Arts Rescue Mission -Aid For Aging Artists
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d. m. allison
Rock Romano
Nancy Smith
Executive Board: 2025
President:
(TBD)
Director:
D M Allison / Founder
Concept, Graphics, Web Design, Copy Writing, & Fundraising
Music Director:
Rock Romano
Secretary / Bookings / Events / Correspondence
Nancy Smith
Art Director:
Jon Erik Narum
Treasurer / Bookkeeping / Reports
(TBO)
Grants, Donations, & Subscriptions:
(TBD)
Social Media
(TBD)
Technical Support:, Website, Arching & Gifting Over Watch
(TBD)
Research: Gifting Art / Document / Resources & Assets for Artists
(TBD)
Lee Abrahart Preparator
Jon Erik Narum
We have no Location & we like it that way
Board & Mission Council
We'll be announcing Advisory & Board members as we make final selections Fall 2026. "Stay tuned"
100% of the funds raised Go To the projects we are involved with
ARM is a grassroots outreach organization championing aging artists across the creative spectrum, with special emphasis on aging, health, the visual arts and performing arts. Through crowdfunding, awareness events, and targeted programs, we strive to Restore, Shelter, Provide, and Preserve the work and well-being of artists in need.
We operate without the burden of traditional overhead. There’s no building lease, no facility maintenance. We’re a fully virtual organization, working from home offices, using personal phones, computers, and supplies to keep the mission going.
Monthly subscriptions at any level receive a 50% discount on all event and table and chair reservations. This fund helps us buy time. Time to organize, respond, research, and show up for the artists we serve.
MISSION COUNCIL (seeking 400 Statewide - as of June 2026)
Gives recommendations about those that need our help, book projects, and recommendations for our ARMON Awards
As of 02/15/2025
Mary Forbes
David Miller
Jim & Victoria Edwards:
Mary Jenewein
Steve Brudniak
Ed & Magda Wilson
Mat Reeves
Sarah Foltz
ADVISORY BOARD: (seeking 12 members - announcements fall 2026)
Considers recommendations and deciding votes about those that need our help, book projects, and deciding recommendations for our ARMON Awards
Jim Edwards - Art Historian
Jim Edwards is a respected American art historian, curator, writer, and educator best known for his decades of work in museums, galleries, and university arts programs across Texas and the American West. A longtime professor and gallery director at Houston Christian University (formerly Houston Baptist University), he helped build the school’s contemporary art program into a significant regional presence. Edwards earned BFA and MFA degrees from the San Francisco Art Institute and became widely recognized for major exhibitions, scholarship on modern and contemporary Southwestern art, and collaborations with institutions including the Menil Collection and the .
Shearie James - Art Historian
B.S. in Education from the University of Houston, where she completed graduate studies with honors. She also pursued graduate-level art history coursework at Tulane University. She continued advanced study for years at the Glassell School of Art. A longtime Houston-area educator, she taught art in multiple schools before retiring in 2007 and later continued as a substitute teacher in HISD and Judson ISD. Through her work with the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, she taught museum lessons, wrote curriculum, lectured to teachers and future educators, and served on the board of Arts Partners.
Subscriptions to ARM that support our paid staff to oversee, website, funding, special events, bookkeeping, oversight for gifting & and archives, Wikipedia entries, and miscellaneous expenses. It's very important to keep these resources separate from donations to our other programs. Please sign up for a monthly donation so we can build a team around these regular small donations. We take care of all the expenses. However need your support to do the job.
THESE FUNDS GO TO:
1. Research and posting our continued 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. Maintaining 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 but we still to assist and keep watch.
3.Maintaining an archive to preserve documents and maintain 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 an physical building. We have an on line staff of a Director (Fulltime), a Secretary for Bookings, Events, and Correspondence (Fulltime), 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.
•Director (Fulltime)
•Secretary / Bookings / Events / Correspondence (Fulltime)
•Treasurer / Bookkeeping / Reports
•Grants, Donations, & Subscriptions:
•Technical Support: Web Master, Arching & Gifting Over-Watch
•Research: Gifting Art / Document / Resources & Assets for Artists
•Project Managers: for RESTORE, SHELTER, PROVIDE, and PRESERVE programs
