2020/21 Overview

In early 2020, soon after our artists’ epic fashion show to mark our 10th anniversary, COVID-19 arrived on the scene and shook up the next 2+ years of Make Studio operations. Rather than rehashing those tumultuous years in traditional annual reports, we invite you to take a scroll back through our social media, which were key for the extra program communication and documentation needed by our artists and studio community during that time. The archive of our “Making it Work During COVID” page provides a snapshot of how we took studio operations and exhibitions virtual and then hybrid to keep our achieving our mission against the odds. Like many other nonprofits and small businesses, Make Studio navigated and survived the uncertainties of the early pandemic period by virtue of the dedicated support we received from our Board and long-term friends of the studio, as well as generous emergency funding from: