#arts gowanus

[bruce-morrow]

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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black mountain wine house corvid // out for a walk

2023-12-02

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From the archives (and Gowanus Open Studios this weekend!)

Visit me at Gowanus Open Studios this weekend - October 21-22!

Good evening everyone. I’m busy getting ready for Gowanus Open Studios, which is happening this weekend! This year for Open Studios I’m doing something a little different — delving into the archives and pulling out some works from previous years to put on display in the studio. I will plant companionship thick as trees (Calamus I), acrylic on canvas, 30×20″, 2010 The feature archive treasure…

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[molybdic]

near the foot of Bond St

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[isthespiceoflife]

What a perfect home for this art fair, The OTHER ART FAIR, which opens this Thursday (11/9/23) in Brooklyn -- Gowanus. U bet I'll be there!

[nyc-looks]

Nova, 21

“I’m wearing a thrifted pink lingerie layered with a thrifted cheetah long sleeve shirt, skirt and jacket are from Dollskill, shoes from Hello Angel Girl, bag is vintage Juicy Couture, and hat and gloves from a market in LA. Radical Expression inspires my style. I find joy in the liberating art of capturing what I feel inside and replicating it externally. My style is a direct reflection of how I feel and what I believe in: optimism, high frequencies, and maximalist range.”

Apr 20, 2024 ∙ Gowanus

[scopophilic1997]

HAPPY NYC PRIDE 2024 - Exciting News! scopOphilic has two pieces in Brooklyn Pride! 2024.

BROOKLYN PRIDE: “PRIDE: ALL DAY, EVERY DAY” (June 1 thru August 31, 2024) Outdoor Art Exhibition

Arts Gowanus and Old Stone House, and Brooklyn Pride IS hosting this public outdoor art exhibition that honors and uplifts Brooklyn’s LGBTQIA+ Community.

“scopOphilic_Brooklyn_Pride_2024", photo collage, is just one of the amazing artworks on display. These artworks beautifully depict and celebrate various facets of the LGBTQIA+ experience and community.

You can find these vibrant works adorning vinyl banners along the fence surrounding The Old Stone House & Washington Park and J.J. Byrne Playground in Park Slope (336 3rd Street, Brooklyn, NY). The exhibition runs from June 1 to August 31, 2024.

Let’s celebrate love, diversity, and creativity together!

[mybeingthere]

Julia Whitney Barnes in an artist living in the Hudson Valley who works in a variety of media from cyanotypes, watercolour, oil paintings, ceramic sculptures, murals, and site-specific installations. She has exhibited widely in the United States and internationally. She was awarded fellowships from New York State Council on the Arts, Arts Mid-Hudson, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Abbey Memorial Fund for Mural Painting/National Academy of Fine Arts, and the Gowanus Public Art Initiative, among others.

[niibaataa]

Some Indigenous Poets to Read

Disclaimer: Some of these poems deal with pregnancy, colonialism, substance abuse, murder, death, and historical wrongs. Exercise caution.

Tacey M. Atsitty [Diné] : Anasazi, Lady Birds' Evening Meetings, Things to Do With a Monster.

Billy-Ray Belcourt [Cree] : NDN Homopoetics, If Our Bodies Could Rust, We Would Be Falling Apart, Love is a Moontime Teaching.

CooXooEii Black [Arapaho] : On Mindfulness, Some Notes on Vision, With Scraps We Made Sacred Food.

Trevino L. Brings Plenty [Lakota] : Unpack Poetic, Will, Massacre Song Foundation.

Julian Talamantez Brolaski [Apache] : Nobaude, murder on the gowanus, What To Say Upon Being Asked To Be Friends.

Gladys Cardiff [Cherokee] : Combing, Prayer to Fix The Affections, To Frighten a Storm.

Freddy Chicangana [Yanacuna] : Of Rivers, Footprints, We Still Have Life on This Earth.

