About

OUR MISSION

The A&L Berg Foundation provides access, tools and resources to create, evolve and sustain diverse perspectives and narratives in the United States visual arts. We support and empower individuals committed to making systemic and scalable impact in their practices and communities.

OUR Vision

We believe the key to creating, evolving and sustaining diverse voices and narratives in the United States is to empower the visual arts professionals who form our institutional ecosystems and provide platforms for artists.We believe that artists possess unique abilities to see the nuances of society’s problems and provide creative solutions to these problems. 

Our Values

  • We believe that culture thrives and evolves through the recognition and sharing of diverse histories, narratives and perspectives. We define “diverse” as including or involving people from a range of different abilities and economic, ethnic, gender, geographic, identity, racial, religious and social backgrounds.
  • We center people. We care for humans and value holistic capital over projects, objects or output. “Capital” includes and is not limited to knowledge, intellect, relationships, access, time, social and/or financial capacity.
  • We do not place extra burdens on people or communities we intend to empower without compensation.
  • We believe in empowerment through reciprocity in all of our programming.
  • We consider all program and partnership participants members of our flourishing network. We aim to maintain engagement and mutual prosperity well beyond the official dates of a specific cohort, program or collaboration.

Who We Are

Our Advisors

  • Andrea Bowers, Artist
  • Deana Haggag, Program Officer for Arts and Culture, Mellon Foundation
  • Sandra Jackson-Dumont, Director and CEO, Lucas Museum of Narrative Art
  • Christine Y. Kim, Britton Family Curator-at-Large, North American Art, Tate Modern
  • Courtney J. Martin, Executive Director, Robert Rauschenberg Foundation
  • Brooke Minto, Executive Director and CEO, Columbus Museum of Art
  • Franklin Sirmans, Director, Pérez Art Museum Miami