UPLIFTING COMMUNITY - resources for healing and support

We hold all those impacted by the fires in our hearts. If you are an artist, designer, or collector experiencing loss, we are here to support you. Through such heartbreaking devastation, we are witnessing the arts community come together, a beacon of hope demonstrating what we can do for each other in such challenging times.

Donate directly to LA Artists and Art workers here

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Mourning loss and looking to rebuild

Alec Egan, Night Setting, 2025 Archival Pigment Print on Sunset Hot Press Rag 310g, 16 1/2 x 24 inches, edition of 200

We would like to take the time to acknowledge some of the artists and art workers in our community who've lost their studio, home, livelihood, and life's work in these fires. If you are one of those impacted, please search our resources here.
To view a working list of the artists impacted, along with testimonials of their experience and links to their individual fundraisers, you can click the link here.
If you have the means to contribute to healing our art community, please do what you can to give back in whatever way you can.

Left: Alec Egan, House, 2025, oil on canvas, 20 x 18”

Right: Aleg Egan, Car, 2025, oil on canvas, 20 x 24”

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How to Support

We have compiled a list of places to donate to artists impacted by the wildfires. Below are a few highlighted few. Visit the full list here.

LA Art World Fire Relief: Help Rebuild the Lives of LA's Artists and Art Workers. Kathryn Andrews, Andrea Bowers and a group of other artists launched a Gofundme to help artists and art workers experiencing loss of use or total loss begin to rebuild. Donate here.

Association of Clay & Glass Artists (ACGA): Support AGCA Artists affected by Socal Wildfires. Donate here.

Support Designers and Architects Affected by LA Fires: Funds directly benefit interior designers and architects that have lost their homes or studios. Donate here.

White Label Editions - Print Fundraiser: Purchase a print made by one of the 38 artists came together to raise funds for Grief and Hope. Open editions priced at 100 USD each. Purchase work here.

LA AYUDA - Art Benefit Fundraiser: Call to artists to contribute their artistic abilities or materials in creating a "stone" - a symbol of resilience and strength of community - to be sold. The proceeds will be distributed to those impacted by the fires. Sign up here.

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Resources for those impacted

We have compiled a list of resources for impacted artists. Below are a few highlighted grants.

Visit the full list here.

CERF+ Craft Emergency Relief Fund

Offers $3,000 Emergency Relief Grants to craft artists who experienced a recent and substantially disruptive emergency or disaster. Apply here.

Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Emergency Grant

Provides interim financial assistance to qualified painters, printmakers, and sculptors who apply for grants, up to $15,000. Apply here.

Artists' Fellowship Inc

Provides financial assistance to visual artists and their families experiencing an unexpected emergency situation, natural disaster, disability, bereavement, or extreme hardship. Apply here.

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Support from Source Art

If you are an artist, designer, client or collector experiencing loss from these wildfires, we have art collection support to offer and may be able to share more specific resources to aid you in re-establishing, recovering, and restoring your work or collection. Please reach out to us directly, we are here to help.

Resources for impacted artists here

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