About this project
What's your project?
Piazza Gratissima will be a site for community gathering, this public intervention will
facilitate anything from outdoor readings to local barbecues and serve
generally as avenue for civic discourse. It will be in the courtyard area of the Mott Haven Public Library in the Bronx, NY.
Developed entirely in
collaboration with Bronx residents as well as community organizers and
officials, Piazza Gratissima will be an inviting temporary structure
complete with seating, out-door lighting, and custom surfaces. This
public project will be presented in Spring of 2012.
What's the money for?
We are raising funds to pay for building supplies and to hire unemployed community members to help us build the project.
How is the community involved?
A panel of people from the library, volunteers, community members will be organized to create a discussion on what is needed and how the courtyard will be developed.
What is this project in conjunction with?
Piazza Gratissima is part of an exhibition series titled Shifting Communities at the Bronx River Art Center. The gallery acts as a hub space for the project, an area were we can have meetings and form a committee with the library. Most of the projects in this exhibition are community based and deal with aspects of the Bronx neighborhood. It opens on September 9th 2011 and ends on February 18th, 2012.
Why fund this project?
The courtyard has been in disrepair for the last couple years and we would like to bring it back to life.
All donations are through the Bronx River Art Center and are tax deductible.
Bronx River Art Center (BRAC) is a culturally diverse, multi-arts,
non-profit organization that provides a forum for community, artists,
and youth to transform creativity into vision. Our Education,
Exhibitions, Artist Studios, and Presenting Programs cultivate
leadership in an urban environment and stewardship of our natural
resource — the Bronx River.
A link about our work in the exhibition in the NY Daily News.
Thank you so much for your contribution and support!
Feel free to get in touch with us at inthenameofbrolab@gmail.com for any questions.
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This project successfully raised its funding goal on November 18, 2011.
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A personal 4" x 6" card/group photo signed by each member.
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8" x 12" photo of the Mott Haven Library courtyard.
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11" x 17" photo of the Mott Haven Library courtyard.
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Set of three 11" x 17" photos of the Mott Haven Library courtyard.
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One 20" x 30" digital rendering of Piazza Gratissima + set of three 11" x 17" photos of the Mott Haven Library courtyard.
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DVD Video documentation of the project + one 20" x 30" digital rendering of Piazza Gratissima + set of three 11" x 17" photos of the Mott Haven Library courtyard.
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You get a version of Piazza Gratissima to be installed to your liking + a DVD Video documentation of the project + one 20" x 30" digital rendering of Piazza Gratissima + set of three 11" x 17" photos of the Mott Haven Library courtyard. (travel and shipping not included)
Project By
Connected as BroLab Inthenameof (166 friends)
BroLab is a group of five to six really amazing guys. While all individual artists the group focuses mainly on site specific public interventions that activate communities.
We all met in 2009 in the Bronx Museum's Artist in the Marketplace Program. At our core, we want to see what we can create when we put our collective minds together. Our origins are simple but we would like to grow. Our goal is to create exciting contemporary and experimental art for a wide range of venues and forums as well as generate opportunities for artists everywhere.
BroLab will be part of Congress of Collectives, Flux Factory, Queens, NY in October 2011 and Shifting Communities, Bronx River Art Center, Bronx NY in September 2011. We have participated in the Festival of Ideas for the New City, New Museum / AiOP, New York, NY, Grid Scenes’, Urban Festival, The New School, New York, NY, Habeas Corpus, SITE Fest, Arts in Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY, and Chance, Art in Odd Places, New York, NY.
