826 Boston Art Auction: A Benefit for Children's Literacy

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When: Friday, December 12, 2008 6 to 8 PM

Where: Robert Klein Gallery 38 Newbury Street, Boston, 02116

The Robert Klein Gallery is accessible by MBTA Arlington and Copley stations. Street and lot parking is available; lots are on Exeter St. and on Newbury St. between Dartmouth & Exeter. Please click here for a map of the gallery.

Who: Over 50 well-known artists including Kiki Smith, Jane Marsching, Michael Mazur, David Macaulay, James Jean, Kay Ruane, and youth writers from Boston neighborhoods

What: A unique creative collaboration and art auction to benefit 826 Boston’s writing and tutoring programs for city youth. This event is free and open to the public.

Why: 826 Boston is helping hundreds of Boston’s children and teenagers with their creative and expository writing skills though highly imaginative, free programming offered in city schools and at 826 Boston’s writing and tutoring center in Roxbury’s Egleston Square.

In the spirit of recognizing and nurturing some of Boston’s youngest writers, over 50 artists from Boston and beyond are lending their creative vision to the cause by responding directly to the literary work of youth involved in 826 Boston’s free writing programs. The resulting letter-pressed broadside prints produced by Rope-a-Dope Collaborative will be auctioned off at this event. In addition 25 visual works by leading artists including Kiki Smith, Jane Marsching, Michael Mazur, David Macaulay, James Jean and Kay Ruane, will be auctioned off during a silent auction in order to benefit 826 Boston’s free writing and tutoring programs.

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