Yard\u2019s industrial legacy<\/a> and Brooklyn\u2019s ongoing ingenuity, while celebrating the skills, materials and entrepreneurial spirit that have shaped the borough\u2019s identity through industrial innovation.<\/p>\nCarli Beseau, vice president of public engagement for BNYDC, told Brooklyn Paper the installation offers an opportunity for BNYDC to connect more deeply with the community while giving local creatives a platform to showcase their work.<\/p>\n
The call is open to artists who work for a business at the Brooklyn Navy Yard \u2014 including current full- or part-time employees and business owners \u2014 or who live in Brooklyn.\n<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have so many amazing creatives on our campus. Creativity defines Brooklyn, so it\u2019s really this great opportunity. We\u2019re hoping to get proposals from both those who work at the Navy Yard, but also Brooklyn-based creatives, and really start to more intentionally message that it\u2019s not just the Brooklyn Navy Yard. It\u2019s really our Brooklyn Navy Yard,\u201d Beseau said.<\/p>\n
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The Brooklyn Navy Yard is calling on local artists to submit designs for its 2026 fence-line public art installation, celebrating the borough\u2019s creative and industrial legacy.Photo courtesy of BNYDC<\/p>\n
BNY will celebrate its 225th anniversary in 2026, and the theme \u201cBrooklyn Forged\u201d pays homage to the borough\u2019s ingenuity and entrepreneurial spirit.<\/p>\n
Creatives are encouraged to submit proposals that explore the intersection of labor, culture and economics, and demonstrate how Brooklyn continues to forge its identity through creativity and industry \u2014 honoring the workers, makers and innovators who sustain its cultural and economic vitality.<\/p>\n
Beseau said she looks forward to seeing how Brooklynites interpret the theme \u2014 through history or the future, realistic or abstract \u2014 using a variety of materials. Because the artwork will be installed along the fence line, she noted, artists have the chance to design something big and bold while exploring three-dimensionality.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe really want to give creatives the opportunity to really tap into this idea of how we were forged, how we continue to be forged, and how we\u2019re forging ahead,\u201d Beseau said.\n<\/p>\n
Since the Navy Yard is home to hundreds of artist studios, BNYDC recognizes the value of the creative economy and the contributions of artistic ingenuity.\n<\/p>\n
\u201cArt has a wonderful quality. It can transform space. It can foster community dialog, celebrate innovation, and create an opportunity for us to continue supporting the artists,\u201d Beseau said.
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BNYDC\u2019s \u201cBrooklyn Forged\u201d open call invites artists to explore how creativity continues to shape the borough\u2019s identity.Photo courtesy of BNYDC\n<\/p>\n
A selection committee composed of BNYDC staff and external art, architecture and design specialists will choose the finalist.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe really try to bring a nice mix of experts to the table who are thinking about creative placemaking, urban planning and creativity, and how they all orbit around community engagement, really creating an opportunity that Brooklynites [and] people going up and down Flushing [Avenue] can really enjoy,\u201d Beseau said.<\/p>\n
To learn more about the 2026 Brooklyn Forged RFP, interested creatives can visit the BNYDC website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corporation is inviting Brooklyn-based creatives to submit designs for a fence-line public art…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21400,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[1150,98,14259,14260,100,14261,14262,99,14263,9,24,63,14264,14258],"class_list":["post-21399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-art-installation","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-artist","tag-brooklyn-creatives","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-navy-yard","tag-brooklyn-navy-yard-development-corporation","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-fence-art-installation","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-public-art-installation","tag-u201cbrooklyn-forged"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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