While recently expounding on how foundations can assist artists in rapidly gentrifying cities, we called attention to one obvious strategy, employed by the S&R Foundation in the Washington, D.C. region: 

Recognizing the District’s need for studio space for artists, the S&R Foundation is offering local artists six months of free space in the Fillmore School in Georgetown. The Washington non-profit…

The trope of the “starving artist” is an old one, but in the Washington region, the “nomadic artist” might be more accurate. In a hot real estate market, the cost…