“Re-Imagining City Island’s Gateway” and “Comfort In Concrete” Exhibitions
Bronx River Art Center (BRAC)
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Bronx River Art Center is proud to present:
Re-Imagining City Island’s Gateway, a research-driven design project by graduate students from Rhode Island School of Design INTAR (RISD). Curated by architect Caterina Tiazzoldi in collaboration with the City Island Gateway Project, the exhibition showcases the typological potentialities driven by new forms of community space.
This project focuses on historical structures on City Island, yielding designs for new multi-purpose environments that could accommodate a kayak rental concession; art and music studios and presentations; boat repair/restoration; an oyster recycling project, and after-school activities at the Gateway site. Careful attention has been given to reflecting and enhancing City Island’s nautical heritage as well as on educating the public on Long Island Sound’s ecology.
This exhibition is a wonderful opportunity to examine how this small, vibrant community can offer public educational and recreational space while also celebrating its nautical heritage. Exploring how we mediate the relationship between the creation of a community space and economic sustainability is a key challenge faced not only throughout New York City but the world today.
In tandem with the above exhibition, BRAC presents:
Comfort in Concrete, featuring designs produced by BRAC’s TPS(+2.0) students, led by art instructor Art Jones, a Bronx-based artist in our digital arts program. TPS(+2.0) is a free, eight-week digital arts program for high school youth and young adults ages 14 to 26, which offers a unique chance to experience and learn about the visual arts, design and the creative industries in an interactive and challenging way.
The models on display are a response by our TPS(+2.0) students to a competition to produce and install six benches for the South Bronx Greenway at Oak Point. Having won the competition their designs will be built out of concrete and lumber that has been harvested from sustainably-managed forests, and will recall the classic NYC park benches made out of concrete and wood. This project reflects BRAC’s commitment to train Bronx youth and
young adults in manual and technological design and fabrication skills, with the added goal of enhancing their character development through collaboration with professional artists.
This represents one of the first projects produced in BRAC’s new state-of-the-art computer lab, and with a soon to be, fully-equipped, Maker Space (woodshop) With this expansion, the program is becoming more aligned with the creative industries that can expose students to careers relevant to their talents and skills.
Join us on August 29th at 6PM for a panel discussion on Public Space Design for an ecologically changing New York City, featuring: Adolfo Carrion, Dr. Paul Mankiewicz, Barbara Dolensek and Art Jones.
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Schedule
from August 08, 2019 to August 31, 2019
Opening Reception on 2019-08-08 from 18:00 to 20:00