POBA - Where the Arts Live

POBA
Founded 2014
Location
Key people
Jennifer Cohen, Executive Director
Website http://www.poba.org

POBA is a non-profit, online arts community, launched in July, 2014 [1] by The James Kirk Bernard Foundation (named after a young artist who died in 2010).[2]

Description

POBA's mission is to preserve, display, and provide resources for research, archiving, and appraising the creative legacies of 20th and 21st century artists who either died without their legacy being fully recognized, were not recognized for a specific medium, or whose work is not readily accessible elsewhere.[3] [4]

POBA offers membership to anyone who owns the rights to a deceased artist's legacy. Members can create portfolios on behalf of that artist to show the works in the appropriate digital format, for public display and private storage.

The name "POBA" derives from the Hindi word "phowa", which means the transformation of consciousness at death.

Partners

POBA has partnered with such leading institutions and galleries as the American Ballet Theater and The Berta Walker Gallery, and has partnerships with the Provincetown Art Association and Museum[5] and Paddle8.[6]

In January 2016, POBA launched Art Lives, an online project to digitize, curate, and display the work of artists of all genres lost to AIDS in the 1970s and 1980s, partnering with DIFFA (Design Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS), LifeBeat (Music Fights AIDS) and Visual AIDS for the initial portfolios.[7] Featured artists include Sylvester (singer), Mel Cheren, artist and creator of West End Records, and Patrick Kelly (fashion designer).[8]

Artists

Founding artists' legacies include: [9]


References

  1. "POBA Virtual Cultural Arts Center".
  2. "Obituaries: James Kirk Bernard dies at 22, lived his first 15 years in Summit". NJ.com. February 2, 2010.
  3. "The Weighty Responsibility of Inheriting a Collection, The New York Times (September 2014)".
  4. Deborah Minsky, Digital Life after Death, "Provincetown Banner" (Thursday, Nov. 6, 2014)
  5. "Online exhibitions spotlight groundbreaking artists from America's oldest active arts colony (January 2015)".
  6. "Auction is the first in a new series launched by Paddle8 in partnership with POBA (December, 2014)".
  7. "7 Incredible Artists Who Lost Their Lives To HIV (December, 2015)".
  8. "The Work of Artists Lost to AIDS Lives On (December, 2015)".
  9. "POBA Virtual Cultural Arts Center".
  10. "Ben-Zion New York Times obituary".
  11. "The Weighty Responsibility of Inheriting a Collection, The New York Times (September 2014)".
  12. "POBA: Where the Music Plays On".
  13. "Newly Discovered Badfinger Demos Get an Online Home with POBA, Guitar Player Magazine (July 2014)".
  14. "The Week in Music, USA Today (July 18, 2014)".
  15. "A Portrait of Norman Mailer as a Visual Artist, Clyde Fitch Report (July 2014)".
  16. "Apparently, The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author Norman Mailer Was A Picasso-Inspired Artist, Huffington Post (July 2014)".
  17. "Clark Tippet Obituary, The New York Times (January 1992)".
  18. "POBA Site Helps Preserve Legacies of Artists Lost to AIDS, Edge Media Network (August 2014)".
  19. "George Tate Captures California Life, Slate (July 2013)".
  20. "Striving for the body beautiful in the 1950s: From pageants to weightlifters these stunning pictures chart the start of the keep fit movement in California's Muscle Beach, Daily Mail (August 2013)".
  21. "James Kirk Bernard Foundation website".
  22. "Nancy Whorf, Provincetown Artist Registry".
  23. "Eli Waldron's articles in The New Yorker".

External links

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