Visual Arts in Hampden, Hampshire, and Franklin counties - Updated Weekly!
Give Locally
This was started from an @valleyartsnewsletter instagram post about giving locally. It was posted here to make it easier to follow links to these local organizations. Give what you can to help. Support local ♥
from the 6/17/20 instagram post: hi friends, i was inspired to make this list by Jason's video at @attackbearpress (and because i love to make lists). His point is that giving to national organizations is good but there are so many local nonprofit organizations that assist BIPOC that need your support. Our neighbors, our community right here needs support. Give local and buy local whenever you can. Donate to them, follow their pages, boost their reach. this list includes nonprofit orgs in the valley that deal with racism, social justice, immigrant protection, food insecurity, education, and more - many issues that disproportionally affect BIPOC communities. Also art/culture orgs that support BIPOC artists and communities.
This list is being expanded to include any arts non-profits in the valley. It's a work in progress. Feel free to email me to add to this list.
Local Orgs that Support BIPOC:
- 413 Stay Woke Stay Active Collective / instagram / facebook
- Arise for Social Justice / instagram / facebook
- Art for the Soul Gallery / instagram / facebook
- Attack Bear Press / instagram / facebook
- Boys & Girls Club of Greater Holyoke / facebook
- Center for New Americans / instagram / facebook
- Community Foundation of Western MA / instagram
- Community Legal Aid / facebook
- Enlace de Familias/Holyoke Family Network
- Franklin County People's Fund
- Gandara Center / instagram / facebook
- Gardening the Community / instagram
- Girls Inc. of the Valley / instagram
- Great Falls Books Through Bars / facebook
- Haymarket Cafe Common Account
- Healing Racism Institute of Pioneer Valley
- I-Collective & Belly of the Beast Collab
- MA Jobs with Justice / instagram / facebook
- Martin Luther King Family Services
- New North Citizens' Council
- Nuestras Raices / instagram
- Nueva Esperanza / instagram / facebook
- Peaceful Roots / instagram
- Pioneer Valley Workers' Center / instagram / facebook
- Public Health Institute of Western Massachusetts / facebook
- Showing Up for Racial Justice, Western MA chapter / facebook
- Springfield Boys & Girls Club / instagram
- Springfield Partners for Community Action / facebook
- Springfield Cultural Partnership / instagram
- Springfield Rescue Mission / instagram / facebook
- The Association of Black Business & Professionals / facebook
- The Boys & Girls Club Family Center / instagram / facebook
- The Care Center / instagram / facebook
- The David Ruggles Center for History & Education / instagram
- The Ethnic Study / instagram / facebook
- The Invincible Project / instagram / facebook
- National Priorities Project / instagram / facebook
- The Nolumbeka Project / facebook
- The Pan African Historical Museum USA / facebook
- The Resistance Center / instagram
- Urban League of Springfield / instagram / facebook
- 01027: A Knee Is Not Enough (AKINE) / instagram
Local branches of national orgs that you can give to directly:
Local Arts Orgs:
- Art for the Soul Gallery / instagram / facebook
- Artspace Community Arts Center / instagram / facebook
- ArtWorks Westfield / instagram / facebook
- Attack Bear Press / instagram / facebook
- Available Potential Enterprises (A.P.E. Gallery) / instagram / facebook
- CitySpace Easthampton / instagram / facebook
- Community Music School Of Springfield / instagram
- Easthampton City Arts (ECA) / instagram / facebook
- Flywheel Arts Collective / instagram / facebook
- Make-It Springfield / instagram / facebook
- Northampton Center for the Arts / instagram / facebook
- Northampton Open Media / instagram / facebook
- Peaceful Roots / instagram
- Snow Farm, The New England Craft Program / instagram / facebook
- Springfield Cultural Partnership / instagram
- The LAVA Center / instagram / facebook
- The Performance Project / instagram / facebook