Believe Survivors Artist Showcase Raffle Items
As part of our Believe Survivors Artist Showcase, we are honored to host a special art raffle featuring six original pieces, each generously donated by a participating artist. Every artwork reflects a unique voice, story, and creative perspective, coming together in shared support of survivors in our community.
By entering the raffle, you are not only celebrating local artists and their work, you are directly supporting Our Voice’s advocacy, prevention, and survivor support services. Each raffle item is a one of a kind piece, and each ticket helps us continue building a community rooted in belief, dignity, and healing.
Explore the artwork below to learn more about each artist and the piece they contributed, then choose the raffle entries that speak to you. Thank you for believing survivors and for supporting art as a force for change.
Photography, Pottery, Printmaking, and Mixed Media Art: $10 Raffle
Value: $200
Rodney H. Leftwich began pottery making in the late 1970s and has been since 1992. Leftwich was inspired by local folk and art pottery traditions as well as nature and the beauty of the mountains and is a Member of the Southern Highland Crafts Guild.
Photograph “Nature’s Keepers,” by Sophia Phillips
Value: $250
Sophia Phillips is a local published photographer, whose love of nature brings life and color into the world. She can be found on her website at sophiasperspective.com or at Facebook as Sophia’s Perspective and Instagram as @sophiasperspective. She is also a singer.
Ukrainian pysanka egg- “Valentina,” by Andrea Kulish Wilhelm, plus handmade pottery egg stand by Lori Theriault (egg stand not pictured)
Value: $130
Andrea Kulush Wilhelm is a first-generation Ukranian American who grew up making art at her mother’s shop in Hudson, N.Y. A graphic designer, she is opening her own studio, “Studio A,” in Pink Dog Creative, and specializes in making and teaching Ukrainian pysanky eggs learned from her mother. In 2017, Wilhelm and her pysanky were featured on an episode of HGTV’s “House Hunters International.” “My biggest wish is to keep the art in the RAD, hoping the district can stay affordable for working artists,” she says. “I’m very grateful to our locals who support us and bring their visitors to see us. I hope we can keep what makes the RAD great while it continues to grow.”
Value: $275 (unframed)
Andy Farkas (American, b.1975) is a wood block print and book artist known primarily for his works in the medium of MOKUHANGA and Wood engraving. He exhibits internationally in nationwide and his representative in such permanent collections as a Smithsonian institute national Museum of American history, Savannah College of art design Vanderbilt University had library among many others in addition, focus rights, short stories, and the accompanying text for each of his prints. He resides in Asheville, North Carolina.
Large Scale Painting and Sculptural Work - $20 Raffle
Value: $2000
Deborah Anderson is a seasoned artist and nurse with 12 years of experience as an artist and 14 years as a registered nurse, holding a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from College of Saint Benedict and Saint John’s University.
“Those Who Came Before” is an homage to those women who have paved the way for equality over generations. It invites reflection on their legacy and encourages us to appreciate the complex tapestry of the women who have collectively shaped the quest for equality. As an artist, I hope this piece may serve as a reminder of the power of courage and collective action in the fight for progress.
Art piece: “Exploding Babel” is an oil on quilt painting 72″ x 60,” by Jeremy Phillips
Value: $3000
Jeremy Phillips teaches humanities and religious studies at Haywood Community College and UNC Asheville and is a self-taught painter. He got his start in 2008 while living in London. As a lifelong admirer of the arts, Phillips says his decision to pick up the paintbrush was because he wanted paintings that he couldn’t afford, and seeing works by Mark Rothko, Cy Twombly and Marcel Duchamp at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and Bay Area Figurative artists like Richard Diebenkorn led to a deeper engagement with painting.