Please Donate to the Art Ark 500 Development Fund

Date of Last Revision: 22 November 2025

Donations to the Art Ark 500 Program are organized into several separate funds.
This page is about the Art Ark 500 Development Fund.

This fund exists to support the basic work Losget Academy must do for the Art Ark 500 Program: overall management and operation, maintaining the online presence, and general outreach and development for the Program. Money in this fund is reserved for expenses directly connected to the Art Ark 500 Program.

Background: Why This Fund Matters

From the first cave walls to a child’s first scribbles, hand-painting has been the most immediate way for humans to put what they see and feel into visible form. The Mona Lisa is arguably more widely recognized than most literary characters. Today, however, the rapid rise of AI image generation is beginning to overshadow the light of hand-painting and to cool the next generation’s desire to learn it.

In a future where hand-painting artists may all but disappear, Losget Academy has launched the Art Ark 500 Program. Through many different efforts, the Program seeks to support 500 living hand-painting artists so they can continue creating, and to help them become the “lucky seeds” that board the art ark in the age of the cyber flood. 

We invite you to help us keep this ark above the water, and to give these “art refugees” a real chance at hope — and maybe, sometimes, at miracles.

How Your Donation Will Be Honored

Art Ark 500 Program follows a strict, public rule of transparency and gratitude:

• Immediate public record – Every donation is announced on the official website as soon as it is received, with the exact amount and the name of the individual donor or organization.
  
  

• Permanent traceability – All donation records remain permanently visible online, so anyone can follow the full history of support for the Program.
  
  

• Named entries – Each donation entry is listed under the donor’s personal or organizational name, creating a long-term public record and a quiet memorial of your support.
  
  

• Artistic gratitude – The names of donors will be woven into songs released by Losget Academy as a form of artistic thanks.
  
  

• Printed acknowledgement – All Art Ark 500 Program–related publications will include a donor list, recording the names of donors whose contributions were received before the manuscript deadline for that edition.
  
  

Under applicable law, donations cannot be tied to financial returns or other material benefits. A donation is a contribution to a public cultural mission, not a purchase or an investment.

If you or your organization are seeking branding, visibility, or other concrete benefits in return, please contact us separately to discuss sponsorship or collaboration options.

Your donation tells this era something very clear:
that art made by real human hands is still worth protecting.