CITYarts Sponsorship Opportunities
Program Years 2008 & 2009
New York City Landmarks
Grants Tomb Mosaic Bench
Total Budget: $60,000
Sponsorship Opportunity: $30,000 still needed
Funding Received: $30,000 from the National Endowment for the Arts ($10,000), National Academy School of Fine Arts ($10,000) and New York Community Trust ($10,000).
Projected Starting Date: June 2008
Background: In 1972, CITYarts, in cooperation with the U.S. National Park Service, sponsored the creation of 17 continuous, serpentine mosaic benches to surround Grant’s Tomb in Manhattan’s Riverside Park. The project commemorated the centennial anniversary of the opening of the first National Park (Yellowstone) during U. S. Grant’s presidency. Under the direction of New York artist Pedro Silva, the 400-foot bench involved thousands of volunteers gathered by CITYarts and took three years to complete. The result was an internationally recognized work of contemporary art - the single largest public art project in the country - and continues to be an important meeting ground for the community. Past youth volunteers and the artist will be coming back with their families to work on the bench.
Sponsorship Benefits: The project will culminate in a Community Dedication Ceremony and the publication of an informative brochure about Grant’s Tomb and the Mosaic Bench that will be given to visitors and used by the community for future events. The SPONSOR’S name will be engraved on a commemorative plaque at the site and will be noted on all press materials, postcards, videos and the CITYarts website: www.cityarts.org
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St. John's Recreation Center
Project: St. John’s Recreation Center Mural Project, Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood.
Exclusive sponsorship: $72,000
Projected Starting Date: June of 2008
Background: This large-scale permanent mural is part of CITYarts’ Global HeART Warming initiative to raise awareness of climate change among youth worldwide. The design and execution of the mural falls under CITYarts’ highly successful and innovative program, Engaging Graffiti Kids in Creation not Destruction, which directly engages young graffiti offenders from all over New York City to exchange spray paint for paint brushes to create a beautiful mural in their community. Each mural has a project timeline of approximately six months. The Bedford-Stuyvesant Mural Project “Celebrating Nature” is scheduled to begin this June. Imagine the message the ownership of public art by kids who were previously graffiti artists will send to other artists in the city and the nation.
Sponsorship Benefits: The SPONSOR will be acknowledged with a painted commemoration on the wall, and the sponsorship will be cited on the CITYarts web site and in related press announcements and news coverage. CITYarts will collaborate with the SPONSOR’s corporate communications department to promote the public dedication ceremony.
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Pieces for Peace Restoration
Project: Pieces for Peace Mosaic Restoration Project, Jacob H. Schiff Park, Harlem, NY
Sponsorship Opportunity: $25,000
Projected Starting Date: 2009
Background: This large-scale permanent mosaic is part of CITYarts’ Pieces for Peace international youth-led arts initiative dedicated to world peace. High school students from over 35 schools around the world partnered with local American schools and exchanged ideas and images about peace, leading to the creation of an online mosaic of drawings, paintings and poems contributed by youth from all corners of the globe. In the summer of 2005, approximately 1,000 young people from New York City’s five boroughs, with seven foreign youth participants from partner schools, selected many of the Pieces for Peace images and words for the design and creation of a 218-foot outdoor mosaic at the Jacob H. Schiff Park in Harlem.
Sponsorship Benefits: Outdoor mosaics need to be restored and maintained on a regular basis; on average, every four years. CITYarts would use the occasion of the Pieces for Peace Mosaic restoration project to update the Tri-State and national media on this amazing global initiative, which began in 2004. The SPONSOR will be acknowledged with a painted commemoration on the wall, and the sponsorship will be cited on the CITYarts web site and in related press announcements and news coverage. CITYarts will collaborate with the SPONSOR’s corporate communications department to promote the public rededication ceremony.
U.S. Regional Program Sponsorships
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Doors of Hope
Project: Doors of Hope, New York Youth’s Gift to New Orleans Kids
Exclusive Sponsorship: $35,000
Project Starting Date: March 2008
Background: The Doors of Hope project will continue CITYarts’ mission to empower youth to address civic and social issues through the creation of public art. CITYarts will give New York City youth, who lived through 9/11, the opportunity to express their empathy, encouragement and support for the children of New Orleans, who are still coping with the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Groups of school children at seven New York City schools will each be given a standard-size wooden door to paint with inspirational messages and images that celebrate nature while raising awareness of global warming. The students will design the doors specifically with their contemporaries in New Orleans in mind.
The school projects will be under the guidance of professional artists from New York and New Orleans. Upon completion, the doors will be assembled by CITYarts into a single ‘mural-like’ panel. We intend to display the finished panel at CITYarts' 40th Anniversary Benefit and Awards Ceremony on May 12, 2008, that will kick off our Global HeART Warming project. . Following the Benefit, the Doors of Hope panel will be sent to a school in New Orleans as a gift from the youth of New York City.
Sponsorship Benefits: The children’s final day of painting the doors will take place in a public venue. The media will be invited to document this unique youth-to-youth cultural exchange. The panel mural will serve as a bridge of understanding between young people who both survived traumatic events .The media event is tentatively scheduled to be held at Rockefeller Center. A network television news station has expressed interest in covering the event. Additionally, CITYarts will use the Doors of Hope mural to kick off our 40th Anniversary Benefit to honor the artists and organizations that have contributed to Katrina Relief and the rebuilding of New Orleans.
