The Alliance for the Arts is honored to be a beneficiary of the exhibition Single Fare 2: Please Swipe Again, held at Sloan Fine Art in the Lower East Side. The opening night reception is Thursday, March 17, 5-9 pm.

A number of artists have created works that will be raffled off at the reception, with those proceeds benefiting Transportation Alternatives (transalt.org), which promotes public and alternative forms of transportation, and Alliance for the Arts' NYC ARTS (nyc-arts.org), the leading Web and free iPhone guide to arts programs and events throughout NYC. Raffle tickets will be available at the start of the reception at 5 pm. Winners will be announced a 8:30 pm.

The first "Single Fare" exhibition was organized by Jean-Pierre Roy and Michael Kagan, who made an open call to all artists and placed one constraint on the creative process: all work had to be submitted on a used MetroCard. Inspired by the notion that the city's subways and buses allow for a kind of creative interchange unmatched in human history, Single Fare sought to create a unique art event where art and artists could come together to form a monumental event made from a tiny, innocuous piece of plastic: The MetroCard. The resulting exhibition featured over 700 works of art - from artists as far away as New Zealand and as close as the studio next door.

Following the tremendous success of last year's "Single Fare," Roy and Kagan have teamed up with Sloan Fine Art for Single Fare 2: Please Swipe Again. The themes of last year's show ran the gamut from moments of high abstraction to delicate portraiture. Three dimensional works, documentary photography and even a video installation helped to create one of the most cohesively diverse shows in recent memory while playfully challenging artists to show what they can do with seven square inches. 

The exhibition is open through Saturday, March 26. Click here for full details on the gallery location, open hours and the exhibition.