Laura Da' [Shawnee] : Bead Workers, The Meadow Views: Sword and Symbolic History, A Mighty Pulverizing Machine.

Natalie Diaz [Mojave] : It Was The Animals, My Brother My Wound, The Facts of Art.

Heid E. Erdrich [Anishinaabe] : De'an, Elemental Conception, Ghost Prisoner.

Jennifer Elise Foerster [Mvskoke] : From "Coosa", Leaving Tulsa, The Other Side.

Eric Gansworth [Onondaga] : Bee, Eel, A Half-Life of Cardio-Pulmonary Function.

Joy Harjo [Muscogee] : An American Sunrise, Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings, A Map to The Next World.

Gordon Henry Jr. [Anishinaabe] : How Soon, On the Verve of Verbs, It Was Snowing on The Monuments.

Sy Hoahwah [Comanche/Arapaho] : Colors of The Comanche Nation Flag, Definitive Bright Morning, Typhoni.

LeAnne Howe [Choctaw] : A Duck's Tune, 1918, Iva Describes Her Deathbed.

Hugo Jamioy [Kamentsá] : PUNCTUAL, If You Don't Eat Anything, The Story of My People.

Layli Long Soldier [Lakota] : 38, WHEREAS, Obligations 2.

Janet McAdams [Muscogee] : Flood, The Hands of The Taino, Hunters, Gatherers.

Brandy Nālani McDougall [Kānaka Maoli] : He Mele Aloha no ka Niu, On Finding my Father's First Essay, The Island on Which I Love You.

dg nanouk okpik [Inupiaq-Inuit] : Cell Block on Chena River, Found, If Oil Is Drilled In Bristol Bay.

Simon J. Ortiz [Acoma Pueblo] : Becoming Human, Blind Curse, Busted Boy.

Sara Marie Ortiz [Acoma Pueblo] : Iyáani (Spirit, Breath, Life), Language (part of a compilation), Rush.

Alan Pelaez Lopez [Zapotec] : the afterlife of illegality, A Daily Prayer, Zapotec Crossers.

Tommy Pico [Kumeyaay] : From "Feed", from Junk, You Can't be an NDN Person in Today's World.

Craig Santos Perez [Chamorro] : (First Trimester), from Lisiensan Ga'lago, from "understory".

Cedar Sigo [Suquamish] : Cold Valley, Expensive Magic, Secrets of The Inner Mind.

M. L. Smoker [Assiniboine/Sioux] : Crosscurrent, Heart Butte, Montana, Another Attempt at Rescue.

Laura Tohe [Diné] : For Kathryn, Female Rain, Returning.

Gwen Nell Westerman [Cherokee/Dakota] : Dakota Homecoming, Covalent Bonds, Undivided Interest.

Karenne Wood [Monacan] : Apologies, Abracadabra, an Abecedarian, Chief Totopotamoi, 1654.

Lightning Round! Writers with poetry available on their sites:

Shonda Buchanan [Coharie, Cherokee, Choctaw].

Leonel Lienlaf [Mapuche].

Asani Charles [Choctaw/Chickasaw].

[transpondster]

A meme bounced around Brooklyn last summer: ‘What if we kissed at the Tom Verlaine book sale?’ Verlaine, who formed and fronted the band Television, died on 28 January 2023. Over the years he had acquired fifty thousand books – twenty tons or more – on any number of subjects: art, acoustics, astrological signs, UFOs. The sale of those books – a two-day affair in August, run out of adjacent garages in Brooklyn – was a serious draw. Arto Lindsay, the avant-pop musician, walked by. Tony Oursler made a short video and posted it on Instagram. Old friends, some of whom looked as if they hadn’t seen daylight in decades, found each other in the long line. Verlaine had split his enormous collection between storage units: one a short walk from his Chelsea one-bedroom, four more across the river in Red Hook, near the foot of the Gowanus Canal. Verlaine didn’t use Uber. To get to the Brooklyn facility he’d take a rickety grocery cart on the F train, ride it out to Smith and Ninth Street, the highest Subway station in the city, and walk the rest of the way. In a crowd, Verlaine stood out. He was tall, thin, fine-featured. (‘Tom Verlaine has the most beautiful neck in rock and roll,’ Patti Smith wrote in 1974. ‘Real swan like.’) He had never quit smoking and wore a car coat, like a character out of film noir. But there he had been, bumping his cart down several sets of stairs and escalators and wheeling it, under the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, across seven lanes of traffic, to Red Hook. The books had to go somewhere.

