Works For Sale

The purchase of an artwork or poster from in FCA's collection of donated works benefits the Foundation for Contemporary Arts (FCA) programs of grants to artists.

FCA held its first benefit exhibition in 1963 with 67 visual artists donating work to support their peers in the performance arts. This fund-raising exhibition was the first of its kind, with artists asked to contribute works to be sold in support of a charitable cause.

Since 1963, FCA has held periodic benefit exhibitions and over 1,000 artists have contributed works to these efforts. Benefit exhibitions were held sporadically in the early years and are now held every two to three years. FCA always offer works for sale, not auction, and if a work remains at the end of a benefit exhibition, we ask the artist if we may hold their work for future sale. This is a vital way for FCA to sustain our programs in the intervening years between benefit exhibitions. We are grateful to the contributing artists and those interested in their work for sustaining the collection and our programs--as always, artists for artists is at the core of FCA's mission.