Dear supporter of ARTSPACE,
As you are all aware, we have temporarily closed the doors to ARTSPACE. We did this willingly to protect the community from COVID-19. We have been closed for 3 weeks now and foresee being closed until May 1st. This has put a huge financial burden on us since we rely solely on fundraisers, public support, and grants. We had to move our Spring Fundraiser, the Steamroller Festival, to October and our current and upcoming exhibition will likely be solely online. We have also frozen all of our workshops until further notice.
We are asking for a little help from the community during these trying times. We know that many of you are facing these same issues. If you are able to donate even $5, your support really makes a difference for our current situation. We are trying to raise enough money to provide free workshops, classes, and assisted studio time for our Mentorship Students who have taken the hardest hit in this situation. Our students are missing out on three months-worth of studio visits and we are hoping to open our doors to them in June to make-up for lost time.
Your donation will help us create summer programming for our Mentorships Students. They may attend a variety of classes, demos, and assisted studio time June-August. It will also allow us to hire some of our local artists to help teach these classes. Many of our teachers have missed out on pay due to this pandemic and we would like to try and make it up to them in the Summer.
Sincerely,
– The ARTSPACE Team