Imagination becomes Foundation: The KSW Giving Circle
Dear Community,
There is joy in culmination, and there aren’t many milestones as big as a 50th anniversary. But there is also joy, too, in the slow and steady building that continues on after the light of that moment. That is why we are seeking 50 people to join the KSW Giving Circle at a sustainable and meaningful amount! It’s in the moments after the big events, the momentous occasions, where we need our community to support us most.
KSW50 June 11, 2022 (Photo Credit: Ron Fernandez)
‘THE GIVING CIRCLE’ enables the following:
$10+/month: This level sponsors a featured artist stipend at our annual APAture festival for emerging Asian Pacific American artists, oftentimes the first time an emerging APA artist has received compensation for their work.
$25+/month: This support goes towards the instructor fees for our year round workshops covering topics such as arts skills building, navigating poetics, living as an artist-entrepreneur, grantwriting, and more!
$50+/month: A gift of patronage which covers the tuition of an Interdisciplinary Writer’s Lab fellow. This master class spans 3 genres with award-winning authors and teachers. IWL allows POC writers an opportunity to build community, experiment, and learn.
$100+/month: This incredible support literally keeps the lights on at KSW, by supporting our ongoing lease with our friends at Arc Gallery. It is here we host a majority of our events by and for Asian American artists.
BECOME A MONTHLY DONOR
or
MAKE A ONE-TIME DONATION TODAY
(We still need your 1 time gifts!)
APAture 2022; Visual Art featured by Heesoo Kwon (Photo Credit: Claire Burke)
For an organization of our size, it’s a lofty goal, but if just 50 of you signed up today at $50, this would mean $2,500 more a month to go towards our dozens of programs, events, and projects highlighting Asian American artists who are deeply concerned with the issues of their communities.
Will you join us, in the long run? Will you commit to this space and home for so many Asian American artists and community members? Consider this: How could it shift your understanding of your role in this community, to pledge an amount of $25, $100, $200 a year, to an organization that you believe in? Work that has perhaps pushed your own arts career forward, or given opportunities to artists from all over the Bay Area. Every dollar counts.
APAture 2022; Art featured by Jane Kang (Photo Credit: Claire Burke)
We still need your support envisioning and activating KSW’s work for the next 50 generations. The kind of support we need is specific. KSW is where history meets dreaming. And because of you, we are so much closer to dreaming for another 50 years. Will you consider becoming a monthly donor to show your support for us for years to come?
Imagination has been a strong theme for us this year: but we’ve said it before and we’ll say it again. It’s not only through our imagining that we can create the world we want and deserve to live in. It’s also through showing up time and time again, with tangible resources, with loving community, with participation in the meaningful ways that our audiences do, all the time. Thank you so much for your support.
On behalf of the KSW staff & board,
Mihee Kim
Co-Director