Kofke in the Arctic

Kofke in the Gobi Desert

Kofke in Tibet

Kofke painting graffiti in Russia

‘Everything Will Be OK’ for Russian street art conference

‘Everything Will Be Ok,’ Czech Republic

‘Everything Will Be Ok’ in Ecoli

Idea Capital, ‘Everything Will Be Ok’

Garments from Idea Capital project

The artist during a 3-month residency with ARCUS in Japan

‘Everything Will Be OK,’ Japan

‘Everything Will Be OK,’ Tibet

Completed mural of an Iranian jetliner that was accidentally shot down by a US war ship in 1988

Installation shots of ‘Everything Will Be OK’ project where it began in Savannah, GA in 2006-2007

Artist installing ‘Everything Will Be OK’ on train in Savannah

Jason Kofke launched the Everything Will be Okay project with a $500 grant from Idea Capital in 2008. The artist purchased an array of winter wear and screen printed the phrase ‘everything will be ok’ in bold letters on each garment. He distributed the clothes that November and December, mostly to the homeless in downtown Atlanta. “My goal,” he writes, “was simply (using art) to provide extra warmth to a few people that winter and create an opportunity for holiday commuters in Atlanta to encounter the homeless people who share their streets and intersections.”

Kofke took the project overseas to Tokyo, Prague, Moscow, Barcelona, Shanghai, and Vienna. He’s delivered his humble message in varied languages, media and formats—on walls, underpasses, dumpsters, and even rock outcroppings.

The artist considers it essential to be an invisible emissary. In this mystery, he believes, lies the purity of the work. In times of despair, depression, anxiety and instability, what would be your response to Kofke’s pop-up message?

Read a 2009 interview with Jason Kofke on burnaway.org.

‘Everything Will Be OK’ in the Arctic