Alex Abramovich | At the Tom Verlaine Book Sale

You can still buy Verlaine’s books from Better Read than Dead and Capitol Hill’s websites. His record collection will go on sale, one of these days, at the Academy Record annexes in Greenpoint and the East Village. They’re a reminder of different days in a different city, where the bookstores and record stores stayed open late, and you could poke around in them even after a night out at CBGB, and the stuff that you’d get there was cheap, and the space that you needed to store them was cheap, and, even if you worked in a bookstore, you could afford an offset press and start your own poetry imprint, or find a loft space in SoHo and start your own band.

[finishinglinepress]

FLP CHAPBOOK OF THE DAY: Kyivsky Waltz | Київський вальс a love story | історія кохання by KS Lack | КШ Лек

On SALE now! Pre-order Price Guarantee: https://www.finishinglinepress.com/product/kyivsky-waltz-київський-вальс-a-love-story-історія-коханн/

KS Lack is a writer and letterpress printer from New York who is interested in the interplay between presswork and poetry, and in transcending constraints by working with them. Her work has appeared in various publications and galleries including Proteus Gowanus, Main Street Arts, The Center for Book Arts, Eastern Iowa Press, Red Flag #Poetry, The Clemente, and Inverted Syntax. She is a founding member of the Introspective Collective consortium of artists. KS has been living with chronic pain since childhood.

From 1994 to 1996, KS Lack lived in Kyiv, #Ukraine, where she helped start Dzerkalo Tyzhnia (The Mirror Weekly), one of Ukraine’s first independent newspapers.

All of the author’s proceeds from this publication will be donated to Razom, an NGO dedicated to providing humanitarian aid to Ukraine. For more information, go to https://www.razomforukraine.org/

PRAISE FOR Kyivsky Waltz | Київський вальс a love story | історія кохання by KS Lack | КШ Лек

Kyivsky Waltz/Київський Вальс is both timely and timeless. Through a masterful interweaving of poems, typeset, and images, this chapbook takes the reader on a lyrical journey through Kyiv in the 1990s, as experienced by a perceptive and heartbreakingly honest young American woman. We hear the “small symphonies” and “rumbling bursts” of the Ukrainian language. We taste the “tang of a morning’s kiss/mushrooms misted with earth.” We smell the roses and lilacs below a lovers’ room. With a poet-journalist’s attentive eye, KS Lack infuses her story with everyday detail, always through an intensely personal lens—full of yearning, tenderness, pain, confusion, repulsion, pleasure, beauty, and, ultimately, love. The evocative images of this love story will haunt your memory long after you put it down.

–Nicole Svobodny, Senior Lecturer in Global Studies, Washington University in St. Louis

Kyivsky Waltz/Київський Вальс leads us through the steps of a transformation, the one that inevitably occurs in the encounter of a foreign place, and of its inhabitants and culture. The poems, demonstrating how small details or words can carry greater significance, convey a journey from disorienting estrangement, to intimate understanding, and love. Through various poetic movements, KS Lack chronicles a dance, at the end of which, two foreigners can say “But here nothing is yours or mine––just ours.” With this heartfelt collection, Lack reminds us that #love, like language, is a pas de deux.

–Beatrice Szymkowiak, author of B/RDS

A mixture of visually-laden poetry and equally breathtaking artwork, Kyivsky Waltz/Київський Вальс by KS Lack takes you on a sensual, metaphorical, and emotional journey of the seasons

–Jason Masino, author of Sinner’s Prayer

Please share/please repost #flpauthor #preorder #AwesomeCoverArt #poetry #chapbook #read #poems #Ukraine

[pareidoliac]

Upcoming: The Arts Gowanus Patterns Gala!

