Fundraising for Invisible Children

Artwork submitted into our Pixar tribute exhibition will benefit Invisible Children. Invisible Children is an organization that seeks to end the violent acts of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) which include abductions and abuse of children who are forced to serve as soldiers in places like Central Africa. 

Child soldiers of Uganda. 

IC is one of four groups we are fundraising for on October 11, 2014. If you are interested in submitting a show piece to aid in ending the conflict, make sure to complete this entry form to reserve your space in the exhibition by August 1st. Please note, completed works are not due until September 30th. 

If you wish to learn more about Invisible Children, please click here. 

Now Accepting Show Entries

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Original UP Artwork Features Carl, Russell, & Dug As Wilderness Explorers by Greg Wright via Pixar Times. 

We hope you will consider exhibiting your artwork at For the Love of Pixar. The art benefit will be held Saturday, October 11th, 2014 at the San Diego Business Center.

Artists eager to participate in this exhibition must complete this entry form by Friday, August 1st - click here. The deadline is fast approaching, so please reserve your place in the exhibition right today. 

Artwork credit: Greg Wright

The Pizza Planet Truck

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Every now and then the stars align and extraordinary things happen! We are pleased to announce that The Road to Pixar (Pizza Planet) Crew will be arriving to our exhibition in October. So, what does this mean? It means that with them they will be bringing a full-size running replica of the Pizza Planet Truck as seen in the entire Toy Story franchise. 

Check out the short documentary below to get a glimpse of the team's journey. In this clip you'll even see Lee Unkrich, director of Toy Story 3, admire the project. 

I think we can all agree that this labor of love is worth checking out this Fall. Get all the event details here. 

Save the Date

I'm happy to announce that over the next few months I will be collaborating with some of Pixar's most enthusiastic fans to raise awareness and support for 4 causes though an art exhibition. The exhibition will take place this Fall in San Diego. Please save the date! 

We've got some very exciting stuff planned so stay tuned (additional details to come).

I Dream of Disney

When I was a young boy my 5th grade teacher had everyone in class write a letter to someone they aspired to be. At the time, I believed that I would grow up to be an animator, so I wrote a letter to the Disney Animation Studio. 

To everyone's surprise, an animator wrote back answering the questions I had asked. It was nice and of course allowed me to write a cute five page research paper. A five pager in 5th grade was a lot of work and certainly stretched my capacity to learn. Looking back, I can recall so many reasons why I was thankful for that reply. First, it gave me hope of what my future could become. And secondly, it was rewarding to see how taking the risk of asking Disney these questions actually paid off. 

Isn't it funny that when we are younger it's easier to take risks? Doesn't it seem like it's easier to dream big? Maybe it's because the stakes aren't as high. And so as we grow older the idea of taking risks seems scary. Big dreams begin to feel impossible. We begin to ignore those dreams. We continue to grow older and along with it the stakes continue to grow higher. But that's good news actually. God designed it this way so that we are more reliant on him to come through for us. 

When we go for the God-sized dream, we are bound to see God-sized results. The results aren't always what we expect, but certainly available to teach us something new.