Featuring:
Artists: Jocelyn Arem, Loryne Atoui, Yu-Chen Chiu, Ron Foster, Aundre Larrow, Diana McClure, Emma Raible, Shawana Ryals, Julie Hassett Sutton, Mariana Vincenti Urdaneta, Tracie Williams, Ketriana Yvonne
Youth Writers: Zollanly Brunson, Lovest Drummond, Marwa Ellis, Lainey Liriano, Amyiah Harris, Rayan Maad, Noshaabah Murad, Nicole Torres, Sashana Kinghorn Bodley
Community Heroes is a community organizing and public art project celebrating the everyday heroes of our neighborhoods.
Local artists, youth, and community members come together to celebrate those dedicated to strengthening and supporting Fort Greene, focusing on long-term historic residents. This is an ongoing annual collaboration with the Fort Greene Park Conservancy and Friends of Commodore Barry Park.
You are invited to nominate your neighborhood hero or collaborate as a storyteller.
Organizations
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Photoville
Founded in 2011 in Brooklyn, NY, Photoville was built on the principles of addressing cultural equity and inclusion, which we are always striving for, by ensuring that the artists we exhibit are diverse in gender, class, and race.
In pursuit of its mission, Photoville produces an annual, city-wide open air photography festival in New York City, a wide range of free educational community initiatives, and a nationwide program of public art exhibitions.
By activating public spaces, amplifying visual storytellers, and creating unique and highly innovative exhibition and programming environments, we join the cause of nurturing a new lens of representation.
Through creative partnerships with festivals, city agencies, and other nonprofit organizations, Photoville offers visual storytellers, educators, and students financial support, mentorship, and promotional & production resources, on a range of exhibition opportunities.
For more information about Photoville visit, www.photoville.com
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Trellis
Trellis is a community development non-profit that helps neighborhoods address injustice together — creating and managing for collective impact, and building collaboration around common vision, shared resources, and purposeful action.
Community Heroes: Fort Greene
Featuring: Various Artists
Locations
View Location Details Fort Greene ParkDekalb Avenue &, S Portland Ave,
NY 11205
Location open 24 hours
Lead Neighborhood Organizers: Fort Greene Park Conservancy & Friends of Commodore Barry Park
This program is supported in part by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council.
Special thanks to the NYC Green Relief and Recovery Fund for the support of this program.