Save the Date // Win Win 11!

NIAD’s Annual Fundraiser Saturday March 11 3:00 to 7:00PM NIAD Art Center Dear NIAD Lovers: At NIAD, the new year is opening with quite a bit of storm and bluster. Through it all, we’re able to move our programs online for everyone’s safety – largely because NIAD’s supporters have made it possible to maintain a thriving Virtual Studio where we can meet despite the weather.  For this and for the bounty that has carried us through our 40th year and into a new decade, we are feeling grateful and fortunate.  January 1 kicks off a season of preparation for Win Read More …

The Latest from NIAD: WIN WIN Thank You!

Dear NIAD Lovers: $47,000. Sometimes a number is so meaningful.  This year, we asked our supporters to help us reach $40,000 at this year’s fundraiser, Win Win 10, to plant the seeds for NIAD’s next 40 years.  You helped us sail past our goals, and into a new future. By some measures $47,000 may seem modest, but we’re already getting to work, purchasing new tables for the studio, upgrading computers and technology equipment, renovating NIAD’s building with key accessibility upgrades. In a continually growing nonprofit, $47,000 goes a long way toward anchoring our next decades in creating platforms for artist leadership, staff training, Read More …

NIAD Online Exhibition // “WIN WIN 10 Live Auction Sneak Preview”

About the Live Auction The WIN WIN 10 Live Auction features artworks donated by NIAD’s close friends, longtime studio artists, and supporting gallerists. These works are only available during WIN WIN 10’s Virtual Event, this Saturday March 5 from 2:00 to 3:30PM on zoom, so get your tickets today! Artists in the Live Auction Alicia McCarthy Marlon Mullen Sahar Khoury Maria Guzmán Capron Alice Wu Artsanda “Billy” White Sam Gant Janet Moore Chris Ballatyne Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo Jeremy Burleson

NIAD Gallery Exhibition // “WIN WIN 10 Silent Auction Sneak Preview” organized by NIAD’s Exhibitions Team

About the exhibition More than fifty NIAD artists are featured in the WIN WIN 10 Silent Auction, currently open for bidding until the day of the live event. The Sneak Preview Exhibition is a salon-style installation that includes each and every piece of art included in the Silent Auction, hung closely together in a way that encourages conversations and highlights correspondences between each piece. The work in the exhibition represents the incredible breadth of art practices that NIAD artists maintain every day in the 23rd Street Studios. NIAD truly contains multitudes! NIAD’s Executive Director Amanda Eicher will be in the Read More …

NIAD Windows Exhibition // “6×6 x 6×6” organized by NIAD’s Exhibitions Team

About the exhibition Around about January, while the new year is still fresh, little square canvases start slowly piling up around the 23rd Street Studio like gorgeous stalagmites. Just before the stacks reach a tipping point, NIAD’s Exhibitions Team swoops in to arrange them in a tidy grid in the NIAD Windows.  Each square – be it painting, photo, fiber, ceramic, sculpture, drawing – measures 6 inches by 6 inches. There is room for 48 of them in the Windows, but there’s nearly a hundred more, waiting to be hand-picked and shipped off to their forever homes to ultimately rest on the Read More …

WIN WIN 10 Tickets On Sale!

NIAD turns 40 this year, so we’re going BIG. NIAD is pulling out all the stops for our annual WIN WIN benefit to commemorate our 40th anniversary, and it wouldn’t be the same without you! It’s called “WIN WIN” because everyone has a chance to take home fantastic art and support NIAD artists. Please join us on Zoom for a fun afternoon of games, music and a live auction of extraordinary artwork donated by NIAD artists and artists in our vital network of supporters.  Following the Zoom event, NIAD lovers will come together (safely) for an in-person reception with music and paella Read More …

Welcome Rebecca Teague and Maria Yates!

NIAD Adds Two Members to the Win Win 10 Event Team Excitement for NIAD’s 40th Anniversary year and our upcoming Win Win 10 Benefit Auction is building,  and we’re thrilled to welcome two new members to the NIAD team who will take our fundraising game to the next level. Rebecca Teague, Win Win 10 Event Director Rebecca Teague was born in Washington DC, raised in Chicago, IL and has lived in places as exotic as St Paul, MN and Ann Arbor, MI and now resides in Woodacre, CA. Educated in textiles and then photography at SFAI and SF Academy of Art. Read More …

Win Win 10 Sneak Preview, collected by Isabel Xilonen Ortiz (online exhibition)

Our final NIAD Gift Guide of the season doubles as a sneak peek into what’s in store for you at Win Win 10, NIAD’s Annual Benefit Fundraiser coming up on Saturday March 5, 2022! Isabel X. Ortiz from NIAD’s fundraising team describes the NIAD artworks that inspired her Win Win 10 Sneak Preview collection… About the collection I curated this collection with all the game-lovers and risk-takers in mind. It’s for the artists who are pushing their own creative boundaries. It’s for the innovators who are thinking of their next passion project. It’s for the people who like to spice up their homes with Read More …