Artists
@ Work
Serving artists, youth, and community since 1992
Founded
in 1992 by Karen Atkinson and Joe Luttrell, Side Street
Projects is an artist-run organization that helps visual
artists negotiate the baffling terrain of the contemporary
art world. Our mission is to give artists of all ages
the ability and the means to support
their creative endeavors. Simply put: we help artists,
and we do so with a wide array of unusual programs and
practical services that help artists roll up their sleeves
and do things themselves. These values of self-reliance,
sustainability, and survival permeate all aspects of
our programs and facilities.
We are a mid-sized nonprofit with a full-time staff of 3. Each year, more than
1,000 children age 5-11 participate in our renowned Woodworking Bus program,
which teaches kids how to use tools and create unique objects out of wood. For
the grown-ups, we provide a host of practical support services designed to meet
the needs of working artists, directly serving over 400 adult artists each year.
Although we provide services to kids and artists all over LA County,
we make a special effort to show our love for our adopted hometown of Pasadena...
especially Northwest Pasadena, which is where we've been headquartered since
November of 2001. In fact, in just the past 4 years alone, Side Street Projects
has:
- Taught over 1,160
Pasadena children at 15 PUSD elementary schools aboard our Woodworking Buses.
63% of these children participated at no cost thanks to support of the Pasadena
Art Alliance, The Tournament of Roses Foundation, and the City of Pasadena
Cultural Affairs Department. This represents over $60,000 in donated, long-term
workshops at 10 PUSD schools in Northwest Pasadena.
- Helped over
330 Pasadena-based artists with our Equipment Rental Co-Op and Career Survival
Workshops for adult artists. 66% of the artists who won an individual artists grant
from Pasadena Cultural Affairs Department in 2007 were alumni of our programs.
- Donated in
excess of $58,000 in equipment rentals, media support services, and technical
expertise to Pasadena's cultural institutions and charitable organizations
in support of local exhibitions and fundraising events.
We are currently in-residence
at 730 North Fair Oaks Avenue in our new mobile headquarters: a pair of solar-powered
vintage travel trailers originally built by J. Paul Getty (seriously). For complete
details about this exciting public art experiment, please visit our trailer page.
| » Staff
& Administration |
Jon
Lapointe
Acting Executive Director
jon@sidestreet.org |
Emily
Hopkins
Education Director
emily@sidestreet.org |
Ed
Stevens
Alternate Routes Teacher |
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Joey
Stuckelman
Head Teacher - Office Manager |
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Kelly
Austin
Alternate Routes Teacher |
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Natalie
Mercado
Alternate Routes Teacher |
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Sarah
Espinoza
Alternate Routes Teacher |
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Robert
Parra
Alternate Routes Teacher |
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Joseph
Kohnke
Alternate Routes Teacher |
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Liz
Glynn
Alternate Routes Teacher |
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Liz
Goetz
Alternate Routes Teacher |
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| » Board
of Directors for 08/09 |
Jose
Caballer (Chair)
Creative Director & CEO, The_Groop |
Maite
Zabala (Treasurer)
Nonprofit Consultant,
Past-Chair |
Jon
Schnitzer
VP of Sales, ImageOne Graphics |
Bari
Zipperstein
Artist |
Denise
Seider
Artist, Arts Consultant |
Lorraine
Molina
Director, Bank Gallery |
Dianne
Magee
Attorney (Retired), Distinguished Community Leader |
Janine
Perron
Asso. Dir. of Development,
The Hammer Museum |
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Support Our Programs
 We
do a lot of good on a modest budget with only 3
full-time employees. How do we do it? We love this
job, and we have help from people like you... that's
how. Click the link below to support our programs
with your tax deductible gift.
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Benefits of Membership
There's
lots of art organizations in this town,
but how many bend over backwards to
help the most important members of
a vibrant arts community... namely,
the artists themselves? Side Street
Projects does, that's who! Help support
Side Street's programs and get some
cool rewards, too.
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