A painting depicting the South African president, Jacob Zuma, with his genitals exposed has been vandalized, leading to ugly scenes at an art gallery in Johannesburg.

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Making a fully tax-deductible donation to Art Practical through our fiscal sponsor, Intersection For the Arts, is easy! Just click here and select Art Practical as the project you are directing your donation to!
 

Sponsorship Opportunities

Since launching in October 2009, Art Practical has quickly developed as the leading source for the contemporary visual arts in the San Francisco Bay Area. Art Practical reaches an engaged and diverse audience of art and cultural enthusiasts, from heavily invested local readers to a growing number of readers across the United States, in Europe, Asia, and South America. Seasoned and new collectors, private dealers and gallery owners, curators, artists, writers, musicians, journalists, and filmmakers use our site to expand their interest in the cutting edge practices of the Bay Area.

Through Art Practical's sponsorship program, you can reach our international audience of art enthusiasts. Sponsors receive prominent visibility on our site through the ads you see on the right side of the page. We offer flexible packaging and rates to insure that everyone has a chance to access our readership. For more information on rates and sponsorship opportunities, please contact Patricia Maloney.

 

Fiscal Sponsorship

Intersection for the Arts

Intersection for the Arts is San Francisco’s oldest alternative art space.  It has a long history of presenting new and experimental work in the fields of literature, theater, music and the visual arts, and also in nurturing and supporting the Bay Area’s cultural community. Today, Intersection pursues innovative models and strategies in order to assert the role that cultural space plays in building and re-building community. The Intersection Incubator Program provides its members with assistance in funding, developing, and promoting their artistic work.

 

Support for Art Practical

Art Practical has received generous support for its programs and activities from the following organizations and funders:

 

SFADA

Founded in 1972, the San Francisco Art Dealers Association (SFADA) seeks to promote the highest standards of connoisseurship, scholarship and ethical practice within the gallery community. SFADA contributes to the advancement of fine art in the San Francisco Bay Area by investing in the professional development of its members and forging relationships with both public and private organizations.

 

Kadist Art Foundation

The Visiting Artist Profile series is supported by the San Francisco branch of the Kadist Art Foundation. Kadist participates in the development of society through contemporary art by collecting and producing the work of artists and conducting various programs to promote their role as cultural agents. The foundation also supports the work of curators, academics, and magazines internationally through its residency program and by hosting public events on Wednesdays and a Saturday Reading Room at its space at 3295 20th Street in the Mission.

 

Alternative Exposure

Alternative Exposure

With major support from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Alternative Exposure offers direct support to Bay Area based unincorporated groups, burgeoning art and gathering spaces, publications, websites, collectives, events, and projects that fall outside the traditional frameworks of support.

 

ACAC-SF

Asian Contemporary Art Consortium

The ACAC Writing Fellowship is supported by the Asian Contemporary Arts Consortium in San Francisco (ACAC-SF), a not-for-profit coalition dedicated to increasing awareness and understanding, to building audiences, and to promoting and sustaining interest in Asian contemporary arts and design in San Francisco and the Bay Area.

 

Creative Capacity Fund

 

The Creative Capacity Fund

The Creative Capacity Fund (CCF) is a collaborative funding initiative of the Center for Cultural Innovation and multiple California Arts funders that is designed to strengthen the work of artists and arts administrators by providing them with access to a wide range of professional development and peer learning opportunities in California, and nationally.