Longwood Art Gallery @ Hostos
upcoming exhibition
Las Casitas
Revisited
Sep 27- Dec 22, 2010
Main Gallery
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Project Room
Opening Reception
Wed, October 6, 2010
5:00-9:00pm
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Las Casitas Revisited is an updated remounting of the legendary Casitas exhibition curated twenty years ago by Betty-Sue Hertz and William Aguado of the Bronx Council on the Arts. The exhibition opened at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., traveled to Chicago and closed at the Bronx Museum of the Arts in 1991.
This remounting, curated by Mr. Aguado, and Wallace Edgecombe, director of the Hostos Center for the Arts & Culture, will include elements of the original exhibition including Martha Cooper’s highly acclaimed photographs. It will also include elements (photographs, found objects, video footage and musical instruments) reflecting the history of the legendary Casita de Chema on Brooke Avenue in the Bronx which, for over 30 years, has served as an important forge and incubator of Puerto Rican culture in the Diaspora. The centerpiece of the installation will be a recreation of la Casita de Chema designed and installed by José “Chema” Soto, founder of the Casita, and the exhibition’s designer, Juan Fernando Morales. The installation will be one of the principal components of the Hostos Center’s BomPlenazo festival, a biennial celebration of Afro-Puerto Rican culture. This year's festival will focus on cultural traditions of the area of Mayagüez on the west coast of Puerto Rico.
This exhibition is co-organized by by BCA's Longwood Gallery @ Hostos and the Hostos Center for the Arts & Culture.
Opening Reception & Bronx Culture Trolley: Weds, October 6, 2010, 5-9pm.
Closing Reception & Bronx Culture Trolley: Weds, December 1, 2010, 5-9pm.
Recent exhibitions
March 3-August 4, 2010
Main Gallery
…in the City: Memory, Places and Spaces is inspired by the city’s unique urban flavor, socio-political, and economical issues as well as its inhabitants. Longwood had invited artists whose works comment on issues of displacement, migration, development, and urban planning. The show, curated by Juanita Lanzó, includes installation, mixed media, painting and video by Michael Paul Britto, Suzanne Broughel, Jerry Gant, Jayson Keeling, Juan Fernando Morales and Luis Stephenberg.
In the Project Room
Hatuey Ramos-Fermin
Transmit-Transit
In this exhibition Mr. Ramos-Fermin presents a multimedia installation focusing on issues of migration, access and globalization. The exhibition, curated by Ricardo Miranda-Zuñiga, addresses the notion of traveling in the city, in particular the ethnic diversity of the drivers and the borough. This project maps the Bronx residents and its diversity.
Special Projects
Impractical Hats: Indie Crafts Reinvent Everyday Gear
A provocative exhibition by indie craft designers who utilize a wide variety of materials in the construction of hats and hat related objects. Curated by Lisa Curran.
Featured artists are members of the Bronx Council on the Arts
bronxArtworks collective.
The Bronx Council on the Arts is a proud event partner for the Seventh Annual Immigrant Heritage Week, a program of the Mayor's Office of Immigrant Affairs.
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December 2, 2009- February 6, 2010
Main Gallery
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Anthem: an all-american dystopia
This exhibition, a 20th anniversary celebration of BCA’s prestigious BRIO Award, explores an America within the crux of reforming a national identity; family, health, politics, urban crisis and decay, environmental issues, consumerism and globalization. All participating artists are 2008 and 2009 BRIO award winners. They include Gloria Adams, Cara Judea Alhadeff, Tenille Blair-Neff, Linda Cunningham, Dennis Redmoon Darkeem, Donna Diamond, Marisol Diaz, Juan Doe, Nicky Enright, Michael Ferris Jr., Rosemarie Fiore, Michelle Frick, Kuniyasu Hashimoto, Tracie Hervy, Kalissa Maxwell, Josh Millis, Vittorio Ottaviani, Micky Schon, Hrvoje Slovenc, and Jennifer Tomaiolo. This exhibition was curated by Melissa A. Calderón, a Bronx-based artist and arts activist for the revitalization of the South Bronx, founder of the Mott Haven loft series CONVERSIONS, and a co-founder of Haven Art Space and Coalition of Mott Haven Artists.
Year Zero: Media-Makers Dialogues
Filmmakers pull back the curtain back on American life and reveal the reel deal about angst, love, technology, acculturation, and more through a borderless world view. BRIO-winning media artists reflect on their films and their visions of the world in a BxIndie commissioned film written and directed by Julio Toro, 2007 BRIO winner for screenwriting. The film features works of 2008-2009 BRIO winners Nicky Enright, Nadia Hallgren, Geoffrey Quan, Geovanny Salas. The filmmakers themselves comment on and interpret their award-winning pieces to share their unique vision of their world. This exhibition was curated by Leenda Bonilla and Lydia Clark.
»past exhibitions and events
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Location:
On the campus of
Hostos Community College
450 Grand Concourse
(at 149th Street)
Bronx, NY 10451
Phone: 718-518-6728
E-mail:
longwood@bronxarts.org
Hours:
until June 6:
Mon - Fri: 10:00 - 6:00pm
June 7-August 5 (Summer Hours)
Mon-Thur: 10:00am-6pm
Directions:
Hostos is easily accessible by the 2, 4, and 5 IRT Trains.
Click here for directions.
Longwood Art Gallery @ Hostos is wheelchair accessible
Longwood Arts Project is the contemporary art center of the Bronx Council on the Arts
with the mission to support artists and their work, especially emerging artists from underrepresented groups such as people of color and women, through Longwood Art Gallery @ Hostos, Digital Matrix Commissions Program, and public programs that provide opportunities for free and open dialogue. Longwood Art Gallery @ Hostos presents solo and group exhibitions of art produced in various media and through interdisciplinary practices that connect artists, communities, and ideas within and beyond the Bronx. Longwood's Project Room was created in 1991 to focus on Bronx and Bronx-based artists who present solo and experimental projects that aim to address issues of politics of identity, class, gender and urban and popular culture.
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Benefactors |
| A program of the Bronx Council on the Arts, Longwood Arts Project is funded, in part, by National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts' Visual Arts Program, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, The Jerome Foundation, The Andy Warhol Foundation, The Greenwall Foundation, Krasdale Foods, Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz, Jr. and the Bronx Delegation of the City Council of New York and the member ship of the BCA. Longwood Arts Project is a member of the National Association of Artists Organizations, the National Alliance of Media Arts and Culture, and Media Channel. |
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