Online ticket purchases are coming to the Buffalo Zoo in early 2018. You can have git certificates emailed directly to you instead of to the recipient as well If you need assistance please contact us at 74. Delivered in a personalized e-greeting card. Are you sure you want to perform this action. They receive the gift.Ĭolumbus Zoo And Aquarium Cincinnati Family Magazine Black Floral and Animal Scarf. He said he did a rendition of a white Siberian tiger that is displayed on one of the cards.Ĭreative Foundations provides integrated support services to individuals with developmental disabilities in Champaign, Delaware, Franklin, Knox and Union counties.How gifts work on Giftly. Paul Day, one of the foundation’s artists, said if the zoo provided him with a photo of the Mexican wolf cubs with their mother, he would do a painting for the cards. Hite said that one of the artists, who has no arms, paints with his mouth. “On the back, each card has the biography of the artist, and the notecards have been a great seller for us.” “Some of the artists have moved on, but we own the art and the sell of the cards to help fund the work at Creative Foundations,” he said. He said the artists’ work is purchased by Creative Foundations, so the organization owns the rights to it, and the artwork is reproduced into notecards and large prints. Hite said that the cards didn’t sell very fast at first, but with some tweaking, sales have picked up. “We lost the story behind them, but this year (the gift shop) decided to allow me to bring in my card rack, for my cards,” he said. Hite said the first year, the notecards from Creative Foundations were intermixed with other cards from different vendors. He said it started with a wild art exhibit and grew into notecards and prints at the zoo. Michael Hite, Creative Foundations director of marketing, is the one behind the idea of selling the artwork as notecards at the zoo gift shop. “Every year we’re doing it better and better,” she said. Harris said the zoo gift shop started working with Creative Foundations about three years ago. “We sold out of them within three weeks,” she said. However, Harris said the gift shop purchased 144 plush Tasmanian devils that quickly sold out. I don’t know what it is, but sloths and llamas are bigsellers.” “Llamas are very popular this year as well. “Our number one animal we’re selling right now are the sloths,” she said. As of late, she said with the birth of the Mexican wolves, the babies have become a bestseller. Harris said each year, a certain animal at the zoo becomes very popular much like the polar bears have been. “The prints are not too big and they’re not too small.” “People will send cards here and there, but a lot of people just want something to hang up on their walls,” she said. Harris said she orders cards from Creative Foundations two to three times a year, and the bigger prints that can be hung on a wall, sell really well. The artists not only draw and paint the animals seen in the zoo – lions, tigers, polar bears, penguins, orangutans and giraffes, to mention a few – but they research each one as well. “Artwork is typically one of those things that people don’t think about buying when they come to the zoo, but once they see it - see how beautiful it is - they definitely pick it up.” “It’s also always good to introduce people to different animals in different ways,” she said. All of the artwork on the notecards and larger prints was designed and created by local artists independently or in a collaborative group effort.ĭeidre Harris, Columbus Zoo Gift Shop spokesperson, said all the proceeds from the cards go back into the feeding and care of the animals at the zoo. In a win-win situation, the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium’s Gift Shop and Creative Foundations have partnered on a product that supports both of the local nonprofits and gives name recognition to area artists with developmental disabilities.Īrtists from Creative Foundations is providing the zoo with artwork, and the zoo is selling reproductions of the artwork in the form of notecards and larger prints.Ĭreative Foundations uses art and creativity to provide support, community integration, and independence to adults with developmental disabilities. Pictured, left to right, holding some of the work sold at the zoo gift shop are (back row): Bryan Burks, Kelly Jacoby, gift shop spokesperson Deidre Harris, Kyra Warren and Katie Rhoads and (front row): Dave Bamford, Paul Day and Nikko Makua. Many of the artists met Thursday at the gift shop to talk about what they can do to support the zoo with their work. The Columbus Zoo and Aquarium and Creative Foundations have formed a new partnership in which the zoo is now selling artwork of animals created by local artists with developmental disabilities.
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