Logic + motion

2009 marked an important year of growth, recognition and the achievement of key goals for Artist Organized Art. With copious work by our legal counsel, the Boston office of DLA Piper LLP (US), we acquired New Observations LTD. Through the generous award of legal support from DLA Piper, the change of ownership positions New Observations LTD as a wholly owned free standing subsidiary of Artist Organized Art. Together, Artist Organized Art and New Observations is launching the next phase of the renown artist edited New Observations Magazine, founded in 1984 by Lucio Pozzi and directed by Diane Karp since 1991. New Observations Magazine has published over 128 issues since inception and exposed many of today’s renown artists as they emerged.

Other 2009 milestones:

Aritst Organized Art is a recipient of a Google Grant award.

The Google Grants program supports organizations sharing Google’s philosophy of community service to help the world in areas such as science and technology, education, global public health, the environment, youth advocacy, and the arts.

Designed for 501(c)(3) non-profit organizations, Google Grants is a unique in-kind advertising program harnessing the power of Google AdWords advertising product. Google Grants has awarded AdWords advertising to hundreds of non-profit groups whose missions range from animal welfare to literacy, from supporting homeless children to promoting HIV education.

Our Supporters!

Greatful thanks goes to all of our additional supporters and grantors without whom, given the blow to philanthropy dealt by the current economic crisis, Artist Organized Art might have ended. Please know that in 2010 we will redouble our efforts to achieve our core strategies and advance core benefits to our communities around the world.

Our Key Issues:

1. The need for mainstream recognition that artists do advance our communities.
2. The need to foreground artists as a social force possessing strategic capability.
3. The need to increase exchange between artists as an open community.
4. The need for mentoring of isolated artists by artists who work as organizers.
5. The need for easily accessible in-kind and monetary financing for artist organizers.

Our Audience:

As artists ourselves we believe taking a strategic approach to evaluating and facilitating artists and their innitiatives provides the shortest path to meaningful logistical support of our core community. As they bring quality of life benefits to their wider communities through art making, artists embed our strategic positions in wider society.

To bring together the most resources and support for artists as prime drivers of the creative class, we seek cross partnering with Local Arts Organizations and Arts Councils, Departments of Cultural Affairs, Business Councils, Business Committees, Arts Funds, State Arts Organizations, Foundation and Private Sector Leaders, Elected Officials, Philanthropists, Powerfully Accomplished Artists and Civic Patrons, Institutional Board Members or Directors and others who share our vision to help us get things done.

Our Cause:

Communities with a high degree of art making receive quality of life benefits. By contrast, the activity of art making, in most communities, is severely under valued. The artist organizer is a specific type of community organizer who bridges this gap. Our cause is to support artist organizers and to increase awareness of the benefits of artist organized art as a category of art in common culture.

Our Mission:

The mission of Artist Organized Art is to enrich the lives of artists, organizers and the public through artist organized media, events and cultural education and to build a trusted resource to local communities across a multicultural and diverse society.

Our Goals:

1. Partnering on projects enriching communities through artist organized events while helping to plan and establish ongoing arts initiatives native to those communities.
2. Supporting new work on the basis of its strategic alignment with artists to increase their capacities as organizers.
3. Positioning artists through connectivity, leveraging global reach for local strength as a form of cross incubation.
4. Documenting a legacy of artist organized culture spanning our multi-generational network and sourced through inherited documents recently acquired through our merger.
5. Adapting channels of funding and revenue through traditional and non-traditional models of philanthropy and commerce in a volatile economy requiring innovation for survival.

Coming Soon:
2010
2011
2012