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Open Call for "Crafting Sanctuaries: Black Spaces of the Great Depression South"
Art Bridges Foundation recently announced an open call for venues interested in "Crafting Sanctuaries: Black Spaces of the Great Depression South," a new traveling exhibition that explores how Black Southerners transformed private dwellings and public gathering places into havens of expression and refuge during the Great Depression.
"Crafting Sanctuaries highlights the resilience and creativity of Black communities during one of America's most challenging periods, and we are eager to support organizations that wish to share these powerful stories with their community. By extending this opportunity to a variety of arts and cultural spaces, we aim to remove barriers to access and ensure that diverse perspectives of the American experience are shared more widely." – Anne Kraybill, CEO at Art Bridges Foundation.
our mission
We provide financial and strategic support to museums to get art out of storage and into communities.
Art Bridges works with museums of all sizes to create and support arts programs that educate, inspire, and deepen engagement with local audiences.
How We Fund Museums
At Art Bridges, we do things a little differently. We support partners and projects rather than grantees and grants.
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What WeFund
We provide financial and strategic support to partners for Art Bridges approved traveling exhibitions, collection loans and collection sharing. We also support programming, audience engagement, and evaluation to increase community access to American art.
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Who CanApply
We fund non-profits with a 501c3 status, state universities, state and city entities meeting eligibility requirements with the Internal Revenue Service and government agencies. Please contact us if unsure of eligibility.
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FundingProcess
Once a partner has been approved for a project, they will be invited to apply for funding and collaborate with our program and awards teams on their application.
Our Impact
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More than 886 projects have been funded
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We’re successfully working with more than 240 partner museums
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Have served more than 5.3M people nationally
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Our foundation covers 49 states in the USA + Puerto Rico
The Art Bridges Collection
The Art Bridges Collection represents an expanding vision of American art from the 19th century to present day and encompasses multiple media and voices.
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Open Call for "Crafting Sanctuaries"
"Crafting Sanctuaries: Black Spaces of the Great Depression South" seeks to change how we envision the Great Depression and its ‘other Southern half.’
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