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Talk by Brooklyn artist/illustrator Nancy Doniger at #ArtSlope #PSWTArtists this Sunday, 1pm

September 24, 2016 by Joy Makon Leave a Comment

This weekend! Nancy Doniger’s work and technique is interesting to learn about and her children’s book work is fun to see. Join Nancy, along with 21 other local artists for some surprisingly wonderful, affordable artwork to see and purchase.

Park Slope Windsor Terrace Artists

Nancy Doniger ‘The Chase’ monotype with Akua inks on Masa Paper

Park Slope Windsor Terrace Artists POP UP GALLERY

575 5th Avenue, Brooklyn, corner of 5th Ave & 16 St

Sunday Sept. 25 @ 1 pm.

Park Slope Windsor Terrace Artists, in conjunction with Art Slope, is pleased to present local artist Nancy Doniger, who will discuss her work as a children’s book illustrator and fine artist. Doniger will talk about ways that her fine-art process is both different from and similar to illustration art, what she enjoys about doing both, and her current focus on ‘hand pulled’ printmaking. On display will be samples of Doniger’s art work, including her published books.

Nancy Doniger is a Brooklyn artist/illustrator with works published in print and online for the New York Times, children’s books, businesses and nonprofits. Her fine art has been exhibited in NY, NJ, and MA. She has taught at…

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Keep Calm … And Chalk On

August 8, 2016 by Anne Mollegen Smith Leave a Comment

Konditori Swedish Coffee Shop in Prospet Heights, Brooklyn

Konditori Swedish Espresso Bar in Prospect Heights

For Swedish espresso aficionados, or the merely curious, Konditori in Prospect Heights is on Washington Avenue between St. Marks and Prospect, where it projects a friendly attitude. “Keep calm and stay Swedish” is the message of the day. Cardomom Brod is a featured menu item. Or you could choose the hairy calorie bomb, aka the CocoBall. Other Konditori locations are in Park Slope, Cobble Hill, Williamsburg and Greenpoint (plus one on the Lower East Side in Outer Brooklyn). (Photos: Brooklyn Artisan)

Filed Under: Brain Candy, Chalkboard, Food/Drink Tagged With: advertising, brooklyn artisan, chalkboard, Prospect Heights

Art in the Slope: Hear Six Artists Speak About Their Work

February 26, 2016 by Joy Makon Leave a Comment

440 Gallery artist Richard Barnet at his foundry.

This Sunday, February 29 at 4:40 p.m., the six members of artist-run 440 Gallery in Park Slope will speak about their work in a Q&A session. Gallery curator and fellow-artist Karen Gibbons will moderate this panel discussion about the current exhibition: New Members Show 2016.

Celebrating a 10-year anniversary this year, 440 Gallery is a neighborhood and family-centered storefront where one can explore art on all levels. One or two member artists are always on site during open hours (Thursday through Sunday) to talk about current exhibitions and upcoming events.

Painter Amy Weil works with encaustic media.

Upcoming events
(free, start at 4:40pm)
• Sunday Feb. 29: New Members Show Artist Talk
• Sunday March 6: Me, Myself and Eye: Andrew Drury Percussion—part of a monthly series of musical afternoons

Joy Makon will speak about her watercolor process.

Updated events as well as current and upcoming exhibitions are listed on the gallery’s website.

Location
440 Gallery is at 440 Sixth Avenue (9th Street and 6th Avenue) in Park Slope, Brooklyn. F, G, R trains.

Filed Under: Community, Uncategorized Tagged With: 440 Gallery, affordable art, art, local, Park Slope

This Weekend Discover Art & Artist studios in Park Slope & Windsor Terrace

November 5, 2015 by Guest Blogger 1 Comment

Facing East at Pemaquid Point, watercolor by Brooklyn Artisan executive editor Joy Makon. At letter R on the weekend open studio tour.

Weather reports forecast a beautiful late-fall weekend, November 7 & 8—a perfect time to wander about Park Slope and Windsor Terrace and pop in and out of the 34 artist studios that will be open for viewing this weekend.

The third annual Park Slope Windsor Terrace Artists Open Studio Tour features a mix of cutting-edge, classic and experimental work from established and emerging artists who make Brownstone Brooklyn their home. Many of the artists on the tour recently participated in Gowanus Open Studios and if you had a chance to discover art there, you’ll be pleased to find a lot more this weekend.

Information: Tour website, downloadable map & suggested itinerary, Facebook
Look for the green balloons outside of each open studio location. FREE.

Some highlights from the 34 artists on this year’s tour:

NORTH SLOPE studios: painters Gregory Frux and Janet Morgan, letter I on the map; distinguished classical artist Simon Dinnerstein, letter F on the map, mixed-media painter Jerry Friedman, letter H on the map.

SOUTH SLOPE studios: metal-sculptor Janet Goldner, letter Y, will be doing welding demos over the weekend; David Weiner, also at letter Y, will create event-based sculpture in real time; abstract painter Joy Walker, letter X; printmaker, illustrator, painter Nancy Doniger and kinetic metal sculptor Eric Jacobson, showing at letter G; digital/photo/social commentary artist Bob Hagan, letter M; plus 9 additional open studios—check the map.

