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Juan Alonso-Rodríguez (2017 Conductive Garboil Grant), Tobacco Pattern 1, 2017. Masahiro Sugano (2017 GAP), Neang Neak (Serpent Goddess) video still, 2012. Mary Rothlisberger (2017 Fellowship), Card-Carrying Citizen, 2016. Artist Trust 2017 Annual Report A table of contents spotlight story: letter from sarah .................................. ii ellen adams, art business spotlight story: night school participant .................... 13 planned giving ................................... 26 2017 grants report office hours, campaign for a creative future.......... 27 spotlight story: networking, mentorship ..................... 14 amjad faur, 2017 fellowship recipient.... 2 corporate partnership program ....... 28 spotlight story: grant applicants + recipients apple plotnick jannotta, spotlight story: by grant name ........................................ 3 office hours participant + corporate supporters ........................ 29 2017 gap recipient ............................. 15 grant applicants + recipients ways to give ....................................... 30 by discipline + career stage .................. 4 racial equity recap spotlight story: grant applicants + recipients inclusion, diversity, equity in action ... 17 tara tamaribuchi, by region ................................................. 5 artist trust member ............................ 31 financial report grant applicants + recipients artist trust membership program 32 by race + gender .................................... 6 income ................................................ 19 thank you, funding partners ......... 33 spotlight story: expenses ............................................ 20 shawn brigman, 2017 gap recipient ...... 7 thank you, donors ........................... 34 fundraising recap artist support programs recap 2017 board + 2017 fundraising campaign .............. 22 committee members ....................... 43 2017 statewide programs ...................... 9 spotlight story: 2017 staff + interns ........................ 44 spotlight story: kaelyn langer-mendoca, humaira abid, workshop instructor ... 10 artist trust donor ................................ 23 2018 grant opportunities .............. 45 annual artist survey ............................ 11 2017 benefit art auction .................... 24 art business night school .................. 12 gather ................................................. 25 2017 Artist Trust Annual Report i letter from sarah “2017 was a banner year for Artist Trust.” Dear Artist United in our efforts to secure and the incredible support of our Trust Friends sustainable funding for grants and community. We begin 2018 resolute & Supporters, programming, we continued our in our commitment to stand with and work on our Campaign for a Creative work deeply to support the diverse 2017 was a banner Future, raising more than $400,000 in community of artists in our state, and year for Artist Trust. 2017 and reaching 70% of our total broadly share the important and In our thirty-first goal. In addition to our work on the fundamental role that artists play in our year of supporting Washington State campaign, we raised over $170,000 communities through our work. artists, we granted over $350,000 to in funding to continue expanding our eighty-four emerging, mid-career, geographic outreach, and launched Sincerely, and established artists, and reached new planned giving and corporate over 2,000 artists through statewide partnership programs. In total, Artist programming. Trust raised more than $1.8 million in In 2017, Artist Trust board and staff 2017, exceeding our budgeted income, were more galvanized than ever. On and significantly advancing our goals of the heels of the recent election and sustainability and growth. Sarah Traver in anticipation of changes to federal In all, 2017 was a significant and Board President arts funding, we doubled down on our powerful year at Artist Trust. Our Artist Trust commitment to equity and access. We national political climate brought made great strides toward reaching sharply into focus the deep racial, the goals outlined in our Strategic socioeconomic, political, and Plan and Racial Equity Framework, that geographic divides that exist within include: developing a Racial Equity FAQ, our country, but it also reaffirmed the increasing our board from 26% POC in importance of our mission. As we 2016 to 48% in 2017, and awarding 45% close out the year, we are energized of our grants to artists of color. by the strength of our organization 2017 Artist Trust Annual Report ii 2017 grants report In 2017, Artist Trust awarded grants to eighty-four artists of all disciplines throughout Washington State, two Conductive Garboil Grants, and eighteen grants through Artists Up Grant LAB. Artist Trust grants ranged from project-based funding to merit-based awards. Recipients were selected by peer-review panels of artists and arts professionals from the Pacific Northwest. 