ICA is a place of possibility and a launchpad for contemporary art and ideas. When you support ICA, you create possibilities for contemporary art to inform, challenge, and inspire.     

Throughout our 60-year history, supporters have made our mission possible, amplifying the voices of countless underrecognized artists. ICA encourages bold experimentation, deep connection, and boundless curiosity with artists and audiences alike—your support makes that happen.

In collaboration with artists and community partners, ICA offers free, accessible, educational, and expansive interactions for visitors across disciplines, ages, classes, races, and abilities. We engage our partners to build inclusive, vibrant creative ecosystems on Penn’s campus, throughout Philadelphia, and beyond.  

Your support enables ICA to flourish as a free and inviting space for everyone—from the local to the global—to grapple with the pressing issues of our time through the lens of art. 

Your support makes ICA possible.

Cash or check donations can be mailed to:  

The Institute of Contemporary Art
Attn: Development
118 S 36th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104  

Please contact Caroline Tweedy at ctweedy@ica.upenn.edu with any questions. 

View ICA’s Annual Report from fiscal year 2023 (July 1, 2022–June 30, 2023) for a snapshot of what we were able to accomplish with your support. Thank you for enabling us to make ICA’s vision a reality.

Support ICA Annual Giving Fund  

Your fully tax-deductible donation to the ICA Annual Giving Fund provides unrestricted support to ICA. This helps sustain our commitment to producing exhibitions and publications that center under-recognized voices, and offering public programs that provide hands-on learning opportunities and encourage scholarship and learning.    

To make a gift to ICA’s Annual Giving Fund, please donate online here. Donors who contribute $2,500 or more to the Annual Giving Fund in a fiscal year are recognized as members of ICA’s Donor Club, our annual giving leadership group. Learn more about the Donor Club in the section below.

Join the Donor Club

Donors who contribute $2,500 or more to the Annual Giving Fund in a fiscal year are recognized as members of ICA’s Donor Club, our annual giving leadership group. As a member of this group, you will be invited to curator-led tours, special ICA events and exhibition previews throughout the year.  

To support ICA through ICA’s Annual Giving Fund and join the Donor Club, please donate online here. For more information about the Donor Club, please contact Caroline Tweedy at ctweedy@ica.upenn.edu. 

Join the Agnes Martin Legacy Circle   

Individuals who share a deep love and appreciation for contemporary art can follow in the footsteps of celebrated artist Agnes Martin, who, from 1975–1976, made a series of gifts to ICA’s endowment that are now worth well over $1 million.   

By providing for the Institute of Contemporary Art through a will or living trust, a retirement plan, life insurance policy, or a life income arrangement such as a Charitable Gift, Annuity, or Charitable Remainder Trust, you will preserve and strengthen Agnes Martin’s original bequest and ensure that the art of our time and its ability to expand and enliven understanding of the world will forever be available to our various audiences.   

To become a member of the Agnes Martin Legacy Circle, contact Christina Yu, Associate Director of Grants and Planned Giving, at (215) 746-1471 or ctamyu@ica.upenn.edu. 

ICA Benefit 

The ICA Benefit is a special evening celebrating the institution and its impact on the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, and the global arts community. The festive event raises critical funds to support the many important activities of the institution, including exhibitions, publications, and public programs. ICA is proud to have honored visionaries, artists, and community members with a relationship to ICA and worked with an artist to develop a print for supporters of the benefit each year.   

ICA Benefit 2023 honored Maori Karmael Holmes, founder and Chief Executive & Artistic Officer of BlackStar Projects, and Ken Lum, artist Marilyn Jordan Taylor, Presidential Professor and Chair of the Department of Fine Arts at the University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design. Please view the ICA Benefit 2023 Impact Report and photos from ICA Benefit 2023! This year’s print, You Can’t See Me!, was created by artist and 2023 honoree, Ken Lum. You can view the print for sale here, as well as browse and purchase past Benefit Prints. 

For more information regarding the ICA Benefit or Benefit prints, contact Caroline Tweedy at (215) 573-9973 or ctweedy@ica.upenn.edu.  

Enjoy this special thank you message from ICA’s Daniel W. Dietrich, II Director Zoë Ryan to all who support ICA. This video was created to commemorate the close of the Power of Penn Campaign in June 2022. 

Featured Images: (Image 1) David Antonio Cruz: When the Children Come Home, 2023. Installation view, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania. (Image 2) Ken Lum, The Curse is Come Upon Me., 2023. Courtesy of the artist and Magenta Plains Gallery, New York. Visitors viewing Moveables during ICA’s Fall 2023 Exhibition Celebration. (Image 3) Exhibition tour with curators and artists of Moveables.
(Image 4) Visitors watching a performance by Los Bomberos de La Calle in ICA’s lobby. All photos by Constance Mensh.