The TACC art gallery
All year, TACC will invite young artists to submit their artwork to our online art gallery (www.tacc-art.org). Our online art gallery will also be a creative and educational resource for young artists.


Choosing the 2010 TACC artist - The on-line art contest
We want to encourage young people to express themselves creatively, and each year we will launch an on-line search for a new-and-upcoming artist who will design the American Charity Calendar. The winner of our nationwide has been chosen, but we will not announce her name until we are ready to show her artwork in 2010.

The paper "American Charity Calendar"
The winning artist’s illustration will be that year’s celebrated paper American Charity Calendar. Much like the advent calendars in many European countries, the American Charity Calendar is an exquisite piece of artwork (13” x 16”) displaying twenty-five small perforated “windows”, labeled with each day’s date, starting with December 1st and ending on the 25th. To count down the days to Christmas, the paper calendar displays that year’s particular theme. TACC’s first year’s theme: “How Winter Holidays are Celebrated in Different Cultures”.

Behind each of the twenty-five numbered hidden “windows”, is an illustration that relates each day’s corresponding televised segment. With this picture, viewers can predict how each day’s television episode might unfold. The paper Charity Calendar will be available on-line and through a variety of retail outlets a few weeks before the initial December 1st television episode.


Our programs
TACC is a non-profit organization whose main purpose is to raise money give to programs that will benefit children in public schools and in the community.

The Television series on YouTube
Interacting with The American Charity paper calendar is a television holiday episodic miniseries (25 episodes - starting December 1 - December 25) with a different theme every year.

The first years series will be broadcast on our website and on YouTube and consists of twenty-five 10-15-minute episodes beginning the first day of December and concluding on Christmas Day. The first year’s Charity Calendar television series is called “How Winter Holidays are Celebrated in Different Cultures”.


The audience
Although the subject matter is tailored to children 11 year and older, the episodes and the paper Charity Calendar will provide fun entertainment for the family as a whole or any other individuals who might appreciate some quirky holiday entertainment.

The American Charity Calendar (paper calendar and television series) does NOT follow or promote any specific religious ideology even though it is based on the traditional advent calendars. Our goal is to encourage families and individuals to donate to a worthy cause by purchasing the inexpensive American Charity Calendar, while celebrating their particular holiday tradition and embracing the holiday spirit.