A Thousand Forests

In 2011, intrigued by Ralph Waldo Emerson’s quote “The creation of a Thousand Forests is in one acorn” we thought  we’d ask you to join us in taking something small and turning it into something big. Something inspirational. A celebration of creativity. We asked you to share that which inspires you: your art, photo, something you’ve created with your own two hands or anything that expresses your creativity and passion to create.   Thousands of you responded. And wow, did you blow us away. 

“Creativity is the ability to take the ordinary, and make it extraordinary.”  That’s what one of our contestants said, and we agree. And because we’re keen on creativity and want to enable future generations to turn the ordinary the extraordinary, we’ve donated $5 for each person who participated in the contest and turned it into a $25,000 donation to the International Child Art Foundation, whose mission is to support the development of children’s innate creativity and intrinsic empathy.

But we didn’t want to stop there. So we’ve taken what you’ve shared with us and created something bigger than each individual piece. Something we hope will inspire you: a new way to see the creative soul that exists inside each one of us. Please join us in our video experience “Finding”, our thank you gift to each of you, for being our inspiration.