{"id":160438,"date":"2022-03-08T14:39:33","date_gmt":"2022-03-08T19:39:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/?p=160438"},"modified":"2022-03-10T15:03:05","modified_gmt":"2022-03-10T20:03:05","slug":"christies-and-city-college-center-for-the-arts-join-forces-for-benefit-auction-entitled-100-years-of-harlem-resonating-around-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/christies-and-city-college-center-for-the-arts-join-forces-for-benefit-auction-entitled-100-years-of-harlem-resonating-around-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Christie&#8217;s and City College Center for the Arts Join Forces for Benefit Auction Entitled &#8216;100 YEARS OF HARLEM: Resonating Around the World&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Christie&#8217;s is pleased to present its first collaborative exhibition and silent auction to benefit City College Center for the Arts (CCCA) entitled&nbsp;<strong>100 YEARS OF HARLEM: Resonating Around the World.&nbsp;<\/strong>The exhibit celebrates Harlem as teacher and muse for diverse artists across time, with works by visual artists from Harlem and across the country. The online sale, powered by Givergy, will be open for bidding from March 26 to April 4, 2022, and works from the auction will be exhibited at Christie&#8217;s New York concurrently. A percentage of the proceeds will go to the contributing artists with the remainder earmarked for the City College Center for the Arts&#8217; Youth Arts Empowerment Program, which each year provides free art workshops, performances and lectures to more than 8,000 underserved youth in the Harlem community.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The auction is curated by&nbsp;<strong>Omo Misha<\/strong>, a Detroit native who has built her practice serving galleries, cultural institutions and artists throughout Harlem, Greater New York and the Tri-State area. She has&nbsp;worked with&nbsp;City College Center for the Arts as&nbsp;curator for the Windows on Amsterdam Community Gallery since 2015 and newly operates the Irwin House of Global Art Center and Gallery in Detroit. Her focus now involves connecting these two great, creatively historic communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The sale presents thirty works by twenty-four celebrated artists including internationally acclaimed painters like New Orleans native&nbsp;<strong>Julio Mejia<\/strong>, an artist of Latin and European descent who holds the title of longest solo exhibition at CCCA;&nbsp;abstract expressionist&nbsp;<strong>Danny Simmons<\/strong>, who has been exhibited and collected worldwide and famously uses his art and voice to strengthen artist enclaves in his native New York as well as Philadelphia; and,&nbsp;<strong>Donovan Nelson<\/strong>, a master portraitist whose Ibo Landing renderings tell the story&nbsp;of one of the largest-known revolts of enslaved Africans.&nbsp;&nbsp;Best known for transforming his&nbsp;decaying&nbsp;Detroit neighborhood, is international artist,&nbsp;<strong>Tyree Guyton<\/strong>, who reimagined a two-block stretch of Heidelberg Street into an art-filled treasure,&nbsp;attracting an estimated 200,000 visitors each year from all over the world&nbsp;and&nbsp;adding more than $3 million annually to the local economy. Japanese born and internationally exhibited&nbsp;<strong>YUKAKO<\/strong>&#8216;s&nbsp;paintings evoke the spontaneity of jazz, the harmony of lyric poetry and the naturalism of dance; and 91-year-old&nbsp;<strong>Faith Ringgold<\/strong>, a&nbsp;celebrated&nbsp;artist, activist, and City College of New York alumna best known for her&nbsp;fiber-art compositions, bearing witness to her life and times in Harlem.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-expand=\"600\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns%3D'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg' viewBox%3D'0 0 1 1'%2F%3E\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Danny-Simmons-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"lazyload wp-image-160439\"\/><figcaption>Danny Simmons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-expand=\"600\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns%3D'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg' viewBox%3D'0 0 1 1'%2F%3E\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Donovan-Nelson-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"lazyload wp-image-160440\"\/><figcaption>Donovan Nelson<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-expand=\"600\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns%3D'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg' viewBox%3D'0 0 1 1'%2F%3E\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Tyree-Guyton-1024x684.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"lazyload wp-image-160441\"\/><figcaption>Tyree Guyton<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-expand=\"600\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns%3D'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg' viewBox%3D'0 0 1 1'%2F%3E\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Screen-Shot-2022-03-08-at-2.25.17-PM.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"lazyload wp-image-160444\"\/><figcaption><strong>YUKAKO<\/strong> | photo cr. &nbsp;Lucienne van der Mijle<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Additional artists in the sale include:<\/strong><br>Francks Deceus, James Denmark, Uday Dhar, Noreen Dean Dresser, Lola Flash, Mira Gandy, Paul Goodnight, Stephanie Karen Gregory, Carl Karni-Bain (aka BAI), Julio Leit\u00e3o, D. H. Caranda Martin, Jonathan Harris, Tomo Mori, Dawn Okoro, Charly Palmer, Larry Pierce, Jody Rasch, and Grace Y. Williams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About City College Center for the Arts<\/strong>&nbsp;City College Center for the Arts (CCCA) is an independent non-profit presenting organization with a mission to provide a creative arts center and focal point for City College, building a sense of community, elevating the profile of Aaron Davis Hall (ADH) in the greater New York area and connecting the College to the surrounding community through the arts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About the City College of New York<\/strong><br>Since its founding in 1847, The City College of New York (CCNY) has been true to its legacy of access, opportunity and transformation. CCNY is as diverse, dynamic and boldly visionary as the city itself. CCNY advances knowledge and critical thinking, and fosters research, creativity and innovation across academic, artistic and professional disciplines. As a public institution with public purpose and a 170-year history, CCNY produces citizens who make an impact on the cultural, social and economic vitality of New York, the nation and the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About Christie&#8217;s<\/strong><br>Founded in 1766,&nbsp;Christie&#8217;s is a world-leading art&nbsp;and luxury&nbsp;business. Renowned and trusted for its expert live and online auctions, as well as its bespoke private sales, Christie&#8217;s offers a full portfolio of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/t.nylas.com\/t1\/272\/7wq91ts80o47h0qacg4wt1w8g\/3\/97492a196c1c62a76a353843102aca3e8ee9cdf412ab4f00bf86df7136b44c4d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">global services<\/a>&nbsp;to its clients, including art appraisal, art financing, international real estate and education.&nbsp;Christie&#8217;s has a physical presence in 46 countries,&nbsp;throughout the Americas, Europe, Middle East, and Asia Pacific, with&nbsp;flagship&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/t.nylas.com\/t1\/272\/7wq91ts80o47h0qacg4wt1w8g\/4\/9241c6c08e931a8b4c0ee4512e0522fdec0ef20074d7a4c25d624c1396c13f8a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">international sales hubs<\/a>&nbsp;in New York, London, Hong Kong, Paris and Geneva. 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