About Arts For More | How we co-create a better world through the arts

What We Do

We collaborate with artists, venues, presenters, and non-profit organizations to create digital content and live performances that bolster the work of artists and leverage their creativity to help solve local and global issues.

We do this in two key ways:

  1. Drops - Musical and visual artist collaborations released digitally in online galleries

  2. Performances - Pop-up and regular benefit concerts, gigs, and events

Who We Serve

Artists

Visual and musical artists who desire a larger reach and deeper impact

Non-Profits

Organizations looking for creative ways to create lasting impact, support, and revenue

Presenters & Venues

Promoters and spaces who need to create, build, and amplify their audiences while helping drive change

Fans & Supporters

Individuals who attend and contribute to the missions of artists and non-profits, people longing for the “real” arts, both live and digital

Meet the Team

  • Peter Barshay

    FOUNDER

  • Sheryl Lynn Thomas

    MARKETING CONSULTANT

  • Kristin Ratten

    CONTENT CREATOR

  • Mali King

    DESIGNER

Frequently Asked Questions

  • A4M includes artists ranging from the “soon-to-be-discovered” to the world-famous! Musicians, authors, comedians, actors, dancers, and a wide variety of visual artists will be part of ARTS FOR MORE (A4M).

    Learn more about our artists here.

    Artists benefit from being involved in the following ways:

    • A4M will provide an effective way to cross-promote our artists to completely different groups of people, helping to reimagine and build live local arts scenes along with increased activity on their own social channels.

    • A4M artists will benefit from having an effective and straightforward way to do better marketing and promotion. Artists need help with this!

    • Artists will benefit from the development of additional performance opportunities, both within and independent of A4M performances.

    It's always good to do good!

  • A4M will collaborate with a wide variety of presenters and venues, ranging from tiny to large, depending upon the art form and artist.

    In addition to providing new and effective ways to build their audience and customer bases, affiliation with A4M will enhance their reputations by keying into causes that they support, leading to more business for them, independent of the A4M performances model.

    Learn more about becoming a presenter or venue here.

    • Organizations will benefit from the creation of new and ongoing revenue streams with minimal time and resource commitments.

    • A4M will enable them to showcase their work and messages to new audiences.

    • NPOs/NGOs will provide information and presentational materials for A4M use. As part of the A4M community, their primary role is getting the word out to their community of supporters by being active via their social channels, and spreading the word about A4M drops and performances.

    • They will be exposed to new artists and enjoy the creative endeavors of artists at all levels of notoriety.

    • Fans and supporters will get to know new presenters and venues that support causes and artists they believe in.

    • Fans and supporters will benefit from being a part of the solution, and receiving while giving.

    • Fans and supporters become A4M collaborators, helping spread the word about our mission.

  • There are a variety of ways that A4M will generate revenue for nonprofits, artists, and venues.

    They include:

    • Add-on and round-up fee structures and strategies will maximize contributions while minimizing fees charged to artists, venues, presenters, and NPOs.

    • A4M will seek out B corps and corporate sponsorship support for A4M performances, such as a brewery-sponsored performance series at their location.

    • A4M will seek out B corps and corporate sponsorship support for ARTdrops, such as Art Storefronts, an online gallery platform.

    • Individual and corporate matching funds for donations

    • A4M performances and A4M projects series subscriptions

    • development of merchandise strategies for both A4M performances and A4M projects

    • VIP upgrade development for both A4M performances and A4M projects

    • Ad-based and sponsored revenue from A4M performances: live, streaming, and archived.

  • Artists will be able to choose an organization that is already affiliated with A4M, recommend an organization (pending the vetting process), or have A4M choose an organization for them to support.

    Ultimately, the choice is in the hands of the contributing artist(s).

  • Our ongoing, regular business model thinking doesn’t require significant resources from non-profit organizations, making even a relatively small net profit a success. This platform is about building numbers of individual events that happen frequently – it's not necessary for every A4M event to be the proverbial "annual fundraiser." 


    A4M performances will be one-stop shops, enabling all its user groups to take advantage of the unique and effective nature of benefit concerts. 


    A4M and A4M performances will turn many small actions and donations into something bigger as we build our community, expand into multiple regions, and scale up.

  • A4M is a creative arts organization and a marketing tool for its collaborators. We use a combination of modern and traditional strategies for the end goal of doing good and creating sustainable benefit for both the arts and non-profit organizations.

  • A4M is a first-of-a-kind organization, integrating cause-related thinking into the regular performance/business models of artists and presenters via a one-stop-shop platform.

    • A4M production costs will be minimal.

    • A4M will remain a virtual company to the greatest extent possible, with a minimal footprint.

    • A4M users will participate repeatedly due to the unique and ever-changing creative energy and offerings of its artists and presenters.

    • A4M will give fans and supporters multiple reasons to support our artists, arts presenters, and NPOs/NGOs using A4M performances, A4M projects, and future models.

  • A4M is fiscally sponsored by Intersection for the Arts, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, which allows us to offer tax deductions for contributions and funding.

    During our Proof of Concept phase, A4M will be funded by a wide variety of individual and other funding sources.

    Some future funding possibilities will include: corporate partnership and funding support, individual donations supporting A4M operations, and the development of potential user group subscription models.

    • Develop A4M productions.

    • Develop ways for the A4M performances and networks to respond as a group to immediate relief situations.

    • Curate live multi-media artist collaborations.

    • Develop podcast(s).

    • Develop and grow social media channels.

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