Donate to the SAA!
|
Your gift to the Springfield Art Association enables us to provide superb art education in multiple medias for all ages with all abilities. It provides creative and imaginative opportunities for exploration in an encouraging and inspiring environment.
We would be pleased to arrange for you to visit our campus, or to introduce you to a student who has benefited from the generosity of donors like you. For more information and to arrange an appointment, please contact our Development Coordinator, Mary Beth Burke, development@springfieldart.org. If you are donating in memory of a loved one, at checkout you may indicate your designation in the "special instructions to the seller" link in PayPal or call us at 523-2631. Thank you. Your donations help our many projects:
Help us save our past and build a better future! |
Capital Campaign
In 2012 as part of our centennial celebration, the SAA began laying the groundwork for a plan to prepare the association for its next one hundred years. Over the course of evaluating critical needs, we outlined basic objectives towards our goal of being the best Community Visual Arts Center in central Illinois:
- Fulfill the interior restoration plan created for historic Edwards Place. In Progress
- Renovate our exhibition gallery. ✓
- Build a new ceramics, glass blowing, and jewelry/metals lab. Just Begun!
- Renovate and upgrade our existing studios.
The first floor of Edwards Place is restored to its mid-19th century grandeur and the Condell Studio ceiling and lights have been upgraded. The funds have been raised to restore the second story of Edwards Place and we anticipate a grand reveal in February 2018. Finally, we have successfully raised the funds to start the construction of our new studios for ceramics, metals, and glass in March 2018. We anticipate that $180,000 in fundraising remains to complete and equip the glass and metals studios in the future.
Our School of Art is outgrowing the current studio space to the point of turning away students. We have designed a new building to house the ceramics lab, a glass blowing studio, and a jewelry/metals lab. The current ceramics lab will be removed to make way for this new 5,500 square foot structure. We will be able to provide service to twice the number of students and expand media exploration. There is no public glass-blowing studio between Saint Louis and Chicago in the area.
In expanding the space, we will be able to provide more programming for the community including art as therapy for rehabilitation students, adults and children with different abilities, and at-risk students. We will be able to offer more summer youth programs to replace/supplement art classes reduced by budget restrictions and curriculum focus shifts. With the upgrade to our studios, we will be able to attract artists from across the nation to offer artist-in-residence workshops and unique programming opportunities.
In expanding the space, we will be able to provide more programming for the community including art as therapy for rehabilitation students, adults and children with different abilities, and at-risk students. We will be able to offer more summer youth programs to replace/supplement art classes reduced by budget restrictions and curriculum focus shifts. With the upgrade to our studios, we will be able to attract artists from across the nation to offer artist-in-residence workshops and unique programming opportunities.
|
|
|
There are exciting things happening at the SAA; we have evolved, transformed, and grown offering an expanded view of artistic expression and exploration. We have made it our mission to be an association open to everyone, to provide artists a space for free expression and experimentation, to exhibit alternative forms of art, and to initiate open, creative and imaginative education and discussion. We believe this is vital and essential for a high-quality, innovative Community Visual Arts Center. We are only limited by space.