Visual Aid Services Application for New Applicants (printable)

You must reside in the Bay Area

Please submit this application to be considered for all of Visual Aid's services, including the Voucher Program, Art Bank, Exhibition Program, Studio Assistant Program, and monthly workshops and Seminars.
Applications are reviewed on a quarterly basis:
Deadlines……………… .. Notification
April 16……………… ..;May 16
August 15……………… ..September 15
December 17………………. ..January 17

Send form and materials to Visual Aid 731 Market Street, Suite 600 San Francisco, CA. 94103


Applications must arrive at the Visual Aid office by the actual date of the deadline. Applications received after the deadline, regardless of postmark, will be reviewed the following quarter. If the deadline falls on a Weekend or national holiday, submit the application to the Visual Aid office by the following business day.

 

1. Date________________

Name________________________________________________________

Address _____________________________________________________

City/State/Zip__________________________________________________

County______________________________________

Telephone ___________________________________

 

2. Type of illness and date of diagnosis___________________________________________________

IMPORTANT: Please a letter from your physician or social worker substantiating your diagnosis..If such a letter is already on file with another organization (e.g. The San Francisco AIDS Foundation) a copy of that letter will be sufficient.

 

3. Please address the following questions on a separate piece of paper:

  1. How long have you worked in the visual arts?
  2. What visual arts training, formal or otherwise, have you received?
  3. What experiences have contributed to your visual arts education?
  4. Why is making art important to you?
  5. How would you benefit from Visual Aid's services?

 

4. Enclose the following with your application:

  1. current professional resume.
  2. Three letters of reference from fine art professionals (curators, dealers, teachers, critics or other artists) who are familiar with your work and can verify that you are a professional fine artist.
  3. Up to 10 slides of your work and a slide list including both past and present examples Slides and slide list must be numbered and labeled with: your name and title, medium, dimensions and date of work.(Due to resource constraints, these slides will not be returned to you and will become the property of Visual Aid)

 

5 .______I agree to allow curators, critics, dealers and other persons interested in my work to examine the visual materials in my application file.

_______Please keep my file closed to the public.

 

6. Art discipline(s) _______________________________________________________________

 

7. What materials do you primarily use?(This information is helpful for soliciting art materials manufacturers for donations to the Art bank.) _______________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

 

8. Grants, awards or honors received:______________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

 

9. How did you learn about Visual Aid's programs? __________________________________________

___________________________________________________________________________________

 

10. Person to contact in case of emergency:

Name ____________________________________________________________

Address ___________________________________________________________

City/State/Zip ______________________________Telephone ________________

 

11. I, the undersigned applicant, agree that the information on this application is true, and I give my permission for the administrators of Visual Aid to verify any of the information given in this application.

 

Applicant's signature _________________________________________Date ____________

 

All of the information on this application (except the visual materials, if the applicant so indicated) will be used only for confirming the applicants eligibility for Visual Aid's services or for compiling internal statistics tp analyze Visual Aid's programs.

 

The following questions are optional and are asked for statistical purposes only. This information is helpful to Visual Aid when applying for grants to support its programs. Your answers are in no way used to determine your eligibility for Visual Aid's services.

Please Circle all that apply.

Ethnicity:

a. African American b. Native American c. Latino…….d. Asian/Pacific Islander

e. Caucasian f. Other __________

Gender: a: male b. female

Orientation

a. gay/lesbian ………. b. bisexual …………… c. heterosexual