Want to Shop for a Cause? These 8 Benefit Sales Enable You to Give the Gift of Art This Holiday Season While Doing Good
Buy art and benefit organizations like The Kitchen and Art for Black Lives.
Tiffany Alfonseca
I Hope My Blackness Offends You. (2020). Courtesy Art for Black Lives. Available within a boxed set of artist prints.
‘Tis the season for gifting and, this year, many charitable organizations need help more than ever. So while you’re shopping for presents for all the loved ones in your life, perhaps consider buying something from one of these eight worthy benefit sales and help a good cause at the same time.
Struggling Museums Are Increasingly Relying on the Generosity of Artists to Convince Private Donors to Bail Them Out
As donors take their foot off the gas of arts giving, artists have been called in to reenergize them. It s a lot of pressure.
December 14, 2020
Artist Rashid Johnson, a frequent donor to museum fundraisers, at his Brooklyn studio on June 18, 2019. (Photo by Chris Sorensen for The Washington Post via Getty Images)
Museums rely on artists to create compelling exhibitions, public programming, and sometimes even promotional materials. But during this unprecedented year, they’ve been leaning on them more than ever for something else, too: fundraising.