2011 Grantmaking Cycle Open!

2011 Grantmaking Cycle Open!

The deadline for applications this year will be November 7, 2011.

Below are our 2011 guidelines for reference.

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For the 2011 grantmaking cycle:

Deadline is November 1st, 2011

• We will be making grants up to $1,000 in value

Proposals by mail, fax, and email are all accepted:

• Email: Send to apply (at) markhamnathanfund.org and please put your organization’s name in the Subject line.
• Fax: Please send “Attention: Markham-Nathan Fund for Social Justice“  to (413) 584-8987
• Mail: Address to: Markham-Nathan Fund for Social Justice, PO Box 943, Northampton, MA 01060

If you have any questions regarding the application or the fund in general, please email info@markhamnathanfund.org.

The Markham-Nathan Fund’s second-ever auction/party: ART (and more!) for ALL

Beautiful art by famed artists Leonard Baskin, Richard Yarde, Fred Becker auctioned by WHMP host Monte Belmonte. Music by Criollo Classico. Poetry by Martin Espada and Voices from Inside. Food, drinks, dancing all to support Valley grassroots struggles for peace and justice through the Markham-Nathan Fund for Social Justice. Join us Sunday, September 25 from 4 to 7 PM at the Northampton Center for the Arts. Free to the public and handicap-accessible. For more information, contact Marty Nathan at 413-531-9915 or martygjf@comcast.net or visit www.markhamnathanfund.org

On Sunday, September 25^th  at the Northampton Center for the Arts, the Markham-Nathan Fund will be holding a benefit art auction (both live & silent) and party to raise funds for social justice and peace organizations in Western Massachusetts.

SEE SAMPLING OF ARTWORK AT THE AUCTION HERE      and HERE

Among the works included will be paintings and prints by nationally known and regionally prominent artists, including Richard Yarde, Leonard Baskin, Fred Becker, Harold Tovish, and forty others. Work will range from original oils, acrylics, watercolors and drawings to ceramics, photography, collage, woodblock, giclee prints and pottery.

The silent auction will also include a number of offerings beyond artwork: beautiful weekend and vacation getaways, music and art lessons, lunch with famous locals, services (massage, acupuncture) and books relevant to progressive concerns by local well-known authors such as Charles Mann, Bruce Watson, Tracy Kidder, Tom Weiner and Ellen Meeropol.  There will be something for every pocketbook.  All sales will go to grants for social justice made by the Markham-Nathan Fund.

In giving their work to the auction, the artists and other donors are making personal contributions to our community through the peace and justice work the fund supports.  In bidding on and purchasing these works, attendees will not only enrich their lives and living spaces but help make the Pioneer Valley (and the world beyond) a more peaceful and just home for all.Doors open at 4 pm with food donated by local restaurants and music by Jose Gonzalez & Criollo Classico. There will be poetry by Martin Espada and Voices from Inside at 5:30 with the auction enlivened by WHMP’s Monte Delmonte starting at 6 pm.

According to Markham-Nathan Board Member Jessie Spector, “It promises to be an evening of joy, resilience, art, and community interdependence.”

For more information, contact Marty Nathan (413-531-9915, martygjf@comcast.net) or Bella Halsted (413-256-6454, bella@crocker.com). Or visit our website www.markhamnathanfund.org

 

SAVE THE DATE: ART AUCTION 2011

SECOND ANNUAL ART /FOR ALL AUCTION

SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 25TH 4 – 7 p.m.

Northampton Center for the Arts

Silent and Live Auctions, Music, Poetry, Dance, Food….

More information to come. Stay tuned.

Among the works of art to be auctioned:

SATURDAY NIGHT MIDNIGHT by Richard Yarde

Richard Yarde is a nationally known watercolorist and Emeritus Professor of Art at the University of Massachusetts. His paintings can be found in the permanent colelcions of over three dozen public collections, including the Matropolitan Museum of New York, the Studio Museum of Harlem, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the National Museum of American Art and the Smithsonian in Washington D.C. This print (latest printing, 2006) is one of a series made in the early 1980′s, inspired y the famous Savoy Ballroom in Harlem, which flourished in the 30′s and 40′s.

"When I saw photographs of these dancers and musicians, I was struck with the drama of loving courtship in dance, the risk-taking of the dancers, the roots in African dance. And I was deeply moved by the contradiction between the joy and skill of the dancers and the fact of their circumstances in the wider world. The Savoy became a source of creativity, joy and strength to me which I want to share and honor." Richard Yarde.