A $1,000 contribution can support a first pilot activation, including basic artist/facilitator honoraria, bilingual materials, initial documentation, refreshments, accessibility, and community outreach.
VAEA · New York 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization
Support the New York/Venezuela Chapter
Help activate an arts, migration memory, education, and public dialogue program in New York.
Exodus & Resilience — New York/Venezuela Chapter is currently in its activation phase. We are building the institutional and community base needed to launch the program’s first public activities: bilingual workshops, artist conversations, educational materials, visual documentation, cultural mediation, and public dialogue around migration, memory, resilience, and belonging.
Developed in collaboration with the Venezuelan American Endowment for the Arts, Inc. (VAEA), a New York-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, the program connects contemporary art, diaspora communities, cultural institutions, and partners committed to social and cultural impact.
Transparency note: The program is currently in its activation phase. Contributions and institutional support will help move the project from preparation to public implementation. Any funding received will be allocated to activities, materials, coordination, documentation, accessibility, and community participation connected to the program.
Why support
Art can become cultural infrastructure for communities in movement.
Migration does not only transform territories; it transforms families, memories, languages, identities, and forms of belonging. Exodus & Resilience uses contemporary art as a tool to document lived experiences, open public conversations, create educational resources, and strengthen connections between immigrant communities, artists, institutions, and the broader public.
Supporting this chapter means contributing to a cultural infrastructure that can:
- Create safe spaces for expression and dialogue.
- Activate bilingual workshops and public conversations.
- Connect artists and diaspora communities.
- Produce accessible educational materials.
- Document processes, testimonies, and learning.
- Strengthen the cultural memory of migrant communities.
- Build bridges between art, education, and social impact.
What your support can fundPilot workshop$1,000 Community activation$5,000 Public program$10,000 Launch phase$20,000 Custom institutional supportTailored
From a first workshop to a launch phase.
The following levels are examples of how support may help move the program from preparation into community-facing implementation.
A $5,000 contribution can support a fuller public activity, including preparation, coordination, educational materials, communications, community participation, basic audiovisual documentation, and logistical support.
A $10,000 contribution can support an initial cycle of workshops, public conversations, bilingual materials, documentation, cultural mediation, and coordination with community or educational partners.
A $20,000 contribution can help consolidate a first implementation phase, including programming, coordination, artist participation, educational resources, professional documentation, accessibility, reporting, and institutional development.
Foundations, companies, collectors, individual donors, and cultural partners can speak with the team to define a collaboration aligned with their cultural philanthropy, CSR, community impact, or institutional goals.
Use of funds
Funds support real program needs.
Funds may be allocated to:
- Artist, facilitator, and cultural professional honoraria.
- Production of workshops, public conversations, and community activations.
- Bilingual educational materials.
- Design, communications, and community outreach.
- Photography, audiovisual, and archival documentation.
- Accessibility, local transportation, refreshments, and participant support.
- Program coordination, follow-up, reporting, and basic evaluation.
- Partnership development with cultural, educational, and community organizations.
Ways to collaborateDonate Sponsor Partner Connect
Support can take several forms.
Support the initial activation of the program.
For companies, foundations, or donors who wish to associate their support with a specific activity, workshop, public conversation, or program phase.
For cultural institutions, universities, schools, community organizations, or migrant networks interested in developing joint activities.
For individuals or organizations that can facilitate introductions to foundations, artists, community organizations, cultural spaces, media, or donor networks.
For foundations and institutional donors
Transparent development, documented in public.
We are preparing and submitting a pipeline of applications, expressions of interest, and institutional conversations with foundations, microgrants, and cultural/community support programs. The Program Journal documents this process transparently, including submitted requests, review status, and next milestones.
Follow the funding pipeline: the Program Journal is maintained as a public record of development and transparency, not as an announcement of awarded funding unless clearly stated otherwise.
Contact
Start a conversation with the program team.
If you represent a foundation, cultural institution, company, community organization, or donor network interested in art, migration, education, immigrant communities, or public dialogue, we would be glad to connect.