We are extremely proud to present to you…BETTER BACON BetterBacon apparel is the newest endeavor of a larger movement five years in the making. Spanning music, film production, writing, radio broadcasting, and an in-development comic book series, we are a community of artists dedicated to the celebration and advancement of a marginalized segment of our society; artists with developmental disabilities.

Our mission is to collaborate directly with developmentally disabled artists and programs involved in the care of such artists in order to grant them opportunities for their artistic ideas and expression to achieve the exposure and appreciation that others have traditionally been the beneficiary of.

Through fashion we give the power of reaching millions to the artists in order to enable them to:

1. Feel a palpable semblance of normalcy in personal achievement from their work by receiving both due moneys and praise from the art community and public at large
2. Getting the intrinsic sense of being a valued, honored, and contributive member of society from finding their artwork out in the world around them
3. Become successfully employed by earning profits, profits that are equivocal to today’s preeminent artists, that will afford them the opportunity should they choose, to be financially independent by consequence of their own inimitable labors and limitless creative imagination.

Working as a production, distribution, and exhibition operation, along with any co-production facilities, in order to work side-by-side with the artists as a kind of Warholian ‘factory,’ BETTER BACON is the final link on bringing the most pure and original art to date, to the mainstream of fashion where it belongs.

LUIS “PEE-WEE” FERNANDEZ
I always wanted to become a rock singer, singing rock and roll. As a teen, in my junior high, I used to get into a lot of trouble in school through pranks or music I listened to, or deceiving school rules and being rebellious. One of my hobbies is working with computers. And another of my hobbies was I like drawing because it expresses who I am: my humor. I think people should look at my artwork just so they know who I really am, and what I do is not about being a bad person and being rebellious but just getting good things out of my system: humor, laughter, and other kinds of emotion.

TANESA TARVIN
I’m pretty much a moviegoer. I got a lot of movies. I go to the movies to see which movies are actually good to buy when they come out on DVD. I pick a movie and then see how those movies are presented: the actors, how they make the movies look. Pretty much, I like to observe more than just the movie, so that I really actually catch what they try to say. Plus, I kind of like to draw too. I like to draw houses. It doesn’t have to be anything. Also, I like to look at TV a lot, too. I’m pretty much a couch potato. Also, I like to listen to music too. Pretty much, I like to listen to the radio more than I draw. And when I draw, I listen to the radio more.

DANIEL CUBAS
I like to create so others could learn about themselves. I think that people are distracted by the Media, drugs, other people, and by the pain that they are causing themselves. It is important for people to hear, read, and understand what I’m trying to say, because that will take them out of the darkness that they have been living in when it comes to communicating with people with different disabilities.

ELISA C. DE LA TORRE
I am a member of the Kids of Widney High. I am also an artist and author. I feel that drawing is something that a lot of people think is a waste of time, but I don’t believe it is, because if you want to draw something that is weird to others but cool to you, draw with all your might and don’t let anyone stop you. Drawing helps me to keep my creative juices flowing and I am honored to be able to do this because it shows that even if a person with a disability has a tough time identifying colors or shapes, that by being able to picture it mentally and put that idea on paper, it shows others that there are ways for us to do some stuff that we aren’t really given credit for.