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Seven days a week, fifty-two weeks of the year, Bay Area residents are finding art in their own backyard.
Where Your Contribution Goes
Types of Gifts
Donate Now
Seven days a week, fifty-two weeks of the year, Bay Area residents are finding art in their own backyard.
Appeals
The Palo Alto Art Center Foundation conducts two appeals for financial support during the year.
- Each spring, we ask for contributions to Project LOOK!, the Art Center’s art education program for Kindergarten through 8th grade school children. The program makes a direct connection between creating and exhibiting art through a docent-led tour of the Art Center’s exhibition and a related hands-on activity in the Project LOOK! studio.
- Each fall, we appeal for donations to our Annual Fund. Contributions to the Annual Fund enable the Foundation to provide support to the full range of exhibitions and programs at the Art Center.
Where Your Contribution Goes
Your contribution supports current programs and educational material and equipment necessary for the Art Center’s operations.
Programs
- Cultural Kaleidoscope: One residency (a partnership of two classrooms in the Ravenswood/Palo Alto Unified School District serving 40-50 children): $8,300
- One Family Day (4-6 per year, each serving 400 children and their families free): $2,000 each
- Community Sunday Series (8-10 presentations free to public, based on cultural exhibitions, such as “Arts of Brazil"): $5,000
- A ProjectLOOK! classroom tour (20-25 students): $100
- Exhibition sponsorship: $5,000-$10,000
- Master Artist workshops (for adults and children): $500-$1,000
- Artist slide lecture: $300
Educational Materials and Equipment
- Art & Technology Studio upgrades:
- 15 computers at $1,900 each
- 15+ chairs at $170 each
- 5 scanners at $130 each
- 1 large format, high quality printer at $700
- 5 PCI firewire cards at $40 each
- Printer cartridges
- Family Guide (2,500 copies): $5,000
- Exhibition catalogue (3,000 copies): $45,000
- New outdoor signage: $TBD
- Benches/seating for exhibition space: $3000 each
- Adult ceramic studio equipment: $1,000 for potter’s wheels
- Children’s Art Programs: $800 for potter’s wheels; $85 for paper cutters; $2,000 for video cameras
Types of Gifts
Employer Matching Gift
Does your employer have a matching program? You contribution can have more impact by asking for instructions on how to make a matching gift.
Stock Gifts
There can be significant tax advantages when making a donation of appreciated stock. Making a stock gift is easy. Instruct your broker to make a transfer of shares to Palo Alto Art Center Foundation’s brokerage account. Please notify Louise Carroll at the Foundation as soon as possible of the transaction so that we can properly credit you for your gift. Louise can be reached at (650) 329-2218 and louise.carroll@cityofpaloalto.org. If you have actual stock certificates to donate, call the Foundation to make arrangements for the transfer.
Stock to be transferred should be directed to:
Smith Barney
DTC 0418
For credit to:
Palo Alto Art Center Foundation securities account
53C - 08402
The Foundation’s broker at Smith Barney is Mike Hughes. Mike can be reached at (650) 327-2257 and michael.hughes@smithbarney.comm.
Planned Gifts
Make a lasting contribution through your estate by way of a bequest, insurance policy, or charitable remainder trust. Your attorney or financial advisor can help determine the right type of gift for you.
Sponsorship
Companies, foundations, or individuals can contribute to a particular exhibition, special project, or program that matches their interests and philanthropic goals.