Operating Support Grant - Renewal

While we may not have the capacity to return to full operations right now because of the public health emergency, we are continuing to monitor the situation and plan for when we can begin to execute our rescheduled agenda of programs. Specific goals (if gallery operations are allowed to return to order) include continuing our educational programming with our ongoing series of artist-led workshops, further events of our zine workshop series that will culminate in a final exhibition, a series of life drawing instructional classes guided by local artist Heidi Blunt, and a series of exhibitions that highlight local, national, and international artists, beginning with a solo exhibition of local artist Carolyn Olson's Essential Workers portraits. We will continue our production of unique, curated zines as well as our postcard project and have plans to redesign our website. We will assess this work based on our ability to successfully execute these plans, or our ability to accommodate and adapt to the growing resurgence of Covid- 19, Delta variant. Our programs will be assessed based on artist, member, and community feedback, as well as ongoing board evaluations. For the mail and virtual programming, we can evaluate success based on audience/community participation.