Opening Night Party
Through Future Eyes: The Endurance of Humanity
Thu, Apr 23, 2009, 5–8 pm
Grand Lobby & Galleries
$8 in advance, $10 at the door
FREE for YBCA Members and a guest

COMING TO THE OPENING NIGHT PARTY ON THU, APR 23?



Join us in the YBCA Forum at 8 pm for a performance of Big Art Group, a revolutionary multimedia theatre company from New York City that uses media language to push the narrative boundaries of performance, film and visual art. Through Future Eyes OPENING NIGHT patrons can purchase 2–for–1 tickets to Big Art Group by presenting their ticket stub at the box office. $10 Student Rush tickets also available for Big Art Group—cash at the door, I.D. Required.

Celebrate the opening of Through Future Eyes: The Endurance of Humanity with a party featuring the Loco Bloco youth percussion band and a performance by the Young Artists at Work performing arts group.

Through Future Eyes: The Endurance of Humanity, on view Apr 24–Jul 5, 2009, is a dynamic exhibition curated by six teens from YBCA's Young Artists at Work (YAAW) program. It features work from eleven renowned local and international artists. From the boldly iconic graphic art of Shepard Fairey to the haunting video art of Melissa Day, and the politically charged posters and silkscreens of Juan R. Fuentes to Claudia Bernardi's "frescoes on paper," Through Future Eyes explores the universal and transcendental experience of endurance.

ALSO ON VIEW: Nick Cave: Meet Me At The Center Of The Earth, on view Mar 28–Jul 5, 2009, is the largest scale presentation of work by Chicago-based artist and dancer, Nick Cave, featuring forty of his Soundsuits—multi-layered mixed-media, wearable sculptures created from scavenged ordinary materials that Cave re-contextualizes into visionary masterpieces.

  Watch Nick Cave's Soundsuits in motion »