One of this year’s most innovative design events, Architects for Animals® “Giving Shelter” exhibit, returns to the HermanMiller Showroom in Culver City on Thursday, October 19 th 2017. The event is expected to be a sold-out fundraiser for LA-based non-profit FixNation, which provides free spay/neuter services for the city’s skyrocketing population of homeless cats.
LA’s top architecture and design firms as well as individual architects and designers have been invited to design, build and donate one-of- a-kind and functional outdoor dwellings for cats. Shelters will be displayed at a cocktail receptionattended by the public, VIPs and media representatives. Also on display: cat food bowls decorated by feline-loving celebrities such as Jay Leno, Beau Bridges, Elvira, William Shatner, Clint Eastwood, Eric Dickerson, Tricia Helfer and Morgan Fairchild, which will be available for purchase via an online auction.
“These cat shelters are absolutely remarkable,” says FixNation’s Co-Founder and Executive Director Karn Myers. “They will help raise awareness about homeless cats and provide practical solutions that can be implemented throughout our community.” This year’s event has added significance as the organization honors Myer’s late husband, Mark Dodge. The couple co-founded FixNation 10 years ago. Los Angeles is home to one of the nation’s largest populations of homeless felines, an estimated one to three million cats. FixNation is a model for successful Trap-Neuter- Return (TNR) and humane colony management programs across the country and around the world.
Participating design firms this year include: Abramson Teiger Architects; d3architecture; ES-EN- EM; HLW; HKS; HOK;
Knowhow Shop; Kollin Altomare Architects; RNL; and Standard Architecture | Design.
Tickets are $50 and may be purchased online HERE or at the door. Visit the websites to find out more about FixNation and Architects for Animals®
What: “Giving Shelter” Exhibit & Cocktail Reception
Where: HermanMiller Showroom, 3641 Holdrege Ave., LA 90016
When: Thursday, October 19th, 2017, 5:30 pm to 9:30 pm
Website: http://fixnation.org/