WINDSOR TERRACE studios: sculptor Lisa Lincoln, letter P, will be creating with clay on Sunday; functional potter Caryn Kreitzer, letter O; at letter E: monoprints, watercolors by Susan Greenstein plus watercolors, photography by Phil DeSantis, plus 4 additional open studios—check the map.

Plenty of great places to stop and refuel along the route…but you knew that already…

Filed Under: Community, Galleries, Handmade, Look Tagged With: #2015PSWT, Brooklyn artist, Gowanus Open Studios, open studios, Park Slope, Windsor Terrace

This Saturday, Visit Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Show

May 6, 2015 by Anne Mollegen Smith 2 Comments

Joy Makon watercolor detail from “Christmas at the Lake”

THIS COMING SATURDAY, MAY 9, BROOKLYN ARTISTS will begin showing their work in a juried show at Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition’s Red Hook waterfront location near the Fairway grocery store. The reception Saturday is 1-6pm, and the show continues until June 14. (www.facebook.com/BWAC.ART or bwac.org) Brooklyn Artisan proudly notes that executive Editor Joy Makon (https://joymakon.wordpress.com/) will be there, for she has a watercolor in the show. (Image above is a detail from an earlier painting.)

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Our Library Is Hanging with the Elite

May 1, 2015 by Anne Mollegen Smith Leave a Comment

SO SAYS INFORMATIONWEEK. In the 2015 InformationWeek “Elite 100” listings of top business-technology innovators, the Brooklyn Public Library not only makes the list – the only library to do so – but it’s no. 25, rubbing shoulders in the top quarter with UPS and FedEx, NASA, Boeing, Biogen, PayPal, TIAA-CREF and Merck. Why? “As a result of our partnership with Tableau,” says the library’s President and CEO Linda Johnson, “BPL’s 60 branches are more responsive than ever to the needs of the communities they serve.” The library’s eResources – meaning eBooks and eVideos, catalog info, even homework help – serve Brooklyn’s 2.5 million residents 24/7 at www.bklynlibrary.org. See ya’ at the libe — online.

Filed Under: best practices, Brain Candy, Community Tagged With: Brooklyn Pubic Library, Brooklyn Public Library, InformationWeek Elite 100, innovative organization, Prospect Heights

Want To Start Your Own Artisanal Business?

April 2, 2015 by Anne Mollegen Smith Leave a Comment

READ INVESTOPEDIA’S SPECIAL REPORT on starting a business in New York City, filled with stories of Brooklyn business startups. You’ll see why Brooklyn and Queens are magnets for innovation and small-batch production as well as get important leads to New York City services that can untangle regulations and smooth your way. (Full disclosure: The Investopedia story is brought to you by founding folks at Brooklyn Artisan.)

Filed Under: Craft/Design, Guilds/Fairs, Method/Materials, Outer Brooklyn, The Business Side Tagged With: Ample Hills, chocolate factories, entrepreneur, Etsy, MakerBot, microbrewery

April Is Poetry Month (Not the Cruelest After All)

April 2, 2015 by Anne Mollegen Smith Leave a Comment

BROOKLYN-RESIDENT PATRICK PHILLIPS, who teaches at Drew University, is also a working poet with several titles published. The most recent, Elegy for a Broken Machine, is just out from Knopf and in bookstores now ($20) or in a Kindle edition from Amazon ($12). He is reading tonight (April 2, 2015) at Drew University (with Tiphanie Yanick) and later this month at a Poetry Society gig in the Fulton Street Subway Station. Keep up with his readings schedule at www.patrickthemighty.com. (The following poem is reprinted with the poet’s permission.)

Sunset Park

The Chinese truck driver
throws the rope
like a lasso, with a practiced flick,

over the load:
where it hovers an instant,
then arcs like a willow

into the waiting,
gloved hand
of his brother.

What does it matter
that, sitting in traffic,
I glanced out the window

and found them that way?
So lean and sleek-muscled
in their sweat-stiffened t-shirts:

offloading the pallets
just so they can load up
again in the morning,

and so on,
and so forth
forever like that—

like Sisyphus
I might tell them
if I spoke Mandarin,

or had a Marlboro to offer,
or thought for a minute
they’d believe it

when I say that I know
how it feels
to break your own

back for a living.
Then again,
what’s the difference?

When every light
for a mile turns
green all at once,

no matter how much
I might like
to keep watching

the older one squint
and blow smoke
through his nose?

Something like sadness,
like joy, like a sudden
love for my life,

and for the body
in which I have lived it,
overtaking me all at once,

as a bus driver honks
and the setting
sun glints, so bright

off a windshield
I wince and look back
and it’s gone.

Filed Under: Community, Think Tagged With: Brooklyn poet, Elegy for a Broken Machine, Patrick Phillips, poetry, poetry reading, Sunset Park

A Story Showing Why 3-D Printing Matters

December 22, 2014 by Anne Mollegen Smith Leave a Comment

MORE THAN A NOVELTY, three-dimensional printing pioneered here in Brooklyn by MakerBot and some other companies around the globe is making its mark on the world. Here’s a seasonally heart-warming tale that tells why.