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A HOME FOR THE PRESERVATION AND EXHIBIT OF STREET ARTS

MISA will be a not-for-profit, 501(c)3 Museum featuring International Street artists such as Banksy, D*Face, Cease, Swoon, Twist, Revs, 108, Ellis Gallagher, Neck face and Os Gemeos who have earned international attention for their work and in turn migrated the showing of their works to the museum or gallery setting as well as the street. It is also not uncommon for street artists to achieve commercial success Shepard Fairey, Faile, along with WK (Interact, Kaws and Buff monster) doing graphics for other companies or starting their own merchandising lines. The universal theme in most, if not all Street Art, is that adapting visual artwork into a format which utilizes public space, allows artists who may otherwise feel disenfranchised, to reach a much broader audience than traditional artwork and galleries normally allow. Over all this museum will feature all aspects of Urban art and not only is a learning ground for a wide demographic and age range but a way to keep those urban artists off the streets, in a productive place and making money off a medium that otherwise could land them doing so illegally winding up with a low life and possibly end in jail. We will achieve this through an arrangement between the school, creative spaces and artists’ studios, where the art will be made. Art will then be taken through our auction house during the day, which at night doubles as a theater for film debuts or stage plays. Between fundraising events, tourists and special galas these auctions will be the highlight of these events resulting in the artists not only learning the process but also developing them into professionals, earning them a name in the art world creating demand for their art, which will also be kept in the museum. Students and artists will follow each step of the process from the creation of their art to how it is sold on the market place.  Between worldwide infamous artists and our own collective the museum will be covered in a vast variety of art on display and for sale in many forms.

A YOUTH DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION TO TEACH ART WORLD BUSINESS

The ART INCUBATOR will be a not-for-profit, 501(c)3 outreach initiative housed within the MISA center. This organization will provide low-cost, high-quality arts education and public art programs and a museum that showcases international Street Art – and we believe this medium needs a home off the streets. We will serve more than 5,000 youth and adult students per year with hands-on art making experiences in painting & drawing, film production/business, music production/business, ceramics, installations, stencils, fibers, printmaking, silk screening, photography, metalsmithing, glass, and more. These arts will not only be taught but our main goal will to be to teach artists lost on the streets and ruining their lives a way to not only make art but show it, sell it and make a life out of the medium. As just one example, note the Bronx-based group Tats Cru, whose members began as a subway graffiti crew, but whose work covers traditional neighborhood memorial walls, public schools, hospitals, and representation at the Smithsonian Institute's 35th Folk Arts Festival, and also logo and advertising design for such corporations as Snapple and McDonald's. Some of their work can be found on their website, www.tatscru.com. Traditional graffiti also has increasingly been adopted as a method for advertising; its trajectory has even in some cases led to its artists' working on contract as graphic artists for corporations. As such, we are making art and expression more available, especially to groups who often lack a voice in our society whose only choice is to take their art to the streets and cause destruction to property. We will provide low cost and free arts education to groups and communities in need, and we believe all communities need art. This will allow not only the Non-Profit to raise money but also a faucet for artists to make money off their medium installing values of pride and ownership. Along with a prospective outlet to achieve higher then streets status which shows in most demographics to bring such artists out of criminal acts of illegal art and such crime with initiatives and rules set as in no art will be displayed by anyone without at least one year of a clean record from crime and graffiti andstudents will have achidemic standards to keep at school.