Spring Gala & Auction: Celebrating Education at the Bronx Museum: 10 Years of Teen Council
Monday, March 2, 6:30PM at The Conrad New York

On Monday, March 2, 2015 The Bronx Museum of the Arts held its annual benefit and auction Celebrating Education at the Bronx Museum: 10 Years of Teen Council.

All proceeds enabled the Museum to continue offering free public programs, Free Admission, internationally recognized exhibitions, and arts education programs to over 12,000 Bronx youth each year.

 

Voice overs by honorees writer/photographer Arlene Alda, businessman Elliot Brownstein, fashion designers Darlene & Lizzy Okpo, and muralists Tats Cru --all Bronx natives.

 

The successful event was featured in AVENUE Magazine's Parties and Events section.

 

Honoring

Arlene Alda
Author/Photographer
Arlene Alda graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Hunter College, received a Fulbright Scholarship, and realized her dream of becoming a professional clarinetist, playing in the Houston Symphony under the baton of Leopold Stokowski. She switched careers when her children were young and became an award-winning photographer and author who has written nineteen books, including Just Kids from the Bronx, which will be released March 3, 2015. She is the mother of three daughters and the grandmother of eight. She and her husband, actor Alan Alda, live in New York City and Long Island.
 
Elliot Brownstein
Bronx Museum Trustee and President of Garage Management Company
Elliot Brownstein, a Bronx native son and graduate of DeWitt Clinton High School, has been an active member of the Bronx Museum Board of Trustees for over a decade, advancing the scope of the Museum’s programs and activites. In his professional life, he has been the owner and CEO of several successful businesses in New York City. He founded and served as President of Durand Advertising for several years before starting a new company, Mutual Parking, Inc. As President of Mutual, he operated a chain of over 50 garages and parking lots, and later merged his company with Garage Management Company (GMC) of New York. Mr. Brownstein also started City Valet LLC, which makes available over 500 parking attendants to chauffeur clientele to their destinations using the customers’ own cars. 
 
Tats Cru
Artists
Tats Cru is a group of Bronx-based graffiti artists turned professional muralists whose works transformed graffiti into a highly regarded art form. Working together since the mid-80’s, the current members of Tats Cru are Bio, BG183, and Nicer. Over the last two decades, Tats Cru has produced advertisements for clients ranging from neighborhood businesses and institutions to large corporations like Coca-Cola and Sony. Tats Cru is also a major producer of New York City-style memorial murals, and they have also created artwork for many musicians including Nikki Minaj, Missy Elliott, Metallica, Big Pun, Jennifer Lopez, Rick Ross, and DJ Kool Herc. Tats Cru’s studio is based at The Point in Hunts Point, Bronx where they work closely with The Community Center to educate Bronx youth in all aspects of visual art.
 
Darlene and Lizzy Okpo
Fashion Designers
Darlene and Lizzy Okpo were born and raised in the Bronx after their parents moved to New York from Nigeria. They started as a creative duo in 2005 with a t-shirt line “Mayhem.” After a 2008 trip to Nigeria, they launched their own label, William Okpo, a women’s wear collection inspired by their parents’ personal style. With William Okpo, the Okpo sisters illustrate the unique aesthetic that results from the juxtaposition of the immigrant’s sense of style combined with American sensibilities.
 
Honorary Chairs
Robert Klein
John Patrick Shanley
 
Artist Chairs
Dillon Cohen
Katie Holten
Tim Rollins
 
Co-Chairs
Laura Blanco
Olivia Douglas
Marilyn Greene
Ruth Corn Roth  
 
Location:
102 North End Avenue
New York City
(Between Murray and Vesey Streets)
 
Special Guest Performer
Kevin Harris
Jazz Pianist and Faculty at Berklee College of Music
 
Master of Ceremonies
Lynda Lopez
Journalist; Anchor, CBS Newsradio
 
Online sale supported by Paddle8
 
Dinner by Union Square Events

 

Lead Sponsor

 


AUCTION

Featuring Artists

Diana Al Hadid

Miya Ando

Alexandre Arrechea

Jared Aufrichtig

Donald Baechler

Claudia Baez

Patrick Berran

Janet Biggs

Julien Bismuth

Ernesto Burgos

Alberto Casado

Willie Cole

Caetano De Almeida

Shepard Fairey

Tony Feher

Ramiro Fernandez

Jake Fernandez

Dan Finsel

Tony Fitzpatrick

Fragments Jewelry

Mary Frank

Jane Freilicher

Richard Garet

Theaster Gates

Leon Golub

Dan Graham

Joel Greenberg

Clinton Hill

Steven Hirsch

Katie Holten

Carl Holty

Michael Joo

Anna K.E.

