Programs
San
Diego Artists' Emergency Support League (SD-EASL)
San Diego Artists' Emergency Support League (SD-EASL)
provides limited emergency financial assistance to local visual
artists and visual arts professionals, who are
in need because of a medical crisis, accident or loss of personal or
professional property.
San
Diego Performers & Writers Emergency Relief (SD-PWER)
San Diego P.W.E.R. is a new program of SYNERGY ART FOUNDATION.
Similar to E.A.S.L., this new program's mission is to provide limited
emergency financial assistance to San Diego County's performing artists,
writers, and other art professionals who are in desperate need because
of a medical crisis, accident, fire or loss of personal and professional
property.
Arts
For Healing
The philanthropic organization works with healthcare facilities
and community organizations to grow and nurture arts for healing
programs.
Art
with a Heart is
a collaboration between Scripps Memorial Hospital Encinitas (under the
direction of the Arts for Healing Program, Gerrit Greve, Coordinator),
and local schools, as a community outreach program.
SDSPACE4ART
Synergy
's current project San Diego
Space 4ART involves helping our community to develop permanent,
affordable live/work spaces for local artists and arts organizations
and create sustainable creative communities in San Diego. We have created
this survey to assess the needs of our region. Please click: SDSPACE4ART
Survey to participate.
Barrio
Logan / East Village Arts District (BL/EV)
Barrio Logan East Village Arts District (BL/EV) exists
to create and fund a district dedicated to making art and nurturing
artists and thereby provide work and economic opportunity. Under the
leadership of Mario Torero, an art center, called La Bodega, has been
established which reaches out to neighborhood children to learn art
and participate in creating community murals in Barrio Logan. It also
has provided a small but intimate venue for community activities and
performances. Logan Avenue has been adopted to be part of an arts beautification
process. Torero has also established an art school, La Bogeda, at which
neighborhood children learn how to paint.
Arts
Education
Synergy Art Foundation collaborates with local organizations to
provide and promote arts education to children and youth and to
pioneer new arts educational programs that may combine two or three
disciplines, such as the arts and nature, art and environment, art and
science.
Classics
4 Kids
Synergy Art Foundation retained two professional art instructors to
conduct visual arts workshops with multiple local school children. The
focus of the program was Impressionism culminating in a classical music
performance reaching over 1000 students.
Community
Arts Programs
Synergy Art Foundation partners with local communities to undertake
meaningful community art projects not only to beautify our towns but
also to strengthen and build our communities.
Legacies
Arts collaborations with elders and youth in Solana Beach.
Solana Beach
Coastal Rail Trail Public Art
Local artist, Betsy Schultz, was commissioned to create a public artwork
for the City of Solana Beach's Rail Trail project. The Rail Trail was
designed and executed by Glen Schmidt's landscape archictural firm.
Betsy has designed a gateway to the trail comprising two arches. Synergy
Art Foundation contributed to the lighting of the artwork, a vital component
to any public artwork to be seen at night.
International
Art Projects
Zimbabwe Aids
Orphans Art Project
Synergy Art Foundation has partnered with Umzingwane Aids Network in
Zimbabwe to provide visual arts workshops for Aids orphans. Tama Dumlao,
a local artist, has taken the Aids orphans' artwork to a new level by
integrating it into unique, artistic but functional tote bags.
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our Foundation
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