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Update #6: Consider supporting Future Phenomena!
Thank you for your past support to the North Brooklyn Public Art Coalition!
Next month we are launching our third public art installation, Future Phenomena, and today marks one week remaining in the kickstarter campaign to raise $800 toward the installation.
Since the beginning of our campaign new costs have arisen due to the need for a permit by the city. Your donation will go directly to the hiring of a structural engineer to install the piece according to NYC Department of Buildings Standards. We have come this far in constructing the piece with volunteers, artist donations, and local sponsorship. Even after donations from Amanda Browder and other artists, a local architecture firm, and members of the community, we still need to raise money for the city mandated structural engineer inspection. Help us make this goal!
If we don't raise the remaining $400 we may lose the kickstarter funds already committed. So please consider a $10 donation today: you will receive a small swatch of the final artwork, as well as an artist card from Amanda Browder.
Interested in other Future Phenomena rewards to help us reach our goal?
Donate $100 and we will send you a square foot of the final artwork, as well as a print of Future Phenomena.
Donate $60 and we will send you a limited edition, chevron-patterned tote bag designed by Amanda Browder.
Donate $25 and we will send you a print of Future Phenomena.
Donate Today: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/NbPac/future-phenomena-amanda-browder
After hosting three sewing sessions open to the public since April, Future Phenomena is well under way! Amanda Browder’s chevron-patterned fabric structure is a collaborative effort among donors and volunteers to sew donated materials piece-by-piece into the final 850 square foot artwork, which will be installed on a Greenpoint building on June 19th. Your donation will go toward the installation costs, including the hiring of a structural engineer to install the piece according to NYC Department of Buildings Standards.
THANK YOU if you have already donated your time, fabric, or support. Without you, this project would not happen. So please consider sharing this with your friends to help make Future Phenomena a reality next month.
And check out a story about us in the May Issue of The Brooklyn Rail:
http://www.brooklynrail.org/2010/05/local/greenpoints-next-faade
Thank you, as always, for your support. And save June 19th for the launch on Manhattan Avenue!
Update #5: Three days left to support Living Objects!!
There are only three days left in our campaign to support Jason Krugman's Living Objects, the second public art project by the North Brooklyn Public Art Coalition.
One of the largest public art installations in McCarren Park's 100 year history will open this Sunday, December 13th, and we need your support!
Help us by donating to Kickstarter so we can reach our goal and enrich the local communities of North Brooklyn through public art. Local artist Jason Krugman has been working hard over the last two months to realize his provocative and beautiful vision of life-size figural sculptures that will provide a beacon of light in Williamsburg.
Donate now and be among the many supporters helping us produce innovate installations, create unique opportunities and provide North Brooklyn with great public art!
Update #4: FINAL WEEK! Support Living Objects on kickstarter.com
Dear Living Objects supporters:
Today we enter the final week of Living Object’s Kickstarter Campaign and we could really use your help in spreading the word! We're trying to reach as many people as possible in these final days, so please consider sharing this project with your friends and colleagues. Donations of any size are greatly appreciated as we near the end of the campaign and the beginning of the project: All donations must be received by Saturday the 12th; Living Objects launches on Sunday the 13th.
So please take a moment to donate today on www.kickstarter.com!
And thank YOU for your ongoing support of Living Objects and the North Brooklyn Public Art Coalition. All friends and supporters are invited to join us in celebrating the launch next Sunday:
OFFICIAL LIGHTING OF LIVING OBJECTS
December 13th at 6PM
McCarren Park (near N. 12th b/t Union and Driggs)
Reception to follow at Light-Up Brooklyn (N. 11th b/t Driggs and Bedford)
We hope to see you there!
- Living Objects is a public art installation featuring three LED-lit sculptures in McCarren Park. The illuminated figures will be one of the largest public art projects in the park’s history. Jason Krugman’s Living Objects is presented by North Brooklyn Public Art Coaltion (NbPac), in collaboration with Open Space Alliance for North Brooklyn (OSA) and with support from NYC Department of Parks & Recreation. Lead sponsorship for Living Objects has been provided by Light-Up Brooklyn. http://www.lightupbrooklyn.com
- For more information, visit http://nbpac.wordpress.com/
Update #3: Thank you! And Coming Soon...
...the Official Lighting of Living Objects!!!
A big thanks to everyone who came out to support public art at last week's fundraiser event at BerryPark! And a special thanks to the evening’s sponsors: Lokal Restaurant, Baby Soda Jazz Band, Hidemi Takagi’s BLENDER Project, Brick Theater, Fine & Raw Chocolates, DC Comics, Caefecito Bogota, Kinkillerie Jewelry Designs, Kill Devil Hill, and Kiehls Since 1851.
The North Brooklyn Public Art Coalition looks forward to bringing you Jason Krugman's Living Objects, a public art installation featuring three LED-lit sculptures, in the coming weeks. While the official lighting will not take place this Sunday November 22nd in McCarren Park, as previously announced, details on the opening date and the official lighting of Living Objects will be announced soon.
