A series of videos featuring site-specific dances, performed in cinematic urban and natural world settings, that tell intimate, personal stories of artists’ journeys, as well as universal stories about their city or community.
To create affordable, long-term space for artists and small and mid-sized arts organizations in San Francisco, Oakland and other urban locations.
The Director for Arts Spaces is charged with implementing specific initiatives and interventions to help stem the displacement of artists and arts organizations from Oakland.
A grant program dedicated to investing in bold ideas by individuals at California nonprofit or fiscally sponsored arts organizations that have the potential to reshape the future of the arts sector.
An ongoing monthly column that will pair 16 artists, writers, critics, curators and other arts practitioners who intersect with diverse artistic practices in an exchange of “letters.
The Rainin Foundation provided planning grants to the following organizations to develop proposals for network of services models and pilots serving individual artists and artist-led organizations. These research and design grants are part of the Foundation’s ongoing work to explore alternative pathways for artist support systems that unleash creativity, address systemic inequities and reduce administrative […]
Provides quick turnaround loans to arts organizations.
The Director for Arts Spaces is charged with implementing specific initiatives and interventions to help stem the displacement of artists and arts organizations from Oakland.
A program which will build cross-sector relationships, invest in changemakers, deploy capital in field-informing ways, and disseminate learning and knowledge at the intersection of building alternative economies and developing support systems for artists’ financial self-determination.
A research project supporting the stabilization of Ragged Wing Ensemble (RWE). RWE produces theater and operates The Flight Deck, an accessible venue open to community arts organizations, and collaborative development of the Oakland Cultural Space Collaborative.
