GHIBERTI FOUNDATION
1100 California Street, San Francisco, CA 94108 www.gracecathedral.org

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Organizations Filed Purposes: Ghiberti Center for Culture is a nondenominational nonprofit organization whose primary purpose is to enrich and inspire all people through arts, music and education programming and to preserve Grace Cathedral, a San Francisco treasure and resource.Grace Cathedral is a renowned landmark, visitor destination and a regional magnet where diverse people come to celebrate, find solace, peace and quiet, connect with others, serve and be served and learn. It is also home to a loving congregation of about 500 households. Just like our visitors, our congregation includes families and singles, children and seniors, and a diversity of ethnicities, races, sexual orientations, interests and backgrounds as wide as the world itself.Ghiberti Center for Culture is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation formed in 2001. While distinct from the Grace Cathedral Board of Trustees and management, the trustees of Ghiberti work closely with them toward a common goal to serve the people of the Bay Area and beyond. G

The Ghiberti Foundation is the arts and culture foundation at Grace Cathedral.

Artist in Residence:The Ghiberti Foundation is committed to new arts initiatives, as embodied by its Artist in Resident program. The Ghiberti Foundation provides world class artists with opportunities to create new works, allowing artists both a venue and a paid opportunity to create. In the past, the Ghiberti Foundation has engaged playwright and actress Anna Deavere Smith to write and premiere a new play, "On Grace," with original music by cellist Joshua Roman.Visual artist Anne Patterson created an art installation, Graced with Light and collaborated with Roman and composer Paul Haas to engage audiences through a synthesis of art and music. Light and sound artists Elaine Buckholtz and Floor van de Velde premiered their work, Field of Prayer, an integrative, immersive light and sound installation. Video artists Jim Campbell and Benjamin Bergery created an installation entitled Jacobs Dream: A Luminous Path, a work of light and moving images designed to evoke a pathway between earth and heaven, between the visible and invisible this work is still on view in the Cathedral. Poet Sarah Kay, renowned for her spoken word poetry, shared her poetry at services, in performance and in classrooms. Visual artist Sukey Bryan addressed the truth of climate change with artworks inspired by water and fire, and created projects inspired by birds and the ocean with the Cathedral School for Boys and in summer arts programs. Most recently, internationally-celebrated choreographer Alonzo King created a new work entitled Grace, danced by his company LINES Ballet in two sold-out performances in February 2020.Performance at Grace Cathedral:The Ghiberti Foundation supports the performing arts at Grace Cathedral through a high-quality series of musical and theatrical performances with the goal of bringing performers representing diverse cultures and musical disciplines to Grace Cathedral. The cathedral is a glorious space both for self-produced collaborative concerts and as a rental space for other organizations, both local and international. Performances produced by the Ghiberti Foundation include free organ recitals and concerts by the Grace Cathedral Choir of Men and Boys, as well as collaborations with select groups. In recent years, the Ghiberti Foundation has co-produced concerts with the San Francisco's finest brass ensemble, The Bay Brass, SFJAZZ, ODC Dance Company, Marin Theatre Company, San Francisco Silent Film Festival, and the Alexander String Quartet, among many others.Education:The Ghiberti Foundation provides support to The Community Preschool, Grace Cathedral, which serves low-income families by offering one-third of its enrollment a full scholarship to the families in the Tenderloin neighborhood of San Francisco and sliding scale tuition to another third of its students.Public Conversation:The Forum at Grace Cathedral, produced by The Ghiberti Foundation, is a central plank of the cathedral's expansive education program and its commitment to hosting public discussions and civic conversations for the city of San Francisco and wider Bay Area community. The Forum promotes the open discussion of ideas about faith and ethics in relation to the issues of our day. It hosts interviews with leading public figures and panel discussions with politicians, artists, writers, scientists, musicians, theologians and many others. It collaborates with the leading cultural institutions and universities of the Bay Area to bring the most innovative and interesting thinkers to our public space.

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