NEW YORK - Artist LeRoy Neiman has donated US$1 million to create a permanent home for a Harlem community arts centre.
Neiman is best known for his colourful and energetic paintings of sporting events and portraits of such luminaries as Muhammad Ali, The Beatles, Louis Armstrong and Frank Sinatra. He plans to attend the ribbon cutting for the Arts Horizons LeRoy Neiman Art Center Tuesday evening.
Arts Horizons has been providing after-school arts programming for 30 years. The centre will become its first permanent home. It will offer classes in painting, computer animation, photography, pottery, and video and film-making on weekday afternoons and weekends.
Neiman, who says he's a product of the Depression and a broken home, is making the donation to give children "an opportunity to express themselves in ways they never thought possible."
The centre is scheduled to officially open next month.
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