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The Svane Family Foundation launches $1M commission and auction to benefit Bay Area arts community
t.w.five, After the Pillow Fight, 2020. Hand-cut adhesive backed vinyl on panel, 36 x 48 in.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA
.- The Svane Family Foundation, launched in 2019 and focused on supporting Bay Area artists and arts organizations, announced today a first-of-its kind exhibition and auction featuring works created by 100 Bay Area artists. Titled Ark, this historic exhibition is a direct expression of how Bay Area artists endured the pandemic while envisioning our best days ahead. The foundations inaugural program, begun in June 2020, funneled $1M into the Bay Area art community through 100 individual, unrestricted $10,000 commissions in response to COVID-19 and the urgent need to get cash directly in the hands of artists suffering the economic fallout, where an estimated 66% of artists became unemployed at the peak of the pandemic in 2020, and 95% lost income, according to Americans for