Every Thursday Art Auction 2026

Thursday, October 8, 2026

9am-9pmET

32auctions.com/christophergriffin

Rescue/oil on canvas/14”x11”

In March of 2020, the radio announced that food banks were facing increased demand at the same time that fundraising efforts were being shut down beause of the pandemic. I initially thought I could help pack boxes at the Ottawa Food Bank. The question arose in my mind, “What if instead, I spent that time creating a piece of art and auctioning it off? Wouldn’t that be of more value?” I thought I would do it every Thursday (because what else was I doing?), until the pandemic was over in a few weeks time. So began my ‘Every Thursday Art Auction’. I launched it on 32auctions.com/christophergriffin. The first painting went for three times its value and raised $1000. That amount of money could buy way more food and help way more people than my sweat labour. So I continued…

In 2023, I opened a studio in Charlottetown, PEI and began splitting the proceeds 50/50 between the Ottawa and PEI Food Banks. To date, Every Thursday Art Auction has raised $105,224.97 for the Ottawa Food Bank and $24,731 for the PEI Food Banks. 2026 is the 7th year of Every Thursday Art Auction, running from Thanksgiving to New Year’s Eve, 13 Thursdays in total. The value of this auction isn’t only in the amount of money raised. Every week people help raise awareness of the ongoing need to support the food banks by simply liking and sharing.