PICK UP! Somerville is Calling.
A Fundraver for the Somerville Museum
Thursday, September 10, 5:30-8pm
Crystal Ballroom, 55 Davis Square
CALL FOR ARTISTS!
$500 stipend
Deadline: May 22
Somerville Museum is calling all Somerville Artists to submit a proposal and portfolio to create this year's fundraiser invitation that celebrates the innovation
of the world's first Telephone call that was put through on April 4, 1877 to one Arlington Street in Somerville!! At the fundraiser on September 10 at the Crystal Ballroom, we will be celebrating a year of phone public art projects, telephone history, and all the ways that we are "connected" to each other!
By May 22, please submit
-a proposal describing your design
-samples of the style of work you would use
-bio
- cv
Combine as one .pdf document and send to info@somervillemuseum.org with the subject line: PICK UP artist call.
You will have until June 20th to complete the design. You can propose a central image or to design the full invite. The selected artist will be compensated $500. Reach out to us with any questions at info@somervillemuseum.org.
PICK UP!
SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES
Answer the Call. Support Community Connection.
We invite you to partner with the Somerville Museum as a sponsor of PICK UP! Somerville is Calling—a dynamic fundraising event that brings together art, history, and community voices.
Inspired by Somerville’s role as the site of the first residential telephone, this year’s event explores how communication connects us—across time, across difference, and across movements for freedom. At a time when many feel increasingly disconnected, this event celebrates the way the Somerville Museum brings history into the present day and helps us connect with our past and with each other as a community.
The event will feature several telephone-themed projects that the Somerville Museum worked on this year:
Interactive public art installations from Let Freedom Ring, highlighting lesser-known stories of individuals and places connected to struggles for freedom.
A participatory switchboard installation where attendees can reflect on freedoms won, threatened, or still unrealized—and visually connect their own ideas.
A “pick up the phone” experience, featuring recorded messages from Somerville residents responding to the theme of Revolution!
An immersive sound and light environment built from phone tones, voices, and shared narratives.
Jimmy Tingle will emcee and music by TJ the DJ will round out the program.
The Somerville Museum is a membership-supported, community-based cultural institution dedicated to connecting Somerville’s past, present and future through exhibitions, public History in the Park family programs, lectures, historic walking and site-specific, concerts, community storytelling, and hands-on history and art exploration for all ages. This fundraiser is essential to sustaining that work. Support from sponsors directly enables free and low-cost programming that keeps the Museum open, relevant, and responsive to the community it serves.
Sponsorship Levels
Presenting Sponsor – $15,000
● “Presented by” naming rights for the event
● Acknowledgment from the stage
● Name or logo on program, event, signage
● Full page ad in program (3.75“ W x 5.0” H)
● 10 complimentary tickets
● Recognition on social media, email newsletters, and website event page
History Maker Sponsor – $10,000
● Acknowledgment from the stage
● Name or Logo on program, event signage
● Half page ad in program (3.75” W x 2.5” H)
● 8 complimentary tickets
● Recognition on social media and email newsletters, and website event page
Friend Sponsor – $5,000
● Name or logo on program, event signage
● Quarter page ad in program (1.9” W x 2.5” H)
● 6 complimentary tickets
● Recognition in newsletters and website event page
Neighbor Sponsor – $2500
● Name or Logo on program, event signage, and website event page
● 4 complimentary tickets
Community Contributor – $1000
● Name or logo on website event page
● 2 complimentary tickets