Arts Over Odds Foundation

Join us for the Arts For All Benefit Concert, our annual benefit concert to raise awareness and support for sickle cell disease! Enjoy incredible performances while making a difference. Proceeds will benefit St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and Arts Over Odds Foundation. Let’s unite for a night of music and hope. 🎶❤️

Tickets available at givebutter.com/artsforallbenefitconcert

Today we Celebrate World Sickle Cell Day, let’s continue to spread awareness and share experiences.

Join us at Arts Over Odds Foundation, where we empower youth and young adults facing health disorders through the transformative power of the arts. With your generous donation, we’re launching our inaugural program, Rising Artists Arts Program, aimed at providing top-tier artistic education to our resilient students. Led by our founder, Christen Dukes, who defied the odds of Sickle Cell Disease and Cerebral Palsy, we’re here to show our students that their potential knows no bounds. Whether they’re receiving care in hospitals or thriving outside, our program offers inclusive, hands-on classes led by expert instructors. Let’s come together to support these remarkable individuals and help them realize that their creativity transcends any challenge they may face. Join us on this journey of artistic expression, community, vulnerability, and collaboration!

Join us at Arts Over Odds Foundation, where we empower youth and young adults facing health disorders through the transformative power of the arts. With your generous donation, we're launching our inaugural program, Rising Artists Arts Program, aimed at providing top-tier artistic education to our resilient students. Led by our founder, Christen Dukes, who defied the odds of Sickle Cell Disease and Cerebral Palsy, we're here to show our students that their potential knows no bounds. Whether they're receiving care in hospitals or thriving outside, our program offers inclusive, hands-on classes led by expert instructors. Let's come together to support these remarkable individuals and help them realize that their creativity transcends any challenge they may face. Join us on this journey of artistic expression, community, vulnerability, and collaboration!

Ignite the flame of creativity with a single spark of inspiration. 💡✨

Today we raise awareness on Rare Disease Day. In the face of uncommon challenges, those with diseases embrace strength, resilience and faith despite their odds. We recognize you today. Know that you are always seen, and you’re not alone.

Transform lives and enable young people to thrive in the arts by contributing to our Arts For All Giving Campaign. Every dollar counts, and we kindly ask for your support in making a difference with just $20. Arts Over Odds Foundation is committed to teaching youth and young adults with health conditions who have dreams of becoming amazing artists of all kinds, but struggle to see that for themselves because of their odds. Please join me in helping today’s young people realize that their odds don’t define them.

Happy Valentine’s Day from Arts Over Odds!!

Create Something Today.

We are on the road to starting our first program this year! Rising Artists Arts Program (RAAP) where we’ll be teaching photography and videography classes with other art forms to be added to youth ages 11-18 but before that we need your help. We need to reach a goal of $7,000 to fund this program and we need your help to do it, with your donation you’re giving you@g people an opportunity to overcome their health barriers and achieve their dreams. Please consider joining us as we work towards this goal.

I had a great talk with Sickle Cell Community Consortium at the Sickle Cell Expo about all things Arts Over Odds Foundation
Our Emi of year giving campaign is still going on please donate to help us transform the lives of young artists! Donate at givebutter.com/transform

Arts For All: Transform Lives through Giving Transform Lives and Support Arts Education

We're kicking off a giving campaign Today for Giving Tuesday! As we gear up to launch our program in the first quarter of next year, your support can make a huge impact. Text ARTSFORALL to 53555 or visit givebutter.com/transform Your donation will help us provide top-notch artistic education to our students. Join us in supporting these amazing individuals and showing them that their potential knows no bounds! 🎨🎶

Today is and we are launching our :Transform Lives through Giving Tuesday campaign. This campaign will help be prepared to start our first 5 week program in the first quarter of next year. We need your help to transform the lives of today’s youth through arts education, so please join us on this mission. Give today by texting ARTSFORALL to 53555 or by visiting givebutter.com/transform

Our Founder absolutely left it all on the floor as he performed with his amazing band.

During the Arts For All Benefit Concert we had a quick Q&A about Sickle Cell Disease moderated by board member Tomecia Stafford featuring panelists board member and sickle cell warrior our Vice President, and Sickle cell caregiver Christopher Bridges, and of course our very own founder and president

Arts For All Benefit Concert Recap part ✌🏾

Last Friday we had our official launch event the Arts For All Benefit Concert and as you can see we had a blast!!

We’d like to say thank you our 2023 corporate sponsors for this years Arts For All Benefit Concert. We greatly appreciate and

https://tntribune.com/dukes-launches-foundation-to-help-others/

Dukes Launches Foundation to Help Others - The Tennessee Tribune By Wiley Henry MEMPHIS, TN — He wasn’t expected to live. But then Christen Dukes beat the odds –– a preemie weighing a mere 2 lbs. and 5 oz. But he couldn’t beat the agony of sickle cell disease and cerebral palsy. He questioned God: “Why me? Why was I born with sickle cell and […]

We are now looking for volunteers, company sponsors, and potential partners!! If you’re interested please reach out to us by email at [email protected] or on our website on the contact page. We look forward to hearing from you!!

About 5 years or so ago, the great idea to start Arts Over Odds was given to me and then I spent time thinking and planning about what it would look like and now here we are! I wanted to start this organization to give young creatives, artists and potential artists the space and place to learn and grow in the arts despite their specific heath odds.

Arts Over Odds Foundation is arts based nonprofit organization that focuses on teaching youth and young adults with Sickle Cell Disease and other health conditions in multiple fields of the arts and inspiring them to work toward and and believe in a thriving future. We can’t wait to cultivate the artistic talents of todays youth!!

September is Sickle Cell Awareness Month and is officially launching this Friday September 15th during Sickle Cell Awareness Month.

You may be asking What is Sickle Cell Disease, we’ll let me tell you. SCD is a blood disorder that affects the red blood cells and cause them to become misshapen from a normal round blood cell to a sickled or crescent shaped cell. And those sickled cells can stick together and clog the blood vessels slowing blood flow causing pain anywhere in the body.