Brooklyn Art Spring Event at Industry City to Benefit PS 295

More than 100 Brooklyn-based visual artists are contributing their work to the fifth annual Brooklyn Art Spring Event (BASE), a large-scale immersive art experience and auction that gives residents of the borough and New York City the opportunity to view singular installations; see and purchase works in a wide range of mediums and styles, below their market value; hear live music by Enrique Iglesias drummer Gilmar Gomes and DJ J Nyce; and check out one of Brooklyn's most talked-about new venues, Industry City, a six million square-foot innovation and manufacturing hub located on the waterfront in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. The property is an innovation economy ecosystem of more than 400 companies collaborating across industries, from design to manufacturing, art to architecture, fashion to film production, biotech to food. Proceeds will support art education at PS 295, where over half of the families live below the poverty line.

The Brooklyn Art Spring Event will take place Saturday, April 1, 6-10pm. Industry City is located at 274 36th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11232. Early bird tickets are $35, and regular tickets are $50. A limited number of VIP tickets-including access to the space beginning at 5pm; ideas for, and feedback on, art selections from gallerists from Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn Art Space, Ground Floor and OXHEART Gallery; and an exclusive wine tasting-are available for $250. All tickets include admission to three silent art auctions, starting at 6pm; a talk with celebrated sculptor Betsy Damon; and wine and passed hors d'oeuvres; and can be purchased here.

Graduates from the Harvard Graduate School of Design have designed an exhibition and event space expressly for theBrooklyn Art Spring Event, which will span an entire, 15,000-square-foot factory floor at Industry City. Installations include Carlos Torres-Machado's colorful, enamel-on-canvas mural Data Center #6; Regi Müller's wall installation Revolutionsand his 2014 a Flash animation with sound, Flux; Harold Wortsman's multi-element sculpture Cube, Pyramid and Sphere; and photographer Rachel Scharly's Chères âmes.

Among the many other offerings is a raffle for a $2,000 shopping spree from BEYOND at Liberty View: awarded in the form of a $500 gift card to Bed Bath & Beyond, a $500 gift card to buybuy BABY, a $500 gift card to Cost Plus World Market and a $500 gift card to Face Values.

Manju Shandler, an internationally exhibited artist participating in the event, said, "BASE is unique in providing an opportunity for artists to reach a new audience while supporting the PS 295 community. The fact that the event will take place at Industry City just makes it that much more exciting."

Linda Mazza, Principal of PS 295, said of the event, "the Brooklyn Art Spring Event is a wonderful opportunity to appreciate the talent that surrounds our community. More importantly, this event will help support our vision of keeping the arts alive in PS 295."

About PS 295

PS 295 (http://www.ps295.org), located at 330 18th Street in Brooklyn, is a community that embraces diversity by nurturing strengths and talents to educate the whole child socially, academically, culturally and artistically through differentiation in all facets of learning. In recognizing that all children learn in different ways, the school believes that an arts integrated curriculum cultivates a more meaningful discovery of self, enhances prior knowledge, supports content and language development, and encourages a strong respect and appreciation for the arts. The school's strong professional development program provides ongoing learning and leadership opportunities for all members, while helping students become lifelong learners and leaders of the future.

About Industry City

Industry City represents an extension of a long partnership between Jamestown and Belvedere that started in the late 1990's with the acquisition of buildings that would become known as Silicon Alley: 620 Avenue of the Americas, 111 Eighth, Chelsea Market, Milk Studios and 85 Tenth. A joint commitment to amenitizing dynamic, adaptive, reuse projects, has created collaborative work environments at various properties that host the most innovative technology and media companies. Industry City provides the unique opportunity to blend traditional manufacturing and innovation economy, prototyping, coding and publishing.

Industry City is a six million-square-foot collection of warehouse structures situated on the waterfront in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. The property's ownership - led by Belvedere Capital and Jamestown - is actively updating the complex, its amenities and its systems while cultivating a diverse tenant mix that fuses today's burgeoning innovation economy with traditional manufacturing and artisanal craft. This work is paving the way toward a vibrant and diverse community of forward-thinking companies that support good-paying jobs for workers across skill and experience levels. Since the new partnership was forged in August 2013, employment has increased from 1,900 jobs to 6,000 jobs. For more information, visit industrycity.com.