Arts Rescue Mission -Aid For Aging Artists
1. Restore
"We give broken Angles time to mend a wing. Recourses for the time it takes to heal, pay rent & bills, after sudden illness or accident" Project Manager 16 hrs./ month
Arts Rescue Mission (ARM) is a non-profit outreach program providing urgent assistance to artists in crisis. Using crowdsourced funding techniques, we swiftly support recovery after illness or injury by reactivating retired contact lists from our affiliates. Giving artists the time to pursue grants and other long-term aid. Benefits from ARM or any crowdsource funding list typically reach individuals within 72 hours. We have a page dedicated to instructions about how to do this, best source, and best practices for crowdfunding, We can't initiate this for you. Crowdfunding doesn't work that way. It's you and the trust you have built up with your friends & family that get the ball rolling. Make sure that we are on your email list, and you are on ours. We will send out the submissions that come in to the ARM subscribers each week, but it's always their choice. Who are we? It's a very democratic way to help out. An emoji indicates special attention as emails that pass through the users inbox. It's yes or no. Either they think this is a good one and want to contribute a few dollars giving a broken angel time to mend, or not. We will host awareness events via Zoom and by having seminars regarding crowdfunding and what we can do as a creative arts group to fill in for funding no longer available from the institutions we have come to depend on. Click Here for more info.
2. Shelter
Funded through donations and our annual "ARMON AWARDS" dinner in April. Project Manager 16 hrs./ month More Info Here.
With almost a decade of experience archiving and cataloging collections ARM recognizes the real need to subsidize visual artists who struggle in there later years to protect their legacy, value, and the body of a lifetime work. The funds ARM raises through it's ARMOND Awards and earmarked donation during the year subsidizes storage for Visual Artists. On these evenings we give awards to outstanding artists covering the entire spectrum of The Creative Arts. We honor several obvious categories suggested by our board, with final awards selections coming from our Advisory Board. The ARMON awards go to visual artists, musicians, songwriters, writers, chefs, as well as Sub Stack authors. Each year we remember co-founder Gertrude Barnstone.
How do we decide who gets these funds? Nominations from our 400 member statewide Advisory Council. These come from the ARM e-mail list and suggestions we get when we send out to our social media. We will gather the top nominations for shelter, and send them back to the the Board of Governors and Advisory Council list for a vote. Please join our e-list and make your voice heard. E-mail us at. artsrescue2025@gmail.com If you want to join the ARM list.
4 Hands - 1 Purpose
Aid to Aging Artists
When We Preserve the Art, We Preserve the Artist
RESTORE - SHELTER - PROVIDE - PRESERVE
All Images on this site are from the ARM Community Archive And Intended for community use.
3. Provide
Funded by the "STATION CABERET" dinner and jazz in October. / Project Manager 16 hrs./ month
Our aim here is to support projects that give writers, musicians, composers, and artists the time to pursue their passions in later years, time they never had while balancing careers and family. While we are preserving artists’ stories and works in our Preservation program, we are also creating the foundation for providing new opportunities. A carefully built archive doesn’t just keep history safe, it supplies the raw material for biography, scholarship, and celebration. Imagine a book that chronicles an artist’s journey: part memoir, part catalog, part testament. That book is both preservation and provision, a bridge between past accomplishments and future recognition.
The same way the ARMON Awards helps to sustain our Shelter program, our fall event the Station Cabaret supports our PROVIDE fundraising with an evening of dinner, jazz, and creative presentations in a spirited "All Saints Day" atmosphere. Through it, we give artists in their later years the chance to share their story, renew their visibility, and shine once more.
In every program, the goal is the same: to ensure that artists, who have given us so much, are never forgotten, neglected, or left without support.
4. Preserve
Funded through subscriptions to oversee ARM PRESERVE initiatives. Project Manager 16 hrs./ month
From years of experience, it has become evident that while family members often retain and pass down artwork, crucial documents, such as articles, exhibition records, and professional correspondence, are frequently discarded or overlooked. We would like to ensure that such materials are preserved, providing a historical record of the artist and their work for future reference by appraisers, archivists, and researchers. This is a lengthy and expensive four-step process that's involves photography, scanning, tagging the photos and scanned images, and putting them together in Excel files chronologically. We are recreating a life and there are lots of judgment calls while setting up an Excel file which oftentimes more than a 1000 entries in a professional performing or visual artist's lifetime. This is essential work as the book closes on a lifetime of accomplishment but it's often neglected because of the expense. Click Here to earmark your donation to our PRESERVE program.
ARM STATION ON THE NET
"Help keep us whole and moving forward for aging artists in Texas."
1. Publishes research and posts our continuing investigation of resources helpful to the Performing Arts, and in particular opportunities for the Visual Arts, opportunities for gifting Fine Art to institutions both public and private and connection to consultants working on projects large and small for the Plastic Arts.
2. Maintains a Gifting area to help with downsizing collections and to ensure the values of works of art posted there. Registered visitors can post images for Giving Art. Registered visitors can post images for Giving Art.
3.Maintains an archive to preserve documents and maintains the station on the web providing users an archive to post their documents visible to a Google search missing because the documents were either not posted to the internet or published prior to the internet’s prominence in 1996.
We accomplish this without the costs of a physical building. We have an on line staff of a Director (Full time), a Secretary for Bookings, Events, and Correspondence (Full time), a Treasurer for Bookkeeping and Reports (part time), a Grants Writer overseeing donations, & subscriptions, a Technical Support Director who acts as our Web Master and Archiving, as well as a Wikipedia writer to document our Visual and Performing artists careers. Please Click Here for more information on supporting the ARM general fund.