Dear Supporters,

Please note ALL of the following, before emailing questions:

  • All (100%) of  proceeds from art sold will go directly to the featured youth artist.
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  • Art retrieved from the youth artist will be collected upon them receiving payment from us first.
  • All art is currently in the possession of the featured youth, until payment has been sent to them.
  • Bids and their amounts are made public.
  • Coordination of art pieces will be orchestrated by our  teaching artists to ready and send for delivery.
  • Shipment for all art sold will begin after all bids expire and during week: 10/19/20 and 10/26/20. Therefore, all art will be received after the end of month (approx. 1-2 weeks), depending on location.
  • See extended notice with our youth art auction and Newark Arts Festival listing below.

To begin bidding, you must:

  1. Register first: here 
  2. Check your login details sent to the email you provided!
  3. Login to the site.
  4. Go back to:  http://thegemproject.org/rally2020/auction
  5. Place your bid or decide to buy item (you have until 10/11/20* at 5:00 PM, or buy item).

  6. *About Newark Arts Festival Notice: The auction was recently extended from 9/17/20 to 10/11/20 at 5 PM to have our youth art, their museum and auction listed at this year’s virtual festival. This will place our youth with a unique opportunity to be seen and their collective work to all have more chances to bid. This auction will not be extended beyond this point. Youth who did not have their work bid will have a special showing this December.

  7. If the reserve item price has not been met, artist is not obligated to accept your offer.
  8. If you have any questions, direct them to email: project@thegemproject.org and give 24-48 hours to respond.

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UPDATE — AUCTION ENDED — 5 PM, OCTOBER 11, 2020:  We will post sold art and bids after Tuesday of next week. There will be a gallery up for remaining art, where people can purchase and proceeds will go directly to our young artist. Gallery option will be up by Friday, October 16, 2020.

"Trapped" - by Oyen "Bernice" Abanda
Ended at: 1283 days 13 minutes 36 seconds ago
No Bid

Auction has expired without any bids.

“My first art piece served to show how the educational experience of Black people in America is negatively impacted, due to the systematic racism that exists and prevails in American institutions. The colors used in this pairing are brash and striking to illuminate the suffering and pressure to succeed beyond the “status quo” that Black students face in an education system that is not designed for them. Systems such as the school-to-prison pipeline and they contribute to the hardships that Black students face being that it is a process that criminalizes partially youth of color within schools which places them in contact with law enforcement. Consequently, among other factors, this directly explains why prisons are disproportionately overrepresented with Black and brown children. I exhibit this racial disparity in my painting by painting a prison that is filled with Black and brown people to show how they are literally and metaphorically “trapped” in the American education system. On the walls of my painting, the words “black lives matter” and “black education matter” are boldly scripted to emphasize the importance of equity in education.”