ABOUT BEING A SPONSOR

(If you're considering sponsorship or would like additional info, please email me: jhmott@juno.com).

The ROC-ART project is supported in part by a grant from NYSCA and the Arts & Cultural Council of Greater Rochester. But that only begins to cover the time and effort involved. I have recently started working with local businesses to develop a unique sponsorship program for the project.

Business Sponsors can commission paintings of their place of business, provide in-kind contributions, or both. What do you get for being a sponsor?
  • a painting of your business, your sign, or a local scene of your choice displayed in the ROC-ART blog, the project exhibit, and in project presentations (to schools and the general public).
  • sponsors who commission a painting get to keep the painting.
  • official notice and thanks in the blog, exhibit, and presentations.
  • the satisfaction of supporting a unique artistic and community initiative.
Commissioned paintings are consistent in format and style with other project paintings.  Artistically they are part of the project series but are owned and kept by the sponsor.  ROC-ART commissions are currently being offered at a reduced rate of $350; or two scenes for $550*. Paintings are oil on panel, approx. 6" x 9". Paid commissions are the most valuable form of sponsorship.
In-kind (non-monetary) contributions are another welcome form of sponsorship, either along with or in place of monetary commissions. Terms are worked out on a case-by-case basis.

*With paid commissions, sponsors may make a small in-kind contribution along with payment or in place of a small portion of the payment, as a nod to the spirit of "gift exchange" that animates the project.



ABOUT THE ART/ARTIST:

My art and outreach projects have been featured on the Today Show and in the national and local press, including: American Artist Magazine, Art Business News, the Christian Science Monitor, the D&C, and City Newspaper. My paintings are in private and institutional collections across North America, including the permanent collection of MAG. For more background, see: http://www.jimmott.com/.

The project is inventive and inspiring, but its real depth comes from the quality of his work - his fabulous sense of color, his gestural but articulate brush strokes... His paintings are such a pleasure to look at: as visually and emotionally engaging as the project is conceptually intriguing.

- Susan Dodge Peters, Director of Education, Memorial Art Gallery