: Santa’s (very happy) Helper. Thank you so much!!!

The Big Idea

My name is Angela Gooliaff and I’m an emerging visual artist living in Vancouver, BC, Canada. I have a passion for telling stories, especially stories about tiny but fascinating creatures among us – bugs!

My favourite subject to draw is ants. And I hope these ants will take me all the way to France. Why ants? Because they are admirable and multi-dimensional little beings. No one works harder than an ant. In my greeting cards, I have also expanded to other interesting and beautiful bugs such as British Columbia’s Rugose stag beetle, a Blue Morpho butterfly, ladybugs, dragonflies and others. 

My goal is to raise $5,000.00 to attend DRAWinternational, an artist residency program in Caylus, France.  DRAWinternational provides illustrators a one-month opportunity to focus entirely on their artwork, expanding their ideas and creativity, and collaborate with other like-minded artists. I am honoured to have received acceptance to this program.