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Art Not Arrests
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0 sqft - 1000 sqft
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$0 - 10K
Art Not Arrests is a community driven architecture installation located in the Crow Hill neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York. The project was designed and implemented by Ground Up Designers LLC, in collaboration with the Crow Hill Community Association, as a response to the shootings that took place last Labor Day weekend within our neighborhood, and throughout the whole of New York City.What The Project Is About:Art Not Arrests is a community dependant architecture installation designed to raise funding for a summer art program to help get kids into art and off the streets. The finished structure will be built out of over one-thousand zip-tie handcuffs, woven together piece by piece to create a canopy over an area of the Crow Hill Community Garden. Once all the pieces have been added to the canopy, this area will become a place for local kids to enjoy FREE summer art classes throught the summer of 2012.After seeing a series of linked cuffs left tied to the subway at Eastern Parkway and Franklin Ave, we decided to use the zip-tie handcuffs as a symbol of both the youth violence and the overbearing police presence, that our neighborhood is continually confronted with. Using the handcuffs as a part of the art installation is not meant to trivialize these sensitive topics -- in fact we hope that they will keep the conversation geared toward these important issues as we come up with creative ways to tackle them.We believe that the key to reducing gun violence in Brooklyn isn't a more extreme police force (as we often see as a response to shootings), but is better art and education programs for the youth. Art Not Arrests focuses on bringing our community together to build a temporary structure in the Crow Hill Community Garden to house free summer art classes for the neighborhood children. Taking place over the sping and summer of 2012, Art Not Arrests will raise awareness and funding for art programs within our community that are keeping kids off the streets, away from guns, and out of handcuffs. How The Project Works:With the money we've raised from our Kickstarter campaign, corporate sponsors, and design competitions, we've purchase these handcuffs as well as the other materials needed to build the structure. From April 1st to June 21st, the cuffs will available for a $3 donation at participating businesses throughout Crown Heights. When a community member sponsors a cuff, they will personalize it with a message and then leave in a collection box for pick up. Once a week, Ground Up Designers will collect the sponsored cuffs and add them to the installation.Each cuff donated to the project will stand as a symbol of it’s donor’s support for positive community growth in Crown Heights. As more and more people donate their personalized cuff to the project, a mesh will begin to grow in a lace like pattern. This mesh of cuffs, created of our neighbors’ joint community spirit, will become the canopy of the installation and a place for people to meet and organize throughout the summer.Architecturally, this canopy will be supported by a framework of fanned supporting legs that connect with hinges to a base. Just as the canopy is supported by the legs, the legs are dependent upon the canopy. This design was chosen to represent the relationships between the community organizations that support the community, and the individual members that support the organizations — one would not exist without the other.What It Boils Down To:The completed design uses over one-thousand cuffs to create the canopy of the installation. If each cuff is sponsored at the suggested $3 donation, we will have raised over $3,000!100% of the money raised will go toward the Art Not Arrests Summer Art Classes, hosted in the Crow Hill Community Garden, by the Crow Hill Community Association. Any money raised above and beyond what is required by the CHCA to host the summer art classes will be used toward individual scholarships for selected students - allowing them to continute their art education after the summer classes are over. Any additional funding will be donated to other arts related anti-violence initiatives in Crown Heights Brooklyn.
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