My AAPI concept was selected by Urban Artworks and the panel of Seattle Storm’s #Force4Change social justice platform. It was installed for the opening May 6th Storm game, along with other works by BIPOC, female artists from around the community around the Uptown Arts District to brighten up intersections around Seattle Center. Thank you Urban Artworks, Uptown Alliance and Seattle Storm for this amazing opportunity! Be sure to checkout Urban Artworks. They do wonderful things for the community and for our youth through art!
2022 GDUSA Awards and Hermes Creative Gold Award recipient.
Hand + digital illustrations with “Stop Asian Hate” messaging created for Fundraiser for the Asian American Journalists Association (AAJA) and The Very Asian Foundation (TVAF)
We raised a total of $1,400 divided between the @aajaofficial and @theveryasianfoundation. #ThankYou #VeryAsian 💛
Purchase a sticker: You can still order via my Etsy shop, @ConceptShell, or Venmo* me $8+ per sticker at @shayla_ad. Shoutout to @michellelitv for speaking up and creating this movement with @giavang to create awareness and help protect our AAPI community. Thank you to JR at ABC Imaging, Seattle who printed and donated these stickers so that we could make this fundraiser possible.
I give back where I can and I support the Black Lives Matter movement. In 2020, I created George Floyd and Breonna Taylor stickers and t-shirts and sold them in return for donations thru my shop ConceptShell.
On June 15, 2020, $1,500 of total donations from these sticker orders were delivered directly to George Floyd’s children. Check out my story and highlights on IG to see how family, friends and others worked together through word of mouth to help raise these funds.
On August 14, 2020, $365 of the proceeds collected from donations over the past month from Breonna t-shirt and sticker orders have been sent to the official Breonna Taylor GoFundMe. Watch my story on IG @shayla.ad to view.
Big thanks to local Seattle shop, minority-women-owned, Midnight Supply Co., for printing tees, and ABC Imaging for your print donations of all the stickers!
Thank you to everyone who supported my fundraisers! Shout out to family, friends, co-workers, and new connects from all around the US who contributed and also kept coming back. You’re all amazing! Please know that with your donations, one box of shirts that you sent donations in for have also been donated to youth and interns at Powerful Voices and Black Coffee NW. Check them out!