About The Body Project
The Body Project mission is to create awareness
about body acceptance and self-love in a society where beauty standards
and body-type bashing are so prevalent.
Katy Wimer of katy
daixon
photography is working to create a gallery and book and magazines of
photographs and personal
stories from about 80 women (spanning from all over southern Wisconsin
to Chicago, and even a few from out of state: Florida and California) of
all shapes, sizes,
personalities, etc. that makes a statement on the phrase "body
positive." The gallery will be displayed throughout the month of
November and the books/magazines will launch November 15th at the
Opening Reception of the gallery.
What We Need
We need roughly $5,000 in order to:
1. Cover costs of the prints/materials for a gallery show of 85 photographs
2. Host an opening reception w/ catered hors d'oeuvres at the Cultural Arts Center in Whitewater, WI
3. Maintain The Body Project blog: www.lovebodyproject.wordpress.com
4. Create and purchase up to 50 books and 50 magazines of the project
*Please
note, we're bummed that we're unable to provide perks for this campaign
as all of the donations are needed to go directly toward the cost of
materials so we can make this powerful project more public than it has
been for the past year. We appreciate any contribution you can offer and
will thank you with a million hugs. <3
The Impact
Your contribution will greatly impact our community,
not only on a small scale, but a larger one as well, with regard to body
acceptance and self-love. The gallery and books/magazines are a perfect
conclusion to a year long project and are needed to display a job well
done. Everyone involved in this project is eager to see it in its
entirety and share it with their friends and family.
Your
contribution will also help make a stronger gallery as we'll be able to
purchase nicer materials to print, frame, and hang the photographs and
give us the ability to pre-purchase books and magazines to have for sale
so others get to have the entire project in their hands, too.
Other Ways You Can Help
If
you can't contribute financially, that's okay! Please share the
campaign with those you think would be interested, spread the word
around about The Body Project and it's mission, the gallery, and the publications. You can also simply
cheer us on with positive reinforcement.Indiegogo has share tools, so spread it like wild fire! Thank you for any help/support you can offer. It means so much to us!