Filmmaker Stuart Ginsberg has launched a crowdfunding campaign for artist/curator Arleen Schloss. The 70-year-old Schloss was injured last month in a fall in her Broome Street home
Here is the background via GoFundMe:
Recently, Arleen Schloss suffered a near-fatal brain injury when she slipped and fell at her home in January. Rushed to the hospital, she is currently in rehab and will possibly continue for a few more months.
Her friends are raising money to help Arleen pay her current bills, medical care and any future home care. Arleen also suffers from MS and will need help for both conditions.
Who is Arleen Schloss? Arleen is an experimental artist who helped foster the East Village art scene through her loft called A's as well as through other events and performances.
The New York Times called her work "much superior to most performance art" and White Hot Magazine referred to Arleen as "a national treasure." Arleen traveled the world with her performances, installations, experimental work and video art.
Over 1,000 artists, performers, musicians, writers and poets owe their success to Arleen.
From 1979 to 1995, Schloss opened up her loft at 330 Broome St. in the Lower East Side to a group of then-unknown artists, actors and musicians that included Sonic Youth, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Eric Bogosian, Glenn Branca, Phoebe Legere and Alan Suiclde, among many others.
Ginsberg has been working on a documentary about Schloss titled "Wednesdays at A's." Here's the trailer.
Find more info at GoFundMe.
Previously on EV Grieve:
Arleen Schloss and 'Wednesday at A's'
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