TLRAR Launch Campaign

2023-2025 Start Campaign - 1.1 Million Dollar Goal

The Last Resort Artist Retreat is diligently preparing as we move closer and closer to our launch date in 2023. We are seeking financial support to assist in funding Operational, Programming, and Building Development for our organization as we prepare to welcome the first cohort next year. Your donation is essential to all that we are going to accomplish. Together, we will make this come to life.

Your financial contribution will be dispersed throughout these 3 key areas:

Operational Budget: 512K

Employees: Salaries for Executive Director, Program Director, Facilities Manager, and Administrative Project Manager
Consultants
Freelancers

Programming Budget: 220K

Residents' room and board
Workspace accommodations
Visiting lecturers lodging and accommodations
Housekeeping
Groundskeeping

Construction/Building Development: 322K

Studio workspaces
Multipurpose Pavilion
Art Garden Community Space Landscaping
Public art installation
Custom outdoor furnishing

We are proud of the hard work and effort that has been done so far to build this organization as we look forward to making our presence known throughout the Baltimore arts community and around the world. In collaboration with our fiscal sponsor, Maryland Art Place [a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization], we have a goal to raise 1.1 million dollars, securing funding for the next 2 years and allowing us to be fully operational for the 2023-2025 resident cycle.

We are asking for minimum donations of $10K - in return individuals will receive our benefit print "Kings on Vacation" as a thank you for your support.

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Kings on Vacation (diptych), 2021

Archival Inkjet print on Hahnemuhle German Etching 310 gsm

22 1/2 × 17 in

57.2 × 43.2 cm

Edition of 100

Marrying the historical context of listing pages from the Greenbook Negro Motorist/Travel Guide with geometric form and pattern, Derrick Adams creates a visually and texturally rich image, making Kings on Vacation print edition both a learning experience and a work of art. From 1936 to 1967, during the Jim Crow era, Black American road-trippers referenced a guidebook, "The Negro Motorist Green Book," also known as "The Green Book," to identify businesses that were nondiscriminatory and welcoming. This work joins portraiture and archival text to construct a layered and complicated history of Black people in this country who took action in the face of adversity - imagining both Dr. King and Mrs. King in moments of leisure between fighting for justice. This work serves as a necessary reminder that during our challenging work towards equality, we must also spend time in restorative self-reflection and regeneration, in order to continue and thrive.