The mission of the Black Rock Arts Foundation is to support and promote community-based interactive art. For our purposes, interactive art means art that generates social participation. The process whereby this art is created, the means by which it is displayed and the character of the work itself should inspire immediate actions that connect people to one another in a larger communal context. Our programs and goals in pursuit of this mission are fivefold: 1. Artist Grants - Furnish artists with direct financial aid for the production and display of interactive art works, with particular emphasis on those artists whose goals and projects exist beyond the institutional mainstream. 2. Community Development - Assist these artists to develop communal networks by facilitating contact with public institutions that can supply them with material resources, technical assistance, volunteer services and financial aid. 3. Exhibitions - Identify and support sites of public presentation for the display of interactive artwork, with special focus on venues that emphasize the civic function of such works. 4. Educational Outreach - Educate a larger public concerning the spiritual value and social relevance of interactive art. 5. Artist Development - Assist artists in documenting and representing their work in public media and to other institutions. In a larger context, it is the mission of the Black Rock Arts Foundation to promote a revival of art’s culture-bearing and connective function by removing art from its context in the marketplace and reintegrating it into communal settings. In many cases, this will be art that is designed to be touched, handled, played with, and moved through in a public arena. It is art that solicits a collaborative response from its audience, even as it encourages collaboration between artists. It deliberately blurs the distinction between audience and art form, professional and amateur, spectator and participant. Interactive art is generated by a way of life, and it seeks, in its broadest aims, to reclaim the realms of nature, history, ritual and myth for the practice of art. The Black Rock Arts Foundation is a 501(c)3 organization and donations are tax deductible to the extent allowed by law. Federal Tax Exempt ID #91-2130056.