BRAC November 2022 Newsletter

BRONX RIVER ART CENTER  Celebrating 35 Years of Bringing Arts & Cultural Programs to the Bronx

NOVEMBER 2022 at BRAC

Education

Image: Kayla Weisdorf instructing teen participants from the local community. Photo: Ukari Bakosi, 2022.

Teen Project Studio, TPS Bio Art & Community Through December 17th

Since mid-October, Teen Project Studio +2.0 has been exploring creatively nature-based solutions to climate change, biodiversity crisis, pollution, environmental shifts. The weekly, hands-on, makers sessions are leading to the production of a collaborative art & science project that addresses and foresees a livable future.  Each week, participants research a range of different solutions, their promises, benefits, and how they have been implemented, developed, and advanced by artists and designers. TPS participants have also been surveying the neighborhood of West Farms and identifying areas that could potentially benefit from a nature-based intervention with the goal of collectively designing and making a bio-artwork piece to contribute to the space. More information, visit TPS Home Page

Exhibitions

Image: Molly Goldfarb, "Santa Hey", 2019. Courtesy of the artist.

KEEP IT IN FICTION A Study of Fictional Narratives and Visual Arts On view from November 3rd to December 10th

Bronx River Art Center is pleased to announce KEEP IT IN FICTION, an exhibition that explores how artists disguise truth with fiction in order to arrive at a number of different conclusions. Through visual explorations artists seek out unlimited possibilities to distort reality in order to cope, reinvent, or escape their daily realities. Through visual arts, featured artists explore to engage in a fictional form of truth. The eleven artists chosen for the exhibition will present narrative inspired work that range in media from paper and book arts, sculpture, prints, paintings and digital media. To expand the exhibition's intent each artist created a narrative excerpt, poem or video to accompany the pieces. Participating artists: Marcy Brafman, Jason Bryant, Jennifer Deppe Parker, Molly Goldfarb, Sally Jerome, Kerry Lessard, Marianne Petit, Zoia Skorodapenko, Mark Torres, Chao Wang, and Natalie Collette Wood. Curated by Stephany Young

BRAC Exhibition Page

Public Programs

Image: Jeanai La Vita, performance of The Séance. Screen Capture. Courtesy of the artist.

THE SÉANCE A Night of Multimedia Theater Performance Friday, November 11th, 2022 at 7pm

Local artist, Jeanai La Vita, brings to BRAC her theatrical concert event The Séance incorporating a hybrid of semi-improvised contemporary classical singing with live music and a film with soundscape created by the artist and Giacomo La Vita. The theatrical concert invites audience members to commune with the performers as they channel stories and messages from beyond. The ensemble of instrumentalists accompanying the performance will create a special live score in reaction to BRAC’s space.

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Image: Marianne Petit, "The Story Of Pauline and the Matches", 2011. Photo: Ukari Bakosi, 2022.

IN CONVERSATION Artists featured in KEEP IT IN FICTION Saturday, November 19th, 2022 at 5:30pm

Bronx River Art Center continues with the presentation of the monthly Artist Talk series IN CONVERSATION. For November, Hector Canonge moderates the artist dialogue with the participation of artists featured in the current exhibition, curated by Stephanie Young. The conversation will outline each artist's creative process and their production process in relation the works exploring language and visual aesthetics. IN CONVERSATION is an artist talk program that fosters dialogue, exchange and reflection about Contemporary Art issues by featuring local, national, and international guest artists working in various disciplines and creative practices. The monthly program consists of the presentation of selected works followed by an open forum with attending audience members.

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Upcoming

Image: Summer 2022 Student Art Show, held on August 12th. Photo: Ukari Bakosi, 2022.

Fall 2022 Student Art Show Saturday, December 17th, 2022

BRAC will close out the Fall 2022 semester of art classes with an art show exhibiting the work of our students working in different media over the past three months. Join our teaching artists, staff members, students and parents in celebrating the creativity and growth of our students.

Opportunities

Image: Off-site mixed-media art workshop at CREO College Prep taught by Jonathan Berry. Photo: Ukari Bakosi, 2022.

For Artists / Curators / Educators

As part of our commitment to further nurture, support, and encourage the development of artists from the Bronx and New York City at large, BRAC will compile a list of opportunities in the arts and related fields. Artists and organizations are welcome to send us and share their listings and future opportunities.

NYC METRO AREA En Foco Open call to BIPOC photographers The 8th Annual En Foco Photography Fellowship is designed to support New York-based photographers of color who demonstrate the highest quality of work as determined by a photography panel of peers and industry professionals. The deadline for applications is November 11, 2022. Apply  NYC ArtWalk Open call to all visual artists NYC ArtWalk seeks to implement a sustainable model of opportunities that can support the work of artists from all corners of the world. Through art shows that support diversity, inclusion and equity. Apply to have your artwork shown on digital screens in the streets of SoHo (as part of a collaboration with the Climate Museum of New York City) or Times Square (as part of the International Street Art Show). The deadline for SoHo applications is October 10, 2022; the deadline for Times Square applications is November 20, 2022. Apply  Smack Mellon Artist Studio Program The Artist Studio Program was launched in 2000 in response to the crisis of available affordable space for artists living and working in New York City. The program provides six eligible artists working in all visual arts media a free private studio space accessible 24/7 and a fellowship (dependent on funding). The 2032-2024 program begins September 1, 2023 and ends August 15, 2024. The studios are located on the lower level of our building at 92 Plymouth Street in Dumbo, Brooklyn and range in size from 250 to 300 square feet. The program does not provide living space. The deadline to apply is November 23, 2022 11:59pm Apply Site:Brooklyn Gallery Open call to artists Landscape makes the strange familiar and the familiar strange. It asks the viewer to think about the fundamental question: what is the world we inhabit like? Often, artist’s answers have drawn attention to not only the space of the earth, but the passage of time, the rhythm of the seasons, nature’s death and birth, the environments both made and lost by humanity’s interventions, both great and small. Site:Brooklyn’s new show, Landscape: Constructed and Wild is looking for artworks focused on the environment in which we live. The deadline for applications is December 5, 2022. Apply

BRAC COVID-19 Protocols

Proof of vaccination will be required upon entering building for all persons over age 6. Use of masks during classes is required. For general questions about classes, please email education@bronxriverart.org.