
Hi! We’re Ari and Shira Evergreen, queer creatives based in Ithaca, New York who collaborate with nonprofits, arts organizations, activists, and socially-conscious small businesses. We live and work in a solar-powered, energy-efficient house with our two kids and three cats.
We Offer
- Film Production and Drone Video
- Logos and Branding
- Illustration
- Social Media Graphics
- Books, Invitations, Programs, Postcards, Placards, and more
Video Production
Shira creates documentaries and promotional videos for nonprofits, universities, arts organizations, activists, and socially-conscious small businesses. More at Uplifted Ithaca.
Bioscience Resource Project ● The Black Alliance for Peace ● Black Folk Don’t ● Camp Earth Connection ● Clergy Leadership Incubator ● The Dacha Project ● Dish Truck ● Durland Alternatives Library ● Edmund Case ● First Peoples’ Festival ● Fort Tryon Jewish Center ● Independent Science News ● Ithaca Murals ● Jonas Umbrellas ● LilySilly Puppet Theater ● New York Collective of Radical Educators (NYCoRE) ● Outlier Snacks ● Phyllis Tracy Malinow ● Rabbi Sid ● Retribution Media ● Ruthie and Connie: Every Room in the House ● Solar Tompkins HeatSmart ● Strength in Numbers Consulting Group ● Sustainable Tompkins ● Syracuse Center for Peace & Social Justice ● Tali Fuson, LMT, CTP ● Talking Circles on Race and Racism ● Tompkins Time Traders ● Tricia Wang ● Tuxedo Cat B&B ● Ultimate Re-entry Opportunity ● Using Their Words ● Weaver Wind Energy
Press
- Do-It-Yourself Film Ethic Empowers Ithaca (Ithaca Times)
- MLK Jr. Freedom Walkway details announced (Ithaca Times)
- Bartering Makes a Comeback This Holiday Season and Beyond (The New York Times)
- The Director of Empowered Reenergizes Her Own House (Fresh Dirt Ithaca)
More About Shira
Shira Golding Evergreen is a documentary filmmaker, graphic designer, writer and musician and the recipient of the 2019 “Artist in Community” Grant from the Tompkins County Community Arts Partnership for her documentary about Ithaca’s social-justice murals. She was the 2018 Ithaca Festival Artist. Her film Empowered: Power from the People (2012) screened at environmental film festivals around the country and abroad and was described by author Bill McKibben as “a remarkable ground-up account of the revolution that’s really starting to alter things on this earth.” Shira graduated Magna Cum Laude from Cornell University and then moved to New York City with Ari, where she worked as Director of Education and Outreach for Arts Engine, directing the Media That Matters Film Festival (best nonprofit/green website SXSW 2005) and traveling around the country to speak about grassroots film distribution, youth filmmaking and media justice. After moving to Ithaca in 2008, Shira co-founded Share Tompkins, which facilitates sharing culture in Tompkins County, NY and was featured in The New York Times and Yes! Magazine. Shira’s design won the competition for the Ithaca Martin Luther King, Jr. Freedom Walkway, and the placards she made for T’ruah have appeared at protests around the country. Her photography has been featured at the Brooklyn Museum and on numerous websites including Engadget, NPR, TreeHugger and FILE Magazine. She has served on the boards of MIX NYC Queer Experimental Film Festival and Sustainable Tompkins.
More About Ari
Ari Evergreen is a trans web designer, illustrator, graphic designer and consultant. He received a B.A. in Anthropology from Cornell University in 2002. He was the graphic designer for Jill Stein’s 2016 campaign for the US Presidency, as well as Howie Hawkins’s campaign for Governor of New York in 2014. Ari served as the Director of Communications for freeDimensional, a non-profit that assisted culture workers facing censorship, and as the Secretary of the Socialist Party NYC Local. His illustration work has been published in Socialist Women,The Socialist, Vegan for Her: The Women’s Guide to Being Healthy and Fit on a Plant-Based Diet by Virginia Messina, MPH, RD, and Fair Trade from the Ground Up: New Markets for Social Justice by April Linton. Ari did the animation for Shira’s film, Empowered: Power from the People, as well as for the documentary (A)sexual (Netflix, Hulu). He has served on the board of Durland Alternatives Library.