💕 Bring Chantal Chandler Studios Home 💒

For the past three years, nearly everything I need to create my artwork—tools, materials, furniture, equipment, and irreplaceable pieces of my life’s work—has lived in storage.

Now, I have until August 13, 2026, to move it all into a new home.

I am currently recovering from painful double-hernia and lipoma-removal surgeries, but I am also standing at the doorway of something I have worked toward for years: establishing a stable physical home for Chantal Chandler Studios.

This campaign is not only about moving belongings out of storage. It is about moving a life’s work back into purpose—and creating a place where discarded materials, preserved stories, artists, families, and new ideas are given room to become something more.

💕 Who is Chantal Chandler?

Hello. My name is Chantal Chandler.

I am a multi-mixed-media artist, an award-winning photographer, author, writer, maker, fitness instructor, singer, musician, DJ, caregiver, senior at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and, most importantly, the mother of four beautiful children.

Creativity has been one of the most constant and life-giving forces in my life.

For years, I have worked across photography, mixed media, music, singing, DJing, writing, textiles, paper arts, exhibitions, education, hospitality, creative entrepreneurship, and community-centered projects.

Although these practices may appear different, they are connected by one purpose: helping people feel seen while discovering beauty, value, and possibility in places that are often overlooked.

I am also completing my education at UNLV, where my studies have focused on creative practice, management, entrepreneurship, and multidisciplinary studies. My goal is to combine my artistic and musical experiences, business education, sustainability values, and commitment to community into something that can grow far beyond one individual project.

That vision is Chantal Chandler Studios.

💕 What Is Chantal Chandler Studios?

Chantal Chandler Studios is a multidisciplinary art and creative-reuse space dedicated to making more with what already exists.

Inside the studio, discarded, donated, reclaimed, and new materials can be transformed into meaningful and useful treasures, including:

• Handmade journals, stationery, paper, and ephemera packs
• Mixed-media artwork and photography
• Quilts, rugs, clothing, and textile art
• Repurposed furniture and home décor
• Memory pieces made from meaningful clothing and belongings
• Sustainable gifts and useful everyday products
• Materials and supplies for workshops and community projects

The studio is intended to provide space for creative production, classes, exhibitions, collaborative projects, artist development, creative entrepreneurship, small-scale manufacturing, workshops, and public events.

It will be a place where people can witness the complete transformation—from something nearly thrown away to something beautiful, functional, meaningful, and worthy of being kept.

💕 Why This Moment Is Urgent

My former studio property was sold and has recently been torn down. For the past three years, my studio materials, artwork, furniture, tools, and equipment have remained in transit, moving from one storage situation to another.

Recently, I came dangerously close to having my belongings placed into auction.

Thankfully, I was able to make arrangements with the storage facility and regain access to my life's work. However, I have now been given a final deadline: everything must be completely removed by August 13, 2026.

The storage company graciously extended the original move-out date after I explained that I was recovering from surgery. I am deeply grateful for that additional time, but this is the final extension.

I must now move and safely protect years of artwork, materials, tools, furniture, creative archives, and irreplaceable work before the deadline.

At the same time, I have identified the perfect space that will finally give Chantal Chandler Studios a stable home. I am working with the property owner, and the next essential step is securing the financing needed to move in, protect the work, and begin preparing the studio.

💕 What You Are Helping Create

By supporting this campaign, you are helping establish more than a private workspace.

You are helping build a place where:

• Materials receive another life
• Personal and family stories are preserved
• Creativity becomes opportunity
• Sustainable practices feel beautiful and approachable
• Artists and makers have room to develop their work
• Families learn to create with materials they already have
• Community members can gather, participate, learn, and belong
• Artistic practices can grow into sustainable creative businesses

The studio is being developed with the broader community in mind.

My vision is for it to become a local hub for classes, collaborations, exhibitions, workshops, creative entrepreneurship, artist development, and public events.

It will create room for me to fully resume my own artistic practice while also opening doors for other artists, makers, families, students, and community members.

In time, I hope the studio will become the first seed of a larger sustainable village built around creativity, resourcefulness, learning, dignity, and possibility.

💕 What Your Support Will Fund

Campaign funds will first be used to move and protect the studio’s existing artwork, materials, furniture, tools, and equipment before the August 13 deadline. Support will help cover:

Securing the Studio

• Security deposit
• Initial rent and occupancy expenses
• Required insurance
• Permits and administrative costs
• Utility deposits and opening expenses

Moving and Protecting the Work

• Transportation and moving assistance
• Moving artwork, furniture, tools, materials, and equipment
• Protective coverings and packing materials
• Shelving, containers, and organized storage systems
• Protection for irreplaceable artwork and creative archives

Preparing the Workspace

• Worktables and production stations
• Sewing, textile, paper, photography, and mixed-media areas
• Lighting and basic safety equipment
• Display walls and exhibition areas
• Retail fixtures
• Classroom and workshop seating
• Accessibility and essential workspace improvements

Launching Programs and Production

• Initial workshop supplies
• Sustainable product development
• Packaging and shipping materials
• Website and promotional materials
• Exterior and interior signage
• Community launch events
• Programming for artists, families, and local participants

*I will publish a detailed financial breakdown once the final lease, moving estimates, deposits, and opening costs have been confirmed.

💕 More Than One Way to Help

A financial contribution is one powerful way to participate, but it is not the only way.

You can also help by:

• Sharing this campaign with your community
• Introducing me to a potential sponsor, partner, or investor
• Donating useful materials, shelving, equipment, or furnishings
• Offering professional moving, construction, design, legal, marketing, or business support
• Connecting the studio with schools, artists, sustainability organizations, and community groups

By contributing or sharing this campaign, you are affirming a belief in art, sustainability, education, entrepreneurship, preservation, and community.

You are helping prevent a life’s work from being lost.

More importantly, you are helping that work become the foundation of something that can serve many people.

With Gratitude and Lots of Love,

Chantal Chandler
Founder, CEO, and Creative Director
Chantal Chandler Studios