Our goals are to provide entertainment, education, and exposure to the arts. We endeavor to raise public awareness through the arts: eradicating abuse and creating an atmosphere of acceptance for survivors with disabilities. Mainstreaming trauma survivors with physical and mental disabilities into the arts.

SAF has participants from 20 countries and 48 states, crossing all cultures, genders, ages and religions. They represent traditional and exploratory disciplines of the visual, literary and performing arts arenas. They are survivors, working through their personal journeys which span physical and domestic violence, rape, war-related trauma, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, AIDS, cancer, MS, mental illness, and other disabilities.

It is our mission to enable the survivor/artists to display and market their works to give them recognition, hope and direction by implementing this innovative approach to healing.

Call for Entries: SAFe-Card Contest

Survivors Art Foundation is sponsoring an e-card contest to help support those who are helping hurricane survivors, and for those who are hurricane survivors themselves. SAF seeks art, graphics, photographs and poetry We will choose art from each medium to be featured on e-cards that can be sent free of charge through our website. The cards will list information for donation to the American Red Cross and other charities who are assiting in the relief efforts for hurricanes Katrina & Rita survivors. Please email us your entries as JPEGs no larger than 150k in size, with email subject "card contest.

Read how Survivors Art Foundation received their Laureate status as a member of the "Year 2000 Computerworld Smithsonian Collection." (click image for full article).