I’m pleased to announce that I have contributed a painting to this year’s Arts Gowanus Patterns Gala! Patterns Gala 2023 happens on May 12! What is the Patterns Gala, you may ask? From the folks at Arts Gowanus: Arts Gowanus is excited to present our second annual Patterns Gala! This event will be held outdoors at The Old Stone House on Friday, May 12, 2023 from 6:00 – 9:30pm. All attendees…

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NYCs Top Sports and Fitness Activities

NYC’s Top Sports and Fitness Activities http://avrahamglattman.org/nycs-top-sports-and-fitness-activities/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=nycs-top-sports-and-fitness-activities New York City, the vibrant metropolis that never sleeps, is a global hub for culture, food, and entertainment and a playground for sports and fitness enthusiasts. From iconic sports arenas to breathtaking outdoor spaces, the city offers many activities to get your heart pumping and adrenaline rushing. Let’s delve into the top sports and fitness activities that make NYC an athlete’s paradise. Running in Central Park  Central Park, the iconic oasis in the heart of Manhattan, is a haven for runners of all skill levels. With its sprawling pathways covering 843 acres, runners can embark on scenic jogs through meadows, alongside tranquil lakes, and under the shade of towering trees. The park hosts various organized runs, including the annual New York City Marathon. Lace-up your running shoes, breathe in the fresh air, and join the vibrant community of runners who gather here to stay fit and challenge their limits. Biking across the Brooklyn Bridge  For a thrilling and picturesque adventure, hop on a bike and pedal across the iconic Brooklyn Bridge. Marvel at the stunning Manhattan skyline as you traverse the East River, capturing breathtaking views of the city’s architectural wonders and the serene water below. Cycling enthusiasts can explore the vibrant neighborhoods of Brooklyn and Manhattan using dedicated bike lanes and paths that crisscross the city. Whether you’re a casual rider or a seasoned cyclist, this exhilarating journey will provide an unforgettable fitness experience. Pick-up Basketball at West 4th Street Courts Nestled in the heart of Greenwich Village, the West 4th Street Courts are legendary among basketball enthusiasts. This iconic outdoor court has witnessed the skills and energy of some of the city’s most talented ballers. Join a pick-up game or soak up the electrifying atmosphere as you watch others compete. The courts attract both amateurs and aspiring professionals, allowing you to hone your skills, showcase your talent, and experience the essence of New York City street basketball. Indoor Climbing at Brooklyn Boulders Escape the bustling streets and discover the thrill of indoor rock climbing at Brooklyn Boulders. Located in the industrial neighborhood of Gowanus, this state-of-the-art facility offers climbers of all levels a chance to scale walls, conquer challenging routes, and test their strength and agility. With expert instructors, diverse climbing terrain, and a vibrant community, Brooklyn Boulders provides a safe and exciting environment for climbers to push their limits and build physical and mental resilience. Tennis at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center  Home to the renowned US Open Tennis Championship, the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park is a mecca for tennis enthusiasts. With its numerous indoor and outdoor courts, the center offers ample opportunities for players to engage in friendly matches, take lessons, or watch professionals in action. The vibrant atmosphere and top-notch facilities make it an ideal destination for recreational and competitive players, allowing them to embrace the spirit of the game and nurture their passion for tennis. New York City’s dynamic landscape provides various sports and fitness activities for locals and visitors alike. NYC offers something for everyone seeking an active and exhilarating lifestyle. So, lace up your sneakers, grab your gear, and dive into the vibrant sports and fitness scene that defines this iconic city. The post NYC’s Top Sports and Fitness Activities first appeared on Avraham Glattman | Fun in NYC.

[molybdic]

third piece from the art set near the foot of Bond St