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HEART & SOUL BOOK - 1st edition!
8"X5" postcard style flip book. With tear off postcard pages of female urban art, graffiti, photography, design, and fashion. GET YOURS!
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5 books remain! Signed by artists; Lady Pink, Aiko, Niz, Sofia Maldonado, Toofly, AM, Diana McClure, and more! GET YOURS!
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For the time and effort of our dear friends and Younity team! Diana McClure, Shana Louallen, Samia Grand-Pierre, Yvette Devito, Abeni Garrett, Marko Jokic, PSF4Ever, DJ Laylo, and DJ Elle, Younity Youth; Talia Maridueña, Anabel Frias, Brittan Cobb, and this years Heart & Soul project sponsors.; Pat & Tom Barry...
YOUNITY PRESENTS: FRESHER! AN ECO-ART EXHIBITION
- Third Annual Exhibit Features 40 Female Avant-Garde Artists Who Recycle & Create Art for the Earth -
Queens, NY (September 3, 2009)— Back for its third annual show, YOUNITY presents an eco-art exhibition entitled FRESHER!, opening October 3, 2009 at the Clemente Soto Velez Cultural & Educational Center in the Lower East Side section of New York City. Running until October 23, 2009, the exhibit is not the average “white-wall” art show; the all-female collective will transform the art space into an eco-funhouse of raw materials and street art. Elements such as graffiti, photography, design and construction are used to connect ideas about consumerism, environmentalism, health, and renewable energy. The private press hour from 6pm-7pm will grant access to notable, oft-unseen artists right before the public unveiling of work at 8pm. FRESHER! features main-stay YOUNITY artists such as Lady Pink, Martha Cooper, and AIKO while introducing emerging artists such as China Morbosa and Amanda Lopez. YOUNITY Co-Founders and artists, Alice Mizrachi and TOOFLY, continue to push the collective to new levels of creativity.
Exhibiting works will mask the bi-level art space with a range of colorful hand-styles, creative graphics on natural textures such as wood and abstract riffs. Some of the artworks will focus on messages about greening and preserving the earth, including recycling, pollution and even ideas about social issues. A video montage will display the collective’s latest effort to Refresh the Streets –a collaborative effort to beautify a 60ft outdoor mural in Williamsburg Brooklyn with colorful, green-themed street art by selected members of the YOUNITY. Exhibiting artists at FRESHER! include SHIRO, Diana McClure, Kerri O’Connell, LICHIBAN, Krista Franklin, Kelly Denato, Niz, Paulina Quintana Jornet, and Cece Carpio, to name a few. Only 40 out of 300 female artists were selected to participate in this special exhibit.
“We wanted to provide a working network of opportunity for female artists,” says YOUNITY Co-founder Alice Mizrachi, “and we, as women, need a space to create art exhibitions, murals, books and a much needed archive of women’s urban contemporary art.” YOUNITY Co-founder TOOFLY adds, “Look at recent events that are affecting us and the next generation: the economy, global warming and healthcare, this is the perfect time to put on a show like FRESHER! and express our creative desire to promote green living and the improvement of our community.”
With the success of their premiere exhibit, The C R O S S O V E R, and the second annual Heart and Soul show, YOUNITY has become one of the most sought after all-female collectives to date. With that, they are devoted to passing the torch on to younger female artists through the YOUNITY Youth team. As of now, YOUNITY is in need of continued support to foster its self-publishing endeavors and independent growth. Limited edition YOUNITY t-shirts will be available for sale on opening night and online at www.theyounity.com. We will also have a very limited amount of Heart and Soul books available as well. The limited edition shirts and books will both retail for $20. Any other donations to the collective can be directed to: contribute@theyounity.com via PayPal.
YOUNITY Presents FRESHER!
October 3, 2009 – October 24, 2009
Clemente Soto Velez Cultural & Educational Center
107 Suffolk Street
New York, NY 10002
Our Lady of Sorrows
- SCHOOLYARD -
213 Stanton Street
Lower East Side, NYC
Between Ridge st & Pitt st.
F Train to Delancey.
DJ JEDI & DJ DISCO WIZ on the 1 & 2's Spinning Hip Hop Classics!
RE-FRESH THE STREETS!
-YOUNITY Kicks-Off the Fall FRESHER Exhibit with Massive Street Mural-
(New York, NY) – On August 9, 2009 from 1 p.m.-6 p.m. the women of YOUNITY Arts will host RE-FRESH THE STREETS!, a live street art production to kick off the festivities for the upcoming FRESHER Exhibit in the fall of 2009. A massive sixty-two feet long mural will be painted on an outdoor wall space. The art is an effort to beautify the community with graffiti art, and street styles that mirror the eco-friendly theme of the FRESHER Exhibit. The collaborative effort will be the artistic event of the summer, displaying the flagrant artistic talent of the female collective and participating artistic youth.
As seen in Marie Claire's summer 2009 August Calendar, Sponsored by the Motorola Sweepstakes.
August 9th 2009 from 1pm to 6pm.
LOCATION: Corner of South 5th & Bedford Ave. L Train to Bedford.
