sponsorship preferences

Traditional Fine Arts Organization

(above: Charles Reiffel, Summer Session at Ballast Point, San Diego, 1930, Vallejo Gallery. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons*)

Sponsorship preferences

We favor exhibitions of American art that:

- lift people's spirits.

- engender a sense of awe and wonder.

- celebrate intrinsic beauty.

- explore past and present examples of American Exceptionalism.

- include artists of outstanding artistic merit with previous inclusion in important museum exhibits.

- are sponsored by museums that archive in-depth exhibition-specific materials online concerning current, future and past exhibitions.

- are thematic, including those aligned with our Topics in American Art.

We provide sponsorship for exhibitions:

- without sale of artworks.

- that exclusively feature American representational art and American citizens.

- that exclude divisive behaviors.

Other Donors

From time to time, John and Barbara Hazeltine Charitable Fund may wish to co-sponsor with us or provide grants separately. In those instances, unless we hear from applicants to the contrary, we will share responses to inquiries and further steps materials sent to us with the Fund.

About beauty

What does "beauty" mean to us? Here are quotes that resonate:

"Beauty is good for you. It makes you feel better." - Alexander Creswell

"Beauty matters. It is not just a subjective thing but a universal need of human beings. If we ignore this need we find ourselves in a spiritual desert." - Roger Scruton

"A dominant impulse on encountering beauty is to wish to hold on to it, to possess it and give it weight in one's life. There is an urge to say, 'I was here, I saw this and it mattered to me." - Alain de Botton

"Let us not mince words... the marvelous is always beautiful, anything marvelous is beautiful, in fact only the marvelous is beautiful." - Andre Breton

"No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty. Whether as seen carving the lines of the mountains with glaciers, or gathering matter into stars, or planning the movements of water, or gardening -- still all is Beauty!" - John Muir

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