Most American artwork lives in storage. Many museums, particularly these in underserved areas, don’t have the sources to borrow or lend works. That’s the place Artwork Bridges is available in.
What We Do
By partnering with museums throughout the US, 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 a wide range 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 Associate 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 various 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 Influence
Since 2017, Artwork Bridges has invested in additional than 260 museum partnerships throughout 49 states and Puerto Rico. Thus far, we’ve helped establishments attain greater than 20 million individuals, and your museum might be subsequent.
Work With Us
Are you interested by rising your museum’s influence? Do you have got a dream challenge you wish to fund? Attain out right now to discover our partnership alternatives. Let’s construct one thing higher collectively.
For extra data, go to artbridgesfoundation.org.
Friends at Peoria Riverfront Museum get pleasure from Archibald John Motley Jr.’s “Bronzeville at Night” (1949), on mortgage from the Artwork Bridges Assortment.
