Visionary is a coming together of artists, art collectors, and social entrepreneurs. Visionary sells branded collections of art, and use proceeds to accelerate partnered art social ventures.Visionary’s art collections and ventures seek to be amongst the first to bring the growing culture of the ‘sustainability’ and ‘social innovation’ into the art world.
Visionary’s mission is founded on the belief in art’s potential to be
1) an unbridled medium for expression,
2) a meeting ground - that transcends sectors and personal identity - to build community, dialogue and action
3) a product that can generate funds to fuel scalable, art related social ventures.
From this belief, Visionary seeks to prove an original, scalable model for uniting a diverse community on an original contemporary art brand.
Alex Salzman, founder of Visionary, is a serial social entrepreneur has been involved in social enterprise for since he was 17.
Alex has been afforded a unique perspective for watching the rise of the sustainability and social innovation movement, while meeting many of the individuals leading the charge – from entrepreneurs, investors, academics, members of civil society, religious leaders, and cultural creatives.
Increasingly, Alex felt a calling to capture in art the vibrant culture of this movement, and its unique collaborative spirit and optimism in the face of seemingly overwhelming challenges facing humanity. Visionary was conceived.
After learning about the success of the (RED) art auction that raised $43M for The Global Fund in a single night, Alex realized that the sale of Visionary branded art could be used as a vehicle to channel funding to the worthy social enterprises he was incubating.The result is an inaugural Visionary branded collection of art to be auctioned off to support partnered art social ventures.