NEWS & ANNOUNCEMENTS
Save the Date! Rex Foundation Annual Benefit returns
Save the date! Join us on December 3rd, 2022 for Rex Foundation's Annual Benefit at the Fillmore Auditorium in San Francisco. More details & lineup information to come very soon!
Report From Rex Grantee Budding Artist Foundation
The Budding Artist Foundation, a 2021 Rex grantee, sends us this report on your kind donations at work: "Your generous grant allowed us to support a visual arts program called ArtSeed. ArtSeed was founded in 2000 by teaching artist, Josefa Vaughan, with the goal to...
Grantee Update From T.R.E.E.
"Thank you again for your support," says 2022 Rex grantee T.R.E.E., which has worked since 1996 to teach responsible Earth education to students in the New Orleans area. "We received your gift and are very grateful for the much needed help for the upcoming school...
From The Archives: The Other Dream Team
From 2012: Rex Grantees on the Big Screen: The Other Dream Team By Mary Eisenhart One of Rex’s more unusual grants over the years was the one it gave the Lithuanian basketball team in 1992. Now the subject of a documentary film, the team represented the hopes and...
Remembering Craig Marshall
We are deeply saddened to learn of the untimely passing of Craig Marshall, founding member of Cubensis. Craig was a great guitarist, a fine interpreter of the Grateful Dead canon, and an all-around good guy who will be sorely missed by many. Read more in Relix. Craig...
Two Incredible Days in NOLA
Thanks to everyone who made Daze Between NOLA such an unforgettable gathering and celebration, from headliners The String Cheese Incident and all the artists to all of you who purchased tickets and joined us there. Also many thanks to everyone who bid in our...
Grantees in the News: Arhoolie Awards 2022
Rex grantee Arhoolie Foundation hosts its annual Arhoolie Awards March 26. Watch free on Nugs.net! For the last 25 years, the Arhoolie Foundation has worked to further the vision set by Chris Strachwitz, the founder of Arhoolie Records, to celebrate the great music...
Grantees in the News: Guitars and Ukes in the Classroom
Rex grantee Guitars and Ukes in the Classroom was the subject of a recent profile in Ukulele Magazine. "Kathy Byington’s third graders at a school in Thousand Oaks, California, have strummed their ukes while singing multiplication tables to 'Jingle Bells.' They’ve...
Introducing…Daze Between New Orleans!
Daze Between New Orleans is a two-day event taking place on the “Daze Between” New Orleans Jazz Fest weekends, Tuesday May 3-Wednesday May 4, 2022, at the Faubourg Brewery in New Orleans. The event will bring together some of the finest musicians from the Big Easy and...
Checking in with Herbicide-Free Campus
Herbicide-Free Campus is empowering the next generation of environmental leaders and creating safer, more sustainable living and learning environments for students and college campuses across the United States. Rex Foundation welcomed this organization to the family...