Rogue Space Chelsea and FilmsOnArtists team with Life For The World to help Haitian School children rebuild their school

  Come see my art

On a sun-drenched afternoon in mid-March, 100 Haitian schoolchildren, one month after losing their school and home in the earthquake, sat down together and painted their first images ever.

The 209 paintings that poured out will rebuild their school.

Join us for this exclusive event, which will be an opportunity to help build a school for these children, and in return, take home a masterpiece.

Benefit Auction- A buyers only event
Tuesday, April 27th, 2010, 6-9pm
($300 suggested minimum purchase)
All Purchases are tax deductable




VIP preview, 5-6pm
($500 suggested minimum purchase)

100% of the proceeds go to LifeForTheWorld Haiti Relief.

RSVP to be included on the quest list

Haiti@roguespacechelsea.com

or (347)756-4ART


Exhibition open to the public 10am to 6pm Wednesday 28th thru Saturday May 1st
(Public Opening Reception Thursday, April 29th)


Rogue Space | Chelsea
526 West 26th Street
New York NY 10001




 

About Fractured Atlas

Fractured Atlas is a non-profit organization that serves a national community of artists and arts organizations. Our programs and services facilitate the creation of art by offering vital support to the artists who produce it. We help artists and arts organizations function more effectively as businesses by providing access to funding, healthcare, education, and more, all in a context that honors their individuality and independent spirit. By nurturing today's talented but underrepresented voices, we hope to foster a dynamic and diverse cultural landscape of tomorrow.

LIFE FOR THE WORLD AND FILMS ON ARTISTS HOST ART FOR HAITI BENEFIT
100% of Proceeds to Rebuild Maranatha Orphanage and Primary School

New York (April 6, 2010) - Life for the World and Films on Artists are proud to present ART FOR HAITI, a benefit auction and exhibition to rebuild the Maranatha Orphanage and Primary School in Source Matales, Haiti.  The show, which features art created by the Haitian students of the devastated school, will debut with an exclusive benefit on Tuesday, April 27th at Rogue Space Gallery, located at 526 West 26th Street.  The works will be open to the public from April 28 - May 1, 2010.

On March 10th, FilmsOnArtists director Kevin O'Hanlon, Haitian-born artist Richard Laurent and members of Life for the World travelled to Haiti equipped with 100 tents, food, aid supplies, 200 canvasses, paints and brushes.  Over the course of a week, they spent time with the young students of the Maranatha Orphanage and Primary School, where they shared stories, lifted spirits, and painted.  For many of the children, it was their first time painting.  On April 27th, these beautiful and inspiring works will be auctioned at Rogue Space Gallery, where 100% of the proceeds will go to rebuilding the school.  Telling the story of each piece, every painting will be exhibited alongside a portrait of its creator.  This once in a lifetime show will then be open free to the public from April 28th - May 1st, where additional donations will be encouraged.  

To accompany the exhibition, FilmsOnArtists will screen a documentary about the process of creation of the children's first paintings and the reconstruction of Maranatha.  For more information, images and video clips, please visit our Haiti Project page.

Life For The World provides hope and healing to the country of Haiti by providing sustainable living situations, orphanages and by partnering with hunger organizations.  Established by Mike Fedele in 2000, Life For The World founded the Maranatha Orphanage and Primary School with just 8 children and has grown to clothe, feed and educate 160.  Since the earthquake hit, Life For The World has been working tirelessly to organize humanitarian trips, collect donations and bring aid to the people of Haiti.  On their trip Life For The World set up a medical clinic, distributed food and brought a little bit of joy to the children of Maranatha through water balloons, popcorn and candy.  For more information on the organization and how to contribute, please visit www.lifefortheworld.com.

FilmsOnArtists is a new media production company dedicated to creating dynamic films of emerging contemporary artists.  Utilizing TV broadcasts, DVD, webcasts, screening and social media, FilmsOnArtists produce compelling films that illuminate and document the artists' process and create a visual tool to promote their art.  FilmsOnArtists have partnered with some of the most exciting voices in the contemporary art world.  Haitian born artist/musician Richard "Earthman" Laurent is one of FilmsOnArtist's featured artists and first connected Life For The World with the FilmsOnArtists in an effort to give more to the country that fostered his artistic heritage.  Dublin born Kevin O'Hanlon is the Director of FilmsOnArtists and the also owner of Rogue Space Gallery.  

This is the first in a series of art projects in the FilmsOnArtists series which will be filmed around the world documenting a creative response to challenge.  

For more information, please contact Lehua Chong at lehua.chong@gmail.com or (808)375-2842 or Kevin O'Hanlon, Info@FilmsOnArtists.com (212)319-6135.

 

I first learned of the earthquake in Haiti on a TV monitor while waiting for a transfer at Miami airport. I wasn't that far from this strife-ridden Carribean Island in that moment but the reportage to me felt like a video game, something catestrophic on the other side of the planet, like Darfur or Somalia - somewhere else, not here. The images of crumbled homes and dislodged, near-naked, dusty humans sequed into a TV commercial for a fast food franchise almost seamlessly. The flight attendant announced that boarding was about to begin. Life moved on and as quickly as Haiti had entered our consciousness, it was gone.

A day or two later that report came back to mind and I thought how wonderful it would be to travel to Haiti and organise an art painting project for the 100 kids at Maranatha School and Orphanage in Source Matales with my friends from Life For The World. By filming the experience, I could make a documentary that would connect with somethng positive and creative happening instead of what I had seen on TV. The experience totally opened my eyes to Haiti and how amazing it's people are. After constant cycles of battering by the elements and politics they remain filled with joy, kind to a fault, embracing, honest, sharing and deeply dignified.

The art project we brought to the children at the Maranatha Orphanage and School made sense on very many levels. It brought joy to kids who had never held a paintbrush in their hands; it provided a pleasant diversion from their daily concerns, it taught self esteem, it gave the kids an opportunity to be reconnized and compensated for their artistist abilities, it gave them a hand in their future and it demonstrated the strongest tool in recovery from any situation is creativity. The children of Maranatha will ultimately rebuild their country.

Haiti is not something removed from us, a situation that some world organization will take care of in the sweet bye and bye. Haiti is part of our world experience and our growth and our journey. It's not a TV commercial - or a diversion on an airport monitor. Haiti isn't an incumbrance. Haiti and its people are an opportunity for us all to experience and learn from a community working together towards renewal, rebuilding from the ground up. It's as much about our change as Haiti's. - KOH













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