San Diego Artists' Emergency Support League (SD-EASL)
San Diego Artists' Emergency Support League (SD-EASL) provides limited emergency financial assistance to local visual artists and visual arts professionals, who are in need because of a medical crisis, accident or loss of personal or professional property.

San Diego Performers & Writers Emergency Relief (SD-PWER)
San Diego P.W.E.R's mission is to provide limited emergency financial assistance to San Diego County's performing artists, writers, filmmakers and other art professionals who are in desperate need because of a medical crisis, accident, fire or loss of personal and professional property.

Arts For Healing
The philanthropic organization works with healthcare facilities and community organizations to grow and nurture arts for healing programs.

Wounded Warriors Wives Retreat
Synergy Art Foundation has provided a grant to support this program whose goal is to support caretakers of soldiers suffering with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and Traumatic Brain injuries, returning home from Iraq and Afghanistan. The program recognizes that the war does not end on the battlefield, but continues in the homes and lives of these affected soldiers returning home. The program provides relief to the caretakers who are themselves beginning to take on trauma of their own. Quarterly day and weekend retreats create an atmosphere of support, relaxation and rejeuvenation to defuse stress to these wives and mothers. The creative arts have been an important component of the retreats by helping these women find a safe place to express and explore their diverse feelings and experiences. Journaling, book making, painting and photography have added life, introspection and emotional support. The program team, "Families Adopting Families, includes Tama Dumlao, Brigid Brett and Joyce Noblitt Herold.

Art with a Heart
is a collaboration between Scripps Memorial Hospital Encinitas (under the direction of the Arts for Healing Program, Gerrit Greve, Coordinator), and local schools, as a community outreach program.

SDSPACE4ART (Affordable work/live space for artists)
Synergy 's current project San Diego Space 4ART involves helping our community to develop permanent, affordable live/work spaces for local artists and arts organizations and create sustainable creative communities in San Diego. We have created this survey to assess the needs of our region. Please click: SDSPACE4ART Survey to participate.

Barrio Logan / East Village Arts District (BL/EV)
Barrio Logan East Village Arts District (BL/EV) exists to create and fund a district dedicated to making art and nurturing artists and thereby provide work and economic opportunity. Under the leadership of Mario Torero, an art center, called La Bodega, has been established which reaches out to neighborhood children to learn art and participate in creating community murals in Barrio Logan. It also has provided a small but intimate venue for community activities and performances. Logan Avenue has been adopted to be part of an arts beautification process. Torero has also established an art school, La Bogeda, at which neighborhood children learn how to paint.

Arts Education
Synergy Art Foundation collaborates with local organizations to provide and promote arts education to children and youth and to pioneer new arts educational programs that may combine two or three disciplines, such as the arts and nature, art and environment, art and science.

The Prizm Process
"Books, Murals and Miracles" is a 4 week summer youth art program consisting of 6 workshops ranging from story-telling, illustration, color theory, concept design and spraypaint techniques to teach the youth the steps it takes to create a mural. The participants ranged in age from 8 -19 years old. It is held in connection with The Bookman, The El Cajon Boulevard BIA, Space4Art and the Synergy Art Foundation and led by Isaias Crow and Irene Castruita of The Prizm Process. The Prizm Process provides programs designed to transform, inspire and uplift communities through the arts and civic engagement. The theme of the mural was "The Importance and Magic of Literature." Each part or segment of the mural represents a different genre of books. This powerful experience fused literacy, murals, graffiti and life skills to generate one story that the group then painted on a 150' x 12' mural. The kids need this kind of engagement, attention and stimulation of their mind, spirit and soul. You can visit this mural at 4275 37th Street, San Diego, California. For more information, contact Isaias Crow via e-mail at croler@gmail.com or telephone at (619) 757-6146. Facebook/The Prizm Process.

Classics 4 Kids
In collaboration with Classics4Kids, Synergy Art Foundation retained two professional art instructors to conduct visual arts workshops with multiple local school children. The focus of the program was Impressionism culminating in a classical music performance reaching over 1000 students. Children designed and created beautiful CD covers for the discs they all received of the musical program performed for them.

Community Arts Programs
Synergy Art Foundation partners with local communities to undertake meaningful community art projects not only to beautify our towns but also to strengthen and build our communities.

Legacies
Synergy Art Foundation collaborated with StoryArts to connect the elders and youth in Solana Beach. 

Solana Beach Coastal Rail Trail Public Art
Local artist, Betsy Schultz, was commissioned to create a public artwork for the City of Solana Beach's Rail Trail project. The Rail Trail was designed and executed by Glen Schmidt's landscape architectural firm. Betsy has designed a gateway to the trail comprising two arches. Synergy Art Foundation contributed to the lighting of the artwork, a vital component to any public artwork to be seen at night.

International Art Projects
Zimbabwe Aids Orphans Art Project
Synergy Art Foundation has partnered with Umzingwane Aids Network in Zimbabwe to provide visual arts workshops for Aids orphans. Tama Dumlao, a local artist, has taken the Aids orphans' artwork to a new level by integrating it into unique, artistic but functional tote bags currently being sold at local musems and stores.

Hope for Haiti
Synergy Art Foundation is collaborating with two Haitian arts organizations, The Angels of Haiti Project and Atis-Rezistans to raise funds for their communities of artists and children. Both communities were wiped out by the earthquake. Haitian art ranging from masters to children is for sale.

Peru Earthquake Relief Fundraiser
In 2007, Synergy Art Foundation raised money for the musicians and artists impacted by the earthquake that leveled Cincha, Peru. The event was co-sponsored by Centro Cultural De La Raza.

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