Support Elsewhere

Elsewhere Artist Collaborative offers a one of a kind site for artistic explorations, development, and the experimental creation of new works across media. Elsewhere's museum framework provides a context for the advancement of emerging artistic careers. Through Elsewhere's residency program, artists are provided resources and space that enable the creation of new works of unparalleled scope and scale, participate in a community devoted to exploring intersecting processes, and respond to a site-specific context that is designed to expose and challenge the boundaries of artistic creation, curation, and display. Elsewhere encourages innovation in artist-residency formats while offering a dynamic model for collaborative creation among artists and thinkers.

Elsewhere is proud to contribute to the development of Greensboro's downtown arts district. Each year, Elsewhere brings over 40 national and international emerging artists to Grensboro to create new works that remain on-site and available for public view. One of the most exciting aspects of contributing to Elsewhere is the opportunity to invest in downtown Greensboro through a project that that incorporates the city's business and industrial histories in new cultural futures.


Other Ways to Give

Through a program of targeted sponsorships, Elsewhere creates partnerships between patrons and programming interests. Support from individuals and foundations ensures Elsewhere's creative advancement while allowing patrons to make possible the programs and works that match their philanthropic missions.

Artist Conversations — $3,500

Elsewhere's series of 18 weekly interactive performances, presentations, screenings and lectures by emerging visiting artists was supported in 2007 by the Tannenbaum-Sternberger Foundation. The series asked artists to create innovative formats designed to engage audiences in the artistic process through experimental presentations of new work.

Publication— $7,000

Elsewhere is seeking funds to support the creation and publication of catalogs that document the process-experience of artists and their works. Every visiting artist at Elsewhere participates in an in-depth artist interview and process journal. Elsewhere documents all performances, final works, and events, and frequently documents ongoing happenings within the environment. Elsewhere hopes to synthesize its archives into artist-volumes discussing the advancements and devlopments of each residency-year of visiting artists to explore the intersections ofartist process, production, and community.

University Programming — $5,000

Elsewhere’s University programming engage students and professors in interdisciplinary workshops, exploring and creating within the museum as a means of questioning curatorial strategies and site-specific applications.  Elsewhere’s directors work closely with professors to implement curricula that aim toward an experience and critique of Elsewhere’s collaborative model, a theoretical strategy for layering individual artistic response in order to form a cohesive aesthetic and conceptual whole.  Curriculum development and implementation have already been produced in coordination with art and architecture departments at University of Michigan, University of North Carolina-Greensboro and Chapel Hill, and Duke University.

Programming Development — $4,500

If you would like to see arts programs designed for a particular constituency in Greensboro, Elsewhere’s creative staff and artists can develop and implement a program tailored for your membership and/or group.  It is vital to our mission that we continue to engage and target new audiences with experimental works and programs that cultivate dynamic art experiences.  We ask for your support to enable the development and production of these collaborative productions as we aim to expose diverse publics to the power of creative processes.

Visiting Artist Fund — $600 (multiple sponsors)

Currently, artists in residence provide their own travel funds and living expenses during their stay in Greensboro. Your contribution to the Visiting Artist Fund will subsidize an artist's travel to Greensboro to encourage exceptional applicants to create works that remain in the Greensboro community as part of Elsewhere's museum.

Exhibition — $1,000

Many of our visiting artists produce works using our material resources that require sophisticated lighting and multimedia applications. Showing these works at the museum and on our website can be extremely costly. In order to move these works from the archive and onto the museum floor, Elsewhere requires screens, projectors, video displays, and more advanced lighting technologies.

Sponsoring an Artwork — $1,000
(multiple sponsors)

Elsewhere invites patrons to directly sponsor installations within the museum. The artworks require upkeep and promotion for continual display. While none of the artwork is available for direct purchase, you can participate in the life of an artwork, enabling continued viewing and possible exhibition of the work in other galleries or museums. As a patron of an individual work, you show your support for an individual artist and their creation, and will have your name displayed on the work's title card as its sponsor.