Spread Your Wings

Spread Your Wings

“Feathers appear when angels are near.” Author unknown

The Spread Your Wings Project was conceived  as a creative, uplifting response to the numerous challenges we face today.  It first took flight at Dell Children’s Hospital’s 2017 “Art of Giving” event, in Austin, Texas. Spread Your Wings broke fundraising records for Dell, making it their most successful “Art of Giving” to date.

Spread Your Wings engages all participants in the proven benefits of Community Arts and Art Therapy. It offers a safe, collaborative and healing place for everyone to joyfully express themselves.

And, because the whole world loves Angels, “Spread Your Wings” uplifts all participants in this beautiful, universal and inspirational theme.

Recent Spread Your Wings partners include “Dylan’s Wings of Change, a non-profit borne of the Sandy Hook Elementary School tragedy.  Their premier program, “Wingman” provides workshops for students or adults focused on team bonding and building psychological safety.

Love and Courage

“Love and Courage” by Bobby Jacobs
Fossilized Bluestone Angel Wings, 78 x 60 x 48”
Collection of the Las Vegas Healing Garden

Spread Your Wings was also honored to partner with the city of Las Vegas to honor the  lives lost in the tragic, 10/1/2017 mass shooting. Spread Your Wings co-founder, artist Bobby Jacobs was selected by the city to sculpt a 6’ tall pair of bluestone Angel Wings to flank the Remembrance Wall in the Las Vegas Healing Garden, carved with the initials of the 58 people who tragically lost their lives. Learn more.

Wingman       LV Healing Garden   Dell Children's Trust

“Feathers appear when angels are near.” Author unknown

The Spread Your Wings Project was conceived  as a creative, uplifting response to the numerous challenges we face today.  It first took flight at Dell Children’s Hospital’s 2017 “Art of Giving” event, in Austin, Texas. Spread Your Wings broke fundraising records for Dell, making it their most successful “Art of Giving” to date.

Spread Your Wings engages all participants in the proven benefits of Community Arts and Art Therapy. It offers a safe, collaborative and healing place for everyone to joyfully express themselves.

And, because the whole world loves Angels, “Spread Your Wings” uplifts all participants in this beautiful, universal and inspirational theme.

Recent Spread Your Wings partners include “Dylan’s Wings of Change, a non-profit borne of the Sandy Hook Elementary School tragedy.  Their premier program, “Wingman” provides workshops for students or adults focused on team bonding and building psychological safety.

Love and Courage

“Love and Courage” by Bobby Jacobs
Fossilized Bluestone Angel Wings, 78 x 60 x 48”
Collection of the Las Vegas Healing Garden

Spread Your Wings was also honored to partner with the city of Las Vegas to honor the  lives lost in the tragic, 10/1/2017 mass shooting. Spread Your Wings co-founder, artist Bobby Jacobs was selected by the city to sculpt a 6’ tall pair of bluestone Angel Wings to flank the Remembrance Wall in the Las Vegas Healing Garden, carved with the initials of the 58 people who tragically lost their lives. Learn more.

Wingman      LV Healing Garden    Dell Children's Trust

Uniting Kids and Communities Worldwide

How it Works

Spread Your Wings begins with Community Arts Day: Participants gather in a joyful, creative, daytime event, painting individual “feathers” from different materials to be integrated into professionally completed Angel Wing art. Final art is auctioned off at a second event/fundraising gala.

Possibilities

  • Can be held at indoor or outdoor venue
  • Unique donor mechanism allows for “feathers” or groups of feathers to be sponsored by donors or corporations
  • Blank “feathers” can be sent to non-attendees, sponsors and circles of influence for painting and inclusion in final art sculpture
  • Incredible photo opportunities for participants in front of Angel Wing template at community arts event
  • Final Angel Wing art can be integrated into marketing materials and merchandise to continue raising money ongoing for your cause
  • Final Angel Wing art can be tailored to a specific location: it can be wall-mounted, suspended from the ceiling, themed, and/or made from different materials

Online Opportunities

How it Works

Imagine the power of worldwide Angel Wing making with Spread Your Wings new, online integration. For the first time, cloud-based platforms like Zoom make it possible for kids, hospitals and communities worldwide to participate in this inspirational event. Elizabeth Bryan-Jacobs will lead facilitators across the globe in painting feathers with the kids that are shared digitally and incorporated into professionally completed Angel Wing art to be installed in any public venue.

Possibilities

  • Feather templates are shared electronically with kids through schools, communities, hospitals, etc.
  • A series of ZOOM meetings explain the project to facilitators, teachers and child life specialists
  • Facilitators photograph feathers/groups of feathers and sent electronically to Bryan-Jacobs
  • Unique donor mechanism allows for “feathers” to be sponsored by donors or corporations
  • Feathers are printed on canvas and cut out. They are assembled and professionally completed as fine art
  • Final wings are shipped and installed in their final location

Possibilities include engaging celebrities and world luminaries in feather creation, Angel Wings that incorporate corporate branding, double sided wings made from various media that suspend from the ceiling, and the inclusion of live, feather-painting events.

It’s Time to Let the Energy Soar!

Spread Your wings retreatsSpread Your Wings delivers an unprecedented, motivational community fundraising event that inspires large donor giving as well as a final work of art that honors every single participant. With an extremely low cost per dollar raised, Spread Your Wings is a natural fundraising fit for almost any venue.*

Along with “Wings Across America,” Bobby and I and honored to share “Spread Your Wings” as a national fundraising event, bringing out the angel in everyone.

* In healthcare settings, we work directly with Child Life Services to ensure that as many patients as possible can participate.

Spread your wings sample
Spread your wings sample