Broad Room Creative Collective Sacramento

Did you know Broad Room's Free Art Supply Closet is chronically underfunded? While the number of people we serve has increased exponentially to 2,200 last year from about 100 people in 2020, our funding has not kept up. In 2020, we had the equivalent of $98 per person who came into the Closet and this year it's more like $13 per person. This is the reason why we can't open the Closet on additional days, do more community events, or keep the Closet well-organized. 

Did you know we don't receive any grant funding for the Free Art Supply Closet? This is because grant funds often come with restrictions on who we can serve with our programs and we are not willing to turn anyone away from the Free Art Supply Closet. 

We rely heavily on financial support from our community for this community-driven program. 

Broad Room Creative Collective (Broad Room) was founded in 2018 with the mission to provide space and resources for historically underrepresented artists in Sacramento. During the pandemic, we asked our community of primarily working class artists what they needed to survive and continue their creative practice. We launched the Free Art Supply Closet in October 2020 to provide artists with the supplies they needed to continue their work. Since 2021, this program has been sustained through art supply and financial donations from the community. 

We are now not only serving dozens of people every week who come into the Free Art Supply Closet, but we are also providing free art supplies at regular community distributions to our neighbors experiencing houselessness. We look forward to expanding our reach and deepening our impact in the community -- which we can only achieve through your generous support!