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When you make a gift to the USC Fisher Museum of Art, you have tremendous flexibility in determining how the funds will be used, as well as many options for making your gift.
Unrestricted gifts are among the most valuable to USC, because they allow the museum to allocate funds wherever the need is greatest, and to take advantage of unique opportunities as they arise. Your unrestricted contribution may be used to support costs associated with financial aid, innovations in teaching, research equipment, facilities, and much more.
Directed gifts allow you to designate your gift to a specific program or event. When you make a directed gift to the museum, you enjoy the satisfaction of knowing you are supporting a program that is personally meaningful to you.
You also have the option of designating your gift for current use or for endowment. Current-use gifts provide funds and flexibility over the short term, whereas endowment gifts provide security over the long term by expanding the university’s permanent financial base and creating a predictable source of future income.
USC Fisher Museum of Art will accept donations of works of art under the following conditions:
- they fit within the scope of its current collection and collection policy;
- the objects are relevant to and consistent with the purposes and activities of the Museum;
- the Museum can provide for storage, protection and preservation of the objects under conditions that ensure their availability for Museum purposes and in keeping with professionally accepted standards.
The decision to accept an object into the Museum’s Collections will be made by recommendation of the Curator and approval of the Director. As a rule, the USC Fisher Museum of Art only accepts unrestricted gifts. It is intended that the objects shall have space in the collection as long as they retain their physical integrity, their identity, and as long as they remain useful for purposes of the Museum. Title to all objects acquired for the collection will be obtained free and clear without restrictions as to use or future disposition, and no work will be accepted which requires an attribution or other circumstances of exhibition or use in perpetuity or other extended period of time.
When you make an outright gift to USC, your contribution can be put to work immediately—either providing funding for current programs or creating a reliable source of future income by expanding the university’s endowment. An outright gift may be composed of almost any asset of value:
Cash gifts—the simplest and easiest gifts you can make—can be made through credit/debit card transactions, outright cash, or personal checks, cashier’s checks, or money orders made payable to the University of Southern California. The university also has a wire account; please contact a the Associate Director for details about making a wire transfer to USC.
Gifts of appreciated securities, stocks, and bonds also provide considerable tax advantages when transferred to USC before they are sold. If you have held your securities for more than one year, you may find that your gift will provide a twofold tax benefit, creating an income-tax deduction as well as helping avoid the capital-gains tax that would have been due on their sale.
If you wish to transfer stocks from a broker’s account: USC has accounts with major brokerage firms. Have your broker call the USC Treasurer’s Office for further details and information. If stocks are to be delivered by DTC to the university’s bank, contact the USC Treasurer’s Office to have delivery instructions faxed or e-mailed to your broker or financial advisor.
If you wish to make a gift of physical securities on hand: Physical stock certificates may be sent by certified mail or overnight express, with endorsement on the back of the certificate(s) exactly as stated on the face of the certificate(s). Do not fill in any other blanks. No stock power is necessary as long as you do not fill in the university’s name on the back.
You also may make a gift of mutual funds, non-marketable stock, or closely held stock. Contact the USC Treasurer’s Office for information about giving these types of securities. USC’s address in connection with gifts of securities is:
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(213) 740-5413 or 740-5414
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Gifts of real estate—including personal residences, second homes, income property, and vacant land—offer a wide variety of tax and other benefits. Whereas most people give their entire interest away, it is also possible to give only a portion of the property (an undivided percentage interest) while retaining the rest for other purposes.
Gifts of personal property—works of art,
To learn about deferred or planned gifts, including bequests, life-income plans, and other options for your estate—and for information about increasing your income, earning valuable income-tax deductions, and reducing your estate taxes—please visit the USC Office of Planned Giving Web site.
An easy way to double or even triple your donation to USC is to find out if your company has a matching-gift program. Such programs typically match all or a percentage of employee contributions to charitable organizations, making the employer a partner in employees’ personal philanthropy. Simply obtain a matching-gift form from your employer’s personnel office, fill it out, and provide it to USC with your contribution.
USC welcomes your gift through a pledge—a formal statement of intention to make a gift to the university. With a pledge, you may complete your gift by making regular payments over time, allowing you to give more generously than you originally may have considered. What is more, each payment on your pledge is eligible for an income-tax charitable deduction.
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So lucky to have witnessed the performance by Abigail DeVille. Loved the discussion after with Edgar Arceneaux where they got into migration, family, borders, north, south, countries, the homeless, colleges, majors and so much more. Thanks edgar_three for getting me out there! Thrilled to have also seen and met a Creative Capital grantee 2015!!🙌🙌 #abigaildeville #art #performance #uscfisher #creativecapital creative_capital
Apr 1
Saw the Kara Walker Exhibit at USC today with silk_kittenn & I highly recommend it. Walker’s work explores Black American history, and she uses silhouettes, historic illustrations, classic mythology and much more to create her vision. Sobering & arresting artwork from one of the greats 🤘☮️
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Oct 11
Amazing exhibition of works by Louise Bourgeois now on view at USC Fisher Museum of Art.
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Our newest exhibition, “Louise Bourgeois: What is the Shape of This Problem?” is officially OPEN!
