Mildred's Lane
YEAR OF SILVER
Fundraising Drive 2022

Mildred’s Lane is an artist residency and creative community compound celebrating its 25th year of hosting international artists. Mildred’s Lanecultivates shared experiences and interdisciplinary collaborations, pushing the limits of what art can do – collapsing the boundaries that separate life from art and inspiring each other to integrate political activism with everyday creative living.

To ensure that Mildred’s Lane continues in the future, its co-director, artist J Morgan Puett, and her co-founder, artist Mark Dion, have started the process and strategic planning needed to donate and shift the 93-acre site into a foundation.

Everything about Mildred’s Lane resists commodification. In our hyper-consumerist culture, Mark and Morgan believe in its mission: a place where the hierarchies of the outside world disappear in shared labor and collaborations on discreet landscape interventions and event-based projects.

Mildred’s Lane and its participants advocate for the environment – central to all planning for the future.

Last year, the local government ordered Mildred’s Lane to ‘cease and desist.’ They demand an upgrade to the site to meet newly passed ordinances for public gatherings and overnight accommodations. Though a lot was accomplished to meet the township's demands last summer, Mildred’s Lane hopes to make further changes to continue to house and grow projects with artists for years to come, but these changes are expensive.

Please consider a contribution to this incredibly important and special place.

Mildred's Lane announces partnership with a new fiscal sponsor – CREATIVE VISIONS – a 501 c3 EIN: 39-1902814.

Here is how to send a check to Mildred’s Lane. We are directing all donations to Creative Visions. Suggested contribution of 1000. to 5000. But any amount helps! Forward this to anyone you think might help. Thank you!

• Make sure checks are made out to Creative Visions.

• WORKSTYLES/Mildred’s Lane should be written on the memo line.

• Send checks to:

CREATIVE VISIONS
c/o Grace Breuer
1047 Ford Drive
Nipomo, CA 93444

Special gratitude goes to The Abakanowicz Arts and Culture Charitable Foundation, The Silbert Foundation, The Goldman Foundation, and every Individual generously donating to Mildred’s Lane. Thank you for all your support!