Mission
We exist to provide art spaces, programming, and resources to promote a healthier humanity through a stronger relationship with our inner “Little Guy.” Our role in the world is to use art as a vessel to promote awareness of inequity while promoting self-empowerment through a global community of artists and social enterprises. Our mission is to help disadvantaged communities self-advocate globally against social and wellness issues, fostering strong community connections, encouraging a fundamental feeling of solidarity based on shared humanity despite disparate experiences, and providing needed resources for all humans around the world to reach their full potential artistically, socially, and professionally.
Vision
The vision is to achieve a world where art is viewed as the healing human necessity that it is by utilizing the narrative of “Little Guy.” We wish to spread awareness of the importance and power of art as a tool of personal, social, professional, technical, and mental development. As a byproduct of fostering creativity and expression, we hope to highlight issues of sustainability, wellness, and overall inequality around the world by sharing these stories and in turn, garnering remedies.
Purpose
Our purpose as the Little Guy Foundation is to provide access to needed resources, programming, and encouragement to live with passion and love for yourself and for others. Art is the expression of the human experience, and sharing stories; whether it be public speaking or poetry, documentary or cartoon, is the most powerful tool of social change and personal development. Our purpose is to promote artistry with the intention of drawing bridges between even the largest disparities in human experience: those faced with socioeconomic inequity are whose stories need to be told, and those who perpetuate inequity are who need to be touched by stories of inequity most. In the process, we hope to encourage self expression as well as equitable access to personal, social, and professional development through art spaces and art education resources.
We want to look out for the the Little Guy in us all that is driven to travel, create, and feel deeply. The Little Guy Foundation is dedicated to helping spread the narrative that we are all humans capable of love, creativity, and unlimited potential, and that every Little Guy around the world deserves a chance to be heard and amplified through shared art. Our narrative is simple: the purpose of life is looking out for the little guy; in you and in others.
The Little Guy Narrative
Little Guy serves to represent and promote the acknowledgement and nourishment of our shared humanity. The Little Guy Foundation’s official definition of art is the expression of the human experience. In all campaigns toward social change, there is often the unintentional use of art - videos, stories, pictures displaying human experience, etc.. In all successful campaigns for social change, there is intentional use of art - turning stories to song, turning pictures to symbols, turning videos to documentaries, etc.. The Little Guy narrative is about conveying the power of intentional art and the beauty of rediscovering art in our lives. Art that is based in good and directed toward equity is how we help others, and a life that is based in art and directed toward helping others is a life good for the soul.
Looking out for the little guy
Read more about our:
