To All Neighborhood Artists: Brooklyn Museum "GO" Meet And Greet Info Session At Brooklyn Workshop Gallery

As mentioned before, this fall, the Brooklyn Museum is planning an amazing week-end to bring together Brooklyn-based artists with the residents of the borough's 67 neighborhoods. The event, which is meant to highlight local artists, is called "GO" and is a community-curated open studio project. If you are a local artist, would like to find out more, you may want to attend a "GO" Meet and Greet information session sponsored by Workshop Gallery Artists Foundation this Saturday, June 23rd at Brooklyn Workshop Gallery, 393 Hoyt Street (Between 3rd and 4th Streets) from 4 – 7 pm.

Meet Eleanor Traubman, a Neighborhood Coordinator for GO, to learn how you can be part of this great opportunity to gain more visibility for your art.
RSVP to martinebisagni@gmail.com or 718.797.9427

Artists can register at www.gobrooklynart.org until June 29.

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Baskets From Senegal And Spring Art Sale At Brooklyn Workshop Gallery On Hoyt

Baskets made by the Wolof Women of Mékhé Village, Senegal

(photos courtesy of Brooklyn Workshop Gallery)

This Saturday, stop by the Brooklyn Workshop Gallery on Hoyt Street at 3rd Street to check out the Senegalese Baskets which are featured as part of their Handmade Project.  The gallery will donate 10% of each sale to a local school. read on:

The HANDMADE PROJECT returns to Carroll Gardens as 

Brooklyn Workshop Gallery re-opens... 

HANDMADE returns as the gallery opens after being closed since June 2011. 

BASKETS from SENEGAL and SPRING ART SALE!

HANDMADE is a retail project where Workshop Gallery Artists Foundation partners with individual artists, other non-profits or other crafts organizations in order expose the public to beautifully made artisan objects. Originally a holiday project in donated retail space (thank you again to the owners of 343 Smith Street -- we may never have thought of this without you), we now continue at Brooklyn Workshop Gallery.
Our first project, beautiful baskets made by the Wolof Women in Mékhé Village is brought to us by Astou Dioum, of Dioum African Art, and Diane Nerby, of the Happy Basket Project. We welcome them and their wares to our space, our neighborhood and our work! Come celebrate on Saturday, March 24, 2012 with a day of Senegalese Music, some coffee and tea!
The gallery is currently also featuring the work of Amani Ansari, Deborah Barlow, Luciano Granato, Shira Gregory, Erin McGrath, Rina Peleg, Cecile Romat, and Adrienne Yurick as well as some special pieces that have been donated to the Foundation. All art work is 25% off with 10% of that being donated to a local school.
We would like to thank David Shebiro of Rebel, Rebel in Greenwich Village for his supplying some of the music for this event. We have an afro-pop collection that features: Ifang Bondi, Diarama de Saint-Louis, Etoile De Dakar, Fonesca & His Anges Noirs, Guelewar, Orchestra Baobab, Pape Seck, Watto Siita, Star Band, Xadim, and Xalam. We will also feature some contemporary and traditional music throughout the day.
10% of all sales (baskets, art and donated pieces) go to the NYC public school of your choice. We especially support the schools in our neighborhood and will have a list on hand should you not know of a school to choose.

To see more about this show and about HANDMADE, please visit them on Facebook.

Brooklyn Workshop Gallery 

393 Hoyt Street (between 2nd and 3rd Streets) Brooklyn NY 11231 718.797.9427 

brooklynworkshopgallery@earthlink.net

HOURS: Tuesday-Friday 1-7:00, Saturday 10-6:00, Sunday 2-6:00 and by appointment, closed Mondays

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Much Happening At Brooklyn Workshop Gallery On Hoyt Street

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painting by Cecile Romat

 Mural painted by neighborhood children and families with artists Ian Hart, Amani Ansari and Deborah Farnault

artist/dancer Amani Ansari at work

It is easy to miss the small storefront on this quiet stretch of Hoyt Street near the corner of Third Street, but walk through its door and you enter a welcoming space, full of inspiration and beauty. This is the  'Brooklyn Workshop Gallery', home of the Workshop Gallery Artists Foundation, a non-profit organization founded three years ago by Martine Bisagni.
This community atelier focuses on cultural events and neighborhood outreach through lectures, art shows, concerts and free classes.
In the past, artists like Cecile Romat, Rina Peleg, Gary DiPasquale and Deborah Barlow have exhibited here, and some of their work still lines the walls and shelves of this bright, sun filled space.
"We fell madly in love with the space." Bisagni tells me as she shows me around Mr. D’Agostino’s former coal shop which once supplied the neighborhood. (As a tribute, Bisagni keeps some black coal lumps found in the window.) The space was renovated with repurposed materials. Much of the granite and marble surfaces were donated by Luciano Granato, who was closing his stone cutting business in Red Hook. "We fell madly in love with the space" Bisagni tells me.
For Bisagni, herself a photographer, part of Workshop Gallery Artists Foundation's mission is "to promote and facilitate the process of keeping traditional art craft alive and vibrant in our world."
"If a culture loses the ability to make things, it loses so much," she tells me. "Without appreciation, there is no creation."
To this end, the gallery hosts a "Free Art Saturdays" for children and their families. This season's schedule will include Earth Day, Movement and Form Day, a day for South Africa and a mural day.
While we speak, Amani Ansari, a dancer and artist, is forming the most delicate roses out of clay at her pottery wheel. The blooms are for an upcoming Mother's Day project.
Martine Bisagni would like to expand into an empty lot right next door. She would like to turn it into an open air community art space, where old and young can come to explore and create.
In her own words:
"The lot at 395 Hoyt Street has become available for rent. Workshop Gallery Artists Foundation is hoping to sponsor a private community garden open to the public for gardening, art, performance, and community events.
We need the help of the neighborhood in order to make this possible.
We envision this as a space to extend our free Saturday art programs for children and their families including the very successful murals as well as for a gardener-in-residence and a sculptor-in-residence during the warmer months with regular open-to-the-public hours where children and their families actively engage in creative play with the earth, clay and art materials. We envision a screened platform area for workshops and classes, many of which, funding permitted we would offer for free to the general public. We envision a space where local performers and artists could showcase their work in a more casual way than the theatre (and at little or no cost). We envision a space where a Carroll Gardens Art Festival could be held and those working with the canal could open their work to the public.
We would gladly open it to the neighborhood to be available for their use and enthusiastically welcome your ideas to this project. Please stop by the gallery, call at 718.797.9427 or e-mail to brooklynworkshopgallery@earthlink.net."

Brooklyn Workshop Gallery

Daily: 12 - 7 closed Mondays

Weekends: 12 - 6

1 718.797.9427

brooklynworkshopgallery@earthlink.net

93 Hoyt Street, Brooklyn, NY 11231

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