Bags of Color for Ukraine

Since 2006, Royal Talens has been involved in non-profit endeavors such as "Paint a Future", helping to support our global mission of enabling creative expression for everyone, by stimulating and facilitating as many people as possible to express their creativity, regardless of their level of experience, age, or country of origin.

In 2015, we further cemented this ambition by creating the Royal Talens Foundation, a non-profit organization of Royal Talens, with the goal to support as many projects globally that helped to bring creative expression through visual arts to as many disadvantaged youths as possible.

When the current refugee and humanitarian crisis emerged this year as a result of the war in Ukraine, the Royal Talens Foundation took immediate action, sourcing and supporting 10,000 art kits for youths who have been displaced from their homes as a result of the situation. While the vast majority of refugees are in locations within Europe, there are estimated to be 100,000 refugees fleeing to the US and Canada, where they are being received in by refugee centers and family members.

Royal Talens North America is taking in 1000 of these art support kits for youths in July and has already dedicated a small number of these to non-profit organizations that focus on the support of refugees. We still have some unallocated art kits that we would like to ask our retail community to help distribute. If you know of a community in your area or a non-profit that is a 501(C) entity, we would like to work with you to bring these sets to your store to distribute to these kids in need. We would like to do this because we feel that brick-and-mortar retail is a community hub for creative exploration, and we would like to see you be a part of this healing process for these displaced youths in your communities.

If you have any questions or would like to get involved, please email Kyle Richardson at k.richardson@royaltalens.com.