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BRIC and Goya Bring Art to Youth in the Dominican Republic via Artist Residency
Wednesday, July 18, 2018 - 11:00AMThis past spring, food giant Goya partnered with BRIC to generously sponsor the exhibition, Bordering the Imaginary: Art from the Dominican Republic, Haiti, and Their Diasporas. In conjunction with sponsorship of the show and as part of the company’s Goya Gives initiative, the popular food label proposed working with BRIC to facilitate an artist residency at the Orfanato Niños de Cristo orphanage in La Romana, located in the Dominican Republic, and founded by Henry Cardenas and Marc Anthony of the Maestro Cares Foundation. Bordering the Imaginary exhibition artist iliana emilia garcía was selected to travel to the Dominican Republic to provide a series of art workshops at the orphanage. BRIC's Contemporary Art Program Manager Sol Nova accompanied garcía on the trip, and helped out with the workshops she provided to 25 orphaned kids interested in art, ages 10-18. Here, Sol talks about the trip and her experience helping the youngsters at Orfanato Niños de Cristo create art.
BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival Artist Highlight: Kaki King
Monday, July 2, 2018 - 10:30AMKaki King, Brooklyn-based guitarrist and Golden Globe winner, will be at the BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival on Saturday, July 28! Get to know more about her with this interview.
BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival Staff Highlight: Gretchen Van Lente
Monday, June 11, 2018 - 2:30PMLearn a little bit more about Gretchen Van Lente, BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival's Volunteer Coordinator!
"I am amazed at the diversity at every single show. Seeing such a cross section of New York City dancing, singing, swaying and grooving along to the same music really reminds me that it truly is the universal language."
Freedom Dreaming: A Call to Imagine
Friday, June 8, 2018 - 11:00AMA free community workshop organized by the Downtown Brooklyn Management Fellows (2017-2018)
Brooklyn community members gathered in BRIC’s Artist Studio on Saturday, May 19, 2018 for an afternoon of Freedom Dreaming. In exploration of distinguished U.S. History Professor Robin D.G. Kelley’s concept of Freedom Dreaming, the Downtown Brooklyn Arts Management Fellows programmed this event as a manifestation of our own Freedom Dreams as a cohort of women of color working towards equity in arts management. Freedom Dreaming encourages participants to create the world we dream of by first, visualizing the future we want to live in and second, determining the actions that will lead us there.
2018 BRIC Youth Media Festival Winners
Wednesday, June 6, 2018 - 1:00PMOn May 30, 2018, Concrete Stories, the 5th annual BRIC Youth Media Festival took place, showcasing short films, documentaries, animations, and other media created by youth under the age of 21.Two screenings took place in the BRIC Ballroom in which the those films receiving awards were shown, and the filmmakers were honored. In case you missed the event, here are the winning films in five categories! Congratulations to all who participated.
Visual Artist Spotlight: Grimanesa Amorós
Monday, June 4, 2018 - 11:00AMFor the 40th season of the BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival, BRIC commissioned artist Grimanesa Amorós to create a site-specific light sculpture, which will be on display at the Bandshell all summer long. We spoke with Ms. Amorós about this project, which is called HEDERA, and the inspiration behind her work at the Bandshell and her art exhibited around the world.
Take Action: Justice for Brooklyn’s Immigrant Communities
Wednesday, May 16, 2018 - 12:30PMOn Friday April 27, five local immigrant rights organizations joined us for the BRIC OPEN: BORDERS Immigration Action Fair. Each organization presented attendees with the opportunity to take immediate and creative action toward justice initiatives for immigrant communities in Brooklyn and beyond.
Artist-in-Residence: Macon Reed
Wednesday, May 16, 2018 - 11:15AMBRIC is pleased to have Macon Reed as a spring 2018 BRICworkspace visual artist-in-residence. Reed is an artist whose work is illustrated through sculpture, installation, video, radio documentary, painting, pedagogical and participatory projects. Motivated by political issues and human relationships in the queer and feminist community, her work is elaborated by life experiences, developing new relationships and finding ways to support the communities through her art or volunteering. We spoke with Reed to learn more about her practice, process, and recent work.
BRIC ARTIST ALUMNI NEWS: May – July 2018
Wednesday, May 2, 2018 - 12:15PMThese past BRIC Media Arts Fellows and BRICworkspace Artists-in-Residence have work on view in exhibitions across New York City and around the world. Check out these exhibitions if you are able.
Artists-in-Residence: Aruni Dharmakirthi
Wednesday, May 2, 2018 - 11:00AMAruni Dharmakirthi is an interdisapinlnary artist whose work is inspired by their Sir Lankan and western culture. As a BRICworkspace Artist-in-Residence fellow Dharmakirthi uses the mediums of digital animation and fibers, manipulating family photographs, sourced imagery, and fabric, to make digital and handmade collages. Their work has been featured internationally in exhibitions conveying ideas of memory, place, and identity, centering around the effects of colonization on immigrants who choose to leave their native country.
