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The music on this album is from the Blood Vibrations Listening Center as part of the Blood Work exhibition by FOLX during the National Hemophilia Foundation (NHF) 68th Annual Meeting 2016, folxfolx.org.

Blood Vibrations is an ongoing grassroots project that collects sound & music created by people with bleeding disorders. The goal of the project is to provide a forum for creativity, expression, sharing and learning--all contributing to whole being wellness.

Anyone with a bleeding disorder is welcome to participate. No musical experience required. Record in hi-fi, lo-fi, no-fi.

Spread the word to one and all. Pay it forward.

For a list of all contributors to the project, go to the "Participants & Creators" album in the discography.

For submission guidelines to the project go to the "Submit Share Directions" album in the discography.

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Album art by Christopher Statton & Megan Wilson.

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BIO: Christopher Statton is an American arts administrator, artist, philanthropist, and activist based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Statton is best known for his role in establishing San Francisco’s oldest continuously running theater, the Roxie Theater as a non-profit during his four-year tenure as Executive Director, 2010 – 2013.

Born with hemophilia, Statton was infected with both HIV and Hepatitis C from contaminated hemophilia blood products in the early eighties. Living with these diseases for all or most of his life has led Statton to be a fierce activist for social and economic justice.

Statton and collaborator Megan Wilson launched the public project Better Homes & Gardens Today in fall 2014, creating a limited edition of 300 pairs of hand-painted signs with the word “Home” in different languages accompanied by a flower. Statton and Wilson state the project’s goals to: “1) Heighten awareness around 'home' and the realities of homelessness; 2) Cultivate a dialog within communities and amongst disparate groups – especially with those in the tech sector who are having a significant impact on housing instability in the Bay Area - about the funding and policy change that is needed to help end homelessness; and 3) To raise money to benefit the Gubbio Project, the Coalition on Homelessness, San Francisco, and At The Crossroads, organizations working to address homelessness in San Francisco.” The album cover art features ‘Home’ sign edition 117 written in Gujarati.

BIO: Megan Wilson is an American visual artist, writer, and activist based in San Francisco. Known for her large-scale installations, public projects, and street art, she incorporates a broad range of pop culture methodologies and aesthetics to address conceptual interests that include home, homelessness, social and economic justice, anti-capitalism, impermanence and generosity.

Better Homes & Gardens Today is an extension of Wilson’s project Better Homes & Gardens from 2000 through which she gave 250 of the signs out for free to the homeless and those facing eviction in San Francisco during the area’s first dot-com bubble. The project is included in the book San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 75 Years of Looking Forward, and in the exhibition Fertile Ground at the Oakland Museum in 2014/15.