Three Branches of the Reid Gorecki Foundation

Scholarships

Grants

Workshops

thank you image from CSARTS wellness room featuring art

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Small unrestricted individual scholarships to graduating high school students whose art plays a role in their own mental health or plan on integrating art and mental health activities into their college or career plans.

Focused on supporting arts and mental health integration through funding for supplies, training, and programming in high school wellness rooms . Arts and mental health wellness kits for schools without established wellness rooms.

Artist lead internships with youth teams to design and execute youth issue driven murals in public and private spaces. PLUS artist lead arts and mental health wellness workshops within schools, youth organizations and programs

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Reid Gorecki's artist statement.

All the stories I’ve conceptualized are out there and ridiculous, but what grounds them is the underlying human experience and challenges the characters must go through, even if on a surface level it seems like fantasy.

- REID GORECKI (January 2023)

★★★★★

Art is expression of life and what you have been through, everything that has ever happened to you, negative or positive, art shapes what you create. Art is relaying the human experience through creativity. That experience is multiple things, funny, sad, angry, happy, and the most compelling art is something that holds these feelings. If it makes you feel something, anything, I believe it’s an effective and beautiful piece of art. My art making is a reflection of myself. I think I put on a goofy character and make art to cope with things in my life.

These are human experiences shared by many and I think art is my way to process this for myself and show people they are not alone. Through my sketchbooks, my writing, my music, my sculpture, my film and animations I am coping, growing, and getting the never ending flood of ideas out of my head as best I can so they don’t overflow. Bringing all these facets of making together is by definition artistic experimentation, is me and is my work. If someone is able to connect with something I have made, or if the work speaks to even one person, I am satisfied.

I know art helps me to feel connected, not alone and that is important for everyone.