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Preserve

Funded through subscriptions to oversee ARM preservation initiatives. Click Here to find out more. / Project Manager 16 hrs./week MORE INFO

From years of experience, it became 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 involves photography, scanning, tagging the photos, and tagging the scanned images, and then putting them together in an Excel file chronologically. We are recreating a life and there are lots of judgment calls while setting up an Excel file which oftentimes has more than a 1700 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. Preservation Works hand in hand with our PROVIDE program and our desire to create books about artists. As we mentioned above, this chronology recreates a life. From childhood friends and family photos through their life's journey , artists oftentimes have some of the most interesting stories to tell. Interesting work for us, and engaging content for you.

Provide

Funded by the "Station Cabaret" dinner and jazz in October. Click Here to find out more. / Project Manager 16 hrs./week MORE INFO

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 sustain our Shelter program, our fall event—the Station Cabaret, an evening of dinner, jazz, and creative presentations in a spirited Halloween atmosphere, funds our Provide program. 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.
To see how we set the stage for this event Click Here. To earmark your donation to our PROVIDE program Click Here.

"Four Hands" RESTORE / SHELTER / PROVIDE / PRESERVE

PLEASE NOTE: GALLERY 3 NEEDS COMMUMITY INPUT: Help us tell Ibsen Espada's Story. Identify the stories and individuals in GALLERY 3. You can also add to this community library by CLICKING HERE and sending us your Espada photos and stories. On the sign up page you can upload images, text or PDF files, and tell us what you remember from way back when. stories. Even if you are already a subscriber this page will keep track of who's sending us information so we can give you credit for your contribution. At this time, the images are only identified by number. Use this number to let Arts Rescue know what image you are referring to, We need your help adding to this community effort. We'll have a BIG party when the book comes out. (More on that latter) THANKS!

Fall Project 2025 Visual Artist Ibsen Espada

09/06/2025 This is our first Community archive project. As of September 5th 2025 we have scanned more than 160 objects for his press and personal archive, and recorded 39 known Works courtesy of Foltz Fine Art, with approximately 300 more to photograph in storage, we have accounted for 318 slides, thanks to the fabulous team volunteer Mary Forbes, from past works and are in the process of having those scanned and added to Ibsen Espada's Archival Records. We are reaching out the community if you have more personal photos or images of Espada's friends, life, or his work,

please click here to attach files and let us know in the sign-up comments what you would like to add to this community effort. THANKS!

Ibsen Espada project: Press / Art Rescue Mission / 64 Objects / 09-06-2025 GALLERY 1.