Moved by children’s drawings from Gaza, Nan Goldin has donated a photograph to Artists Support, whose proceeds will directly support young Palestinian artists. The work, Ava twirling, NYC, 2007—from Goldin’s Eden and After series, which focuses entirely on children is offered via silent auction from today, January 13th–18th.
Copyright Nan Goldin, courtesy of the artist and Gagosian
“I can never forget the children of Gaza,” Goldin says. “I am grateful to be allowed this opportunity to help them in some meaningful way. The war on Gaza is a war on children wiping out multiple generations, erasing the future… I witness the constant terror the children in Gaza live with, while supporting their families and taking on adult roles, but I also see the joy in their faces; graduating from school, singing together, and learning to love and rescue animals. The children who survive will need to be nurtured and learn to hope, after living through such unimaginable horrors.”
Nan Goldin
Goldin’s donation comes after the announcement of Colors That Survived, a timely exhibition and art sale announced today by educator and children’s advocate Ms. Rachel (Rachel Accurso). Known to more than 18 million subscribers through her YouTube channel, Ms. Rachel has spent the past year in direct contact with children living through the genocide in Gaza, many of whom have shared their drawings as a way of staying visible amid destruction.
For the exhibition, a selection of artworks made by children in Gaza has been reproduced as limited-edition prints of 20, each priced at $200, with 100% of proceeds going directly to the young artists. Some of the drawings express hope for the future; others depict the brutal realities of daily life under bombardment, displacement, and loss. Seen together, they form a fragile but insistent visual archive of childhood under siege.
The exhibition opened in New York on January 13th, with a one-day public viewing at Caelum Gallery, 526 W 26th Street, and continues online via Artists Support from January 13th–30th. The campaign is organised in collaboration with The Voice of Hind Rajab—the Oscar-shortlisted, Golden Globe–nominated, Venice Silver Lion Grand Jury Prize–winning film currently in theatres—and Artists Support, an initiative that partners with artists to raise funds and awareness for urgent humanitarian causes.
Colors That Survived was inspired by Palestinian children and by the story of Hind Rajab, the five-year-old girl killed in Gaza on January 29, 2024. Her story, like those of tens of thousands of other children who have been killed, displaced, or orphaned, stands behind every mark in the exhibition.
What emerges is not simply a charity sale, but a collective act of witnessing—one that insists on the right of children to draw, to imagine, and to be seen. Through the voices of Gaza’s youngest artists, and through gestures of solidarity from figures like Goldin, Colors That Survived becomes both an archive of survival and a demand for accountability.
This campaign is organized by The Voice of Hind Rajab – the Oscar-shortlisted, Golden Globe nominated, Venice Silver Lion Grand Jury Prize-winning film about Hind Rajab, the 5-year-old girl killed in Gaza on January 29th, 2024 by Israeli military gunfire – and Artists Support, an initiative that partners with artists to raise funds and awareness for causes they care deeply about.
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This campaign is organized by The Voice of Hind Rajab – the Oscar-shortlisted, Golden Globe nominated, Venice Silver Lion Grand Jury Prize-winning film about Hind Rajab, the 5-year-old girl killed in Gaza on January 29th, 2024 by Israeli military gunfire – and Artists Support, an initiative that partners with artists to raise funds and awareness for causes they care deeply about.
About
Artists Support is a charitable organisation that collaborates with artists to raise awareness and funds for the causes they care deeply about. We believe in selling artworks to benefit good causes. We believe this process is even more valuable when the contributing artists select the good causes.
We begin by asking artists—established and emerging—about the issues they believe in and the causes they advocate for. We invite each artist to select a charity to support and an artwork to donate. When the work is sold, a portion of the proceeds go directly to the artist’s chosen charity. Our simple yet innovative model is artist-led and community-minded. Working closely with each artist and their nominated charity, we ensure that all donations are handled with care.
None of this would be possible without the generous participating artists, their dedicated gallerists, and the impact-led buyers investing in the values that artists support.
About The Voice of Hind Rajab
The Voice of Hind Rajab, written and directed by two-time Academy Award nominated writer/director Kaouther Ben Hania, won the Silver Lion Grand Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival, where it had a 23-minute standing ovation – the longest recorded in the history of major film festivals. The film is Tunisia’s official submission for the 98th Academy Awards and was shortlisted for Best International Feature Film (full list here). The film is produced by Nadim Cheikhrouha (Oscar nominated Four Daughters), Odessa Rae (Oscar winning Navalny), and Jim Wilson (Oscar winning The Zone of Interest) and executive produced by Brad Pitt, Alfonso Cuaron, Rooney Mara, Joaquin Phoenix and Jonathan Glazer. The film was nominated for the Golden Globe Awards for Best Non-English Language Motion Picture, the European Film Award for Best Film and Best Sound, and the Cinema Eye Honors Heterodox Award. The film made its U.S. theatrical debut on December 17th, opening in New York City and Los Angeles before expanding to theaters nationwide. The U.S. distributor is WILLA, and the film also has distribution in territories worldwide. The film was created in cooperation with the Palestine Red Crescent Society. Watch the trailer here. thevoiceofhindrajabfilm.com
