BECA gallery + The BECA Foundation support relief efforts for the people of Haiti:

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What's Upcoming for The BECA Foundation in 2010              

The international exhibition programming via CURATE THIS! 2010 is evolving rapidly. Both traditional and non-traditional indoor and outdoor physical spaces, organizations and projects may register to participate as Venues at: http://www.curatethis.org/for-venues.php  Artists + designers located anywhere around the world may register to participate at: http://www.curatethis.org/for-artists-and-designers.php

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BECA is an acronym for Bridge for Emerging Contemporary Art. In January 2008 we began presenting international group exhibitions of emerging art + design at BECA gallery, our formerly named physical gallery space in New Orleans. Simultaneously, we began assisting both new and established collectors, curators, art enthusiasts and galleries with the discovery of the newest works by today's most innovative emerging artists and designers from around the world. From January 2008 - June 2009, BECA gallery featured a variety of contemporary sculpture, paintings, video, works on paper, photography, textiles, installations, mixed media works as well as what's new in design.  

As time past we began to realize how much truly innovative work by emerging artists and designers was not being given a public audience. New art and design fuels the best of what's yet to come on this planet so we wanted to create an avenue where these benefits could be realized in an expanded and evolving format. A global center dedicated to creating public exhibitions of works by both emerging artists + designers along with related programming was needed so the non-profit project, The BECA Foundation, was founded to begin laying the ground work to accomplish this. Our 501-c-3 fiscal sponsor, Fractured Atlas, has enabled us to receive both in-kind and monetary donations while our organization is in its early stages of development. Planning is underway to develop, BECA ICAD - International Center for Art + Design, the world's first large scale exhibition facility dedicated to the dual purpose of exhibiting works by both emerging artists AND emerging designers for the benefit of artists, designers and the public alike.  

We thank those who have been supporting our efforts from the beginning and we welcome new friends, partners and supporters as we grow our international public arts programming.

With warm regards,
Melissa Roberts and Kurt Schlough, Directors