YouthShines Art Auction feature articles!
Source: Boston Herald and the Boston Globe Sidekick
Date: 2008/05/20
Auction Shines! spotlight on young artists
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twoodman@bostonherald.com
Think of it as an “auction block party.”
The Youth Shines! Art Auction tonight at the Boston Center for the Arts welcomes the community as paintings, drawings, sculptures and jewelry by more than 100 local young people go on the block to benefit the South End/Lower Roxbury Youth Workers’ Alliance.
“This brings together a cross-section of the community that normally wouldn’t socialize. It’s cross-class and cross-generational. It’s not that people don’t want to connect, but they often don’t have ways to do that,” said Sandy Martin, coordinator of the South End/Lower Roxbury Youth Workers’ Alliance. “The people who have donated art will be attending and get to meet the adults who will be buying their art.”
The Alliance provides grants, monthly meetings, training and support for youth workers in the neighborhood’s 40 youth programs. Money raised at tonight’s fund-raiser will decide the majority of the organization’s budget for the year.
Students, ages 14-18, from the teen portfolio class at the United South End Settlements’ Children’s Art Center, which benefits from the Youth Workers’ Alliance, created 14 collage pieces from hand-dyed paper.
“We are not doing crafty, hobby-type things. We are working on technique,” said class teacher Emily Stewart.
The United South End Settlements’ program is free to Boston public school students.
“Since they don’t have art in a lot of the schools, it’s a really helpful thing because it is a form of expression,” said Kristin Turner, 17, a junior at Boston Day and Evening Academy whose work will be sold tonight.
Getting an Artsy Start
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Mildred Kinds's wire sculpture "Pop Stirs Pot" was inspired by her father, who, she says, "loves to be animated in the kitchen." The 15-year-old is one of many artists, ages 6-21, who donated their work for tonight's "Youth Shines! Art Auction" at the Boston Center for the Arts. The live and silent bidding war will feature jewelry, photography, paintings, sculpture, collage, and mixed-media pieces by young folks who participate in more than 40 independent South End and Lower Roxbury programs supported by the Youth Workers' Alliance. The Latin percussion band Kabluna will provide the music, and local caterers and restaurants will provide the food. 6 p.m. $50. Boston Center for the Arts, 539 Tremont St., Boston. 617-442-9800. youthworkersalliance.org
