Fine Art & Designer Crafts on Bleecker May 20, 2007

Fine Art & Designer Crafts on Bleecker: browse, shop and schmooze

Five blocks of Bleecker Street between Christopher and Bank closed to traffic creating a plein-air gallery of 150 professional artists and designers selling only their own unique creations. It's a breath of fresh air in our urban landscape, dominated by mass-produced items and chain stores, where art and design is usually a selection of cheap imports, knock-offs and poor quality reproductions. Fine Art & Designer Crafts on Bleecker creates a reasonably priced venue for artists and artisans, who are coming from as far away as Maine, Florida and California to sell in the Big Apple while avoiding the possibility of being placed next to a vendor selling Italian sausage or tube socks, as in your common NYC Street Fair nor having to pay the very high price of inclusion in a Lincoln Center or Armory event. You'll find a wide range of moderately-priced functional and collectible art plus have the opportunity to discuss the creation process with the artists. View craft demos and listen to Peter Blanchette's low-amplified archguitar. Some work may be previewed on bellero.net, hudsonriverinlay.com and 1178designs.com A very wide range of styles and techniques will be presented from traditional to modern. So you will find both etchings and digitally re-mastered drawings but all in numbered limited-editions. You will find both lost wax process castings by Larry Chanin and mixed-media assemblage clocks by Richard Birkett.

The 12th annual fundraiser for the Greenwich Village Youth Council, a 501C3 non-profit youth service agency devoted to reaching and empowering young people ages 7-22 from all ethnic, racial and social classes with programs ranging from a girls basketball league to outreach to runaway & homeless.

Subways: #1 to Christopher; E,F,D,B,A,C to West 4th; PATH to Christopher

For more info contact: Natasha Harsh 718-855-8175

About Greenwich Village Youth Council:
A 501C3 non-profit youth service agency devoted to reaching and empowering young people ages 7-22 from all ethnic, racial and social classes with programs ranging from a girls basketball league to outreach to runaway & homeless. www.gvyc.net.

Free.

Official Website: http://www.gvyc.net