Give to the Kresge Challenge!
In April 2009, Highpoint was honored to receive a $250,000 Challenge Grant from The Kresge Foundation to be used for our capital campaign. As of August 4, we have secured $3,289,496 (Plus In Kind Donations and the Kresge Challenge Grant pledge) toward our $3.5 million goal. Now we need your help: to secure the Kresge Challenge Grant Highpoint must raise the remaining $210,504.
This is a crucial time in our capital campaign and we need every friend of Highpoint to help us meet our goal! We are asking that you consider a “stretch” donation to help make this possible. Your gift can be paid now, or you have the flexible option of making a multi-year pledge — both will count towards the Kresge Challenge. Be assured, any donation you make will have a huge impact on HP’s future.
We are delighted to report that Highpoint’s new home at 912 W. Lake Street in Uptown opened right on schedule in June 2009. The facility nearly triples Highpoint’s former footprint, allowing us to better serve HP’s diverse audience of artists, schools, collectors and communities. Designed by award-winning architect James Dayton, the new Highpoint now features a dedicated classroom for schools and teens; increases access for Highpoint’s artist cooperative; provides an upgraded studio where Highpoint Editions artists work with a Master Printer; plus, two museum-quality accessible galleries showcase prints by established and emerging artists. The building is energy efficient and features a rain and rock garden designed by internationally-recognized artist Kinji Akagawa that collects rain run-off and offers an oasis of green in busy Uptown.
You’ll be proud to know that since opening the building in June, Highpoint has already served over 3,000 people — kids, artists, neighbors, art and architecture lovers — most participated in free activities and artmaking.
Highpoint Center is a unique part of our cultural landscape — no other printmaking center in this part of the country offers such a wide range of public access and programs. Thank you so much in advance for considering this timely and crucial support to reach our goal and receive the Kresge Foundation Challenge Grant.
Please contact us with any questions you may have about giving during this crucial time