Giving Back

GIVING BACK

At Jim Booth Art Gallery we are focused on giving back while both protecting and growing the value of Jim’s art for all of our loyal customers.    In Jim’s final months he had a strong desire to give back to the Charleston community that supported him throughout his career.  We currently have four areas of focus for giving back:  Original Painting Sales, JimBooth.com Sales, ENV Print Program, and Original Paintings Donated for public display.

After working at the gallery side-by-side with her father for over 20 years, Jim’s daughter Diana Booth continues the business with a focus to uphold the quality of Jim’s art and how it is handled as well as maintaining the value Jim created for his work through his loyal customer base.  Since 2022 Diana has donated just under $67,000 directly to local charities from JimBooth.com sales, the ENV Print Program, and the sales of original paintings.  Several originals have been donated for public display/enjoyment around the Charleston area.

ORIGINAL PAINTINGS – Jim had not sold any of his original paintings since the mid-1990’s so he had quite a personal collection at the time of his passing in 2021.  Jim wished for ALL his remaining original paintings to be sold for charity and/or put on display for public enjoyment.  Visit the “Orignal Paintings" section of our website for more information.  Since 2022, $60,000 has been raised for local Charleston area charities from original sales.  In addition, 6 paintings have been donated for public display and enjoyment.

JimBooth.com SALES – A portion of every sale at JimBooth.com goes to support various Charleston area charities.  Since 2022, $4,975 has been donated directly from online sales! **Excludes Patina Market sales.

ENV PRINT PROGRAM – In 2023 we re-started our Environmental (ENV) Print Program.  Since that time the framed ENV Prints we donated have raised $1875 for local charities!  For each Limited Edition Print, Jim produced a special, gold seal, Environmental Print Edition.  Theses ENV Prints are the most valuable of all the editions with an edition size of only 95 prints.  Jim earmarked the ENV Print Editions just for charity fundraising.  

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Current Charity Partner =  The Patriot Art Foundation who offers programs that provide free education and materials to veterans seeking to use art as a pathway to a healthier and more meaningful life. Via hands-on workshops and online classes, we give veterans a means of self expression, connection and purpose.

The Patriot Art Foundation will be hosting their annual Patriot Art Yorktown Event on Saturday, November 9, 2024. 

Our annual Veterans Day Weekend live hands-on event aboard the USS Yorktown, to be held Saturday, November 9th, 2024.  Veterans, in Charleston, SC, Columbus, OH, and Fort Belvoir, VA, come together for a day of watercolor painting instruction, a live painting demonstration by Mary Whyte-open to the public, camaraderie and more. This event will be simulcast from the Yorktown to The United States Army Museum, Fort Belvoir, VA and The National Veterans Memorial and Museum, Columbus, OH where veterans will be painting as well. All art materials, instruction and lunch are provided at the three locations at no cost through the organization.  Learn more and register HERE.

Past Charity Partner = Pimlico Ladies Club in support of their comfort bag project for the MUSC Shawn Jenkins Children’s Hospital.  During past partnerships,  $3625 from JimBooth.com sales has been donated to this charity.  The comfort bags are made by sewing pockets into placemats and then filling them with over 13 different toiletries and other helpful items.  These comfort bags are given to families experiencing unexpected stays at the hospital.  The Pimlico Ladies Club provides 125 comfort bags each month to the hospital.   The Pimlico Ladies Club gladly accepts both monetary donations and they keep a running “wish list" of useful donation items. 

Prior to Jim’s passing, he had been talking to MUSC in hopes that some of his original paintings could be put on display and/or benefit the new Shawn Jenkins MUSC Children’s Hospital – which was designed to have a strong association with the visual arts!  We are still talking with MUSC in hopes to fulfill Jim’s vision.

The Pimlico Ladies Club has made comfort bags for the patients and families of the MUSC Children’s hospital for over 17 years!  They meet monthly to complete an average of 125 comfort bags.  A total of over 22,ooo comfort bags have been donated since the program’s inception!!  In 2020 the Pimlico Ladies Club was the recipient of the Charleston Regional Business Journal’s “Health Care Heroes" Volunteer Award.   Learn More HERE

Past Charity Partner = Charleston Area Therapeutic Riding (CATR).  Jim Booth Art Gallery helped CATR with $875 in funding from our online sales and a framed ENV “Day’s End" Print for their annual Derby Day Event!  CATR empowers children and adults with disabilities to enjoy more active and fulfilling lives through therapeutic horsemanship. Since it’s establishment in 1991, accentuating the positive and building on the abilities of our students has been the core of CATR’s mission. Seven Professional Association of Therapeutic Horsemanship International (PATH Intl.) certified instructors, 150 volunteers, and twelve horses work together to serve over 170 students each year in three different programs. Individual Therapeutic Riding Instruction is open to children and adults with a disability. The Public School Program provides therapeutic riding and equine-assisted activities to students from special education classrooms from local public schools. CATR’s Veterans Program delivers horsemanship skills and therapeutic riding to wounded service men and women.  All of CATR’s programs provide an exceptional therapeutic opportunity for individuals to move beyond their disabilities to find accomplishment through riding and interacting with horses.

Past Charity Partner = the Lowcountry chapter of Farmers and Hunters Feeding the Hungry (FHFH)!! $2350 in funding was provided to FHFH from JimBooth.com sales and a framed “Sanctuary Pond" ENV Print.  Since 2015 this group has locally donated over 20,000lb of food in the Charleston, SC area.  For more information on Lowcountry FHFH check out their local page here or visit the FHFH national website here.