support us
To support the Athena Art Foundation is to contribute to making pre-20th century art accessible to wider audiences all over the world. By helping us to build more interest and knowledge about this art, you will also be helping to ensure that the great art of the past continues to make us think, to educate us, and sometimes to delight us, as we grapple with the challenges of the future.
Each and every contribution makes a difference!
Tosa Mitsuoki, Autumn Maples with Poem Slips, c. 1675, Art Institute of Chicago. (photo Wikimedia Commons)
Here is what your contribution can help us to achieve:
£5/€5/$6 will help us to create one Instagram post, disseminating our content to tens of thousands of users. Our post about Homer Winslow’s ‘The Gulf Stream’, for example, reached 11,648 people!
£20/€20/$25 will help us to create one Instagram reel. Our reel about Casta Paintings in colonial Latin America reached nearly 9,000 users with a high engagement rate!
£50/€50/$60 will help us to commission an article for our webiste from one of our brilliant international contributors . One very popular piece was George Fountain’s exploration of Renaissance ideals of masculinity (you can still find it in the read section of our website).
£500/€500/$600 will allow us to produce one episode of our podcast, Athena Asks (covering the cost of research, recording and post-production). Our most successful episode so far featured fashion art historian Jonquil O’Reilly talking to Aoife Brady, curator of Italian and Spanish Art at the National Gallery of Ireland.
Join The Owl Club!
Looking for new opportunities to enjoy and learn about art and connect with other enthusiasts and professionals? The Owl Club - now active in New York and London - offers affordable insider access to galleries, artists’ and designers’ studios, art fairs, and private collections, with plenty of time to socialise over drinks with fellow members. The New York Club, which has been going for two years now, has had special events at the Robert Simon Gallery, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Hispanic Museum and Library, to name just a few. The income from membership fees makes a vital contribution to Athena’s international educational work!
LONDON OWL CLUB
Join before 15 September 2024 to become a Founder Member of the new London Owl Club, benefitting from a discounted rate of £200 p/a. From 16 September, Owl Club membership will be £250 p/a. (Annual memberships are renewable each year on the day you initially join the Club). Membership includes invitations to exclusive monthly in-person events
In galleries, artists’ studios, auction houses, and private collections
Private guided tours to museum exhibitions and art fairs*
Access to Owl Club New York events
Additional special events
Priority reservation privileges for The Athena Art Foundation fund-raising benefits
Highlights of the Owl Club Programme 2024-2025
September 2024
Inaugural Event:
Private Museum Tour
Sir John Soane’s Museum
September 6th, 6PM
New Announcement for October 2024!
VIP tickets to Frieze Masters
and guided visit to several stands
Saturday 12 October
November 2024
Fabrics Inspired by
Antique Textiles
Date TBA
March 2025
TEFAF, Maastricht
Passes and Private Tour
Date TBA*
*Please note travel, accommodation, and meals are not included
Events planned for April – August 2025 include guided visits to Treasure House Fair, tours during
London Gallery Weekend and London Art Week, and a trip to Paris!*
*Please note travel to Paris, accommodation, and meals are not included.
For further information on the 2024/25 programme, please email christina@athenaartfoundation.org
PAY PER EVENT
If you would like to try out some events or attend only occasional events, you can also pay for London-based events at a rate of £30 per event.
NEW YORK OWL CLUB
Membership of the Owl Club New York is $300 p/a (to begin when you join)
Membership includes invitations to exclusive in-person events
In galleries, artists’ studios, auction houses, and private collections
Private guided tours to museum exhibitions and art fairs*
Priority reservation privileges for The Athena Art Foundation fund-raising benefits and host committee
The Owl Club New York is a project of The King Baudoin Foundation USA.
Benefactor Membership $350
Invitations to in-person and virtual events exclusive to Owl Club members
Invitations to events exclusive to Owl Club members in galleries, artists’ studios, auction houses, and private collections
Private guided tours to museum exhibitions and art fairs*
Priority reservation privileges for The Athena Art Foundation fund-raising benefits and host committee
Invitation to additional special events for Benefactors
*These events will require a ticket purchase to attend
Alternative ways to give
For gifts by cheque: Write our cheque to KBFUS, write ‘Athena Art Foundation US Fund-The Owl Club’ in the memo section of the cheque and send it to KBFUS, 551 Fifth Avenue, Suite 2400, New York, NY 10176.
For gifts by wire transfer or to contribute other types of property, please email KBFUS at: info@kbfus.org or phone (212) 713 7660.