Tim Rollins and K.O.S.

Maira Kalman

Betsy Kaufman

Mike Kelly

Keizo Kitajima

George Kovacs

Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt

Lisa Leone

Dean Levin

Jeff Chien- Hsing Liao

Rubén Torres Llorca
Hew  Locke
Vivian  Maier
Gordon Matta-Clark
Mary  Mattingly
George McNeil
Jessica Mein
Sean Mellyn
Jose Toirac and Meira  Marrero
Pat Moser
Richard Mosse
Isamu Noguchi
JJ PEET
Karlos Pérez
Jon Pestoni
Elizabeth Peyton
Chloe Piene
Liliana Porter
Jon Pylypchuk
Jon Pylypchuk
Lee Quinones
Raquel Rabinovich
Pedro Reyes
Katrin Saigurdardottir
Emilio Sanchez
Jessica Sanders
Kate  Shepherd
Alan Shields
Harriet Shorr
Samara Shuter
Amy Sillman
Xaviera Simmons
Michelle Stuart
Rachel Sussman

Swoon
Jorge Tacla

Tats Cru
Henry Taylor
Ana Tiscornia
Gladys Triana
James Turrell
Nicola Tyson
Manuela Viera Gallo
Darren Waterston
Madeline Weinrib
Stanley Whitney
Timothy Woodman

 

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Benefit Committee
Rae Alexander-Minter**
Eric Appel*
Augusto Arbizo*
Sigmund Balka**
Laura Blanco** and Robert F. Shainheit
Holly Block**
Linda Blumberg**
Marianne Boesky
Laura Bohn*
James-Keith Brown and Eric Diefenbach
Deborah Buck
Victoria Cabanos** and Philip Hecht
Ellen Cantrowitz*
Katherine Chan*
Fiona Cibani
James Cohan
Alessandra DiGiusto**
Olivia Douglas** and David DiDomenico
Dana Emmott
Lea and Stephan Freid*
James Fuentes*
Liz Goldman
Gail Gregg
Marilyn and Stephen Greene**
Horacio José and Julia P. Herzberg*
Susan Hinko** and Carl Batlin
Joyce Hogi**
Jeanna Hussey**
Susan and Steven Jacobson
Keesha Johnson
Nicole Klagsbrun*
Liz Klein*
Alice Kosmin**
Serge and Ian Krawiecki Gazes
Joan Krevlin**
Ashley Leutner, Paddle8*
Cher Lewis
Teresa Liszka & Martin Weinstein
Candice Madey*
Mary Beth Mandanas**
Diane and Adam Max
Cormac McEnery**
Lisa Melmed Cohen
Joseph Mizzi**
Nathan Newman**
Ifeoma Okoronkwo Aitkenhead**
Wendy Osloff*
Debra Palma
Meredith Palmer
Penny Pilkington*
Lesley and Jonathan Plotkin**
Nancy Portnoy*
Simon Preston*
Stacey Richman
Tim Rollins**
Ruth Corn Roth**
Mary Sabbatino
Don Savelson**
Abigail Scheuer
Carole Server** and Oliver Frankel
Lauren Sharfman   
Manon Slome**
Joshua Stein PLLC**
Lybess Sweezy and Ken Miller
Sarah Sze
Frederieke S. Taylor
Leslie Tonkonow
Madeline Weinrib
Kate Werble*

*Art Auction Committee
**Trustees

 

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About the Teen Council

The Bronx Museum Teen Council, comprised of a group of high school students working closely with educators in the Museum’s Media Lab, was created in 2005 to make contemporary art and culture accessible to urban youth. This eight-month after-school program provides Bronx teenagers with an open forum for a dialogue on issues affecting young people while exposing them to the Bronx as an important cultural, political and artistic force. Almost all of the students who have participated in Teen Council continue on to college, often the first in their families to do so.
 

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