Dear Friends of ZCAF,

As the year draws to an end, the ZCAF Board and I thank you for your patronage and support of our mission to foster alliances that use art as a societal tool to benefit community.  Over the years, ZCAF has launched collaborative ventures and programs with artists, chefs, conservationists, area businesses and friends to feed the hungry, to share rarely seen private artworks, and to call attention to the environment.  Much of our work is made possible through support from generous individuals like you, and we are deeply grateful.

Briefly, in 2011, we took the Freedom Place Collection of works by Romare Bearden, Benny Andrews, Alma Thomas, Richard Yarde and Robert Freeman to Monroe Community College in Rochester, New York where it was displayed during Black History month (February), and deemed a critical success.  In our ongoing work to tour the Collection, we’re focusing on San Francisco, Detroit, Pittsburgh and other U.S. cities where we’ve established interest and contacts.  

Also, we’re producing a Mural of Tiles for the Oyster School, which will be installed in their cafeteria and remind students to think and eat healthy and sustainable.  The mural, depicting the artwork of 21 students at the school, is the first-place prize from a ZCAF Art Competition in which DC public elementary school students were invited to submit art made from fruit and vegetables. 

Very exciting, too, is our initiative to create a fully-equipped Mobile Woodshop that would be available to students enrolled in public-school wood-working programs to take into their own neighborhoods to work on community projects. 

And, there’s our ongoing collaboration with the Capital Area Food Bank and our Advocacy Work as we lobby for creation of a ZCAF art center on the Walter Reed property. 

All this is to say, we are operating at an all-time high, but need your help more than ever to implement our programs and develop our initiatives.  We hope you’ll contribute to the Zenith Community Arts Foundation when making your year’s-end donations.   

While we suggest donations of $1,000, $500, $250, $100, $50 levels, we appreciate any amount you can send.  To make a donation, click here or call us at 202-783-8005.

Thank you for all you do, and best wishes in the coming year.

Regards,  

Margery E. Goldberg

Founder/Executive Director

 PO Box 55296    Washington DC 20040    202-783-8005    zenithcommunityarts@zcaf.org