Arts-Based Restorative Justice
Program Invites All to Enjoy a Night of Art and Music to Raise Funds to Ensure
Its Continued Success
Get ready to build your art collection and help the cities youth! An art event you don't want to miss takes place in less than a week with a stellar group of international and local artists who've donated to the project.
Young
New Yorkers (“YNY”), an arts-based restorative justice program for 16- and
17-year-olds with open criminal cases, is hosting its second annual Silent Art
Auction on Wed. Oct. 16, 2013, 6-10 p.m., at the Allegra La Viola Gallery
(179 East Broadway, New York, N.Y. 10002).
The auction will feature works from renowned visual artists such as Shepard Fairey, Swoon, Stephen
ESPO Powers, Anthony Lister, Steven Holl, and many more. Cosmo Baker, legendary New York DJ, will
entertain the crowd with a live set. Tickets are $40 at the door, and include food, drinks, and an
unforgettable evening of art and fun.
Last year’s inaugural Silent
Art Auction funded YNY’s pilot program. The program offers 16- and 17-year-old teenagers,
who are charged as adults under New York law, a positive alternative to
incarceration. Successful graduates of
the program not only learn restraint, empathy, and compassion, but also often
have their charges dismissed and sealed.
This allows these young teens to live an adult life unencumbered by a
criminal record. 100% of the initial participants
graduated, underscoring the program’s efficacy.
Young New Yorkers Silent Art Auction is supported by Brooklyn Defender Services, Allegra La Viola Gallery, Six Point Brewery, Art Now NY and Scratch DJ Academy.
Purchase
tickets at https://www.eventbrite.com/event/7948298575. Peruse the art and place a bid at www.paddle8.com/auctions/youngnewyorkers. View a complete artist listing, and learn more
about YNY, at www.youngnewyorkers.org.
The Silent Art Auction
Lenny Correa, a.k.a.
Lunar New Year, the Auction’s curator, has assembled work from more than 60 of
New York’s most daring artists. He
stated that he felt a particularly deep connection with YNY, considering “[his]
practice as part of a generational tradition that was born as a form of
protest: when the young and disenfranchised started scrawling their names on
trains and walls, thus becoming visible to the city.” Further, he noted that YNY, “at its core,
takes a similar approach and aims to make these individual voices heard by all
of us.”
YNY co-founder and
Executive Director Rachel Barnard praised the artists who have contributed
their work and time to the Auction. She
noted that the arts-based nature of the program “is something that resonates
with many of our contributing artists, some of whom started their art practice
as graffiti artists and were arrested as teenagers.”
For more information, contact Rachel Barnard, YNY’s Executive Director, at rachel@youngnewyorkers.org.
