Here’s the latest on how Wendy Hickey’s Artpop is coping with COVID. She’s running a GoFundMe campaign to support ArtPop’s Charlotte project if you’re looking for a good cause.
Hope you both are healthy, safe and well. I wanted to keep you updated monthly on our progress. Here is a link to Artpop’s July Newsletter.
How our ArtPop Charlotte, NC chapter works is we open our call in September, artists apply, we jury the work in early November we reveal the 20 juried in artists in December and our program installs with our OOH partners in January.
Our June fundraising campaign was not as productive as May. We are less than 60 days out of when our Charlotte, NC Regional call for artists submissions should open for 2021 and we are $59,640 from our goal yet. Typically every June we hold our annual art auction and due to Covid19, we could not hold this event.
We have also lost 2 of our pop up gallery shows so far for 2020 in Charlotte, due to the inability to host events that typically result in 150-350 guests.
Our program is now live in 4 cities and 3 states and we have delivered ALL 2020 promised programming! Charlotte is our calendar year program and then we stagger each program from there.
We are serving a total of 62 artists through our NC/SC, OH & GA programs.
While we are in terrific shape for the remainder of 2020, our challenge now is our ability to return in 2021, especially in our home market of the 12 county Greater Charlotte Region. We are applying for grants and seeking corporate sponsors and have raised about 31% of our overall 2021 budget so far for #ArtPopCLT
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