Art Into Action
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Art into Action is a Sunday Shop initiative dedicated to the benefit of artists and activists in our community working to make southern Louisiana more just, beautiful, and thriving place. We produce limited edition prints featuring a local artist with 100% of the proceeds directed to support their practice as well as a cause-based initiative of their choice.
Artist Katrina Andry benefitting Louisiana Bucket Brigade
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The 2024 Art into Action collaboration is a limited-edition print featuring work by artist Katrina Andry. Katrina is a New Orleans-born and based multimedia artist. Among other themes, she challenges the ideology of individualism by examining inequalities and resulting degradation as the result of our color-based prejudices.
‘Portrait Study with Monotype’ is one of several studies by the artist exploring identity and race through symbols of femininity. In this case, the heirloom pearls handed down by her grandmother serve in questioning her own femininity in relation to how she’s viewed in society as part of a collective of women considered more masculine than feminine based off of superficial features like the broadness of one's shoulders or darkness of one's skin.
All proceeds go to the artist and Louisiana Bucket Brigade, whose work supports grassroots action to create informed, sustainable communities free from industrial pollution. For more than 20 years, they’ve helped residents and community leaders amplify their voices and protect their health, their homes, and their way of life.
Sold exclusively through Sunday Shop, this edition of 150 posters is printed locally in partnership with Bywater Fine Art Printing and signed by the artist.
"Empathy is the conduit, a chance to see others’ full humanity, grasp it, wear it, and feel closer to them."
—Katrina Andry, Oxford American
Spotlight on: Louisiana Bucket Brigade
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You may recognize our 2024 partner from their work with 2021’s partner, Rise St. James. The Louisiana Bucket Brigade’s work supports grassroots action to create informed, sustainable communities free from industrial pollution. For more than 20 years, they’ve helped residents and community leaders amplify their voices and protect their health, their homes, and their way of life.
Through a variety of channels, they’re working to create a more livable state for everyone in Louisiana. On the ground, they coordinate, plan, and mobilize local advocacy groups to stand up for their health and their communities—and their work has affected more than 15 unique communities in the River Parishes of Louisiana and beyond. They spotlight the leadership of women in fenceline communities with their film series “Women of Cancer Alley,” organize climate action, and educate through “Down by the River” bike rides that put riders face to face with the effects of petrochemical production in St. Charles Parish.
About Art into Action
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At Sunday Shop and our founding studio, Logan Killen Interiors, we believe there is an inherent connection between the interior environments we create and those beyond our four walls—and that both are directly related to our well-being.
In a state renowned for the beauty of its wetlands and coastline, Louisiana continues to be ravished by the petrochemical and oil and gas industries. Though the battle to preserve our coasts is well-known, the devastating impact on minority and low-income communities across the south continues to be overlooked. At the eye-opening start to the new decade, we formalized our desire to support the individuals and organizations working to make southern Louisiana more just, beautiful, and thriving.
Focused on the intersection of place, identity, and creativity, Art into Action is a Sunday Shop initiative dedicated to the benefit of artists and activists in our community. We produce limited edition prints featuring a local artist with 100% of the proceeds directed to support their practice as well as a cause-based initiative of their choice.
Artist Nora Patterson benefitting Rise St. James
Our first iteration features three designs by our friend and colleague, Ponchatoula artist Nora Patterson, sold in our New Orleans storefront, Sunday Shop. Nora is a designer and self-taught illustrator, born and raised in Louisiana. She draws her inspiration from nature; quiet swamps, cicada-filled forests, and the pull of the southern wild.
In an effort to support our city’s vibrant creative community, all posters are printed locally in partnership with printmaking studio Four Finger Press. Proceeds from these limited edition prints will go to Rise St. James to aid in their efforts to preserve the environment and build safer, healthier communities for its residents.
Art Into Action Logo Design
Mark Rodgers
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Image Credits
Justin Kray & Giles Clark/Getty & Mariana Sheppard for Bomb Magazine