When you think of scaffolding and construction fencing, you usually think of construction zones. But now, a new city program is finding a way to turn them into art installations. The Red Hook Houses are in the midst of a $500 million capital transformation, approved...
The photo series “Red Hook Look” by local youth mentor, photographer, and videographer Alden Parkinson centers on community members such as a local basketball coach, a school crossing guard, fruit stall vendors, and neighborhood kids, which the artist hopes will provide a counter-narrative to the...
Red Hook Houses is the first NYCHA campus to host a new public art project that repurposes temporary construction fencing and sidewalk sheds into a wide range of large-scale photography, digital print works, murals, and mixed-media art installations to improve the pedestrian experience and increase...
Red Hook Houses is the first NYCHA campus to host a multi-part series of artist fellowships operated under the City Canvas pilot program, an initiative of the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs that repurposes construction fencing and sidewalk sheds in to a wide range of...
Black Lives Matter “Artists are here to disturb the peace. They have to disturb the peace. Otherwise, chaos.’’ James Baldwin Art is never apolitical. And curation is never accidental. For 11 years, ArtBridge's primary mission has been to transform the eyesore of construction fencing into a public...