Welcome to Artists For Mutual Aid’s Valentine’s Day Fundraiser! We are a volunteer-run collective of NYC activists that host art markets that fundraise for mutual aid groups and other local social justice efforts. Celebrate your love for community with a night of food, art, music, burlesque, mutual aid, and more!

The event will feature local NYC artists selling art prints, ceramics, soaps, jewelry, and edibles. We will also have a tattoo, henna, and portrait artist ready to provide you with live art to take home! And finally, performers of music, dance, burlesque, spoken word, and more.

There is a Silent Auction where you can bid on specific works of art. The auction will go live online a week before the event. The pieces will also be live at Mayday Space for the final round of bidding. Winners will be chosen at the event. Follow us on Instagram @artistsformutualaidnyc to keep updated.

BK Rot & Divine Explosion Arts Program (DEAP)
@bk_rot is NYC’s first community-supported, bike-powered, fossil fuel-free food waste hauling and composting service. Its staff is majority young people of color who haul residential and commercial organic waste and transform it into high-quality compost. Their operations provide accessible jobs and sustained professional development for emerging environmental leaders.
What We’re Funding: They need new bikes, and a bike shed. Historically they have used second-hand bikes, which fall apart faster with daily use and no proper shelter from the weather.

Miss Princess’s Divine Explosion Art Program, aka DEAP (@divineexplosion). DEAP is a Brownsville, Brooklyn-based grassroots Non-Profit that focuses on youth development. It teaches independence skills, including urban gardening, culinary arts, financial improvement, tradesmanship, physical wellness, & entrepreneurial skills. All this while providing other community-based programs & events for youths and families needing food and resource support. They also have a performing arts program that allows young locals to express themselves positively through singing, drumming, dancing, and spoken word.
What We’re Funding: The drums they use are on loan. The money raised will allow DEAP to buy their own drums, flags for the dancing team, and a generator and mics for the chorus.

Transparency
We fundraise through ticket sales and donations from artists. Instead of vendor fees, each artist donates 15% – 20% of their proceeds. Silent Auction artists will also donate a portion of their earnings as they see fit. Raised funds also pay performers/DJs and the beautiful Mayday Space at their lowest rental fee tier, if not more. We hope to pay Mayday Space more as they are grassroots-run. The rest of the raised funds will be split between BKrot and Miss Princess’s DEAP.

History
The first two fundraisers were for the No North Brooklyn Pipeline Coalition. We raised $1500 the first time and $2500 the second time. So let’s make it $5000 this round!

What better way to celebrate Valentine’s Day than to show love for the communities that shape the world? Thank you, and see you there!

Food & Drink
There will be food! If you spend more than $10 per ticket, you will get a meal token with your ticket. There will also be free beer and hard seltzers, an edibles vendor, and potentially additional food vendors.