Gallery Aferro is a Newark-based alternative arts space founded in 2003 by artists Evonne M. Davis and Emma Wilcox. In 2014, they began an ambitious project to renovate two additional buildings adjacent to their current space into a 90,000 sq ft cultural center, allowing for an even bigger, richer, and more lasting impact for the community. To see their plans become a reality, they’ve launched an Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign, and are asking for your help!
Gallery Aferro firmly believe in sharing ideas, sharing resources, and that everyone, every single person, should be able to have the arts in their lives. Over the past 11 years, they’ve worked with hundreds of artists, welcomed thousands of visitors, and become an important part of the Newark community.
The project includes numerous components: 60 artist studios, workshop/lab spaces for specific media like printmaking and commercial photo studio with a co-op, membership model, presenting spaces for visual arts and film, purpose-built educational space, fun retail like a cafe and an enlarged gift shop, and “flux spaces,” designated in response to strong community demand for flexible spaces that can be used for conferencing, hackathons, skill share sessions, yoga and dance classes, staged readings and poetry slams, etc.
On the importance of this project, Medina, Creative Director of Medina = Citi shared:
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And if you want to know about more Newark-based crowd funding campaigns, Brick City Live has created a really cool #GiveNewark page! Check it out! Let’s all do our part and continue to make Newark one of the greatest cities in the world!
