BROWSING THE ART ON MAC PREMO’S flash web site is a bit like a trip to an old-time amusement park. His art is a little dark, convoluted and quite captivating. This spring, the in-house design team at Brooklyn Academy of Music recruited the multimedia Brooklyn artist to help design an announcement for the upcoming Sundance..
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WHEN THE BAY RIDGE COLONIAL CLUB met for lunch last week their speaker was one of the new members, Heather Hamilton. With an alliterative name and a vital new role in the community, Heather has taken over a business that was owned and operated for decades by one of the most powerful politicians in the..
THE DIRECTORS OF PARKER’S BOX ART GALLERY IN WILLIAMSBURG, ALUN WILLIAMS, HELIANTHE BOURDEAUX-MAURIN and gallery manager CéLINE EMAS JAROUSSEAU, wanted to give thanks to the borough that has nurtured and encouraged the gallery since it opened in 2000. Last Friday, the exhibition “From Brooklyn with Love” opened to that effect. The show features work by..
KAREN JEMMOTT understands that some creativity is required when helping teens absorb information about health and safety. For the last three years, as director of physician outreach at SUNY Downstate Medical Center, she has organized youth conferences to “bring the physicians to the youth” instead of waiting for teens to seek help. In addition to..
CANADIAN TRANSPLANT DAVID EUSTACE is in touch with the Gowanus Canal — more in touch than most Brooklynites ever will be — and it keeps pulling him closer. The artist has lived in Brooklyn for eight years, previously on Fourth Avenue, then Third Avenue, and now near the intersection of Smith and 9 streets. “I..
CARROL GARDEN RESIDENT LISA M. CIRANDO and Brooklyn Heights resident JEANNE KANE ZAYKOWSKI, as event co-chairs, invite you to the Center for Family Life 2008 Annual Awards on May 14. The evening will celebrate 25 years of the Center’s “Life Lines” Community Arts Project in Sunset Park, which provides free after-school arts activities such as..
PARK SLOPE RESIDENT JESSE ADELMAN, who has served as Prospect Park Alliance director of new media for nearly a year, was the catalyst behind the park’s more engaging and attractive new web site that launched in April. Following the requests of hundreds of poll-takers for an interactive online map, the Alliance collaborated with Raven Creative,..
AFTER GREENPOINT LIBRARIANS MARIA FALGOUST and SARAH MURPHY met at Long Island University’s Palmer School of Library and Information, they co-founded Desk Set, a casual literary group that meets periodically to socialize, sip Dewey Decimal-themed cocktails (613.96C would be… The Joy of Sex) and support good causes. The friends, who currently work at The Browning..
Of the nearly 90 entries to the 42nd annual Brooklyn Arts Council International Film Festival, 23 are the work of Brooklyn artists, and two of those have won, reported The Brooklyn Paper. Brooklyn Heights resident DOAN HOANG won “Best Feature Documentary” for her personal film “Oh, Saigon,” which follows her family members as they are..
For its 125th anniversary, the BROOKLYN BRIDGE will be feted in high style by several local artists inspired by her gothic arches and majestic span. TABLA RASA GALLERY’S exhibition “Bridge as Icon” will showcase the work of Fort Greene resident Ramona Candy, Stephen Basso of Bensonhurst, Park Slopers Gregory Frux, Nick Savides, Lucille Nurkse, Simon..