BoHo Bazaar: Party on Purpose

“BoHo Bazaar”, a benefit for New York Artists Equity Association, riffs on high-end art fairs with a healthy dose of 80s downtown DIY nostalgia served up with the fun and accessibility of flea markets, rent parties, and school cake sales. Attendees will be treated to an extravagant assortment of curated “booths” featuring affordable art works, printed matter, craft items and vintage collectibles. Done browsing? No worries; it’s an art party. Grab a beer, sit for a portrait, watch a printmaking demo or bid on guest artists’ drawings of barely clothed models—all while listening to ambient punk rock music.

Downtown luminaries Charles Busch, John Kelly, Gracie Mansion, Carlo McCormick, Chris Tanner will be honored.

About NYAE:
NYAE was founded in 1947 to promote opportunities for artists and address economic issues affecting American artists. Its founders included Jacob Lawrence, his wife Gwendolyn Knight, Edward Hopper, Louse Nevelson and Paul Cadmus. Yasuo Kuniyoshi was the first president. NYAE opened Equity Gallery (as its public facing space) on the Lower East Side of New York City in October 2015. Equity Gallery serves as a gallery for emerging artists to exhibit their work and as an art world “third space” where artists and their allies may come together to advance visual culture. Its current director, Michael Gormley, came onboard in 2018. Since that time, NYAE has mounted 82 exhibitions featuring a diverse cohort of 1,160 underserved artists of merit. During this same period, NYAE distributed over $50K in artist project regrants and co-produced numerous offsite exhibitions including public art projects for NYC parks and gardens.