Most American artwork lives in storage. Many museums, particularly these in underserved areas, don’t have the assets to borrow or lend works. That’s the place Artwork Bridges is available in.
What We Do
By partnering with museums throughout the USA, Artwork Bridges breaks down boundaries to sharing, borrowing, and exhibiting artworks, making certain that communities throughout the nation have entry to American artwork.
Designed to get artwork out of storage and share these works with the general public, we provide quite a lot of applications that present strategic and monetary help to establishments that don’t have deep acquisition funds or in depth holdings of American artwork.
The Companion Mortgage Community is an art-sharing initiative that fosters long-term collaborations between museums, permitting for collections to flow into throughout the nation.
Our Touring Exhibitions program helps smaller museums showcase curated exhibits from bigger establishments, increasing their attain to native audiences.
Loans from the Artwork Bridges Assortment guarantee numerous works of American artwork can be found for gratis to debtors.
Set up view of Many Wests: Artists Form an American Thought at The Whatcom Museum, supported by Artwork Bridges
Our Affect
Since 2017, Artwork Bridges has invested in additional than 260 museum partnerships throughout 49 states and Puerto Rico. So far, we’ve helped establishments attain greater than 20 million folks, and your museum may very well be subsequent.
Work With Us
Are you interested by rising your museum’s influence? Do you’ve a dream mission you need to fund? Attain out at this time to discover our partnership alternatives. Let’s construct one thing larger collectively.
For extra info, go to artbridgesfoundation.org.
Friends at Peoria Riverfront Museum take pleasure in Archibald John Motley Jr.’s “Bronzeville at Night” (1949), on mortgage from the Artwork Bridges Assortment.
