NAC: Sustaining-Members Membership Drive

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A nonprofit fundraiser supporting

Nemeth Art Center Inc
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Become a Sustaining Member to support valuable arts programming year-round!

$4,920

raised by 14 people

$5,000 goal

THANK YOU to those who have contributed so far!

Update posted 4 years ago

THANK YOU! To all the donors who have jumped on board our campaign to increase our sustainable funding! We appreciate all of our donors, members and sponsors. While we also receive grant funding every year, we could not survive without the funding support of our community! A membership at the Sustaining Membership level gives us the needed funding to deliver our exhibits and programming that makes us special. We've had a great start to the Give-To-The-Max campaign today. Thank you to everyone for your support!

The Nemeth Art Center has been bringing high quality arts and culture to our community for many years. This past season, we added an innovation to our Community Gallery space by supplying arts and craft materials and inspiration that were available all season - free to our visitors - so that kids, parents and grandparents alike could create their own masterpieces. The AЯT Explorers Corner was visited by hundreds of youth and their families all season. It became a safe, creative space to dive into artistic expression with paint, collage, sculpture, weaving, and anything one could imagine.

Youth art workshops were also conducted, thanks to a generous Minnesota State Arts & Culture grant. Kids who participated were introduced to artistic techniques and left with a beautiful creation of their own.

Dozens of children and their caregivers participated in just a few short months, and many shared stories of life-changing experiences and confidence building. One middle school girl told us, “I didn’t think I was a good artist because other kids made fun of my art at school, but Luisa ('19 resident artist) helped me make abstract art and I found I was really good at it! Now I KNOW I’m a good artist and I want to do more!” 

This winter, we’re expanding our reach to more children and year-round, by launching the AЯT Explorers Workshop series. Led by professional artists from our community and beyond, these once a month sessions January through December will engage kids with a wide variety of artistic mediums, focusing on non-judgmental creative expression.

Experience shows that involving young people in creative arts boosts their self-confidence, enhances their education, and builds community spirit for all of us.  

We want you to be a part of this community adventure! We need year-round financial support to pay for materials, artist stipends, and community outreach for both the monthly year-round AЯT Explorers Workshop series, and our seasonal  AЯT Explorers Corner, which is free and open to the public in our Community Gallery from May-September during open gallery hours. 

This campaign seeks any membership level you can afford. We are hoping to build a team of annual sustaining membership that will help us provide these art experiences all year round. 

Sustaining year-round memberships with the Nemeth Art Center will provide critical support to our organization, enabling us to not only provide high quality art exhibits and cultural events from May-September, but also to be a community leader in bringing arts education and positive, creative exploration to our area youth.

Join us as a sustaining member and you will receive our first ever annual limited edition wearable art collectors T-shirt, created exclusively for the Nemeth Art Center by this past season's artist in residence, Luisa Fernanda Garcia Gomez. "Cheetah on Fire" represents Luisa's residence with us, as it launches us full-speed-ahead into new ways of engaging with our community through the arts. 

Consider becoming a sustaining member today and see how ART can be an integral part of our community all year round!


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