Baking for Good

Buy delicious cookies and brownies, benefit Reconstruct Art. Welcome to Baking for Good, a local mail order bakery that donates a percentage of its profits to a variety of nonprofits. During checkout, the buyer can choose the nonprofit their money will go to.

Check it out here and forward the link to your pals: http://bakingforgood.com/causes/nonprofit/reconstruct-art-inc

Saturday Sessions- open house!

Professional, Affordable Creative Art Workshops

for kids and teens

Creative kids and teens can learn art skills and creative expression at Reconstruct Art’s exciting, powerful creative arts classes. No experience necessary!

• painting
• sketching
• collage
• cartooning

Where: 90-32 161 St. (at Jamaica Ave.)

When: Saturdays: 10-11:30 am, students 6-10 years
12:30-2 pm, students 11+ years

How Much: $80 ($10 per class + $20 materials fee)

OPEN HOUSE saturday, april 10, noon-3 pm

photos from Dean Richards' opening

Check out these photos from Dean Richard's newest show. Dean is an artist with Reconstruct Art who has as much street cred as artistic chops. With music, food and a great crowd, the opening was a great success. It will be up through May 2nd at Chashama's gallery at 161st street and Jamaica Ave.

multicultural arts at Bessie and Nora's Place

Reconstruct Art has begun providing multicultural art classes for the preschool students at Bessie and Nora's Place in Jamaica, Queens.

Even though they are very young, the kids are incredibly focused, patient and creative, and have been making exotic art projects like djembe drums (West Africa) and paper fans (Japan).

After making art using collage, painting, stamping etc., the students listen to traditional music from the culture we're featuring, and then drum, dance or sing along. Stay tuned for more photos!

Photos

Check out photos from Reconstruct Art's studio here. The studio is located upstairs from Chashama Gallery in Jamaica, Queens, at 90-26 161st Street (@ jamiaca ave). The gallery also has affordable studio space available to local artists (contact samglewis@gmail.com if you're interested in renting).

google calendar

Reconstruct Art's staff, volunteers and extended family can now track our goings-on on a new Google calendar here

Dean Richards: Hip Hop Surreal

Be sure to swing by Chashama's Jamaica Gallery (90-26 161 st. @ Jamaica Ave.) to check out "Off the Beaten Path", a collection of new works by Dean Richards.

Dean creates fantastic paintings that, through clever and confident use of line weight, are full of movement and mass. His creative process is also very interesting; he brings the street into the gallery by actually scraping off pieces of paste-up posters and bills (with a knife or ice scraper!), pasting them into thick layers on his canvas, and then painting over this surface. This painstaking process gives his paintings a texture, soul and authenticity that are seldom seen in the superficial posturing of mainstream contemporary gallery work.

The opening, March 19 from 7-10 pm, will feature music, food and drinks, and a chance to meet the artist and socialize in a fun, open atmosphere.

Event details here: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=325373368804

More of Dean Richards' work here: http://www.rhythminlines.com/