Arts and culture are vitality tools that strengthen and energize our community:

      • vitality tools for health and human services such as the 15-year-old
        autistic girl whom I watched speak for the first time in response to
        music therapy;

      • vitality tools for education such as I saw first-hand at Powhatan High
        School where the entire Freshman class learned – really learned – about
        the Holocaust and genocide thanks to an infusion of dancers and writers and
        sculptors and artists into their mainstream classes;

      • vitality tools for economic development such as one of my favorite ongoing
        events: Downtown’s First Fridays Art Walk

As a member of the Richmond Region community you have access to more than 100 arts and culture organizations that provide engaging and stimulating experiences throughout the year. 

We encourage you to generously support the organizations that interest you, that involve you, that inspire you!

And of course we encourage you to also make a gift to CultureWorks – Richmond Region’s Champion for Arts and Culture.

Thank you,


John Bryan, President

Check out our 2011 Major Donor Event - don't miss the 2012 event!

Thank you for supporting our work. We couldn’t do all we do without the kindness and generosity of people like you.

$150 = tattoo
Donate $150 or more and we’ll thank you with humanity’s oldest and most personal expression of arts and culture: the tattoo.

the facts
CultureWorks is partnering with River City Tattoo Company to offer this unique donor benefit option – the first donor benefit tattoo in the Richmond region. Marking the human body is the oldest, most personal and most enduring form of human expression. The image for the donor tattoo – three parallel lines – is patterned directly from the oldest tattoo ever discovered – on a 5,300-year-old man discovered frozen in a glacier.   Examples of the tattoo options below: 

Although the tattoo’s original meaning is unknown, the design is both eloquent and enigmatic – just as is often the case with great artworks.

Tell us in the comment section of the donation form if you want to take advantage of this unique opportunity.  We'll call you to make arrangements.

Donors who select the tattoo option do so in confirmation that arts and culture are important forever! 


What community members are saying about the tattoo...

Art is often about taking risks and stepping outside a comfort zone.  Making a permanent statement about my commitment to the arts and culture in Richmond was a very big and very gratifying step for me.  And as a member of the Leadership Metro Richmond Class of 2011 with John Bryan and Brooks Smith, how could I possibly say no to them?
Maggi Beckstoffer, President, MBM Marketing

I am getting this tattoo for Arts Solidarity!
Paul DiPasquale, Sculptor

CultureWorks has been so successful in getting our community to think out of the box so it was quite natural for me to consider the most out of the box thing I’ve ever done and at the ripe old age of 62 with grandchildren watching, get the CW tat.
James A. Rothrock, Commissioner, Virginia Department of Aging and Department of Rehabilitative Services

I got this tattoo in support - and as a constant reminder - of my belief in the lasting power of the arts to shape, connect, and invigorate communities.
kb saine, Producing Artistic Director, Sycamore Rouge

I am getting inked because I believe in the enduring qualities of art, because it makes me happy, and perhaps also to save my soul.
Brooks Smith, Partner, Hunton & Williams, CultureWorks Board Chair

I am generally not a fan of body art, but when I was first made aware of the CultureWorks Tattoo and what it represents, I became excited to have the opportunity to display solidarity and support for the Richmond art community which has been so good to me for so many years. I am hopeful that this symbol and its message will spread like wildfire.
Mark Staples, master printmaker, sculptor and painter 
 

 

CHECK OUT CULTUREWORKS BOARD CHAIR BROOKS SMITH GETTING TATTOOED MARCH 29th!
 

Support the nonprofit arts/culture organizations that you like best!

The organizations that you patronize, that you volunteer your services for, that involve your children, and that move and inspire you. All of the Richmond region’s arts/culture organizations need continual philanthropic support, and your personal gifts are never too large. For a complete listing of the region’s arts/culture organizations, along with links to their websites and their giving information please visit our Directory of Arts & Culture Organizations.


Support the Arts & Culture Endowment at The Community Foundation!

In 2009 a permanent endowment fund was established to support CultureWorks and its mission – to strengthen arts and culture in the Richmond region.  The permanent endowment is owned and managed by The Community Foundation Serving Richmond and Central Virginia.  The Foundation has over $510 million in charitable assets.  The Endowment for Arts and Culture is the only fund that focuses exclusively on supporting arts and culture in our region.  Disbursements from this Endowment are advised by the Board of Trustees of CultureWorks – the service/leadership organization formed as a result of the 2009 Richmond Region Cultural Action Plan.

Established by gifts in memory of the late philanthropist Waverly Manson Cole, the Endowment for Arts and Culture welcomes continual additional outright gifts as well as designations in estate plans.
 
Donors should make their gifts payable to:

The Community Foundation Arts and Culture Endowment
The Community Foundation
7501 Boulders View Drive, Suite 110
Richmond, VA 23225-4047


 
Inquiries concerning outright gifts, deferred gifts, and estate planning should be directed to: The Community Foundation’s Advancement Office (804) 330-7400 or John Bryan, President, CultureWorks (804) 340-5284.