Installation views and THANK YOU letter from Magaly Ponce (click here)
ART FOR CHILE: A Silent Auction and Exhibition to Benefit the Quake & Tsunami Victims
232 Westminster Street, Providence, RI
(downtown next to Symposium Books)
EXHIBITION AND SILENT AUCTION March 18-21, 2010
Thursday: Opening during Gallery night, 5-8pm
Friday 12-8pm
Saturday 12-9pm (party 5-9)
Sunday 12-5pm (AUCTION ENDS AT 5pm)
Due to the recent earthquake, tsunamis, and ongoing aftershocks in Chile, the art community is coming together to support Chile's recovery by donating their work for this benefit auction and exhibition. We hope you will join us in this cause. Click to RSVP on Facebook
All proceeds will go to relief and rebuilding efforts in Chile.
Organized by Chilean artist Magaly Ponce, photographer Frank Mullin, and curator Maya Allison.
54 ARTISTS:
Heather Adels * Mardo Atoyan * Andrew Moon Bain * Boris Bally * Margaret Bellafiore * BILT Furniture * Jenny Brown * Margie Butler * Alyn Carlson * Nancy Reid Carr * John Caserta * Paul Clancy * Margaret Cogswell * Umberto Crenca * Jennifer Daltry * Francisco De la Barra * Thorsten Dennerline * Johnathan Derry * Ellen Driscoll * Brian Miller & Elizabeth Duffy * Dave Everett * Stephanie Ewens * Bonnie Frechette * Ani Ghajanian * Erik Gould * Corey Grayhorse * Jungil Hong * Delia Kovac * Jon Laustsen * Deborah Liberti * Rob Lorenson * Kathleen McAreavey * Megan & Murray McMillan * Agata Michalowska * Jamey Morrill * Josie Morway * Frank Mullin * Way O'Malley * Alison Owen * Michael Owen * Peter Owen * Allison Paschke * Lisa Perez * Magaly Ponce * Jessica Deane Rosner * Kate Sanders-Fleming * Olivia Sauerwein * Derek Schusterbauer * Laura Shirreff * Andrew Sloan * Dan Talbot * Tucker * Neal T. Walsh * Amy Wynne-Derry * Jay Zehngebot & Liz Lake
Additional donors and sponsors:
* Cornish Properties
* AS220
* Bridgewater State College
* Whole Foods
* Oop!
* Eastside Marketplace
* Liberty Elm Diner
* Block Island Blonde Beer
* The Avery
* High Spirits Liquors
* 5 Traverse LLC
* Providence Art Windows
--If you would like to sponsor or donate, please contact Maya Allison through this website.
Magaly Ponce describes Chile as:
a Seismic country, with a sad record of the strongest earthquake in the history of the world in 1960, now facing the fifth most intense earthquake in recorded history, of 8.8 on the Richter scale followed by a tsunami. At two weeks after the earthquake, there are still strong aftershocks that have frightened the population in the center and south of the country. The tsunami completely dragged away some summer coastal towns.
The most damaging mismanagement on the government's part, it seems, was to not quickly assess the extent of the damages, turning away international help and later misinforming citizens of the Tsunami risk. People from coastal towns intuitively had taken cover up on the hills, then later an official announcement was made that it was safe to return to their homes. The ones that did return were then hit by the Tsunami that devastated most of the coastal towns around Concepción. There are reports that water moved 31 miles inland.
Red Cross reports that the rural areas are in the worst shape, and winter is coming. More about that here.
