Brushstrokes By Maria

Maria Castellano-Usery, Artist

Brushstrokes With Impact™

In December 2015, I started Brushstrokes With Impact™, a campaign where I merge art, community, and raising money for causes I feel strongly about. Over the course of 106 “Paint-a-Thon” events (which have taken place in Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and New York), I’ve been able to donate over $20,200 to national and local charities. Here is a list of the causes I’ve raised money for so far:

  • National Foundation for Cancer Research’s “Play4TheCure” program (x2)
  • Mid Coast Hunger Prevention Program (x12)
  • ArtVan (x16)
  • Coastal Humane Society/Midcoast Humane (x5)
  • Cathance River Education Alliance (x2)
  • Good Shepherd Food Bank (x7)
  • Big Brothers Big Sisters of Bath/Brunswick
  • Rogers Haircutters Dempsey Challenge Team
  • Curtis Memorial Library (x3)
  • Realtors Against Homelessness
  • Long Island Cares, Inc.- The Harry Chapin Food Bank
  • Portland Press Herald Toy Fund (x8)
  • Claremont Soup Kitchen and Food Pantry
  • Maine Audubon (x3)
  • The Telling Room
  • Friends of Curtis Memorial Library
  • Brunswick Coastal Rotary’s Shelter Boxes For Texas campaign
  • The Welcome Blanket Project
  • The Greater Boston Food Bank
  • Brunswick Coastal Rotary’s Burundi Mission Hospital & Clean Water project
  • MusiCares (x6)
  • Hope Lodge of Boston
  • National Suicide Prevention Lifeline
  • Brunswick-Topsham Land Trust (x5)
  • Janie Chase Cozzi ’19 Memorial Fund
  • The Hole In The Wall Gang Camp
  • Freeport Harraseeket Grange #9’s community programs
  • Brunswick Area Teen Center
  • Backline/Conscious Alliance (x4)
  • Neal Casal Music Foundation (x9)
  • Divided Sky Foundation (x3)
  • Sexual Assault Support Services of Midcoast Maine (SASSMM) (x3)

If you are interested in creating a future collaboration, please email maria [!at] brushstrokesbymaria.com.

Brushstrokes With Impact ™ made the Portland Press Herald! Read the Article

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