Please consider supporting Spread Art this Giving Season!

With your support during our last annual fundraiser we were able to make many improvements to our historic facility but most importantly we were able to safely continue to provide artists private spaces to create.

Spread Art continues to be a relevant creative resource in the community and like many arts organizations during this time, needs your help to be able to continue progressing towards better sustainability. Spread Art has not been hosting public events but has been taking this time to solidify organizationally and structurally as well as experiment with virtual programming. We hope that when we take care of our 2021 goals that we will be ready to welcome the community when it is safe to do so.
With your help, we will come out on the other side of this pandemic stronger than before and ready to provide space for Detroiters to gather again.

What your contributions will help do this year :

Obtain Audio/Video equipment so that we can facilitate streaming of events at Spread Art while we are not able to invite public audiences due to the pandemic.
Tuck-Point/ Re Mortar the exterior walls
- Our exterior walls have been cited by the City of Detroit and we would like to rectify our citations this summer.
Install exterior solar lighting
- Bryant street can be dark! This would benefit the creative community who utilize the space and the neighborhood mutually.
Convert our two downstairs bathrooms to be ADA accessible
- Our mission is to be accessible and we can not be so as long as we do not provide ADA accommodations.
  - Would involve replacing forced air and water heater with a boiler system installed in the basement as to make space for entry.
    - A historically relevant and sustainable upgrade to our building!

What your last years contributions made happen!! :

Installed three light switches. One for the shared studios upstairs, one for the gallery and two for the theatre!
- This meant community members did not have to use fuse breaker switches in the electrical breaker box to turn on and off lights.

Repaired our two street lights on the Rosa Parks Blvd side of our Blvd.

Installed a steel metal stage beam in our theatre
- The theatre had been under supported by a wood beam that we found out had cracked around the start of the pandemic.

Renovated the water damaged kitchen and bathroom upstairs
- The ceiling had caved in due to water damage because of a bad roofing encounter that affected the upstairs bathroom as well. The ceiling was re-drywalled. The floor of the bathroom was entirely replaced and sealed with pond liner and tiled so that it would no longer threaten the A/V booth below. The bathtub was removed and replaced with a screen printing spray booth.

Painting of the upstairs common areas
- The kitchen and living room had not gotten love in so long! The common areas are minty fresh now (at least in color!). (Although gatherings are not encouraged due to COVID-19)

We serviced one of our furnaces.
- Our furnace is from 1993 and if you don't know anything about HVAC, well that's supposedly really old! Our downstairs furnace needed much TLC and you made that happen!

Spread Art 2020 Annual Fundraiser!

By Spread Art

Spread Art 2020 Annual Fundraiser!

Support Spread Art To Continue To Provide Accessible, Safe, Creative Space To Detroiters!

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