The quirky Brooklyn-based arts education non-profit Bruce High Quality foundation is headed to Miami, where it plans to open another branch of its art school alternative, BHQFU, next year.
The news was officially announced at its annual benefit dinner and auction Wednesday, 18 May, held at Julian Schnabel’s faux-Renaissance Palazzo Chupi in the West Village. Attendees included the “punk princess” Gloria von Thurn und Taxis, the actress and singer Bernadette Peters and the evening’s honoree, the Warhol star and art collector Jane Holzer.
Bruce High Quality Foundation also has a new endeavour this year at its Brooklyn headquarters: its first year-long studio and teaching residency programme, to run from September 2016 through August 2017. The five artist residents, Andrew Ross , Jesse Chun, Pastiche Lumumba, Kentaro Ikegami and Nina Behrle, will receive free studio space and other support and will each design and teach a course at BHQFU for the spring 2017 semester.