Light the Path
Together we can light the path and provide artists impacted by homelessness access to the resources and platform to flourish independently.
Make a Donation
Every contribution creates an invaluable safety net which allows our artists to take risks, explore their creativity, gain new skills, discover their artistic style, and flourish in their artistic endeavors.
Your financial investment lays the foundational groundwork for current and future participants to be spurred on to success in flourishing artistic careers.
Checks payable to:
Daybreak Arts
Mail to: 1207 Dickerson Pike
Nashville, TN 37207
Your donations provide artists a platform to share their talents.
“For many artists today, there are so many closed doors. It’s painful when you want people to appreciate what you’re doing.”
— Daybreak Artist, Edwin Lockridge
Daybreak Arts is funded in part by Metro Arts Nashville Office of Art + Culture, Tennessee Arts Commission, Six Talents Foundation, Carolyn Smith Foundation, Buckingham Foundation, The Louie M. and Betty M. Phillips Foundation, Fullgraf Foundation, Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee, Memorial Foundation, HCA Foundation, Bonnaroo Works Fund, and hundreds of individuals in our community.
This project is being supported, in part, by federal award number SLFRP5534 awarded to the State of Tennessee by the U.S. Department of the Treasury.
Click the images below to shop our curated lists of needed items.
When you give these tangible items, we’re able to reallocate our funding to other growth opportunities for our artists.
Write off your gift.
As a 501c3, your cash and in-kind donations to us are tax- deductible.
EIN: 46-3699416
Give in a different way.
Support Daybreak Arts (formerly POVA) and the Tennessee Arts Commission (TAC) through your purchase of a Tennessee specialty license plate. TAC provides funding through its grant program to Daybreak Arts (formerly POVA), as well as arts organizations throughout Tennessee.