Bronx River Art Center (BRAC) is excited to announce our Winter Break Art Camp with special workshop classes for children, teens, young adults, adults, families and older adults.

From Monday, February 20th to Friday, February 24th, BRAC will open its doors to host a series of Art Making Daily Workshops. Classes will take place from 11:00 am to 1:00pm in the morning, and from 2:00 to 4:00 pm in the afternoon, with a supervised lunch period from 1:00 to 2:00 pm.

Interested participants can register for 1 Class, or buy special packages at at special discounts: ONE FULL DAY of classes, 3 FULL DAYS, or 5 FULL DAYS

BRAC’s professional Teaching and Studio Artists will be running 2 hour workshops with different themes and techniques to explore creativity and enhance your artistic interests!

Class Descriptions

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FRIDAY OPEN STUDIOS

Fridays, 3:00pm - 7:00pm

Registered students in BRAC’s Winter 2023 education program are now able to make use of BRAC's Digital Media Lab and Fine Arts Studio on Friday afternoons from 3pm to 7pm for art-making outside of class hours. $5 suggested donation.

Drop-ins from non-registered students are also welcome with permission and a minimum donation fee of $10/ hour.

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Exhibitions

SCALING NATURE

On view until March 4th

Bronx River Art Center is pleased to exhibit Scaling Nature, a show of large-scale mixed-media installation works by three artists; Michele Brody, Linda Cunningham, and Wildriana Paulino. The exhibition has been curated by BRAC executive director Gail Nathan.

From the vast whirlwinds of hurricanes expressed by Linda Cunningham’s immense painting, to the tornado-like force of Wildriana Paulino’s spiraling translucent objects, to Michele Brody’s sheets of dried pulp with Cattails in relief capturing the subtle loss of natural species from our daily lives, these massive artworks invite the viewer to be personally engulfed by a feeling of being one with nature, but at the same time wary of the effects of climate change and pollution on our “environment” and our beings.

GALLERY HOURS:

Tuesday - Friday: 2:30 - 6 PM

Saturday: 12 - 5 PM

Gallery hours are only in effect during the exhibition dates.

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Public Programs

IN COVERSATION

Artist Talk & Presentation

Featuring Artists in the Scaling Nature Exhibit

February 9th, 5:30pm

Bronx River Art Center continues with the presentation of the monthly Artist Talk & Presentation series IN CONVERSATION. For the month of February, the program welcomes guest artists featured in BRAC's current exhibition SCALING NATURE: Michele Brody, Wildriana Paulino, and Linda Cunningham, and will be moderated by Gail Nathan, BRAC’s Executive Director.

IN CONVERSATION is a monthly Artist Talk program created last October by BRAC's Education Manager, Hector Canonge. The program was envisioned to foster dialogue, exchange and reflection about Contemporary Art issues by featuring local, national, and international guest artists working in various disciplines and creative practices. The monthly program consists of the presentation of selected works followed by an open forum with attending audience members.

Michele Brody’s long-term project “Nature in Absentia” is being produced as part of a virtual residency with the US Forest Service Urban Field Station. Since completing her MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s Fibers and Material Studies Department in 1994, she has maintained a full-time studio/exhibition practice as a mixed-media community-based environmental artist in France, Germany, Costa Rica, Taiwan, California and in her current home of NYC and The Bronx.

Wildriana Paulina is a multidisciplinary artist who received her BFA from the Cooper Union School of Art. As a high school and undergraduate student she participated in multiple cultural programs across the city, including with the Studio Museum in Harlem and Kenkeleba House. In 2019 she began a series — Una Para Cada Una (One for One) — investigating femicides (the normalized killing of women for being women) in the Dominican Republic.

Linda Cunningham is a New York City based artist who exhibits extensively both in New York and Germany, and had recent one-person exhibitions with ODETTA Gallery (2019, 2017, 2015) and the Bronx Museum (2016/17 and 2010). Other one-person exhibitions include Abington Art Center, Philadelphia; the Fundacion Euroidiomas, Lima, Peru; and the Statt Museum, Cologne Germany. Cunningham’s monumental public sculptural installations and alternative memorials are permanently sited in Cologne, Kassel, Bad Hersfeld Cornberg, all in Germany; City of Sculpture, Hamilton, Ohio; Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, N.J.; and Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, Pa.

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Upcoming

BRAC FRIDAY WORKSHOPS

Friday, March 10th

BRAC is offering art workshops for the general public up to twice a month on Fridays, with the next Friday Workshop class to be held March 10th, time and details to be announced. Enrolled students can also take these workshops. Stay tuned for more information.

Opportunities

For Artists / Curators / Educators

As part of our commitment to further nurture, support, and encourage the development of artists from the Bronx and New York City at large, BRAC will compile a list of opportunities in the arts and related fields. Artists and organizations are welcome to send us and share their listings and future opportunities. 

NYC METRO AREA

The Other Art Fair

Open to all visual artists

The Other Art Fair is a global gathering of creative thinkers, game changers and pleasure seekers sharing emerging talent and unforgettable experiences. Applications are now open for the upcoming spring edition of The Other Art Fair Brooklyn taking place at the Brooklyn Navy Yard from May 18-21. The deadline for submissions is February 19, 2023.

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Underground Art And Design

Open call to visual artists

The 2023 Y.O. Design Lab Awards is co-organized by the electric vehicle company XEV and the online media platform Underground Art And Design.

The Y.O. Design Lab Awards is open for entries and will encompass two main categories, including 3D Modeling and 2D Graphic Design, covering a variety of sub-categories, such as but not limited to 3D texture design, embossed design, illustration, graffiti, painting, typography, and more. The Y.O. Design Lab Awards aim to promote and recognize the best 3D & 2D artwork from emerging artists worldwide for the XEV YOYO Side Blade and produce them for a special edition collection. The Y.O. Design Lab Awards offer a total prize fund of $6,350 along with 12 grand prizes and 7 special awards. The deadline for applications is February 25, 2023.

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Columbia University's Zuckerman Institute

Open call to all artists

Columbia University's Zuckerman Institute is seeking an artist to produce commissioned work for our "Art in the Education Lab" program, with a budget of $10,000 (inclusive of all costs related to the project). Applicants must live or work within New York City, with residents of Upper Manhattan and the South Bronx especially welcome. The deadline for application is March 3, 2023.

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Li Tang Gallery

Open to all visual artists

From vivid colors and patterns to those who work in black and white or monochromatic approaches, Li Tang Gallery wants to invite artists who explore the areas of abstractions with no limitations on media in their upcoming exhibition Abstract, Distortion & Fragmentation. Taking from art's historical lineage or blazing new paths in the field of abstraction, Li Tang Gallery wants to include artists who find new ways to connect with audiences beyond the figurative. The priority deadline for application is March 10, 2023.

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BRAC COVID-19 Protocols

Proof of vaccination will be required upon entering building for all persons over age 6. Use of masks during classes is required. For general questions about classes, please email [email protected].