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      Design Studio Curious Yellow and Art Advisor Beth Fiore Team Up for a Nonprofit Gallery

      June 13 2018 | By Alicia Brunker for Architectural Digest
      Design Studio Curious Yellow and Art Advisor Beth Fiore Team Up for a Nonprofit Gallery

      Above: Artwork on display at CY Fiore, a new East Village gallery with a mission.; Photo by Joshua Li

      On a quiet block in the East Village, the sound of uplifting summertime music streams down the street, where mingling art patrons are gathered outside. Indoors, a DJ is posted up in the corner of a repurposed garage, surrounded by massive sculptural paintings crafted from paper pulp by the artistic duo Chiaozza, and, down a short flight of steps, baskets of canned beer and ice-cream bars are up for grabs. This is not your typical exhibition opening plagued with an overflow of champagne and small talk, because CY Fiore is not your traditional art gallery.

      Eschewing the for-profit gallery model, Chloe Pollack-Robbins and Anna Cappelen of the interior design studio Curious Yellow and art advisor Beth Fiore are reinvesting the funds from art sales into programs that support at-risk youth in New York, such as Art Start and Unitas. “The kids that need help live right here in our community. You don’t need to go far to find them,” says Cappelen. “If you pay $100,000 for a painting, we want you to know that you’re saving a lot of homeless kids right here in the neighborhood.”

      In addition to exhibitions, CY Fiore will host various art workshops that engage the children with the artists, many of whom come from marginalized groups themselves. For example, a transgender artist will teach a DIY zine-making class, while Adam Frezza and Terri Chiao of Chiaozza are planning a paper collage session. “When people think of art nonprofits, they think it benefits artists, but we’re asking artists to work with us to benefit children, and, at the workshops, we are going to empower children to express themselves,” says Fiore. “Words can be scary, but with symbols and visual language it makes the process easier.”

      Chloe Pollack-Robbins and Anna Cappelen of the interior design studio Curious Yellow
      Work by Chiaozza next to a Philip Arctander Clam chair; Photo: Joshua Li

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