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EMMA CARTER, Horizon Nursing Center resident, at an Outside In event in 1996 featuring "Old Friends." Photo Credit: Jane Bernard |
This
endeavor was initiated with no significant funding, until 1996 when
the program was supported with a grant from The
McCune Foundation and a matching grant from The
Santa Fe Community Foundation as well as other grants from
smaller family foundations and donations from individuals and businesses.
The Frost Foundation
and The LANL Foundation
and New Mexico Arts
also funded the work of Outside In early in its history and
provided crucial support. In 1999, New Mexico Arts recommended Outside
In to The Andrea Frank Foundation of New York
which was interested in funding small and needy organizations that were
effecting social change. In February of 2000 we were invited to submit
a proposal and were one of seven organizations in the US and
Canada to receive a three year $60,000 grant. In 2001, Outside
In was one of 5 organizations in New Mexico to receive a Challenge
America Fast Track grant from the National
Endowment for the Arts. This grant is specifically to support
our Saturday arts instruction workshops for underserved youth at El
Museo Cultural Center in Santa Fe. We have recently received
an Arts Learning for Youth Grant award for the 2003-2004
period which is now our third consecutive year of funding from The National
Endowment for the Arts. Other major financial supporters of Outside
In include The Buckaroo Ball Committee, The
Doris Goodwin Walbridge Foundation, The Brindle Foundation,
The
Josephine Bay Paul and C. Michael Paul Foundation, The
City of Santa Fe Arts Commission, The
Albuquerque Community Foundation and The Santa
Fe Rotary Foundation.
In March 1996 Outside In sponsored its first fundraiser concert
at the former Copeland-Rutherford Gallery, with a number of top-notch
local performers featured. Then in 1997, Outside In presented
Roger McGuinn,
founder of the legendary Byrds in a benefit concert at The James
A Little Theater in Santa Fe. (A documentary based on the concert
had aired on Albuquerque’s public radio station
KUNM.) In 1997 and 1998, Outside In also
produced two very successful evenings of music on the Plaza in Santa
Fe as part of the El Corazon de Santa Fe summer festival. The
City of Santa Fe awarded Outside In with a $5,000
first-place prize for the best event of the 1997 summer festival. In
1998 the City asked Outside In to kick off the summer festival.
The City of Santa
Fe also asked Outside In to help organize and
stage-manage their annual Community Days live music on the plaza. Our
Freefest ’99 and 2000 outdoor and indoor live music event and
benefit at Borders Books featured many of the best local musicians who
donated their time and talent making it a huge success.
In the summer of 1998, Sam Adams, Board Member and Photographer (his photos grace this website) put together a photo exhibit at The Center for Contemporary Arts in Santa Fe titled, Inmates, a series of photographs taken at the NM Women’s Correctional Facility in Grants during Outside In events.
Last summer, Outside In was funded by the City of Santa Fe to revive a summer music series on the Plaza in Santa Fe, renamed “Summer Bandstand” from the previous “Summerscene”. Outside In appointed a community based working committee which selected some of the best local musicians who performed every Tuesday afternoon and evening throughout July and August. This was a wonderful free community event featuring some of the best music in Santa Fe and was also an excellent and rare opportunity for local artists to display their talent in the public arena. Outside In hopes to expand this music festival in the summer of 2004.
For five years Outside In was under the Fiscal Agent umbrella of Bread for the Journey, a non-profit organization dedicated to nurturing the natural generosity of ordinary people. In December 2000, Outside In was established as a 501(c)3 non-profit organization. The former Advisory Board was the nucleus for the formation of it’s present Board of Directors.
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