2017 Artist Trust Annual Report 1 spotlight story amjad faur 2017 fellowship recipient “The support I have received from Artist Trust has reinforced and helped maintain my autonomy as an artist.” “This year, I volunteered with Artist Trust at the Seattle Art Fair. Part of what made that experience so valuable was having the opportunity to see the personalities and processes behind the organization. It made me feel like part of a much larger and interconnected community. “A great deal of my work revolves around very dense ideas and some of those ideas are not particularly politically comfortable. The support I have received from Artist Trust has reinforced and helped maintain my autonomy as an artist, and helps ensure a creative process unencumbered by second- guessing born of commercial viability. “This is a sense of freedom that is truly precious and, during this moment of my artistic life, will allow me the space to move forward without hesitation.” —Amjad Faur, 2017 Fellowship Recipient Photo by Ashley Williams 2017 grants report grant applicants + recipients by grant name Grant Name Applicants Recipients Grants for Artist Projects (GAP) 416 61 Fellowshipincome + expenses280 16 Twining Humber Award 14 1 LaSalle Storyteller Award 80 1 James W. Ray Venture Project 38 2 James W. Ray Distinguished Artist 30 1 Arts Innovator Award 127 2 Conductive Garboil Grant* 17 2 Artists Up Grant LAB** 184 18 *Conductive Garboil Grant is administered in partnership with 4Culture. **Artists Up Grant LAB is a collaboration with 4Culture and the Seattle Office of Arts & Culture. 2017 Artist Trust Annual Report 3 2017 grants report* grant applicants + recipients by discipline + career stage Applicants Recipients 985 84 11 1 3 Literary Arts 36 Media Arts 194 18 Performing Arts Visual Arts 66 30 Cross Disciplinary/ 497 14 181 Emerging Fields 18 Traditional/Folk Art Discipline Discipline 6 170 378 Emerging 37 41 Mid-Career 437 Established Career Stage Career Stage *This data does not include statistics for the Conductive Garboil Grant and Artists Up. 2017 Artist Trust Annual Report 4 2017 grants report* grant applicants + recipients by region 26 1 7 61 2 70 6 3 72 821 Applicants Recipients 985 84 West Puget Sound North Central South Central East *This data does not include statistics for the Conductive Garboil Grant and Artists Up. 2017 Artist Trust Annual Report 5 2017 grants report* grant applicants + recipients by race + gender Alaska Native Applicants Recipients Asian/Asian-American 985 84 Biracial or Multiracial 3 Black/African/ African-American 69 7 38 5 Hispanic/Latinx 46 48 7 Middle Eastern 4 20 Native American 41 8 47 4 650 58 2 South Asian 2 6 Other 4 Prefer not to specify White Non-Binary 29 2 Female 618 63 Male 338 19 0 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 0 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 *This data does not include statistics for the Conductive Garboil Grant and Artists Up. 2017 Artist Trust Annual Report 6 spotlight story shawn brigman 2017 gap recipient “Artist Trust has enabled me to continue exploring the recovery of Plateau art implements as a village maker on the ancestral homelands of the Spokane Indians.” In the summer of 2016, Shawn Brigman, workshop that he conducted. “The making canoe paddles and found an enrolled member of the Spokane implements are not meant to be new cedar suppliers for materials. He Tribe of Indians, canoed the Columbia celebrated as static relics of the past, is currently working on expanding his River toward Kettle Falls, with members but as a contemporary continuity with recovery arts practice to include Plateau of the Colville, Couer d’Alene, Kootenai, the present and future as a living art canoe paddle design and carving Kalispel, and Spokane tribes. This heritage,” he says. The workshop was techniques. voyage was similar to those that their one of many that Shawn has led in “Artist Trust has enabled me to ancestors made for salmon fishing, tribal communities on making cultural continue exploring the recovery of which ended after the construction of implements including canoes, tule mat Plateau art implements as a village the Grand Coulee Dam in the 1930s lodges, and pit-houses. For Shawn, maker on the ancestral homelands made salmon migration impossible. As sharing his knowledge is essential to of the Spokane Indians,” says Shawn. the first canoe journey that the tribes his practice of recovery arts specific to “Spokane Indians are still here in 2018 made in over 80 years, this voyage was Plateau Tribes. creating art, just as our ancestors have to raise awareness of salmon recovery With the support of a 2017 Grants