Supply Chain Collaborative
The Supply Chain Collaborative facilitates the creative interaction of a diverse group of artists from around the world for the purpose of telling visual narratives that fight against injustice in global economic systems, seeking to establish fair trade, social equity, environmental sustainability, and peace. Contributors have included:
Omoyele Sowore, Nigeria - cultural advisor, human rights activist
Dang Ngo, Viet Nam - photography, photo journalist
Mario Gonzalez Chavajay, Guatemala (Tz’utuhil Maya) - painting
Nancy Wang Gaeden, U.S. - photographic lighting reference
Mercedes Wanga, U.S. - drawing
Schalk Van Zuydam, South Africa - photography
Samuel Cumes Pop, Guatemala (Tz’utuhil Maya) - watercolor
Esther Unti, U.S. - drawing, painting
Aaron Miller, U.S. - drawing, painting
Kate Foley-Beining, U.S. - painting
Iris Rountree, U.S. - drawing, painting
Christopher Leith Evans, U.S. - design, photography, painting
Cafe Corazon: Mario Gonzalez Chavajay, Samuel Cumes Pop San Pedro de la Laguna, Guatemala
Sowore Omoyele addressing High School students in front of Pipeline
Kate Foley-Beining, Christopher Leith Evans, Mercedes Wanga and Aaron Miller at Taylor & Company exhibition, San Francisco. June 2013
Supply Chain Portraits concept designer Christopher Leith Evans’ art reframes the European figurative tradition of portrait painting with cinematic montages of internet based research, collaborative sourcing, and digital graphics to create narrative pictorial experiences in which awareness and activism give context, content and meaning to imagery. While utilizing technological tools such as the internet, Facebook and Photoshop (which he learned while working at Lucasfilm’s Industrial Light and Magic), Evans remains, nevertheless, a master of figurative oil painting in the Realist traditions of Caravaggio and Courbet.