An opening reception will follow the official lighting at Light-Up Brooklyn’s brand new showroom on North 11th between Bedford and Driggs. (www.lightupbrooklyn.com)
We look forward to seeing you there! In the meantime, please help us spread the word about this kickstarter campaign and check out the progress of Jason Krugman's Living Objects:
http://jasonkrugman.wordpress.com/category/projects/living-objects-projects
WOW!
For further info: http://nbpac.wordpress.com/
Email us: northbrooklynpublicart@gmail.com
Update #2: THIS WEDNESDAY - Living Objects Fundraiser (11/11)
You are invited!
This Wednesday, come support North Brooklyn Public Art Coalition (NbPac) and celebrate Living Objects by Jason Krugman in McCarren Park.
(visit nbpac.wordpress.com for a full press release)
Here are the details:
Wednesday, November 11th from 7-10pm
Berry Park - 4 Berry Street (btw Nassau Ave and N. 14th St)
Closest trains: L at Bedford or G at Nassau
$10 cover
$5 drink specials all night long.
Cash bar only with ATM on site
FEATURING:
BERRY PARK- the newly-opened Williamsburg bar with tasty German beers on tap and amazing rooftop views.
Thank you Berry Park for hosting!
MUSIC BY BABY SODA
Developed by hoboes, perfected through science... The Baby Soda Jazz Band is on the cutting edge of a new movement loosely known as street jazz; with an eclectic set of influences ranging from New Orleans brass bands, jug music, southern gospel and hot jazz. Have a listen.
Appetizers provided by LOKAL
Hidemi Takagi's BLENDER
Experience the multicolored, multicultured, gastronomic diversity of the boroughs of NYC with Hidemi Takagi's "Blender"
Hidemi has been kind enough to gather some tasty treats from North Brooklyn specifically for this event!
RAFFLE PRIZES
Cafecito Bogata Fabulous Mounted Arepa Dinner + Wine for two
Fine & Raw chocolates
Kill Devil Hill gift certificate
Kiehls Since 1851 Gift Box
Jewelry designed by Kinkillerie
Tickets to a performance at The Brick
...and more!
Thank you to these generous businesses for supporting this event!
Jason Krugman’s Living Objects is presented by Jason Krugman LLC and the North Brooklyn Public Art Coaltion (NbPac), in collaboration with Open Space Alliance for North Brooklyn (OSA) and with support from NYC Department of Parks & Recreation. Lead Sponsorship for Living Objects has been provided by Light-Up Brooklyn.
Light-Up Brooklyn, located in North Brooklyn, is the new “bricks & mortar” lighting store of the Web’s largest and most popular lighting store, upscalelighting.com. Light-Up Brooklyn features products from some of the most prestigious lighting manufacturers available today.
Update #1: Living Objects is SUCCESSFUL!!!
Dear Current and Potential Backers,
THANK YOU for supporting Jason Krugman's Living Objects, presented by Jason Krugman Studio LLC and the North Brooklyn Public Art Coalition, and coming this Fall to McCarren Park. Because of your generous donations we've had a successful start toward making Living Objects become a reality.
But we're not there yet!
Please continue supporting Living Objects, and spreading the word about the biggest public art project in North Brooklyn's biggest park. As a backer, your donation is extremely valuable as we work toward our launch in November and we have a long way to go.
We all look forward to seeing you in McCarren Park.
Thank you.
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Jed Sundwall on October 5, 2009
Very glad to see this moving along. I hope I get a chance to see it when it's complete.
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nbART is an arts organization dedicated to collaborating with artists and community stakeholders in Williamsburg, Greenpoint and Bushwick to produce, present, and support art in public spaces.
Formed in 2009 by a group of artists, arts administrators and community members who believe that public art is a key component to the development of North Brooklyn, the North Brooklyn Public Art Coalition (nbART) is committed to facilitating projects in these neighborhoods and guiding artists through the often complex process of creating art in open spaces. We aim to promote dialogue concerning urban spaces; enhance the careers of Brooklyn-based artists through commissions and the provision of other resources; and use our voice to advocate on behalf of the North Brooklyn arts community.
nbART's kick off project was the India Street Mural Project, a series of murals addressing the lack of development along Brooklyn's waterfront. Taking place at India Street between West Street and the East River in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, five artists were selected to create murals along the waterfront. Last summer, the murals came alive during a film screening series brought to India Street by two collaborators, nbART and Moviehouse.
With the help of Kickstarter, nbART presented Jason Krugman's Living Objects last fall, a public art installation featuring three LED-lit sculptures in McCarren Park, Brooklyn. The illuminated figures, ranging in size from two feet to 18 feet, were one of the largest public art installations in the park’s history.
Kickstarter also helped nbART reach our goal to present Future Phenomena by Greenpoint-based artist Amanda Browder, which was a large-scale fabric sculpture that was affixed to the building at 1066 Manhattan Avenue from June 19 - June 20, 2010. The 800 square-foot piece was sewn together by local community members who helped create the work themselves by participating in public sewing sessions held throughout that spring. There people helped cut donated and recycled fabric, then sew the work together, and included Brooklyn residents interested in crafts or the visual arts and several older community residents interested in quilting and sewing.
