28th Anniversary Campaign + Online Auction Update!
Dear Friends of artworxLA:
I hope this news finds you all safe and healthy at home. Although we are all forced to practice social distancing and isolate ourselves from our everyday routines, finding alternative ways to stay connected is how we will adapt to the realities of living with a pandemic.
Our Annual Evening of Art is our largest fundraising event for the year that supports over 20% of our operating budget. I wish we could have had a chance to come together for this special occasion but public health and safety is first and foremost. Thus, our May 14th Annual Evening of Art will become our 28th Anniversary Campaign + Online Auction.
What does that mean? We will not be gathering on May 14th but rather we will celebrate artworxLA’s 28th Anniversary virtually during the upcoming months.
We still need your support because artworxLA is still here to support our students and our creative communities, but we have to adjust to the current times in order to do so. artworxLA is dedicated to addressing the imbalance in educational and creative opportunities for L.A. youth, using the rich cultural resources of Los Angeles to engage students in the arts. By partnering
with cultural institutions, arts colleges, and creative industry professionals, we encourage youth to stay in school, earn their high school diploma, and pursue a plan for their futures. We will continue strengthening and providing arts education programming, paid internships and scholarships to over 1,000 alternative students in 32 high schools throughout LA County, which includes providing services for justice involved youth.
And in order to continue this work, we need your help!
Ways to stay involved:
● Maintain your sponsorship of our now 28th Anniversary Campaign
Sponsorship at any level directly supports the organization's program offerings and operational costs.
● Participate in our online auction
This is also a way to support our artists. artworxLA will split all sales with artists 50/50.
● Create a peer-to-peer fundraising challenge
Help us meet our fundraising goal by challenging others to participate.
● Contribute to our 28th Anniversary Yearbook
We are taking our Annual Gala Catalogue and redesigning it as a yearbook. Let's capture all the amazing moments, events, and highlights from the year and put them in one book. Be a part of a celebration!
● Become a monthly recurring donor
Any amount is a great help and very appreciated.
Meeting our fundraising goal of $250,000 is essential to maintaining our organization as a whole and with your support I know that we can do this!
In the coming weeks we will share links to our online auction, reminders to give online and creative ways for us to all stay connected.
Thank you in advance.
Thank you for continuing to support artworxLA.
Because when art works, we all benefit.
With great appreciation,
Shelby Williams-Gonzalez
Executive Director