Business Sponsorship and Corporate Underwriting

Your company, corporation, family foundation, or other organization can directly support comtemporary arts in Western New York and become a vital part of the Hallwalls family of supporters. Sponsorships are available at many levels, and our diverse programming is almost certain to include an event, series of exhibition of particular interest or relevance to you.

At each of the sponsorship levels listed below, acknowledgement for your donation will include:

• your name and logo in our monthly printed calendar mailed to 4,000 households, with another 3,000 distributed throughout Greater Buffalo.
• your name and logo on all posters, flyers, and brochures for the event or exhibition you are sponsoring.
• acknowledgement in press releases and public recognition at all public events (artists' talks, concerts, screenings, etc.)
• a link to your company's website on our frequently visited website, www.hallwalls.org

Sponsorship levels.

$5000 and up - Gallery Underwriter
Help defray the costs of exhibiting artists' stipends, supplies and materials for fabrication and installation, shipping travel and lodging, and publications. In addition to the basic acknowledgements listed above, you will recieve:

• your name and logo on the title wall for the duration of the exhibit (usually six weeks).
• name and logo recognition in the exhibition's catalogue, a permanent document of the show.
• the opportunity to host a reception for your employees, clients, or guests in the Gallery during the run of the exhibition.

$2500 and up - Music Impresario
Sponsor concerts, concert series, and musicians' residencies by contributing directly toward artist fees, travel and lodging, and publicity and production costs.

$1500 and up - Media Arts Backer
Underwrite a media arts series of film festival, special screening, or visiting media artist or filmmaker, including artists' honoraria, travel and lodging, film and video rental fees, and—for media artists in residence—production costs.

$1000 - Brick and Mortar Supporter
Help us do the day-to-day work of keeping the doors open. By supporting our general operations, you play a crucial role in our ability to keep serving artists and audiences as Hallwalls has been doing for a third of a century.

Special Event Sponsorships
We're alwasy on the lookout for cash sponsorship and in-kind donation for special fundraising events like Artists & Models, our signature fundraiser that regularly draws enthusiastic crowds in the thousands, along with many other annual and one-time special events. In addition to serving as yet another stream of operating revenue, these events expand our audience and membership base, involve artists in innovative ways, and are a lot of fun—and we're eager to include you in that process, too.
Email , Development Director or call (716) 854-1694 if you have any questions.

Special Event Sponsorship Opportunity

Artists & Models #23: Rapture/Rupture

Event Date: Saturday, May 21, 2011

Sponsorship Deadline: March 11, 2011

We're always seeking cash sponsorship and in-kind donations for the 23rd Annual Artists & Models, our signature fundraiser that regularly draws enthusiastic crowds in the thousands. In addition to serving as our signature fundraising event of the year for operating revenue, this event expands our audience and membership base, involve artists in innovative ways, and is a lot of fun—and we're eager to include you in that process, too.

Hallwalls' Artists & Models art party has come to signify all that's cutting-edge and dynamic in the Buffalo arts scene and this year's event, Artists & Models is the must-attend event of 2011.

This year, Artists & Models 2011 is going to be a veritable feast for the senses with approximately 33 original art installations, live music and performances, DJs, a variety of beer selections and great wine, locally-based food vendors, and much more. It will take place at Rock Harbor Yard, near Rt. 198 at 57 Tonawanda Street, west of Buffalo State College Campus, on Saturday, May 21 from 9:00 p.m. to 2:00 a.m.

To make Artists & Models a super success we are looking for business sponsors. If your business can commit to being one of our sponsors you will be included in promotional materials leading up to Artists & Models, giving you targeted access to Western New York's coolest crowd – a minimum anticipated audience of 3,500 people.

Significant promotion of Artists & Models will take place, including (but not limited to):

• Press releases promoting Artists & Models to print media within a 100-mile radius of Buffalo (including southern Ontario), and local radio.
• 500 posters, 10,000 postcards and thousands of newsletters & flyers promoting Artists & Models will be disseminated throughout Western New York & Southern Ontario. (Posters and postcards created by acclaimed designers, Besty Frazer and Julian Montague of Frazer Montague Design)
• Promotion on Hallwalls' web site and 5000 mailed calendars prior to the event.
• Your sponsorship supports Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, which has been bringing the best that contemporary artists have to offer to Western New York for 35 years.

Business or Individual Sponsorship Levels

$250 – name included in press releases, Website, 4 complimentary tickets ($60 value)

$500 – name included on all press releases and 500 posters, name on website, 6 complimentary tickets ($90 value)

$1,000 – name included on all press releases, name on 10,000 postcards, name on 500 posters, logo on Hallwalls' website, 10 complimentary tickets ($150 value)

$2,000 – name included on all press releases, name on 10,000 postcards, name on 500 posters, link on our website, and 15 complimentary tickets ($225 value)

$2,500 – name included on all press releases, name on 10,000 postcards, name on 500 posters, logo and link on our website, and 20 complimentary tickets ($300 value).

We know you will enjoy your complimentary tickets to what will be a memorable affair. And, of course, your donation is tax-deductible.

We're looking forward to a spectacular event and hope you can be a part of it through sponsorship!