Who Can Apply?
Museum partners with current or upcoming Art Bridges Collection placements, Partner Loan Network groupings, or traveling exhibitions, as well as those who are a part of the Art Bridges Cohort Program, are eligible to apply for Learning & Engagement support.
Mural blessing from members of the Tap Pilam Coahuiltecan Nation with community activists at the San Antonio Museum of Art River Pavilion. Courtesy of the San Antonio Museum of Art (San Antonio, TX).
Our Walls: Real and Imagined at the Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg (St. Petersburg, FL).
What's the Process?
Once your art sharing project is approved, we will work with you to submit your Learning & Engagement application.
We start by scheduling two calls—one to walk you through the process and another to have a generative discussion about your ideas.
Guest speakers and attendees at the lecture “For Which It Stands: Brick by Brick: Black Women Breaking New Ground”, hosted at the Avery Research Center at College of Charleston, July 2022. Courtesy of the Gibbes Museum of Art (Charlston, NC). Programming inspired by the exhibition Fights for Freedom: William H. Johnson Picturing Justice. The exhibition is organized by the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
Work With Us
Community-buildingSupport
We support projects that engage new and diverse audiences in sustained and meaningful ways by funding direct program expenses, such as supplies, honoraria, transportation, translation, and more!
TransformativeSupport
We support projects that transform the ways museums engage with their communities through creative risk-taking and have the potential to transform the museum field.
InterdisciplinarySupport
We support projects that integrate multiple disciplines—including the performing arts, science, technology, and others—to expand access and audience engagement within the visual arts.
Overall, we want to help you take creative risks and build your audience. We also want this process to be as stress-free and enjoyable as possible. Think of us as both your advocate and the support you need to try new things. We want to champion and move your great ideas forward.
For more information, or if you have any questions, please contact Jasmine DeJackome, Learning & Engagement Manager, at education@artbridgesfoundation.org.
FAQs
We can support one program, or pieces of many programs, whether they happen onsite at your museum or offsite as part of your community engagement strategy. Each museum determines its own needs.
Art Bridges does not fund 100% of program costs. We expect each museum to contribute proportionally to the entire cost of the project based on its operating budget.
We do not fund staff salaries, catalogues, materials that will be sold, or costs associated with fundraisers, exclusive member events, or existing marketing initiatives in your operational plan/budget.
