#arts gowanus

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My piece "Hold On" was included in "Together We Will," a Brooklyn Pride 2023 event at the Old Stone House in Gowanus

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What is the creative potential of an empty box? See how area artists answered this question in Case Study, the latest project from your friends at Gowanus Night Heron!

More than two dozen artists were invited to reimagine simple acrylic cases, and the results will be on view during Gowanus Open Studios, this Saturday, Oct. 16, 2021, and Sunday, Oct. 17, 2021, from noon to 6 p.m. both days. The Case Study locations are as follows:

Case Study: Social Structure Treasure Island 183 Lorraine St. / GOS map location 108

Case Study: Faith, Healing, Feeling Shapeshifter Lab 18 Whitwell Pl. / GOS map location 49

Case Study: Organica/Gowanus Makeville Studio 125 8th St. / GOS map location 89

Case Study: Light and Obscurity Arts Gowanus Offices 540 President St. / GOS map location 43

A portion of Case Study sales will go to Arts Gowanus and Gowanus Mutual Aid.

If you can't make it to all four locations, no worries! Unsold Case Studies works will be on view at the Gowanus Open Studios closing party, 6:30-9:30 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 17, at the Gowanus Dredgers Boathouse at 165 2nd St. Participating artists: Natale Adgnot, Johanna Aenderl, Nora Evita Aresti, Tania L. Balan-Gaubert, Lauren Bierly, Emily Chiavelli, Jessica Dalrymple, Yvena Despagne, Valeria Divinorum, Miska Draskoczy, Keith Duquette, Arielle Jennings, K Haskell, Karen Mainenti, Hermann Mejia, Stephanie Norberg, Avani Patel,  Anne-Sophie H. Plume, Sean Qualls, Bonnie Ralston, John Richey, Rick Secen, Andrew Smenos, Sonjie Feliciano Solomon, Tamara Staples, Johnny Thornton, Marlene Weisman, and Kasia Zurek-Doule About: Gowanus Night Heron is an artist-run event collective committed to celebrating the community and creative spirit of Gowanus. Gowanus Night Heron was founded by artists Bonnie Ralston, Miska Draskoczy, and Kasia Zurek-Doule and held its inaugural event, a pop-up show on the banks of the canal, in early June.

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How will artists reimagine a small acrylic box? See for yourself at Gowanus Open Studios, Oct. 16-17, 2021. More details coming soon!

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This was one of the pieces from Neighborhood Reflections, eco friendly banners created last year for the Arts Gowanus Art Walk event in Brooklyn.

[hyperallergic]

As Arts Gowanus organized a rally for artists displaced from 94 9th Street and adjacent, connected buildings earlier this month, some 350 artists and local businesses were preparing for Gowanus Open Studios (GOS). Activists representing the Artist Studio Affordability Project (ASAP) and Take Back NYC as well as New York City Council Member Brad Lander, Arts Gowanus Director Abby Subak, and local neighbors and friends showed their support and circulated a petition addressed to 94 9th Street’s new landlord, Eli Hamway, of Industrie Capital.

“We Are Experiencing Hyper-Gentrification”: Gowanus Art Community Sizes Up Its Future

[hyperallergic]

Arts Gowanus gathered its community on the morning of Saturday, October 18, for a rally to support artists who are being pushed out of a block-long group of buildings on 9th Street in Brooklyn’s Gowanus neighborhood. About 90 minutes before artists around the neighborhood would open their doors for the annual Gowanus Open Studios, a small group of neighbors, activists, and artists held signs and chanted “Keep Gowanus Creative” in front of 94 9th Street. Arts Gowanus director Abby Subak described the impact on the artists of the loss of an estimated 250 affordable workspaces. These artists, she said, “are in complete chaos, their art-making career is in question. Losing the space to do your work is a devastating experience for an artist.”

Gowanus Rallies to Support Artists Losing Affordable Workspaces