On view Tuesdays-Fridays from 12:00-5:00 PM, and Saturdays from 12:00-4:00 PM.
#louisebourgeois #modernart #losangelesmuseums #uscfisher #uscfishermuseum #mentalhealth
Sep 23
It was a little hard to get pictures once it got dark outside, but here`s a couple from the event. Almost all the seats were filled 🤍✨ Always a pleasure to sit down, relax and create with others.
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Mar 6
Ayeee, got a Paint Night Tonight for my Black Trojan family! A couple years ago, I had my exhibition "Black Girl Blues," but for this project, I was tasked with visually expressing the other end of the spectrum – Black JOY! I`m so excited for you all to see the image you`ll be recreating. We will be at the Fisher Museum of Art from 6pm to 8pm 😆 So thankful to the Most High Yah for this opportunity! Fight On, and all glory goes to God. 💯 I hope to see y`all there.
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Feb 24
Today is the last day to see pamdouglasart work in "Art and Hope at the End of the Tunnel" at fishermuseum
Curated by russianedward
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Dec 4
#Repost fishermuseum with make_repost
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Gajin Fujita
How the pandemic has affected my art practice:
During this pandemic, I found it that I have had more time to live with my art practice. So, I’ve been able to give and pay more attention to the paintings I’ve worked on. Also in this pandemic, I have been able to witness and experience the many social ills that we humans create and a lot of it has made for some great content to be used in my works.
A short statement about included pieces:
In this painting, No Man’s Land, I’ve painted a particular corner of the LA inner city, where we call the cornfields. This area is mostly a commercial zone so there really doesn’t exist a residential neighborhood but there once was a thriving community that existed when the Tongva people used to call this area their home. I’ve also painted Bird/God (tengu) characters attacking a coyote on this street corner. In this painting, I wanted to capture the idea of evolution and the idea of time. I feel all the fighting, struggles, competition, and dominance that all life on this planet is constantly practicing make up natural evolution.
Gajin Fujita
No Man`s LAnd
2020
Spray paint, paint markers, Sakura streak, 12K white gold leaf, and 24k gold leaf on wood
Courtesy of the Artist and L.A. Louver Venice, California
Copyright Gajin Fujita
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Nov 5
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fishermuseum Join us for an exciting conversation on November 5th with three artists from Los Angeles: Gajin Fujita, Alfonso Gonzalez Jr., and Devin Reynolds. Featured artists from the current exhibition Art & Hope at the End of the Tunnel will discuss their process and practice, inspiration, growing up in Los Angeles, and creating work during the pandemic. The evening’s discussion will be moderated by artist, curator, and USC Roski School of Art and Design alum Dulce Soledad Ibarra. Followed by Q&A and refreshments.
Register for this event at the LINK IN BIO!
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Gajin Fujita
"No Man`s LAnd"
2020
Spray paint, paint markers, Sakura streak, 12K white gold leaf and 24k gold leaf on wood
Courtesy of the Artist and L.A. Louver Venice, California
Copyright Gajin Fujita
Alfonso
"Air"
2020
Oil and enamel on canvas
Courtesy of Thomas Johnson
Copyright Alfonso Gonzales Jr.
Devin Reynolds
"Chainlink
2021
Acrylic on panel
On Loan from Artist
Copyright Devin Reynolds
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Nov 5
Curated by my favorite Russian russianedward and up at the USC Fisher Museum fishermuseum in great company with kengonzalesday grantalexandra zcwalsh farrahkarapetian among many others
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How the pandemic has affected my art practice:
Making art one is constantly reflecting and negotiating the process of creating. During the pandemic, I wrestled with how I could carve (and even maintain) a creative path through such uncertainty and mark the time we were in. I came to deeply appreciate the simplicity of making small drawings that weren’t connected to my past works or driven by deadlines of shows and completions of projects. Stripping down to the bare minimum as time stretched out during this period put me back in touch with how I was a creator as an art student. You just show up and see what happens.
A short statement about the included piece:
`The Sun Burns My Eyes Like Moons` draws from solar eclipse expeditions, carvings on Egyptian temples, and the study of the sun up at Mt. Wilson Observatory at the solar observatory at the turn of the century.
Lia Halloran
The Sun Burns My Eyes Like Moons (Prototype)
2021
Cyanotype from painted negative ink and acrylic on paper
Courtesy of the Artist and Luis De Jesus, Los Angeles
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Nov 4
Gallery artists Mark Steven Greenfield, and Andy Moses are included in Edward Goldman’s curatorial group-show at USC’s Fisher Museum of Art, “ART AND HOPE at the end of the tunnel.” Forbes Magazine’s Tom Teicholz writes and interviews Goldman on the exhibition’s central theme convening on art created during the pandemic. Link in bio!
“As an artist, this pandemic has had some unexpected silver linings,” Andy Moses wrote in response. “It allowed my mind to slow down.”
On view September 10 to December 9 fishermuseum
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(1) Artwork: Mark Steven Greenfield, “Escrava Anastacia” (2020) Gold leaf and acrylic on wood panel, 24” x 24”
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