Gray Area Foundation For The Arts
Programs
Program 1 [2020]
PUBLIC EVENTS:We hosted one hundred and three (103) total events in 2020. We held seventeen (17) of these events in-person on-site, but due to COVID-19 we ran the remaining eighty-six (86) subsequent public events programming online. Fifty-seven (57) of these events were in partnership with local community nonprofit organizations which we supported through sharing technical resources and staff to bring their programs online. Three of our events were self-produced, multi-day festivals: End Of You, a month long immersive exhibition showcasing twelve (12) local Bay Area creating immersive environments as critical thinking tools and as sustainable creative practice, reaching four thousand five hundred sixty five (4565) people; Gray Area Festival, an online conference, exhibition, and performance festival surveying culture through the lens of interdisciplinary practice over four (4) days of programming reaching six hundred and fifty (650) people; and Recombinant Festival, an audio/visual performance and expanded cinema festival with two (2) days of programming reaching over two-thousand (2000) people. We also produced the Soundwave Festival and Patch Pulse performance series dedicated to showcasing emerging local audiovisual artists online. We did not produce a dedicated fundraising event in 2020.GeographiesNot indicatedDatesJan 1, 2020 – Dec 31, 2020Source990No causes providedNo populations provided–$1.1MProgram 2 [2020]
IncubationGray Area's Incubator services include Residency, Research Lab, and Sponsorship opportunities. Gray Area collaborates with artists and creative practitioners who critically investigate new ideas, create and adapt technologies through their work, and engage with pressing social and civic issues.Incubation: ResidencyWe had eight (8) individual residents in round one (1), and night (9) individual members in round two (2) of our Incubator Residency, which last for seventy-two (72) weeks each and produced two (2) showcases that each reached three-hundred (300) members of the general public. We had seven (7) shared studio members in term one (1), and two (2) shared studio members in term two (2) of our private studio spaces. Due to COVID-19, the residencies, showcases, and events programming for the Residency from March through December were held online.Incubation: Research labsIn 2020 we executed the production and exhibition phases of our Experiential Space Research Lab in partnership with the Knight Foundation to explore the ways in which recent trends in immersive environments can be used as recurring revenue streams for artists. In 2020, Gray Area supported the professional development, and production of experiential, environmental installations through twelve (12) artists admitted to the Experiential Space Research Lab from an open call themed Reworlding: The Art of Living Systems, which invited artists to use art to help understand the implications of co-existing on a living planet. The curriculum was developed in partnership with Gaian Systems. The artists went through a six-month concept and development program which resulted in a month long immersive exhibition called The End of You, which focused on how to expand a personal sense of identity to encompass other people, species, and ultimately a whole planet through experiential art.Incubation: Fiscal SponsorshipsWe continued to manage three (3) fiscally sponsored projects: Art Hack Day, a hackathon project for media artists; Living Room Light Exchange, a discussion and presentation series for emerging artists; and the Zachary Watson Memorial Fund, a scholarship program. In 2020, we also became fiscal sponsors for Feminist.AI, an education program for creating more accessible AI.GeographiesNot indicatedDatesJan 1, 2020 – Dec 31, 2020Source990No causes providedNo populations provided–$182.6KProgram 3 [2020]
EDUCATION:Gray Area's Creative Code Education program services include: Immersives, Workshops, and Apprenticeship opportunities. Gray Area develops STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art, and mathematics) curriculum for artistic development by teaching interdisciplinary skills through the creation of artwork.We prioritize enrollment for a diversity of backgrounds within our Education and Cultural Incubator programs. Our biannual creative code Immersive enrolled 60% of students who identify as women, 10% who identify as non-binary and 85% of students who are BIPOC. We support this inclusive enrollment through diversity targeted scholarships, teaching assistantships, and youth apprenticeships.Education: ImmersiveWe served nineteen (19) Creative Code Immersive students with two (2) Immersive sessions which last for twelve (12) weeks, and hosted two (2) showcases which shared their work with six-hundred (600) members of the general public.Education: WorkshopsWe served seven-hundred-seventy-four (774) students in sixteen (23) interdisciplinary education workshops that ran throughout the year.GeographiesNot indicatedDatesJan 1, 2020 – Dec 31, 2020Source990No causes providedNo populations provided–$83.2K
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