March 29, 2011Artist(s): Ushio Shinohara, Shingo Francis, Gen Aihara, Katsuhiro Saiki, ON Megumi, Yumi Kori, Tomomi Ono, Nikki Schiro, etc.
ART FOR JAPAN
Art Exhibition to help the Earthquake and Tsunami victims in Japan
Tuesday, March 29 2011, from 5 – 8PMVenue: ISE Cultural Foundation Front Space Gallery
On March 11, the massive earthquake of magnitude 9,0 and the huge Tsunami hit Northeast of Japan and caused catastrophic damages. Thousands of people were killed and many more are still missing.
ISE Cultural Foundation is organizing 1-day art exhibition of "ART FOR JAPAN" in order to raise the fund for the earthquake and Tsunami victims in Japan.
The artists will donate their artworks and exhibit at ISE Cultural Foundation Front Space Gallery on Tuesday, March 29.
All of the artworks will be sold either $20 or $40 in cash only.
*ISE Cultural Foundation will match up the same amount of the all sales from the event and will donate 100% of the fund to Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima prefectures through the Japanese American Association of New York.
Today I registered to be a stem cell/bone marrow donor at a drive that was organized in the Ballroom of the HI Hostel in Harlem (What a cool building); an extension of Anna Lise Jensen's artwork "Have a Seat" (The floor installation which debuted as Jensen's contribution to the Composting Installation for the Sweet + Sour show...). My mouth was swabbed, as I sat on Anna Lise's floor installation. I filled out an application, got a sticker, painless and very interesting as I met a ton of extraordinary people and volunteers--one a survivor, whose presence and story really brought the live saving aspects of this kind of simple donation into the space and my heart. To close, I was offered a bright candy-ful print by Anna Lise Jensen, called "Life Savers"....
Another donor getting swabbed on the installation
