Masterpiece Plea

🎨 Little by Little, A Masterpiece

Monthly Gifts for Local Arts. Because Help Isn’t Coming from D.C.

A masterpiece isn’t painted in a day.
It takes patience. Brushstrokes. People who care.

And right now — it takes you.

 

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🏛️ As National Arts Funding Disappears, We’re Still Creating

With the dismantling of the National Endowment for the Arts, some sources of arts funding are simply gone.

We’ve checked pages where we usually find grants — and for the first time, they’re blank.
No deadlines.
No opportunities.
No help on the way.

But the need for art is greater than ever.

And so, we keep creating.

 

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💛 Your Monthly Gift Fills the Gap

Because art can’t wait for federal funding to return.

🎨 $5/month
Provides materials for Kids Art Club and free art booths at local events.
You spark creativity in a storm-tested child.

🖼️ $10/month
Helps keep our gallery open and free receptions alive.
You make downtown Waynesville a place of light and beauty.

🪵 $20/month
Keeps the Quilt Trails vibrant and our Creation Classes supplied.
You bring color to barns, buildings, and lives.

🌟 $25/month
Funds artist stipends, outreach, and matches for dwindling grants.
You make sure the arts still have a place to grow.

 

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🌈 We’ve Lost National Support. But We Haven’t Lost You.

The Haywood County Arts Council is still here. Still opening doors. Still funding artists like Hannah Burnisky, who rebuilt her gallery after not one but two devastating storms.

Still raising money — like the $7,000 you helped us raise for Pisgah High’s new kiln.

Still creating joy, community, and resilience.
Little by little.

🎨 Because the masterpiece isn’t finished yet.

👉 Become a Monthly Donor today!