The ReGen Artist Fund is a small grants program that seeks to provide artists with grant writing and artistic program planning skills to develop competitive artistic proposals. Through this program, artists participate in mandatory workshops that encourage them to explore strategies to make artistic projects compelling, design projects that address community priorities, learn to target and reach an audience, build and track a budget, assemble strong work samples and create a biographical summary of their practice. By the conclusion of the workshops, all participants will have the skills to complete and submit a project proposal and application for funding consideration from Galería de la Raza.
LEGACY OF THE FUND
In 1992, artist and Galería board member, Dr. Amalia Mesa-Bains, was awarded the prestigious and coveted McArthur Fellowship. Upon receiving her McArthur “Genius” award her generous and visionary spirit quickly went to work; after serving as a board member for 20 years, with her “no strings attached genius award” she founded the ReGeneration Project.
This initiative sought to provide emerging artists with exhibition and professional development opportunities and to directly involve a new generation of young Latino artists in the planning and management of Galería activities which infused a new cultural vibrancy and political discourse that was relevant and uplifted the Latino experience.
In its current iteration, now known as the ReGen Artist Fund, the Fund’s spirit is to continue to build artistic capacity and award San Francisco artists in all artistic genres. Artist projects and their activities will be produced and presented by Galería de la Raza and provide a public benefit to the communities of the City and County of San Francisco .
Artists must use the requested funds to cover an entire project. This grant is not intended to support organizations, artistic companies, or collectives. Projects may include collaborations, but the individual who applies for the grant and is approved for funding will receive the grant award. The application should be written from the perspective of the specific artist applying and highlight their personal experience, work, and role in the project.
2024 – 2025 Cohort
IMPORTANT DATES
Application Submissions Open
Registration Deadline for Workshop #1
Workshop #1
Introduction to the ReGen Artist Fund
Workshop #2
How to Build Your Narrative
Workshop #3
How to Build a Budget
Workshop #4
How to Present Your Artwork
Application Submissions Close
Panel Review of Applications
Notification of Funding
Grant Period Begins
Grant Period Ends
Application Submissions are currently closed for 2024-2025. Please see the Slideroom portal for additional opportunities.
- ReGen Artist Grant Guidelines 2024-2025 (PDF)
- ReGen Artist Grant Application Instructions 2024-2025 (PDF)
2023 – 2024 Cohort
Alexa Treviño
Anthony Jimenez
Alyssa Aviles
La Doña
Isabella Gordillo
Joey Gomez
Paola de la Calle
Sarai Montes
Victor Saucedo
Xochitl Priscilla
Ongoing and Upcoming Events
Rooted: Exhibition by ReGen artist Xochitl Priscilla
Rooted: Zine Launch & Closing Reception
Past Events
This Clay Too: Exhibition by ReGen artist Victor Saucedo
November 7 @ 8:00 am – November 27 @ 5:00 pm
Victor Saucedo, one of the ReGen Artist Fund recipients over the past few months has been leading “This Clay Too,” a series of free ceramics workshops in partnership with Hospitality House, funded by Galeria De La Raza. These workshops focused on making ceramics accessible and creating a communal body of work.
Art as resistance: Free Block Printing Workshop. Led by ReGen artist Sarai Montes
November 15 @ 4:00 pm – 7:00 pm
As part of the ReGen Artist Fund, Sarai Montes has been creating a series of multi-colored prints on paper, each one highlighting a woman of color who has participated in the struggle for liberation. Through workshops in collaboration with community partners, Montes will teach printmaking skills to others and encourage community participants to explore art as a tool for resistance.