Arts Rescue Mission -Aid For Aging Artists
Restore
4 Hands - 1 Purpose
When We Preserve the Art, We Preserve the Artist
1. Restore Program / Urgent Assistance After Illness or Accident
"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"
Purpose: Provide rapid, short-term financial support so artists facing unexpected illness or injury can stabilize, cover essentials, and regain time for recovery.
How It Works:
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We activate ARM’s crowdsourced funding network — including retired contact lists from our affiliates — to help artists reach sympathetic friends, patrons, and supporters.
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We guide the artist through launching their own emergency crowdfunding request using our best-practice templates.
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We distribute verified requests to ARM subscribers, giving the community the choice to contribute.
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We host periodic informational events (e.g., Zoom seminars) to help artists and supporters understand how to efficiently and ethically use crowdfunding — especially as traditional institutional support declines.
Why It’s Important: When public, institutional, or governmental grants shrink, artists often have nowhere else to turn. Restore helps fill that critical gap.
Typical Timeline: Aid often begins arriving within 72 hours of a submitted, shared crowdfunding request.
Staffing Note:
ARM is seeking a part-time volunteer (16 hours/month) to help coordinate Restore Program submissions and communications. As funding grows, this position may evolve into a paid part-time role.
RESTORE - SHELTER - PROVIDE - PRESERVE
All Images on this site are from the ARM Community Open Source Archive And Intended for community use.
Pictures above are from our ARM Archive for Houston based visual artist Perry House. This is typical of what we have in our archive about other noted artists in Texas. We're Open Source, and ARM NEEDS COMMUNITY INPUT for it's Open Source initiative: Help us tell the artists' stories, and help us put together the histories of Texas artists by adding to the research and identify the stories and individuals in our posted galleries. Our publications are open source and rely on the community for input. On the sign up page you can upload images, text or PDF files, and tell us what you remember from way back when. Even if you are already a subscriber the sign-in and load 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.
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