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Open Universe is America's first museum dedicated to artists with disabilities. It is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit — already operating, already collecting, already placing work in the world. Your support builds the institution that makes it permanent.
A direct gift to the museum. Funds artist acquisition, collection development, programming, and Hub buildout in Miami. From $250.
DonateBecome a patron. Rotating museum-quality works placed in your home or office. From $1,000/year for individuals, $5,000/year for organizations.
Become a patronBring the collection into your institution. Hospitals, offices, hotels, and civic buildings become part of the museum network.
Join the networkFoundations, corporations, and institutions. Co-present programming, support the archive, and build the museum at scale. From $25,000.
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Open Universe is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. All donations are tax-deductible. Funds go directly to artist acquisition, collection development, museum partner network expansion, and Hub buildout in Miami.
This is not a program that ends when a grant does. Your support builds an institution that will outlast any single gift and serve artists and communities for decades.
Supports one work in active rotation — keeping an artist's piece in front of audiences across the country.
Funds the acquisition of a work into the permanent collection — establishing an artist's institutional record.
Directly supports the Hub buildout and collection expansion — your name in the founding record of the museum.
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Your space becomes part of the museum.
Hosting a Node is not sponsorship. It is participation. Open Universe works with institutions across healthcare, hospitality, corporate, and civic environments to bring rotating museum-quality exhibitions into everyday public life.
Each partner institution is recognized as an official Open Universe Node — connected to a living collection in continuous circulation across the country. Open Universe oversees installation, deinstallation, curatorial planning, and programming connected to each exhibition.
Waiting rooms, corridors, and patient spaces become sites of sustained cultural engagement through rotating exhibitions from the collection.
Lobbies, conference rooms, and shared environments host curated exhibitions that connect organizations to the artists and the broader mission.
Hotels and hospitality environments become part of the museum's public-facing network — creating unexpected encounters with contemporary art.
Civic environments extend the museum into everyday public life and expand access far beyond the traditional gallery audience.
Join the museum network
Build the institution at scale.
Foundations, corporations, and institutions who want to be part of building Open Universe from the ground up. Institutional partnerships support the archive, the national collection, Open Invitational, and the permanent Hub in Miami.
Lead institutional partnership across the Archive, National Collection, Open Invitational, and future museum programming.
Support the development of the national archive, research access initiatives, and long-term documentation efforts.
Support acquisitions, collection growth, institutional placements, and curatorial development.
Support Open Invitational exhibitions, public programming, and institutional engagement initiatives.
Support artist participation, studio partnerships, research initiatives, and public access programming.
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The museum is being built.
Be part of it.
Open Universe exists to give artists with disabilities the permanent cultural infrastructure they have never had. Every gift, every partnership, every hosted exhibition makes that infrastructure more real.