When asked to sponsor the S.A.S. Studio Nights, Mark Benhar of Benhar Office Interiors jumped at the chance to participate. Tempting the industry's inner Picasso, the Secret Art Society Studio Nights put together a studio series of S.A.S 'Dress for a Mess Events'. With all proceeds benefiting the Give Your Art Foundation, attendees were asked to participate in their favorite art mediums and have their work judged by a panel of renowned designers.
Mediums ranged from live model figure drawing, painting, collage, assemblage, and sculpting with clay, wire and wood, all taking place at Novo Art's studio in Chelsea. The panel, made up of Cindy Allen of Interior Design, Stephen Apking of S.O.M, Joan Blumenfeld of Perkins + Will, Bill Bouchey of Mancini Duffy, Rick Focke of H.O.K., Dale Alan Greenwald of Cannon Design, Tom Krizmanic of Studios Architecture and E.J. Lee of Gensler, have selected 20 exceptional artists from the attendees. The selected artists' work will be exhibited and auctioned at the final June S.A.S Salon, with all proceeds going to the Give Your Art Foundation.
The Give Your Art Foundation is dedicated to providing art for charitable institutions that have little or no funding to procure art for their facilities. Funds raised from S.A.S. events will go directly to providing art for local shelters, AIDS facilities, hospices and non-profit hospitals.
