HOLLY SAVAS

Experienced, creative, big picture thinker who thrives on variety and teamwork. Marketing, communications, creative and good causes. Lover of communities, organizing and the arts. Moonlighting mixed media collage artist. Please get in touch for a complete portfolio of work.

Marketing

Marketing Consulting for Artists and Arts Organizations Results-driven, highly creative marketing strategies for individuals and nonprofit organizations that make the world a better place through the arts and service. 25 years in marketing, cause-related projects and visual arts in San Francisco. Recent marketing campaigns include San Francisco International Arts Festival (2023), La Casa de las Madres (2022) and Creative Action Network (2018-2021).

Audience Acquisition + Growth
Google + Facebook Advertising
Media Sponsorships
Email Strategy + Design

Marketing Creative
SEO / Content / Copy
Editorial Planning + Execution
Social Media Strategy

Cause Projects

La Casa De Las Madres Graphic designer across digital and print campaigns for La Casa de las Madres, the largest domestic abuse survivor advocacy organization in the SF Bay Area. Designed, wrote and produced La Casa’s Spring and Fall 2022 domestic violence awareness transit campaigns, including interior and outdoor ads that ran on 500 buses and trams throughout San Francisco. Created new brand identity, designed/produced creative and La Casa’s fall ’22 fundraising auction redHOT* For Change.

Creative Action Network Oversaw marketing, partnerships and online community in the social justice protest art world in order to benefit working artists and nonprofit organizations including Sunrise Movement, Earthjustice, The Dream Corps, UltraViolet and Headcount.org. Curated, coproduced and provided creative for Posters For The Green New Deal: 50 Removable Posters To Inspire Change. Crowdsourced art campaigns for causes including Masks for the People, Money for the People, Adopt Don’t Shop and What REALLY Makes America Great.

Art

Mixed Media Collage Color first, then shapes and texture. Canvas, paper, paint, pen, debris, ink and other odds and ends. Exhibitions at venues throughout California including Studio Gallery in San Francisco, Sanchez Art Center in Pacifica, Bleicher/Gorman Gallery in Santa Monica and Orange County Creatives in Laguna Beach. Podcasts and interviews about art: “Art is the Most Powerful Tool for Making Change”, Fellow Americans 2021; “Making a Difference as an Artist with Creative Action Network”, The Good Startup, 2020; “Why Bright Things Are Sometimes Contained”, Mud Season Review Magazine 2016. (Full List of Exhibitions & Press)