Save the Date: June 24th.. for The Rema Hort Mann Foundation 10% Charity Event
Save the Date: June 24th.. for The Rema Hort Mann Foundation 10% Charity Event.
It's a new great event during Gay Pride Week NYC.. focused on Gay Artists!
Here's the event website : http://www.rhmfoundation.org/10percent/index.html
There's A Silent Art Auction Featuring Over 70 Works Donated by LGBTQ Artists
A fundraiser during gay pride week—
open to everyone! And no, the auction is not a bunch of bull dyke and giant penis pictures.
Wednesday, June 24th from 6 to 9pm
at 28 Wooster Street, the former home of art recession road kill Guild and Greyshkul Gallery.
Tickets $20 at the door.
Plus they have an amazing art auction featuring some of the most important LGBTQ artists in the world. Where 100% of all the proceeds from the sale of artwork go to support cancer patients, and visual artist and the creation of a new fund to sponsor event, presentations, and lectures by artists from the gay community. Can you have a more worthy cause?
(Photo #1 for auction.. by : Robert Melee Disco Tray(2009), Medium: Enamel on metal, Dimensions: 23" x 14", Minimum bid: $1,200, Estimated retail value: $2,400, Courtesy of the artist and Andrew Kreps Gallery)
So MAO got the chance to ask some nosy questions to the event organizer.. Quang Bao, director of The Rema Hort Mann Foundation.
Here's a bit of the MAO interview. See you on June 24th.. and HAPPY PRIDE! Plus there's more info here.
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4. So you're establishing a year-long fund for art projects that supports the larger community of gay artists? What type of projects are you considering? Have there been any so far? How many projects per year? What's the goal for the fund?
A: The fund will be established based on the proceeds after 10% so nothing's set yet. We plan to put together a simple RFP that will allow for the artists to propose ideas for an event, public presentation or even artist workshop that will put artists in touch with one another and a larger public. We'll form an external committee to help decide who gets the grants and how much. You have to put back whatever you draw from a particular community, and this is our way of acknowledging the true spirit and energy of 10%.
5.What are the highlights in terms of the artworks available and the party?
A: We've got over 70 pieces--beautiful photographs priced at $250 from recent MFA graduates all the way up to Andy Warhols. We're also intending to make this a real party. I'm not a hip downtown club goer but I understand that our 2 DJs are the hottest, the host is someone people fly in to see and there's free drinking all night long. Anyone who comes will want to stay--there just won't be a better art benefit to go to during gay pride week.
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Posted by: extravagantes | July 01, 2009 at 08:49 AM
It's a great art.It is something different from anything else.I really appreciate it.
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