WBAI-State of the Arts NYC Newsletter Summer 2016 We are happy to announce new partnerships with Brooklyn Magazine, NY Jazz Records and National Sawdust!
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Art Around Town Made in Brownsville
 Made in Brownsville is a resident-led nonprofit working to empower disconnected and secondary school youth to science, technology, engineering, arts, and math (STEAM) professions in East Brooklyn. The organization exposes youth to design and technology through paid apprenticeships and school-based programming. Bridging the gap between learning and doing, students collaborate with creative mentors to tackle challenging regional problems with innovative solutions. As a pipeline to employment, Made in Brownsville works to eliminate the disconnected youth population.Quardean Lewis-Allen founded Made in Brownsville to create a pipeline of talent from his native community of Brownsville, Brooklyn, to careers in design and tech, tackling the issue of minority underrepresentation and youth unemployment. He is a 2016 Echoing Green Black Male Achievement Fellow and Quardean was the inaugural recipient of the Community Solutions Greg Jackson Community Fellowship. Previously, Quardean worked abroad for the Chife Foundation developing affordable housing typologies for a new, eco-sustainable town in Nigeria and for the international design firm Perkins Eastman. He chaired the Social Change and Activism group at Harvard for two years, introducing high school youth to design through its ProjectLink program. Quardean lectured on social justice in design at Harvard and Queens College. He was a 2013 Next City Vanguard, which recognizes 40 under-40 creative urban leaders. Made in Brownsville received the 2016 Good Maker Award, and is a recipient of the Neighborhood Challenge Innovation Grant from the City of New York. It has been featured by Fast Company, JPMorgan Chase, and Al Jazeera. Quardean studied architecture at SUNY Buffalo and holds a master of architecture from the Harvard Graduate School of Design.
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Under the Viaduct
UNDER THE VIADUCT is an art & lifestyle series where folks can meet, bike, skate or dine in an open-air plaza. Situated in West th​ Harlem on 12​ Avenue and near the Hudson River, residents and fellow New Yorkers can enjoy passive recreation in the daytime and when the sun starts going down, engage in dance, digital and reflective art. Under the Viaduct is sponsored by the West Harlem Art Fund, NYC Department of Transportation/Weekend Walks and Waterfront Alliance. Dates are July 16th,September 10th an October 1st.
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Saya Woofalk
Saya Woolfalk (Japan, 1979) is a New York based artist who uses science fiction and fantasy to re-imagine the world in multiple dimensions. She has exhibited at PS1/MoMA; Deitch Projects; Contemporary Art Museum, Houston; Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati; the Brooklyn Museum; Asian Art Museum, CA; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; the Studio Museum in Harlem; the Frist Center for the Visual Arts; The Yerba Buena Center; The Newark Museum; Third Streaming; MCA San Diego; MoCA Taipei; and Performa 09, and has been written about in the New Yorker, Sculpture Magazine, Artforum, Artforum.com, ARTNews, The New York Times, the Huffington Post and on Art21’s blog. Her first solo museum show, The Empathics , was on view at the Montclair Art Museum in the fall of 2012. Her second solo museum exhibition, ChimaTEK Life Products , was on view at the Chrysler Museum of Art in the fall of 2014. She recently completed a new video installation commission for the Seattle Art Museum, and is a 2014 recipient of a NYFA grant in Digital/Electronic Arts. She is represented by Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, NYC and teaches in the BFA and MFA programs at Parsons: The New School for Design. Visit http://www.sayawoolfalk.com/ for more information.
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Upcoming Interviews NY Botanical Garden’s 125th Anniversary
American Impressionism, a prominent artistic style that flourished at the turn of the 20th century, comes to life in a captivating Garden-wide exhibition. In the Conservatory, stroll through an American Impressionist garden, a stunning interpretation by Francisca Coelho, NYBG's renowned curator and designer, of the alluring gardens that influenced iconic artists such as Childe Hassam and John Singer Sargent. In the Art Gallery, view a beautiful complementary display of more than 20 paintings and sculptures by these famed artists and their contemporaries that capture the colors, shadows, and ephemeral quality of light they observed in the natural world and infused in their distinctive imagery; the collection has been assembled by Guest Curator Linda S. Ferber, Ph.D., Director Emerita and Senior Art Historian of the New-York Historical Society.
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A Bronx Tale
A Bronx Tale: The Musical , according to press notes, is “set against the backdrop of racial strife and organized crime in the 1960s. It is the story of an Italian-American teenager finding his path in life as he must choose between the father who raised him and a mob-boss father figure who fascinates him.” The Paper Mill cast was led by J ason Gotay as Calogero, Joshua Colley as Young Calogero, Nick Cordero as Sonny, Richard H. Blake as Lorenzo, Coco Jones as Jane and Lucia Giannetta as Rosina.
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