The auction will be the only silent portion of the celebratory evening. DJ Flub will be enthralling the crowd with his razor wit and rocking decks as the benefit guests enjoy both the Ad Hoc Art gallery and the Ad Hoc Art studio, opened to the general public for the first time to highlight the screen-printing facilities and educational programs that instructors from Peripheral Media Projects call home, as well as many local and international artists.

Fans and friends of the Brooklyn street art community will be welcomed and encouraged to meet one another, bid on the artwork and believe in the power of art to impact us all.

Brooklyn Street Art Auction

Friday, April 25th, 2008, 7-10 pm  (last bids at 9:30 pm)

Press preview from 6-7 pm

Ad Hoc Art, 49 Bogart St.

Bushwick, Brooklyn

Immediately following the Free Arts NYC benefit auction guests are invited to continue celebrating three blocks from Ad Hoc Art with a booty-shaking Afterparty at Wreck Room.  The afterparty will feature DJ Mojo, Stay High, Jimmy and the Wolf Pack, projections, and surprise guests.  And the Wreck Room kitchen will be open!

The Brooklyn Street Art Auction is the first of 5 planned launch parties to be thrown in pivotal street art neighborhoods in 2008 to celebrate Brooklyn Street Art.  Each event will showcase the work of some of today’s Brooklyn street artists, and will focus on the particular neighborhood, including Williamsburg, the Navy Yard, Dumbo, and Red Hook. 

The next Brooklyn Street Art launch party will be held May 2nd in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

For more information on Free Arts NYC please visit http://www.freeartsnyc.org

For more information on Ad Hoc Art and to see images of the donated artworks in the days before the benefit auction please visit http://www.adhocart.org

For more information on the book Brooklyn Street Art and to see images of the donated artworks in the days before the benefit auction please visit http://www.BrooklynStreetArt.com

CONTACT:

For questions please contact:

Info@BrooklynStreetArt.com

CONFIRMED ARTISTS

Anera, Armsrock, Borf, Celso,

C.Damage, DAIN, Dark Clouds, Deeks, DiRQuo, Elbowtoe, ELC, Fauxreel, Flower Face Killah, Gaia, GoreB, Haculla,
Infinity, Judith Supine,
Jp, McMutt, MOMO, Noah Sparkes, Royce Bannon,
Skewville, Swoon, Dan Witz, and WK Interact

Check Back Here for Updates to this List!

A silent auction to benefit the youth and family creative arts and mentoring programs of Free Arts NYC is being generously hosted by Ad Hoc Art on Friday, April 25th to celebrate the launch of “Brooklyn Street Art,” followed by a booty shakin after-party.

BROOKLYN, NY—Ad Hoc Art is thrilled to be hosting and supporting a special silent auction benefit Free Arts NYC and to celebrate the launch of Brooklyn Street Art, a new book of photographs by Jaime Rojo, designed by Steven P. Harrington, and published by Prestel.

Ad Hoc Art is generously donating their gallery space for the celebration and silent auction of approximately 25 works by well-known, emerging, and yet to be discovered artists who know no boundaries and follow no rules—their artistic turf is the public gallery of the Brooklyn streets.  The artists, whose work animates the pages of this new full-color book, are donating their original or editioned works to be bid up and auctioned off, with all proceeds from the winning sales going directly to benefit Free Arts NYC’s creative arts and mentoring programs for at-risk children and families in New York.

Some of the artists have participated in Free Arts NYC’s programs prior to this event and are creating original work to donate to this benefit event to generate significant support for Free Arts NYC.