Calling all artists interested in placing your installation  in a store front on Lancaster Avenue!!  Now accepting applications.  If interested, go to www.lancasteravenuearts.com to find out more.  Information sent to us by the Art in City Hall Program - a program of the City of Philadelphia, Office of Arts, Culture and the Creative Economy.  www.phila.gov/artincityhall

OPPORTUNITY FOR ARTISTS

Beginning Aug.4, the American Red Cross and Threadless are calling on artists and graphic designers across the country to design t-shirts around the theme “Everyday Heroes.” Red Cross heroes donate blood, serve meals and provide shelter for the people affected by 70,000 emergencies and natural disasters that occur every year in the United States, and this challenge helps everyone understand and visualize their importance through design. For more information about how you can get involved every step of the way, visit http://atrium.threadless.com/everydayheroes. Also visit www.redcrossphilly.org

Are you traveling abroad with an organization but have no money to support the project?
Are you an Artist on Call traveling with BuildaBridge overseas in the next year?
Are you an artist that is searching for ways to raise money for your project?

If you answered yes to any of these questions, this Basic Fund-raising for Artists may be the training you need to accomplish that project or trip overseas.

Did you know that forty-eight percent of the money [most people raise] comes from households with incomes under $50,000?  Do not think you need millionaires and movie stars to do good fundraising.  Even if you are working in a low- or middle-income community, you can raise the money you want.[1]

Details:

When: Saturday, September 10th from 9am to 12noon

Where: BuildaBridge House, 205 W. Tulpehocken Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19144

Cost:  $10 for non-BuildaBridge personnel

Trainers:  Dr. J. Nathan Corbitt, President & Co-Founder of BuildaBridge and Kaylie Sauter, BuildaBridge Artist on Call to Kenya

To register for this course, please fill out the online registration form here.  Training is subject to cancellation or changes pending sufficient attendance.

Course Details:
This course prepares artists and leaders for basic fundraising strategies and techniques in raising money for programs and projects. A basic primer for the novice, the course will cover grant-writing and donor solicitation through online and face-to-face methods. Emphasis will be placed on
planning, accurate reporting, expressing gratitude, and reporting results. Other topics will include:  brainstorming, events, house parties, online giving, campaigns, and the power of asking.  Learn and generate ideas with other like-minded individuals on how to raise money.  Kaylie Satuer, BuildaBridge Artist on Call in Kenya will co-lead this training with President of BuildaBridge, Dr. Nathan Corbitt.  Kaylie successfully raised and continued to bring in support for her year of service with BuildaBridge.

1. Joan Flanagan, Successful Fundraising: A Complete Handbook for Volunteers and Professionals (2^nd Edition) (Lincolnwood, IL: Contemporary Books, 2000), 12.

BuildaBridge's Discovery Program served on average 50 children per week through eight classes in five transitional housing sites during the Fall of 2011.  In total, BuildaBridge's 5 teaching artists and 11 volunteer classroom assistants taught 87 children, 90% of whom were between the ages of 6 and 12.  Classes included hip-hop/African dance, visual arts, photography and spoken word.  Student participants of the spoken word class learned about the legacy of Langston Hughes, the similarities and differences between poetry, spoken word and rap music and practiced the art of writing their own poems.  Students in the visual arts/photography class practiced book-making and created journals using photos they took, paintings, and written entries about their life.  Other Visual art students focused on a journal of their life using calligraphy, written stories and artistic influences from the medieval time period while another class created a collaborative, group quilt consisting of their artwork.  Dancers learned the origins of hip-hop dance and the roots to African culture coupled with modern dances such as 'The running man', 'The Jerk,' and Doug E. Fresh (Dougie).

See photos from the Fall term here.

The Discovery Program will resume February 27th and end May 11.

BuildaBridge's Community Discovery Program begins Monday February 27th.  Five teaching artists will teach a total of eight classes in five transitional housing sites across the city of Philadelphia.  In the video below, teaching Artists introduce who they are and what they are doing with the students in the their classes.