Champion the artists shifting culture.
Get in the mix on our Next Big Thing.
Ways to Give
The Arts Initiative is supported by funding partners who recognize the power of championing artists to shift culture.
We foster and safeguard artistic freedom.
Every dollar directly supports artists and creative writers: their new works; their events and exhibitions to share their voices and visions with audiences; their arts education and mentorship with leaders in their fields.
Your gift champions arts engagement with community, especially vital right now, as thousands have lost access to regional and national funding.
Questions? Contact +1.213.557.3186 or email directly: anna@annagherrick.com
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The Arts Initiative is supported by funding partners who recognize the power of championing emerging and established artists to shift culture.
Donate online -
Make all checks payable to “Counterpart” only. There should be nothing else on the payable line.
Write “The Arts Initiative” in the memo line.
Email asst@bythecreativestudio.com for the address to mail your check.
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You can do this on our online portal.
Select the ”wire transfer” option when you check out online and enter your contact details so our Finance team can follow up with you to complete the transaction.
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The Arts Initiative is a fiscally sponsored project of The Performance Zone Inc/ Counterpart, a nationally registered not-for-profit, tax-exempt, 501(c)(3) organization serving the arts community since 1986.
EIN: 13-3357408
Your gift is tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law.
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The Arts Initiative is a fiscally sponsored project of Counterpart, a nationally registered not-for-profit, tax-exempt, 501(c)(3) organization serving the arts community. Contributions are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law.
Become a Benefactor of The Arts Initiative
Patron Circle - $5,000
Impact: Your gift makes possible the commission of a master class poetry workshop series for an underserved community. Or, direct your gift to transforming vacant spaces with public art.
Benefits include:
A hand-bound, numbered literary or visual art edition from our programming
A framed, signed work from the program you championed, such as a one-of-a-kind collective poem written by the community or a limited-edition archival pigment print by a featured artist
Recognition on our website
Become a Patron of the Arts Initiative
Champion Circle - $10,000
Impact: Your gift commissions a public program of your choice:
A curated public poetry series presenting featured guest poets and an open mic, connecting writers with new audiences, with pre-show workshops that help writers create strong new work
An exhibition of public art in vacant spaces
A transformative poetry master class series that improves mental health, culminating in a hand-bound, numbered literary or visual art edition from the work you championed.
All Patron Circle benefits, plus:
A meeting with a poet or artist whose life you’ve changed, in person or by zoom
Recognition as a benefactor of your chosen program in print and online materials
$9,462 tax-deductible ($538 estimated value of goods and services), or waive all benefits.
Visionary Circle - $50,000
Impact: Your gift underwrites a full season of public art in vacant spaces, with corresponding public engagement events and interventions and funds a partnership with a sociologist to assess our impact, producing data-driven evidence of how art drives community development and social change.
An independent assessment provides policymakers and change agents with clear evidence of the value of the arts, strengthening policy support, improving how communities are served at the state and national levels, and placing the arts as essential infrastructure.
All Patron and Luminary benefits, plus:
A work of original art by one of our featured artists, dedicated to you
In person or virtual: an install-day walkthrough, a studio visit, and an artist’s walk, live or filmed (travel for in-person experiences at the donor’s expense)
A private salon event. A private reading or studio presentation of new work by a featured poet or artist, for you and your guests, in person or virtual.
A special edition, limited-run catalogue of the series after it closes, with your name credited
Become a Visionary of the Arts Initiative