Twin Cities Decorative Artists Guild
Community Projects
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Memory boxes are painted by members and delivered to area hospitals for distribution to parents
suffering the almost unbearable loss of a new-born child, be it full term or premature. The boxes
are used to hold that special lock of hair, ID bracelet or other mementos that these grieving
parents hold dear.
Many chapters of the SDP and other individuals participate in this nation-wide service project.
Plain boxes are furnished by the TCDAG and members then paint and decorate them. The project
chairman collects and then delivers the boxes to area hospitals.
St. Joseph's Home for Children Journal Project (Ongoing)
This project was started in 2011. The St. Joseph's Home for Children, located in the Twin Cities,
takes in children who are in violent situations or not wanted. Many times they are brought to the
Home by police who have taken them from their environments abruptly. They arrive at the home
many times with nothing but what they are wearing. We collect hotel size shampoo bottles, soap,
etc., and provide them to the home. The children, from ages 5 to 18, are educated, counseled, and
live at the Home. They are asked to write in journals as part of their program. TCDAG purchases
composition books and the fronts and backs are painted with age and gender appropriate
designs.
Miscellaneous Projects
Pumpkins from the Great Pumpkin Paint-ins were donated to area nursing homes as were
Christmas ornaments. Painted items to Senior Eldercare, shoe box gifts to the Marie Sandvik
Center, food and clothing to community food shelves and battered women and children's shelters
and monetary support for breast cancer research via the special postage stamp on selected
chapter mailings.
One hundred year old slates were painted for the Blue Earth County Historical Society for benefit
of the Hubbard House in Mankato.
We have a name plaque at the Vince Shute Wildlife Sanctuary, Orr, MN in recognition of a
monetary donation and we donated painted items for their 1st raffle.
Our name is on a carousel pony as the result of our successfully co-sponsored “Our Fair Carousel
Benefit Boutique” and we were instrumental in the restoration of the carousel, now housed at
Como Park.
Community projects have also included donating painted items and ornaments to the KTCA-TV
Action Auction, Ronald McDonald House & Boutique, Minneapolis Children’s Hospital Auxiliary
Bazaar, Lupus Foundation, Opportunity Workshop, Courage Center, Minneapolis Crisis Nursery,
AIDS Benefit Auctions, Hope Auction (breast cancer research), St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital,
Healthspan Hospice, Teresa Living Center, HealthEast Hospice House (Festival of Trees) and
Children’s Hospital in St. Paul, as well as Freedom cards to soldiers.
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