Bookmeat Silent Auction
The Brick Building – Culver City, CA
11/21/09
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Join LA’s most intriguing and celebrated artists, writers and curators for a most unusual silent auction. Each has contributed a book from their private collection that influenced their life’s work. Tucked inside each book — for the buyer’s eyes only — is an autograph and secret inscription from the contributor explaining the book’s significance. Most starting bids are $75.

Who’s Contributing Books?
- 2009 MacArthur Fellow Mark Bradford
- Swiss curator Hans Ulrich Obrist, recently named “the most powerful figure in the international art world” on ArtReview magazine’s “Power 100″ list.
- 2008 Whitney Biennial Artists Edgar Arceneaux, Ry Rocklen, Rodney McMillian, James Welling, Walead Beshty, Fritz Haeg, Alice Könitz and Mario Ybarra, Jr.
- Contributors also include Ingrid Calame, Sam Durant, Lauri Firstenberg, Rita Gonzalez, Katie Grinnan, Doug Harvey, Marc Herbst, Robby Herbst, Martin Kersels, Olga Koumoundouros, Barry McGee, Shana Lutker, Nathan Mabry, Kim MacConnel, Lisa Melandri, Kori Newkirk, Ruben Ortiz-Torres, Laura Owens, Hirsch Perlman, Steve Roden, Alexis Smith, Carol Stakenas, Tyler Stallings, Jennifer Steinkamp, Jan Tumlir, Jeffrey Vallance, Pae White and Liz Young.

All proceeds benefit Side Street Projects education programs for kids and artists throughout LA County.

About Side Street Projects
Founded in 1992, Side Street Projects is a mobile and sustainable artist-run organization.They teach artists of all ages how to roll up their sleeves and do things themselves with education programs that encourage self-reliance and problem-solving.Their Woodworking Bus program integrates art, math and science in a 100% hands-on environment: mobile wood shops aboard renovated transit buses where kids learn about art, design and engineering using only hand tools, raw materials and their imagination. In June of 2009, Side Street Projects embarked on an exciting 6,500 mile cross-country road trip from Pasadena, to Boston, and back to retrieve The Armadillo — an actual FEMA trailer from Hurricane Katrina that MIT students and faculty transformed into avertical (and mobile) community garden. MIT awarded The Armadillo to Side Street Projects after a nation-wide search. Side Street Projects also provides vital career-support services to over 2,000 contemporary visual artists throughout LA County. Services include a “best professional practices” podcast series, and an equipment co-op that puts cost-prohibitive technology into the hands of low-income artists. Because “affordable space” is a challenging obstacle for 80% of America’s non-profits, Side Street Projects became a completely mobile, self-sustaining organization in 2008. Their offices are a pair of restored vintage travel trailers, their communication systems are 100% wireless, and the whole operation runs on a mobile solar energy array. In partnership with the City of Pasadena, they will remain permanently mobile and will continue to transform vacant lots into thriving community art centers. Side Street Projects is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization.

The Brick Building
8870 Washington Blvd.
(Between Robertson & National, next door to the Royal/T)
Culver City, CA 90232

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http://sidestreet.org/bookmeat/

via EM Staff, 29 October 2009 8:44am | |