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YOUNITY PRESENTS:
HEART & SOUL, AN ART EXHIBITION & BOOK LAUNCH
- Second Annual Exhibit Features 60 Avant-Garde Urban
Contemporary Female Artists –
Queens, NY (August 2008)— We are excited to announce the second annual YOUNITY art exhibition entitled Heart & Soul opening on October 17th, 2008 at Alphabeta in Greenpoint Brooklyn. As a celebratory theme between 60 international artists on what they identify as “heart and soul,” the exhibit promises an urban landscape installation piece that unifies and pushes the boundaries of graffiti, photography, urban arts and fine arts. In addition, YOUNITY will launch Heart and Soul; a book featuring works from all exhibitors including: Lady Pink, Martha Cooper and Swoon. With so very few art books that explicitly showcase women’s urban contemporary art, Heart and Soul will debut as authentic niche material needed in the ever-expanding art industry. Artists Alice Mizrachi and TOOFLY, founders of YOUNITY, look to harnesses the empowerment of established and aspiring young artists through expressive art.
YOUNITY is the first ever international women's urban contemporary art collective that brings female artists into a global networking system as a means to create art exhibitions, installations, books and a much needed archive of women's urban contemporary art. With the success of their premiere exhibit, The C R O S S O V E R, YOUNITY has become a sought after collective devoted to women with an inherent need to perfect their craft through self-expression, surpass male dominance and pass the torch on to younger female artists. For this project, only 60 out of 300 female urban artists were selected to participate with styles that range from hand-styles, graphics and collage to abstract riffs on the female identity, the urban habitat, life and love.
The Heart and Soul book is comprised of 60 artworks formatted onto a 5x8 inch postcard-style flipbook. It is the first publication in the YOUNITY collector’s book series that will showcase the works of varying members of the collective.
At the exhibition, all of original images featured in Heart & Soul will be framed and displayed as part of an indoor/outdoor site specific installation that pays homage to the urban landscape. The collective also includes world-renowned artists MAD C (Germany), Aiko Nakagawa (Japan), Faith47 (South Africa), Krista Franklin (Chicago) and Diana McClure (NYC), among others. Books and artwork will be on view and for sale at the Heart & Soul Exhibition and Book Launch and online at www.theyounity.com.
YOUNITY’s Heart & Soul Exhibition and Book Launch
PRESS HOUR: 7pm-8pm
rsvp@theyounity.com
Opening Reception: 8pm – 10pm
October 17, 2008
ALPHABETA 70 Greenpoint Avenue
Brooklyn, New York 11222
Exhibit Dates: October 18, 2008 – November 17, 2008
Shout out to Abeni Garrett for hooking it up!!!
Artists: Toofly, Alice Mizrachi, Lady Pink, AIKO, Queen Andrea, Diva, Erotica, Niz, Sofia Maldonado, Jen One, Acet and Jakee!
YOUNITY was founded in New York City in 2007 by noted artists Alice Mizrachi, and Toofly. After spending years involved in the art world, they came to the realization that women artists do not have a properly-organized forum through which to disseminate their ideas to contemporaries and showcase their work to the public at large. The confines of galleries were too rigid and staid; the ‘white cube’ did not lend much room for personal expression and individual style. They wanted to create a place wherein females could tell their own stories in more universal, down-to-earth voices. They also wanted to build a stable community in which they could teach the next generation what goes into the process of setting up art shows and trying to successfully spread artistic ideas. The organization’s name derives from its overarching concept of creating a solid group filled with unique, autonomous participants. Each member has her own flavor, and can retain that identity even in the context of a collective body. Thus, the concept behind YOUNITY was born.
OUR MISSION:
The mission of YOUNITY is to create an international collective of female visual artists, designers, photographers and craftswomen. These participants will support each other by joining forces on projects, helping to build networks, providing resources, and creating community awareness about the collective with youth. It serves as a bridge that results in artistic mentoring, communal support, and the production of collaborative art shows that promote women in the arts.
Our 1st Annual Younity Exhibition, "CROSSOVER" NOV 2007, New York N.Y.
"THE CROSSOVER" A Fusion of Female Stylez, Ideaz and Skillz
This name reflects the founders’ vision of bringing together a diverse population of women who can reflect upon others’ life experiences as well as share their own. The event will feature work by painters, street artists, graffiti artists, photographers, graphic designers, fashion designers, and craftswomen of all backgrounds. This year, an exhibition will be held at The Showroom NYC, located in downtown Manhattan.
saw the photos of opening night....Looks like you ladies killed it once again!!!wish i could have been there. Congrats and my best to you both. thanks for having me apart. NANI
Saturdays Event Was Bananas It was a pleasure witnessing such inspiring and amazing art YOUNITY truely inspires me and encourages me to step outside the box and not be afraid to be who I really am. Thank you so much.
Yes, RESPECT for the add and ADDING LADIES to teh ROSTER! What a great movement...I'm down to help forward our progress on our journeys in this life. PEACE.
New York City's neighborhood stores are the anchors of each community's unique cultural heritage. These humble institutions are becoming alarmingly rare. The generations-old mom and pop store, with all of its charm, ethnic tradition, color and comfort is battling for survival. Jim and Karla Murray scoured the streets of all five NYC boroughs to create Store Front, a detail-rich photographic narrative that faithfully documents these timeworn establishements and throw light on the struggles the owners face.
Hardcover: 336 pages Publisher: Gingko Press; first edition (January 15, 2009) # ISBN-10: 1584232277 # ISBN-13: 978-1584232278 Product Dimensions: 13.1 x 12 x 1.6 inches
I had so much fun in NY, I was happy to be there. I herd the news later that night,that it sold to a very kind and generous collector..(ha,I was honored.)Next time Im out in NY or if your ever out this way We can chill and talk then.Lots of Love Nani
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