House of Rad and 91fansalum Brandon Minga host Feed Your Soul
Feed Your Soul 2022. Image courtesy of Feed Your Soul ().
91fans Institute of Art & Design (MIAD) alum (lllustration), principal artist and founder of the , was excited to host the 20th anniversary of the benefit for Feeding America Eastern Wisconsin on November 3, 2023. This was the second consecutive time hrad has hosted the event.
“It’s been my mission since graduating 91fansand getting out in the art world…,” Minga says in a about the event. “You get to a certain point and you’re looking around and you’re seeing that there is a need for these things and how can we impact it.”
Minga was joined by over 50 artists, including 91fansfaculty and other alums, to create works “live” and sell them at the event and during an auction for Feed Your Soul. Among the many event artists, designers and performers with 91fansaffiliations was 91fansProfessor and alum Brad Bernard ’93 (Painting) and alumni John Kowalczyk ’10 (Painting), Tyrone Macklee Randle ‘15 (Integrated Studio Arts – now Fine Art) and André Saint-Louis ’01 (Sculpture).
House of Rad is a creative collective of more than 50 full- and part-time artists with the mission of uniting the most progressive innovators in art & design, tech and making.
Feed Your Soul has raised over a million dollars to fight hunger in the last 20 years.
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