Photo by Carrie Beckmann
Community Board #1 Meeting Notes by Aaron Short [AShortStory]
DIY Money: It’s Legal, It’s Fair, and It’s on Its Way to Brooklyn [LMag]
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Archives for May 2010
Call for Proposals: Williamsburg Walks
2010 “Rethink Our Public Space” Public Art Competition
Event Background
To provoke event attendees to rethink the public space surrounding them, Williamsburg Walks is issuing an RFP in order to select artists to participate in a public art competition. It is a great opportunity to put your talent on display for the two days of the event, engage with local residents, New Yorkers, and tourists, get exposure in the media and be part of a unique event. Selected proposals will be invited to be created and displayed during event. The “Best in Show” will be determined by a public voting process and the 2010 Weekend Walks Public Art Installation Competition Committee consisting of local artists, designers, and planners. This piece will be awarded a $1,000 prize.
Theme
We are looking for public art that supports the theme of “Rethink Your Public Space.” For many of us, the streets are literally our front yards. But all too often our streets fail to offer a pleasant space, a place to socialize and bond with our community, to recreate, and to feel safe when walking or riding a bike. In response to these conditions, we are seeking work that engages the issues of how public space can encourage substantive community engagement in fun and creative ways, how art can play a role in activating public space, and how the dominance of certain modes of transportation over others on streets can be reduced. So help us Rethink Our Public Space!
‘It’s My Park!’ and Kite Festival in McCarren
Crew of Kickstand Coffee
FOUR GREAT Events Saturday, May 15th, 11am-6pm. For all ages
1 Kite Festival! In conjunction with ‘It’s My Park!,’ a citywide celebration of green spaces across the five boroughs, this outdoor party encourages kids to inhale fresh air, and get their kites soaring. If two fragile fliers collide, there’s no need to worry: ‘Doctors’ at an on-site kite hospital will administer quick repairs. Terrestrial activities include arts-and-crafts projects, a karate demonstration and a performance by Time Out Kids fave AudraRox, and free face painting. (The Kite Festival is a fundraiser for PS 123.)
The Daily Photo + Links
Photo by Tamara Hellgren
Blog: Visual Culture of Gentrified Brooklyn [Visual]
Hotel Toshi Trouble: Hipster Hotel Causes Problems in Williamsburg [HuffPost]
Trent’s Top Williamsburg Brooklyn Gallery Picks May 2010
Deborah Brown’s “Vine,” 2009, Photos courtesy of the artist and Storefront.
DEBORAH BROWN, “THE BUSHWICK PAINTINGS”
Bushwick, in general, conjures images of bulky warehouses and derelict factories, cyclone fences and concrete walls. Deborah Brown’s paintings of the neighborhood enliven such scenery with spiraling foliage and skies the color of Easter eggs. Brown works by making plein-air drawings around Bushwick and posting the pictures on her studio walls. She then extracts details from the drawings—utility lines, razor wire, the tops of factories—and places them in her paintings. These scenes could potentially be of any industrial district in any American town, but they are distinctively Bushwick.