We invite you to grow with us in our commitment to art and artists by supporting NIAD's Mobile Art Fund. When you give to NIAD, you help us mend the budget gap created by operating two entirely new models of service - a robust Virtual Studio, and a reinvented onsite program. Because your support means NIAD artists' voices continue to find their audiences, artists' practices diversify and experiment with new models as we meet these challenges.
About the NIAD Mobile Art Fund:
In response to COVID-19, we launched the NIAD Mobile Art Fund to ensure equitable access to art supplies and basic hygiene materials for our artists and their families to use at home. Your financial assistance helps NIAD meet the demands of this rapid pivot to remote programming. A contribution in any amount builds our capabilities to continuously deliver essential services to our artists, without interruption, and eases the transition back to a studio with expanded remote learning capabilities.
NIAD Mobile Art Funds will go towards supporting NIAD's expanded capacity to offer services to all artists, regardless of their access to technology. Your contribution provides:
- direct technical support and training for artists and staff;
- digital tools and visual art materials;
- community well-being supports and services for artists and families; and
- the capacity for NIAD to serve artists both on- and off-site with technology designed to connect, regardless of attendance in our physical building, both now and once the pandemic ends.
Our program redesign presents a huge learning curve, from implementing a virtual front desk to the coordination of daily wellness checks, development and delivery of digital learning content, tech support, and staff professional development.
