After School Special: SPACES' 43rd Annual Benefit

Through thick and thin, we’ve persevered and we deserve a pizza party. On Saturday, November 6, 2021, SPACES will throw it back to the mallrats and pizza punks with a 1990s themed evening. Dust off your COOGI sweaters and Calvins and join us at Cent’s Pizza for an After School Special.

With a dance floor, lounge spaces, a silent auction, raffle, and more, we promise it will be better than your middle school dance.

So we’re mixing it up this year and honoring SPACES’ staff for the roller coaster year we’ve been through. Our team, which is entirely women and nonbinary folks, deserves the kudos and recognition for the work we’re doing.

In 2021 we worked to bring 10 national artists’ exhibitions to life, supported an art writer in residency, co-produced a massive art supply drive for youth in detention, and administered 30 grants to artists around Cuyahoga County, to name but a few things.

We’re giving ourselves straight A’s, time to celebrate!
Due to the ongoing nature of COVID-19, we will be requiring all guests to provide proof of vaccination or negative test results from the prior 72 hours.

WHAT CAN YOU EXPECT?
Curated Care Package Silent Auction
Curators, gallerists, and artists from around the country are curating creative care packages that we will auction off during our annual benefit. Their instructions? You can curate whatever you want into a box that is roughly 9”x6”x6”. We hope you get creative– sketches, trinkets, found items, love notes, hate notes, etc.

Some of our totally radical friends who are already packing up their care packages include:

the curatorial team at moCa Cleveland
the curatorial team at the Cleveland Clinic
Jessica Hong, Toledo Museum of Art
Michael Rakowitz + family
Anna Burckhardt Perez, MoMa
the curatorial team at ICA Philadelphia
Laura Bidwell and Lauren Davies, artists
Mourning [A] BLKstar, artists
Lisa Kim, Ford Foundation Gallery
the curatorial team at Akron Art Museum
Barbara Tannenbaum & Mark Soppeland, Cleveland Museum of Art and the University of Akron (respectively)
Key Jo Lee, Cleveland Museum of Art
Pope.L
Jeff Chiplis, Sam Hubish, Angelica Pozo

Raffle
Local businesses are donating tickets, gift cards, experiences, and other goodies that we can raffle off as the night wears on!

Featured raffle items include: Larder goodness, Third Eye Oracle magic, Forest City Shuffleboard fun, a VIP tour of the African American and African diasporic collections at the CMA, and more!!

DJ Dance Party
Dance to the best (and worst) hits of the 90’s!

Toasts & Games
In addition to toasting ourselves, we’re going to be toasting the incredible artists in our regranting programs and the amazing patrons who help us do the absolute best. Study up for a SPACES Trivia Game!
TICKETS ARE LIMITED, GET YOURS TODAY!