Black Rock Arts Foundation
This is an organisation that supports some of the Art, that get created and exhibited at the Burning Man Event
This new, national, non-profit arts organization will furnish artists with direct financial aid for the production and display of interactive artworks in communities and venues across the United States and around the globe.
We hope that you will read and consider the information on our site and decide to play a leaing role in this unique foundation. By contributing valuable resources and introducing the Foundation to important contacts in new communities, our founding members and contributors will help promote a revival of art’s culture-bearing and connective function by removing art from its context in the marketplace and reintegrating it into communal settings.
In many cases, this will be art that is designed to be touched, handled, played with, and moved through in a public arena. It is art that solicits a collaborative response from its audience, even as it encourages collaboration between artists. It deliberately blurs the distinction between audience and art form, professional and amateur, spectator and participant. It is art that is generated by a way of life, and it seeks, in its broadest aims, to reclaim the realms of nature, history, ritual and myth for the practice of art.
We are pleased to announce The Black Rock Arts Foundation held its first Awards Ceremony and Cocktail Reception at San Francisco’s SOMARTS gallery on Saturday, April 6th. The event brought together arts patrons and participants from the collaborative and community-based San Francisco arts scene to meet the grant recipients and the members of the foundation’s board of directors.
Thanks to the many people who made the event an outstanding success: artists, volunteers, gift donors, and the members and supporters of the Black Rock Arts Foundation.
Mission Statement
The mission of the Black Rock Arts Foundation is to support and promote community-based interactive art. For our purposes, interactive art means art that generates social participation. The process whereby this art is created, the means by which it is displayed and the character of the work itself should inspire immediate actions that connect people to one another in a larger communal context.
Our programs and goals in pursuit of this mission are fivefold:
Artist Grants: Furnish artists with direct financial aid for the production and display of interactive art works, with particular emphasis on those artists whose goals and projects exist beyond the institutional mainstream.
Community Development: Assist these artists to develop communal networks by facilitating contact with public institutions that can supply them with material resources, technical assistance, volunteer services and financial aid.
Exhibitions: Identify and support sites of public presentation for the display of interactive artwork, with special focus on venues that emphasize the civic function of such works.
Educational Outreach: Educate a larger public concerning the spiritual value and social relevance of interactive art.
Career Development: Assist artists in documenting and representing their work in public media and to other institutions. Artistic Direction.
In a larger context, it is the mission of the Black Rock Arts Foundation to promote a revival of art’s culture-bearing and connective function by removing art from its context in the marketplace and reintegrating it into communal settings. In many cases, this will be artthat is designed to be touched, handled, played with, and moved through in a public arena. It is art that solicits a collaborative response from its audience, even as it encourages collaboration between artists. It deliberately blurs the distinction between audience and art form, professional and amateur, spectator and participant. It is art that’s generated by a way of life, and it seeks, in its broadest aims, to reclaim the realms of nature, history, ritual and myth for the practice of art.
For more info please contact: info@blackrockarts.org
or write:
1900 3rd St., 2nd Floor,
San Francisco, CA, 94107
phone: 415-626-1248
