Heroes with Bling-"Not on OUR Watch!"

Heroes with Bling-“Not on OUR Watch”
 The Academy SF
Preview Exhibit: February 7, 2025 5-8pm: Open to the Public
Benefit Auction Event: February 20, 2025 6-9pm: Open to the Public and hosted by Mercedez Munro! 

Online Bidding Begins: February,18,2025 @ 10am
Online Bidding Ends: February 24,2025 @ 11pm

This will be a celebration of the spirit of San Francisco’s LGBTQ2+ community at The Academy SF. 
 https://www.academy-sf.com/  This event features a collection of 50 stunning 5x9” mosaics, each capturing the soulful and expressive eyes of local SF Drag Artists. This is a body of work 18 months in the making. Created as a response to the rising threats against LGBTQ2+ rights, this exhibit is a love letter to our local "Heroes with Bling"—the entertainers, activists, and humanitarians who stand as pillars of strength and love in our community, keeping their eyes vigilant against the erasure of our past and present by ignorance and hate. 
Bidding will begin February 18, 2025 @ 10am and close February 25th at Midnight!
 Proceeds from this event will go to Openhouse SF, TransThrive, Lyric,  GLBT Historical Society, and the Imperial Council of SF,  ensuring these organizations can continue their essential work.Don’t miss this unique opportunity to support our community and acquire a meaningful piece of art.
 

Michael is based in San Francisco, CA where he maintains his studio practice creating fine art mosaics, reproductions and commissions for private and commercial clients.
Michael spent 30 years as a professional ballet dancer and choreographer before retiring from the stage and becoming a visual artist. He was trained at the prestigious Mosaic Art School in Ravenna, Italy by Maestra Luciana Notturni and her colleagues.
  His work has exhibited nationally and  internationally, at the 2020 deYoung Open Exhibition in San Francisco, at “Embodied”, the 2019 SAMA Invitational Exhibit at Vanderbilt University, the RavennaMosaico 2017 Biennale, winning awards at the annual “Mosaic Arts International” exhibits in 2010,  2011 and 2015 as well as appearing in several art and mosaic publications.