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
Photoville is a New York-based non-profit organization that works to promote a wider understanding and increased access to the art of photography and visual storytelling by producing a free annual festival, amplifying impactful narratives, and connecting artists to a wide global audience by activating accessible public spaces via large scale exhibitions.
Proudly devoted to cultivating strategic partnerships and creative collaborations with community spirit, UPI approaches its mission of cultivating a wide, diverse audience for powerful photographic narratives by working closely with visual artists, city agencies, nonprofit organizations and educators worldwide to create new exhibition and public art opportunities that showcase thought-provoking, challenging, and exceptional photography. 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
Supported by:
Dekalb 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.
