San Diego SPACE 4ART

Creating Sustainable Creative Communities in San Diego

Permanent Affordable Live/Work Space for Artists & Arts Organization

The public and private sectors in progressive cities are now working diligently to attract and retain artists and arts districts because these become magnets, centers of creativity attracting the “Creative Classes” of all occupations. Furthermore, artists in communities help to preserve local culture and character, create local jobs, provide arts education, stimulate community pride and business vitality. In essence, if clustered together, they create economic development (Ray Street, Balboa Park, etc.) Given these physical, cultural and socio-economic benefits, the establishment of permanent, affordable artist live/work spaces should be a high priority for our City. Synergy Art Foundation received a grant from LISC (Local Initiative Support Corporation), a national organization with a community focus, to retain ArtSpace, a national developer that specializes in working with communities to address the need for permanent, affordable live/work space for artists. The grant was complemented by a smaller grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA).

Since then, Synergy has developed an artist's and arts organization survey to evaluate local needs. To take the survey.....

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SYNERGY San Diego SPACE 4ART SURVEY

Synergy 's current project SDSPACE4ART involves helping our community to develop permanent, affordable live/work spaces for local artists and arts organizations. We have created this survey to assess the needs of our region.

Please click SDSPACE 4ART Survey to participate.

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Continuing our efforts, Synergy's SDSPACE4ART will be conducting a design charette on September 11-13 at the New School of Architecture. Approximately 20 local architects will lead or join 20 design teams comprised of artists, designers, planners, developers, arts supporters and community members to develop innovative and creative designs for permanent, affordable work/live space for San Diego artists and arts organizations. Actual buildngs will be used to develop architectural programs that will respond to the needs of local artists and communities. For more information please contact: sdspace4art@gmail.com

To contribute to this worthy cause, please make your tax-deductible check out to Synergy Art Foundation and mail it to: SDSPACE4ART 251 Barbara Ave. Solana Beach, CA 92075