NIAD Art Center Win Win Benefit Auction

NIAD Art Center. 2023. Photograph.

Support the Arts in Richmond at NIAD Art Center’s "WIN WIN 11" Benefit Art Auction

NIAD Art Center's biggest fundraiser of the year is back and fully in-person with an electrifying Win Win event in our Richmond studios!

On Saturday, March 11, we will gather at Win Win to celebrate our good fortune: over 40 incredible years of working with disabled artists alongside our creative community of supporters.

We call it "Win Win" because every ticketholder gets to take home a fantastic piece of original art and support artists with disabilities. All Win Win guests enjoy delicious food, drinks, live music, and incredible art. Tickets and sponsorships are available at winwin11.givesmart.com.

Early Bird tickets are on sale now at winwin11.givesmart.com

Event Details

  • Saturday, March 11, 2023
  • 3:00 to 7:00 PM
  • NIAD Art Center
  • 551 23rd Street, Richmond

Event Schedule

Saturday, March 11, 2023, from 3:00 to 7:00 PM

  • 3:00 PM Cumbia Cocktail Hour: live music by Cumbia Paradiso, crafty cocktails by Chani Hawthorne, Silent Auction Exhibition browsing
  • 4:00 PM Electric Live Event: Live Auction, Artist Performances + Presentations MC'd by Sister Tilda, tantalizing tacos by El Garage
  • 5:30 PM "8x8 Raffle" Drawings, DJ Marc Pop, sweet treats

What is Win Win 11?

The outrageously benevolent Sister Tilda NexTime, of Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence fame, will be MC'ing the event. Cumbia Paradiso will be the psychedelic soundtrack to our cocktail hour, leading up to our Live Auction, Artist Performances, and 8x8 Raffle Drawings. Food will be served up by Richmond institution El Garage alongside drinks mixed by cocktail legend Chani Hawthorne. DJ Marc Pop from Escapism Crew will close out the night with afro-futurist funk, and NIAD artists and friends will bring the dance party! And every dollar raised supports NIAD.

What can I win?

  • A Win Win ticket gets you a unique 6x6 artwork by a NIAD artist, the chance to enter a raffle for an 8x8 artwork by non-NIAD artists, and the ability to bid on Live Auction artworks by contemporary artists from all over the map! 
  • The Win Win Live Auction, helmed by Alyson Schacherer, will feature work by renowned NIAD artists Marlon Mullen, Billy White, Dorian Reid, and Sylvia Fragoso, with contemporary artists outside NIAD soon to be announced.
  • Our 8x8 Raffle includes highly collectible, small space-friendly works by NIAD fans like Cliff Hengst, Lisa Solomon, Danny Thach, Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo, Fernanda Martinez, Poppy Dodge, and dozens more.

And our Silent Auction is now open for bidding from anywhere!

How do I join in?

  • Tickets are available on the Win Win website: winwin11.givesmart.com. 
  • Sponsorship packages are available. Individuals and organizations interested in sponsoring the event should contact NIAD's Development Director Rebecca Teague at [email protected] to learn more.
  • If you can't attend the live event, you can still bid in the Live Auction by proxy! Contact [email protected] to arrange. 
  • You can also bid in the Silent Auction, featuring works from 60+ NIAD artists, on the Win Win website, until March 11 at 7:00 PM.

How does NIAD benefit?

Proceeds from Win Win provide crucial funding for NIAD's general operating budget, covering accessibility upgrades, art supplies, field trips, professional development, exhibition expenses, and so much more. NIAD Art Center is a progressive art studio in Richmond, CA, that promotes creative expression, dignity, and community integration for people with disabilities. Together, we're redefining contemporary art.

Accessibility

  • NIAD is wheelchair-accessible. NIAD provides gender-neutral restrooms. Masks are required. ASL and Spanish Language interpretation provided on request. Please send accessibility requests to [email protected].
  • NIAD is accessible by public transportation. Parking is limited. Driving and transport directions are available here.

Our Event Sponsors

We are very grateful to our Win Win 11 sponsors! Adams and Ollman, Antonia and Matthew Dapena-Tretter, Berkeley Art Center, Guerrero Gallery, Jessica Silverman Gallery, JTT, Magic Cabinet, Pam Martin, Rebecca Camacho Presents, Shrine.

About NIAD Art Center

NIAD Art Center is a progressive art studio in Richmond, California that promotes creative expression, independence, dignity, and community integration with disabled adults. Frequently remarkable, surprising, and engaging, work by NIAD artists garners attention from the contemporary art world on a global scale.

Each work created at NIAD is an original piece of contemporary art that tells an individual story from the perspective of an artist with disabilities. In our Studios and Galleries, the 70 artists NIAD serves develop a sense of pride in their artistic abilities, connect with each other and with NIAD's community of supporters, and earn an income from the sale of their work. 

NIAD was founded in 1982 as the “National Institute of Art & Disabilities,” alongside its sister studios Creative Growth in Oakland, and Creativity Explored in San Francisco. The three studios were established by artist and art educator Florence Ludins-Katz, and her husband psychologist Dr. Elias Katz, who moved to Berkeley in the mid-60s just as the unintended consequences of public psychiatric hospitals were beginning to be deeply felt in their community. After hosting a group of artists with disabilities for an art-making gathering, they were motivated to found the first of what is now referred to as a “Progressive Art Studio” - Creative Growth - in their garage. 

The Progressive Art Studio has proved to be a profoundly direct, generative, and life-changing model for artists who participate, and dozens of similar studios now exist across the country and around the world. NIAD is proud to be among the longest-running of these organizations still in existence, and with the help of a dedicated and engaged community of supporters, is well-positioned to thrive for another forty years!