APRIL BEY STUDIO / EQUITY IN COLLECTING PROGRAM

The Equity in Collecting Program is a pilot program from April Bey Studio aimed at creating access and inclusion for potential art collectors who are routinely unable to collect art and support artists of their interest due to being from a marginalized background. Marginalized populations are groups and communities that experience discrimination and exclusion (social, political, and economic) because of unequal power relationships across economic, political, social, and cultural dimensions.

This program will act as a supplemental aide to support equity within the art gallery system of selling and collecting art—it provides a discount to bring artworks down in price for collectors to afford who otherwise would have no access. The works are priced as they should be in accordance with the artists worth and market value, but the supplemental discount will act as a leveling agent to provide access to potential collectors otherwise excluded. Potential collectors from marginalized backgrounds are defined here as:

  • Identifying as Black, African, African American or from the African Diaspora

  • Identifying as a woman of color

  • Identifying as a person of color

  • Identifying as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and/or gender expansive, queer and/or questioning, intersex, asexual, and two-spirit (LGBTQIA2S+)

  • Indigenous or the descendants of the peoples who inhabited the Americas, the Pacific, and parts of Asia and Africa prior to European colonization

  • Operating as a single parent

  • A person with disabilities

  • Recipient of WIC, SNAP, CalFresh or any other state or federal assistance program

  • Emerging artists in any discipline/field 

  • Emerging curators

  • Public service employees (educators and classified staff at state or community colleges, university/CC art gallery curators)

  • Any other specific economic marginalization not mentioned above

INSTRUCTIONS: To participate in this program, potential collectors must complete an application which places them on a waitlist and sign an agreement upon sale which includes an anti-flipping (reselling) agreement. Please review the information below:

  • APPLY: Complete the Equity in Collecting Program Application

  • ARTWORK PRICING:

    • *Sponsoring Collector: $5,000.00 + Shipping

    • Equity Collector: $500.00+Shipping (90% Discount)

      *Sponsoring Collectors qualify for the Equity in Collecting Program but choose to purchase artwork at full cost. Excess funds go back into the Equity in Collecting Program.

NEXT STEP INFORMATION FOR THOSE WHO MADE THE WAITLIST:

  • Your application will be reviewed by the artist

  • A list with all approved names in order of submission will be sent to all galleries from the artist

  • Galleries will reach out with available works

  • Everyone who made the waitlist will get a work but if you want an exact work you need to be prompt when responding to galleries, in all regards

  • If you did not secure a spot on the waitlist for this round your name will be automatically added to the next round

APPLICATIONS FOR THE EQUITY IN COLLECTING PROGRAM ROUND II ARE NOW CLOSED.

THE ATLANTICAN PORTAL GROWERS

Space travel is involved and expensive on Earth but on Atlantica, a spaceship isn’t the only modality of transportation. 5-7 plants of the calathea or pineapple variety grown together with high humidity and purple light will transport you between Atlantica and Earth in 30-90 seconds.

The Portal consists of plants that have been grown and maintained by The Portal Growers, Atlanticans stationed all over Earth and Atlantica and within many different time periods at once.

This body of work depicts Eleutheran Portal Growers from various time periods on Earth (Eleuthera, The Bahamas)  who tend to the AfroPineapple Venuses which when grown can cut transportation time down to 5 seconds and leaves the traveler with moisturized pineapple-scented hair and skin.

Atlanticans complete all tasks looking fly.