Asian Improv aRts
For Organizational Adaptation
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Amount$375,000
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Program
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Date Awarded12/1/2020
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Term42.0 Months
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Type of SupportProject
Strategies
Overview
Asian Improv aRts is a multi-disciplinary producer and presenter of artistic works that represent the Asian American experience. Based in San Francisco, it facilitates artistic collaboration, commissions new work, and presents cultural and educational programming. Each year it supports approximately 15 new creative projects, and provides ongoing education, leadership, and mentoring programs to youth in San Francisco’s Chinatown neighborhood, community partners working throughout the Bay Area, and artists nationally and internationally. This grant will support Asian Improv aRts’ adaptation planning and implementation, advancing the Performing Arts Program’s Artists strategy.
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.asianimprov.org
Address
456 Montgomery St., Suite 1350, San Francisco, CA, 94104, United States
Grants to this Grantee
for general operating support
Asian Improv aRts’ mission is to produce, present, and document artistic works that represent the Asian American experience. The organization engages younger community members through arts education, and works to enable artists and arts organizations to sustain themselves in an ever-challenging economic environment. Asian Improv aRts believes that art is not only a creative practice, but also a social practice that can be deployed in complex social problem solving, community building, and collaborative engagement. The San Francisco organization regularly facilitates creative collaborations between institutions, artists, and audiences.
for organizational adaptation
Asian Improv aRts is a multi-disciplinary producer and presenter of artistic works that represent the Asian American experience. Based in San Francisco, it facilitates artistic collaboration, commissions new work, and presents cultural and educational programming. Each year it supports approximately 15 new creative projects, and provides ongoing education, leadership, and mentoring programs to youth in San Francisco’s Chinatown neighborhood, community partners working throughout the Bay Area, and artists nationally and internationally. This grant will support Asian Improv aRts’ adaptation planning and implementation, advancing the Performing Arts Program’s Artists strategy.
