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Urgent call to Save the Arts in New York State!
On April 27, New York State Governor David Paterson proposed a 40% cut in funding the New York State Council on the Arts‘ (NYSCA) local assistance grant funding, a program responsible for the approximately 2500 grants each year given out to New York-based arts organizations with the goal of “preserving and expanding the rich and [...]
The DOT launches the reNEWable Time Square RFP
Beautifying the City’s many public spaces has been on our minds since the founding of ArtBridge in the Fall of 2008 and we’re happy to know that it’s a top priority for the Department of Transportation, too. Just this week, they released a Request for Proposals for their latest initiative, reNEWable Times Square. Like ArtBridge, [...]
Dick Blick and ArtBridge: a Proud Partnership
We’re very happy to introduce Dick Blick art materials as the first sponsor of ArtBridge! As we’ve been building this organization it’s been consistently important to us to partner with those companies and organizations we respect. Urban Samaritan, the incredible non-for-profit that employs homeless women to design and sew our fabulous tote bags was our [...]
Thank You to All Who Attended Last Night's Fundraiser!
Wow, what a wonderful evening! Thank you to all who attended and donated to help us reach our goal for the night of raising $1,000. With your help, we did it and will now be able to apply for the kinds of grants that will help us bring ArtBridge installations to construction sites throughout the [...]
ArtBridge Installation on Google Streetview!
The title of this post says it all. Have a look for yourself HERE. Seen any other public art around the City captured with Street View? Send us your screen shots and we’ll post a few of our favorites next week!
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Artist in Profile: Dalia Haber
By JORDANA ZELDIN Even when painting, Argentina-born sculptor Dalia Haber recalls that things were “always coming out” of her canvasses. An art teacher at the School of Visual Arts (where she received her BA in Fine Arts) casually remarked one day in class that she drew “like a sculptor.” For one of her early art [...]
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ArtBridge enters AIA's urbanSHED Design Competition
What is an “Urban Shed?” It’s the unsightly scaffolding that’s erected when a building is under construction, the very same thing that ArtBridge transformed into a giant canvas for the works of emerging Artists in March, 2009 on West 23rd Street’s London Terrace Gardens, Believe it or not, there are presently over 1,000,000 linear feet of “shed” [...]
Artist in Profile: Melissa Cowper-Smith
By JORDANA ZELDIN Brooklyn-based mixed-media artist Melissa Cowper-Smith laments society’s collective move towards an “IKEA Culture,” the expendability of the objects in our lives that she remembers as at one time “being sacred for longer.” “People like something for a while and then they simply give it up,” she tells me during our studio visit, [...]
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This Week in Public Art: The Public Art Fund’s Statuesque