For more than two decades, VIA Collaborative Arts Corporation has grown from a simple belief: that when artists come together across disciplines, something extraordinary can happen.
Movement can become music. Objects can hold memory. A performance can become a space where people gather to imagine a different future—together.
This past year, that belief unfolded in powerful ways. Our large-scale collaboration [ ] traveled to San Francisco for preview performances, following open rehearsals in Brooklyn that welcomed neighbors, fellow artists, and national and international arts leaders into the heart of our process. At the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, I shared our methods with emerging artists who will shape the next generation of performance.
Now we look toward 2026—a year of artistic momentum and sharing. After more than five years of creation, we will premiere [ ] here in Brooklyn, our creative home. We are planning conversations, workshops, and community gatherings that open our process to people of all ages, and we continue developing new works that ask urgent questions about how we live, remember, and move through a changing world.
This work is made possible by people who believe in it.
And as we look toward next year, we know that belief will carry us into 2026, and beyond! Arts visionary and VIA supporter John C. Robinson has committed to match the first $5,000 we raise toward our individual giving goal. An anonymous donor has pledged to match the next $3,000.
Together, these matching gifts mean your contribution—of any size—will be doubled, helping us reach our total goal of $16,000 for this campaign, and setting us up for a vibrant, ambitious year ahead.
As a small nonprofit, we rely on the generosity of individuals who share our conviction that interdisciplinary performance can be a force for connection, reflection, and transformation. Your support fuels the daily, often invisible labor of creation: artist fees, rehearsal time, residencies, community programming, and the space to experiment boldly.
Recent contributions from donors like you have helped us reach important milestones, including our first organizational grant from the New York State Council on the Arts, and support from The Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation, The Charles and Joan Gross Charitable Foundation, Brooklyn Arts Council, and others. These foundations strengthen us as we step into a year of premieres, expanded audiences, and new possibilities.
Every gift—large or small—helps us continue making work rooted in collaborative creation, curiosity and community. Thank you for supporting this!