Global Program Sponsorships
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Claremont Pool
Project: Global Heart Warming Project, Phase I
Sponsorship Opportunity: $50,000
Projected Start Date: January 2009
Background: The Global HeART Warming project is a three-year, three-phase global initiative to celebrate nature and raise awareness of global warming. Through iEarn, an international education network on the web that connects schools in 122 countries, we plan to reach out and engage students from around the world. The Global Heart Warming project will provide a positive way for young people to answer the question: “What can I do to reduce the speed of global warming?”
Phase I of the Global HeART Warming project consists of workshops at the participating schools around the world. Through classroom discussions, the students, ages 12 to 18, will learn about global warming, express their concerns about the environment and develop ideas on how to provide social awareness about the issue.
CITYarts, in collaboration with our partner schools, will develop a Global HeART Warming web site to link the global participants together and provide a forum for the exchange of ideas and images about global warming. The drawings, paintings, and poems that are created in student workshops around the world will provide the powerful content for the website. The images also will be used to create a permanent mural in New York City. Approximately a quarter of the partner schools will be from cities across the United States.
Sponsorship Benefits: The SPONSOR will be directly involved in developing the Global HeART Warming website. The company logo and a sponsorship credit will be featured on the home page. CITYarts will work with the corporate communications department to help publicize the company’s support in launching the global program.
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Pieces for Peace, International Art Exhibition
Project: Pieces for Peace International Mural, International Touring Art Exhibition
Sponsorship: $15,000
Projected Start Date: Ongoing tour
Background: The Pieces for Peace international mosaic consists of tile-sized paintings, drawings and poems on paper contributed by students from around the world and assembled by CITYarts online as a major collaborative work of art. The artwork inspired the creation of a large-scale community mosaic in Harlem that was completed in 2005. The original student artworks also were displayed in a traveling exhibition in the U.S., including the Cork Gallery at Avery Fisher Hall (Lincoln Center), the Manhattan Jewish Community Center, the Gabarron Foundation, and The Paper Mill Playhouse in New Jersey.
Sponsorship Benefit: The professionally curated art exhibition is now on international tour through Germany, Israel, Egypt, Spain, Pakistan, Venice, Kenya, and Bhutan. CITYarts will recognize the SPONSOR at the exhibition venue, on its web site, press releases and in the commemorative Pieces for Peace book.
Branding Opportunities
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Baruch Park Mural
Project: CITYarts Urban Stories: New York City Murals, Mosaics, and Sculptures, 1968-2008
Sponsorship: $60,000
Projected Starting Date: June 2008
Background: In celebration of CITYarts’ 40th Anniversary, this book documents 40 highlighted projects out of 268 that exemplify CITYarts’ innovative approach to fostering creative collaborations between youth and professional artists and problem solving to transform blighted environments and impact the lives of underserved kids.
Sponsorship Benefits: Branding opportunity on cover and acknowledgements. The book will have letter of support from government leaders, famous artists and celebrity supporters
Sponsorship Benefits: Sponsorship acknowledgements on the cover and in the acknowledgements. The book will be a collector’s item with pages signed by the artists. The books will have guest contributions and letters of citation from government officials, artists and celebrities who are longtime supporters and friends. The books will be distributed at major venues.
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Pieces for Piece Commemorative Book
Project: Pieces for Peace Commemorative Book
Sponsorship: $60,000
Projected Starting Date: TBD
Background: CITYarts has created a prototype of a Pieces for Peace interactive art book. The book will serve to chronicle the creation and implementation of the four-year Pieces for Peace global art project dedicated to world peace. It features full-color reproductions of the youth artwork, photographs of Pieces for Peace activities organized in different nations and letters of commendation from world leaders. Through their participation in this program, groups of students in Germany, Pakistan and Israel were inspired to create “peace walls,” compose songs and write books on the subject of peace.
Sponsorship Benefits: There will be sponsorship acknowledgements on the book cover and in the acknowledgements section. The book will be an international collector’s item for students, teachers, parents and community members who have participated in and supported this global effort.
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Alice on the Wall
Project: "Tour New York City with CITYarts” - 40th Anniversary map
Exclusive Sponsorship: Estimated Cost: $30,000 (based on professional quote)
Projected Starting Date: TBD
Background: Since 1968, CITYarts has created 268 large-scale public art works that have transformed communities and impacted over 100,000 kids, collaborated with more than 500 artists, partnered with over 1,500 sponsors, and engaged over 500,000 volunteers in the process. To celebrate CITYarts’ 40th Anniversary, we hope to publish a fold-up map of New York City spotlighting the locations of all 268 murals, sculptures and mosaics. This commemorative map will serve to put CITYarts on the map and pay tribute to this enduring legacy of art “for the people and by the people.”
Sponsorship Benefits: The SPONSOR will be acknowledged on the cover of the fold-up map and in all news releases and media coverage about this unique map. The map will appeal to New York City residents and tourists – as well as the legions of New Yorkers of all ages who worked on one or more of these outdoor works of art.