Herrig Center for the Arts’s Capital Campaign

 

“Arts and culture are the expressions of a community’s heart and soul.
Together they form an image that sets the city apart and creates anticipation
and excitement for the resident and traveler.”
-Americans for the Arts

Herrig Center for the Arts is an 86-year old nonprofit visual arts center that cultivates a vibrant community by providing a platform for artists of all age and experience levels to create, exhibit, and market their work. We connect artists with the skills, information and services they need to make a living and a life.

We support Manatee County’s and Bradenton’s goal of becoming a destination for the arts by making art accessible to individuals and businesses through our classes, exhibits, events, and artisan gift shop.

With more than $3 billion in total direct expenditures into the Florida economy, arts and culture are sound investments in Florida’s future. We are poised to move to the next level of community service and influence by building a landmark facility to house our expanding visual arts programming to meet the needs of a fast-growing community.

Herrig Center for the Arts is seeking a community investment of $15 million to build a new facility and expand and improve our programming, which will ensure the long term sustainability of the nonprofit visual arts center. Years of research show that the arts are closely linked to almost everything we say we want for our community: creative and academic achievement, social and emotional development, civic engagement, and equitable opportunity.

Our goals in this campaign are to:

• Raise funds to build a landmark facility for visual arts programming that will allow us to present a rich and diverse variety of local, regional and national programming.
• Expand classrooms, exhibit space and the gift market in an environmentally
  friendly and ADA compliant facility.
• Serve as the Hub for artists and the community to gather, create, share, exhibit, market and dialogue about the arts.
• Provide adequate parking for events as well as classes and exhibits.
• Build financial assets to ensure continuity.

Project Goals:
The arts are a powerful tool to help economies thrive, and help individuals to connect and engage with each other and across cultures.

• Increase visibility of the arts and the ArtCenter in downtown
• Provide an enhanced and vibrant visual arts experience both indoors and
• Create a beautiful, iconic entrance into Bradenton to welcome residents and
• Provide a walkable area that will connect the Downtown area to the
• Add green space to Downtown Bradenton where people can gather, engage, relax and enjoy the arts.
• Expand visual arts classes and exhibits that provide inspirational and educational sustenance to the larger Bradenton community.
• Bring National and International exhibits to the ArtCenter galleries that will serve to spotlight Bradenton as a cultural destination with visitors and residents.
• Contribute to establishing Bradenton as an exciting and vibrant destination for the Arts

We’re doing it for you. Without the support of all the people who came before you, we would not be here today. Join us in supporting our building campaign to ensure we are here for future generations of artists and art lovers.

Ways you can donate. You can donate with a check, charge, cash or through PayPal. You can also donate real estate, make a stock transfer or from your Donor Advised Fund.

We’d love to share our vision. Call or email to learn more.

Carla Nierman
Executive Director
941-746-2862
acm@artcentermanatee.org

With your support, we’ll continue to Transform Lives & Build Community through Art.

Board of Directors and Capital Campaign Team

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• Children must be age 6 & have attended kindergarten to register for Marvelous Mondays, Talented Tuesdays, and KidsArt. • Staff & instructors at Herrig Center for the Arts will not be responsible for administering over-the-counter or prescription drugs to students. • In fairness to all, disruptive behavior will not be tolerated during camp for any reason. We reserve the right to ask a parent/guardian to remove their child from the Herrig Center for the Arts without benefit of a refund or monies paid for any/all camp sessions. • Drop off of your child is no earlier than 8:45am. If enrolled in aftercare, pick up time is no later than 5:00pm. • Personal items such as music devices, cell phones, etc. are not permitted in class.

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Pottery Studio Rules

• There is a designated area for clay for students who are in a class. Name, date and instructor must be written in marker on clay package. This is mandatory.
• While in wheel classes, long hair must be tied back & dangling jewelry removed. No open toe shoes are permitted in Raku class.
• Door leading to deck must be closed at all times.
• Please know you leave your clay at your own risk. This is a public studio and ACM is not responsible for missing clay.
• Shelves are exclusively provided for “work in progress” only. No personal storage on shelves please.
• After the class session, any clay left over is to be taken home by the student or it will be removed for recycling. Open Studio participants must take clay home with them.
• All tools, sponges, brushes, containers, etc. are to be washed and put back in designated places. This also applies for the plastic, newspapers, glazes and boards.  Keep countertops free from clutter.
• If you intend to take work in progress home you will need to bring in your own board for transport. Boards are not to leave the premises.
• Bisque and glazed pieces have to be picked up within 30 days of firing. After that, work will become the property of ACM.
• The tables on the deck are not for pottery drying or as a studio workspace.
• Please no sanding on deck & in studio. Sanding is done in raku area.
• Please check with the instructor before adding water to glazes.
• Be considerate of others sharing the studio and clean up after yourself. This includes tables, glazing area, lids on glaze buckets and wheels.
• You must sign in for open studio. You have one week of open studio time after a class ends to complete your project without a fee.
• As of January 1, 2017 only Phoenix clay provided by ACM will be permitted.
• Please be considerate of your fellow students. This is a creative space.

Thank You and Have Fun!