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Locust Projects Major Fundraising Event
ORGANIZATION: LOCUST PROJECTS INC
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On Saturday, April 20, 2024 Locust Projects will celebrate its 2024 Spring Fling: Casino de Monte Carlo, an elegant and shimmering affair with complimentary cocktails, delicious bites, captivating performances and artist-designed activations centered around a Silent Art Auction and Casino de Monte Carlo Gaming Parlour.
Guests will bid on one-of-a-kind art works in our largest Silent Art Auction to-date featuring talented local, national, and international artists.
Designed to support both Locust Projects and our community of artists with an opportunity to show and sell their work to new network of collectors, artists in the Silent Art Auction have the option to receive up to 50% of the final sale.
Join us and Make Art Happen
Founded by artists for artists in 1998, Locust Projects is Miami’s longest running nonprofit alternative art space. We produce, present, and nurture ambitious and experimental new art and the exchange of ideas through commissioned exhibitions and projects, artist residencies, summer art intensives for teens, and public programs on contemporary art and curatorial practice. As a leading incubator of new art and ideas, Locust Projects emphasizes boundary-pushing creative endeavors, risk-taking and experimentation by local, national and international artists. We invest in South Florida’s arts community by providing artists with project grants and empower creative careers by supporting the administrative work of being an artist through an onsite artist resource hub and access to pro bono legal services.
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About LOCUST PROJECTS INC
Location:
3852 N MIAMI AVE, MIAMI, FL 33127, US
Mission Statement
Locust Projects is a not for profit exhibition space dedicated to providing contemporary visual artists the freedom to experiment with new ideas without the pressures of gallery sales or limitations of conventional exhibition spaces. Local, national and international artists are encouraged to create site-specific installations as an extension of their representative work. Locust Projects supports the local community through educational initiatives and programming that are free to the public.
Description
Founded in 1998 by a trio of Miami-based artists: Elizabeth Withstandley, Westen Charles, and COOPER, the organization was among the first to open in a converted warehouse in Miami's once depressed Wynwood neighborhood.
In 2000, Locust Projects became incorporated and organized its first Board of Directors. Locust Projects was officially recognized as a 501 (c) (3) not for profit institution in 2002.
A grant award from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts in 2006 allowed the organization to hire its first full-time Executive Director and subsequently supported the relocation of Locust Projects to Miami's Design District in May 2009.
Additional major grants from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, as well as the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, and Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs have supported our continued growth.
This once fledgling organization has burgeoned into a recognized art institution in Miami, presenting ambitious works by a diverse group of artists at critical stages in their careers and growing the organization's reputation both nationally and internationally.
Locust Projects is proud to be W.A.G.E. Certified (Working Artists in the Greater Economy), ensuring that we have and we will continue to compensate artists fairly. For more information on W.A.G.E. certification, click here.
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297 Northeast 67th StreetMiami, FL 33138
DATE POSTED
April 10, 2024
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REQUIREMENTS
- Must be at least 18