Virtual / Monumental
On View from April 19 – September 30
The Bronx River Art Center (BRAC) is pleased to launch our Spring / Summer 2012 gallery initiative Virtual / Monumental that will connect several public art projects in the West Farms Neighborhood through a network of QR codes, events and interactive tours. More information will be posted as the program progresses. Below are links to projects underway and planned for the future:
1. Gabriela Salazar's public sculpture For Closure
Public Reception
Wednesday, May 16th from 5:30-8pm
West Farms Square Plaza, Bronx, NY 10460
Public Reception for the public sculpture "For Closure" by Gabriela Salazar featuring a new choreographed dance performance by the collaborative duo RETTOCAMME. This event is part of "Arts and Culture Day" during Bronx Week 2012 to celebrate Bronx-based art and cultural initiatives.
Located at the base of the subway station at West Farms Square/East Tremont Avenue, on the corner of East Tremont Avenue and Boston Road.
2. Shifting Communities West Farms Re-dux featuring Jason Eisner's J & West Farms: BRONX
please stay tuned for:
SP Weatherstation and Action Club
3. The Shifting Communities Roundtable Series
As part of No Longer Empty's This Side of Paradise exhibition at the Andrew Freedman Home, the Bronx River Art Center will present a continuation of the Shifting Communities Roundtable Series. The roundtable is an installation built by artist collective J+J that was created for the Shifting Communities exhibition series to serve as a physical meeting point for discussion, events, and film screenings.
All events will take place in the Library at the Andrew Freedman Home located at 1125 Grand Concourse, Bronx, NY 10452
List of Roundtable Events:
Sunday, May 6 from 1-7pm: Corina Reynolds "The Reynolds Testing Corporation"
Sunday, May 13 from 2-4pm: Yuka Otani "Bubble Remix"
Saturday, May 19 from 1-3pm: Caroline Burghardt "Pastoral Daydreams"
Thursday, May 24 from 5-7pm: Moira Williams "Bronx Tarot Reading"
Sunday, May 27 from 1-3pm: "The Walk Exchange" with Dillon, Blake, Moira, Bess, and Virginia
Sunday, May 27 from 3-6pm: Angie Waller "Unknown Unknowns"
Thursday, May 31 from 3-5pm: Alicia Grullon "Becoming Green"
For more information please visit the event pages for Shifting Communities Roundtable Series and No Longer Empty
4. BroLab's Piazza Gratissima
Scheduled Grand Opening June 2012!
A community-based project, Piazza Gratissima by artist collective Brolab, is a public intervention dependent on the support and conditions of art viewers, Bronx residents, community organizers and officials, to fund and build a Piazza in the courtyard of New York City Public Library, Mott Haven Branch. Piazza Gratissima will serve as a multi-use space for library goers and will act as an avenue for civic discourse. Since the project was successfully funded on Nov 18, 2011 using the Kickstarter fundraising platform, Brolab, the Bronx River Arts Center and the Mott Haven Library have been working on the final design based directly on how the community wishes to utilize the space. Once the design is approved, BroLab will work alongside local unemployed workers to build the Piazza.
and much, much more! Please check back soon for detailed information and events schedule around the above projects.
