Intersection for the Arts
For Organizational Branding
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Amount$40,590
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Program
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Date Awarded10/12/2012
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Term24.0 Months
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Type of SupportProject
Overview
Intersection for the Arts develops, produces, and presents new works in the performing, literary, visual, and interdisciplinary arts to build community and activate social change. Its programs and gallery space served more than 25,000 people in 2012, the first year in its new location at the 5M Project in downtown San Francisco. In addition, Intersection provides training and fiscal sponsorship services to a more than 100 diverse artists and arts projects throughout the Bay Area; residencies to ten promising artists of all disciplines; and workspace to a dozen emerging organizations. Founded in the 1960’s and supported by the Foundation since 1987, Intersection for the Arts is undergoing a dramatic transformation as it transitions from being a relatively autonomous nonprofit located the Mission District to a central partner in the 5M Project, a budding four-acre mixed-use development project that is home to a number of entrepreneurial businesses and a hub for artists, makers, students, entrepreneurs, and techies. Acknowledging this paradigm shift, Intersection would develop a strategic communications plan and strengthen its staff and systems to support the implementation of the plan.
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.theintersection.org
Address
1446 Market Street, San Francisco, CA, 94102, United States
Grants to this Grantee
for the Arts Education Alliance of the Bay Area
The Arts Education Alliance of the Bay Area is a fiscally sponsored project of Intersection for the Arts. It connects and catalyzes groups of arts education providers, educators, and advocates to help ensure youth located throughout the San Francisco Bay Area receive a comprehensive and quality arts education. Its services include regranting; event sponsorships; training and facilitation; and field leadership, in part, through its role as regional hub for five local arts education networks. This grant to Intersection for the Arts for the Arts Education Alliance of the Bay Area will support a conference in 2023 for arts education organizations to learn about Proposition 28 implementation. This grant advances the Performing Arts Program’s Youth strategy through the Policy and Advocacy substrategy.
for Zoo Labs
Zoo Labs, a fiscally sponsored project of Intersection for the Arts, supports and empowers Bay Area-based musicians and other artists to own and amplify their creative projects. Its work includes the curricular development and delivery of arts business training, public panel discussions with industry leaders, mentorship pairing, and other services in support of arts entrepreneurs and small business owners. In its first two years, the new Zoo Labs LEARN platform has served over 500 individual artists. This grant, in alignment with the Performing Arts Program’s Artists strategy, will enable Zoo Labs to continue and evolve its artist support programs.
for the Arts Education Alliance of the Bay Area
The Arts Education Alliance of the Bay Area is a fiscally sponsored project of Intersection for the Arts. It connects and catalyzes groups of arts education providers, educators, and advocates to help ensure youth located throughout the San Francisco Bay Area receive a comprehensive and quality arts education. It provides services including regranting, event sponsorships, training and facilitation, and field leadership; serves as the regional hub for five local networks of arts education alliances; and aligns its work with statewide and national arts education efforts. Support for the Arts Education Alliance of the Bay Area advances the Performing Arts Program’s Youth strategy through the Policy and Advocacy substrategy.
