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- EIN 20-1909472
- (615) 331-3131
- 438 Houston St Ste 257 Nashville TN 37203 USA
- www.abrasivemedia.org
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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Arts & Culture, Arts Education
Mission: Abrasivemedia is organized for educational and charitable purposes under 501(c)(3) of the internal revenue code for the purpose of establishing a network of creative professionals and developing resources to educate and inform the community. We carry this out by promoting culture-oriented outreach through artistic mediums and creative production, including, but not limited to: literary, media, performing and visual arts, with the intent of educating the artist and community, utilizing art as communication to affect social change - thus enriching the quality of life on individual, cultural, and community levels.
Programs: Super squad: through funding from the metro nashville arts commission and the global foundation, we hosted 5 multi-disciplinary pop-up art mini-camps for children ages 5-13. We worked with over 300 kids through our super squad
gallery: through our residency at houston station, we opened a small gallery for local artists in which we provide display space for work for a highly reduced rate. Our gallery displayed over 40 visual and literary artists this year, to an audience of approximately 1500 due to our participation in the wedgewood-houston arts & music monthly crawl.
community education: through our artists-in-residence, we offered community classes and workshops to the downtown nashville area in aerial dance, contemporary dance, ballet, visual arts, writing, kickboxing, theater, and collaborative arts.
houston station residency: abrasivemedia began a residency in houston station, an arts, music, and events community, in august of 2013 in which we had the donated use of facilities for our classes, events, and outreach programs. The non-cash value of this space was $12,000. Through our residency, we have been able to offer free or highly reduced rental rates to 5 dance companies, over 20 presenting visual artists, 4 musical performances, 2 literary artists, 2 graphic artists, and 1 theater designer. These artists have in turn reached over 3000 individuals with their work in this fiscal year, and went on to reach another 2500 in the remainder of 2014. Fall: fall developed an original work in collaboration with the nashville fashion week held at oz in nashville. The performance premiered before over 700 audience members. Additionally, through our residency in houston station, we were able to provide free rehearsal space to fall as they developed programming for 2014-2016.