Community-Word Project

THREE SMART MARKETING STRATEGIES FOR NON-PROFITS TO CATCH THE ATTENTION OF FUNDERS

Your funders are your biggest heroes; make them feel that way. Don’t avoid controversy; it’s what catches attention! Make sure the world knows that your cause is the coolest, most popular kid on the block (even if it’s not true).

Craig Hayes, STAFF

ACTRESS KERRY WASHINGTON BELIEVES ARTS SHOULD BE PART OF THE EQUATION IN EVERY SCHOOL.

Kerry Washington is a member of Turnaround Arts, an arts-in-education program begun by the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities. Ms. Washington, writing in HuffPo, believes that arts is a teaching tool that "works for all students."

Craig Hayes, STAFF

WRITING OUR FUTURE

On March 31st our community came together to support arts education in NYC public schools.

Craig Hayes, STAFF

LIGHT + COLOR + SPACE

I am a painter. I have been a Teaching Artist for over 10 years. I teach others to look closer at the world and discover their personal perspective to communicate ideas with light, color, and space.

WHAT SOUND IS YOUR SELF-PORTRAIT?

Second-grade students at P.S. 316 explore Cubist portraiture with Teaching Artists, Ms. Lisa and Ms. Katie.

WHAT A DIFF’RENCE A DAY MADE

Once upon a time in 1934 a tune popped up on records and radio called What a Diff’rence A Day Made and twenty five years later a great singer named Dinah Washington had a hit with it but called it What A Difference A Day Makes.

Craig Hayes, STAFF

AUCTION: MANIFESTATION 9, 2014

Artist Perri Salka works with acrylic-based ink, water and heat, to create experimental, methodical and meditational works on Yupo paper in an attempt to clarify inks' intrinsic properties and purpose as a medium.

Craig Hayes, STAFF

SURREAL SCIENCE

Surrealism may have been an avant-garde movement, but we are using it to teach lessons in the very analytical and practical field of science. After all, science itself is creative!

Craig Hayes, STAFF

AUCTION: BOY OF COLLODION: COOPER, 2013

"A Dot Red" explores new perspectives on traditional genres and images in landscape and portrait photography. Combining historical techniques with contemporary conceptual strategies, these works shift focus to a reconsideration of its classical subjects.

Craig Hayes, STAFF