Programs
Arts
Cultivating, showcasing, and disseminating the stories of innovative art for social change.
Photo credit: Josué Rivas
About the Art Program
The DR Fund’s Arts program supports arts and culture organizations that are using the arts to amplify social justice movements and/or progressive power-building efforts on a national level. We seek to fund exemplary and inspiring efforts that demonstrate how artistic practice can move beyond a single person or institution, affect much broader communities than a single audience, and advance social, economic, and ecological justice.
We are particularly interested in work that inspires civic engagement; ensures that political and social movements incorporate arts and culture into their strategy; and prioritizes communities impacted by environmental/climate injustice, mass incarceration, over-policing, and other forms of racial injustice.
46% of grants supporting new and emerging work
24% of grants advancing power-building strategies
27% applied partnerships with movement and community organizations
Art is important because it expands how we look at and understand the world. It can make us think beyond our own experience, and often, in our appreciation, we find things that link us in a common humanity.
David Rockefeller