Santa Cruz Artists' Assistance & Relief Fund is now a reality and we are accepting donations & applications. Thanks to everyone for supporting us.

Founding Members:

Barbara Horscraft & Paul Burdick

Leland & Marian Zeidler
Sara & Cliff Friedlander
Dee Hooker
Wax Works West (Judy Stabile, Wendy Aikin, Daniella Woolf)
Pamela & Charles Landram
Al Walters

If you would like to help us by contributing,
please make checks out to YRB/SCAARF and send donations to:

54 GLEN HAVEN RIDGE
SOQUEL, CA 95073

Click here to download a donation form:
We are non-profit and tax deductible.

The Santa Cruz Artists' Assistance & Relief Fund is a local organization making grants to professional Santa Cruz County visual artists experiencing a recent career-threatening emergency, including illness, accident, fire, theft, or natural disaster. Unfortunately, we cannot fund financial crises unrelated to one of these aforementioned emergencies. The maximum grant available at this time is $1000.00 per emergency.

To qualify for SCAARF funds, the applicant must meet all of the following criteria:

1. Have lived in Santa Cruz County for a minimum of two years.
2. Be pursuing an art career, as evidenced by a record of exhibitions and/or significant involvement in the Santa Cruz arts community, for three years prior to this emergency.
3. Be experiencing a recent career-threatening (inability to work) emergency.
4. Be experiencing financial hardship (documented) due to this emergency.
5. Be a professional visual artist.

To be considered a professional artists you must have (for three years prior to your emergency):

• Earned at least 50% of your income from the sales of your art (a portion of this income may come from related activity, such as teaching workshops, etc).
• Spent at least 50% of your work-time producing and marketing your artwork.
• Exhibited your artwork locally and/or nationally.

If you need more information or feel that you are an emerging or experimental artist and that your work falls outside the professional artist guidelines, you may appeal by emailing: scaarf@artforart.org.