NoLA Rising Art Auction

The prep for the NoLA Rising silent auction this week-end begins *today*. I'm doing my little bit here to call for volunteers to help hang art and various other prep activities Wednesday and Thursday from 9 am to 5 pm. This is a good opportunity to check out the art and decide which pieces you want to bid on!
Volunteers are also needed for the event itself which runs this Friday and Saturday, April 24 th & 25th, from 9am to 5pm at the Old U.S. Mint. We need volunteers to help with the Silent Auction, to tend the bar, run the merchandise table and help with the information booth.

A three hour commitment would be fantastic but we'll be happy to accept any amount of time you can give.



The goal of the fund-raiser/auction is to raise money to fund a major mural arts program that's to be kicked off in the Lower Ninth Ward and eventually spread to other areas of the city. Read here about NoLA Rising's meeting recently with regional levee commissioners to discuss the possibility of 65 local artists painting shotgun houses on an Industrial Canal floodwall as a tribute to those who died when the levees breached and to help rejuvenate the Lower 9th Ward. (Over the protestations of the dreaded Fred Radke.)



Many in the city have rallied around NoLA Rising and Rex's battle with Mr. Radke's destruction of public art in the name of "Operation Clean Sweep". Support for NR's work in the community has been gratifying and wonderful. Please continue your support by volunteering at the auction, attending the auction and going home with a one-of-a-kind piece of art that is not only great to look at, but really means something to you and this city we love so much.

(Images in the post are actual artworks in the auction. - The first one is mine, mine, mine!! Which means I'm bidding on it.)