Launched July 1st by a group of students and alumni from the Harvard GSD, Design Yard Sale is a month-long fundraising event that "sells and auctions creative works to support [Colloqate Design and The Bail Project], two organizations fighting systemic, and anti-Black racism." Creative works by people like Frank Gehry, Billie Tsien, and Denise Scott Brown have been donated to the effort and are available for auction. The pursuit has already raised over $80,000 and has a goal od reaching $100,00 by the end of the month.
Some highlights of items up for auction include blueprints of Robert Venturi’s Vanna Venturi House, donated by Venturi’s longtime engineering partner, Keast & Hood. Additional objects include a collage by Tsien, signed prints of Scott Brown’s historic 1960s-era photos of Las Vegas exclusive to Design Yard Sale, a concrete stool by Jerome Byron, and a limited-edition signed lithograph of a Gehry drawing.
"This student-led initiative clearly acknowledges that racism cannot simply be fixed through design alone but through how and where we choose to spend our money," said contributor Jerome Byron in a statement. "Even the selection of charitable organizations points to a fundamental understanding that in order to combat systemic racism you have to disrupt the flow of cash to institutions that promote inequality and diminish the voices of the most vulnerable."
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The Venturi drawing is amazing. The Gehry drawing is pretty cheap looking. The mob should shake him down for a drawing of Bilbao for the cause.
Is that all?
there's one from an old student i'd buy if it wasn't sold already.
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