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🍕🍕🍕PROJECT PIZZA #5 - COMING NOV. 12-14, 2021🍕🍕🍕

Orders start at noon Pacific Time on Friday November 12th!

 

🍕Art! 🍕 Pizza! 🍕 Charity! 🍕

Join Project Pizza on November 12-14th, 2021 for our fifth annual pizza-themed art pop-up shop to fight hunger. For this edition, artists Shing Yin Khor and Eron Rauch, along with a dozen talented friends, will be selling prints, swanky pizza bandanas, and a new collaborative edition of Rachel Mark’s classic (and extremely adorable) mini-pizza sculptures.

Online preorders open Friday, November 12th at noon Pacific Time. We sell out every year, so grab your slice! We’ll even have a secret outdoor physical shop on the 13th if you want to say “hi!” to the crew, located at Food Forward HQ (10am-2pm, November 13th in the Food Forward parking lot.)

100% of the profits from Project Pizza #5 are being donated to local Los Angeles county hunger relief agencies, including the awesome organization Food Forward. Combating both hunger and food waste, they work with farmer’s markets, orchards, and wholesalers to collect the surplus bounty that would otherwise be thrown away. That produce is then passed to hunger relief groups and at-need organizations of all kinds. Every $1 we give them redirects about 14 pounds of food. So buying even a single print means 140 pounds (yup, 140!) of peaches, lettuce, or other delicious produce will be saved to nourish someone in need. 

Owing to our incredible supporters, we smashed our previous record in 2020 and brought in $8000 last year, which is about 110,000 pounds of delicious food that went to feed those in need, rather than the garbage. That is approximately 400 super-cute baby elephants, 1000 wheels of Parmesan cheese, or, for the nerds out there, almost three Apollo lunar landers’ weight of food.

Our fundraising goal for 2021 is to beat our record of $8000—it’s ambitious, and we’ll need to find new weight comparisons if we succeed—but our artists have worked extra hard and the need in our community continues to be immense, so let’s do it again for Project Pizza 2021!

For Media Inquiries: eronrauch@gmail.com

Participating artists include:

In 2020, we raised enough money to rescue 8461 the weight of this cute (and slightly famous) dog worth of food!

A few of 2020 original art and prints!

A few of the glorious pizzas done during past Project Pizza draw-a-thons. So many pizzas…

Rachel Mark’s mini-pizza sculptures are available in a new 2021 collaborative edition!

Project Pizza’s artists hard at work—and full of pizza!

Project Pizza founders, Eron Rauch and Shing Yin Khor hard at work.

Food Forward works with local farmers to share California's bounty with those in need.