For 250 years, the Brooklyn waterfront has played a vital role in the culture and history of the area and the nation. From the moment colonists at Fort Defiance in Red Hook fired on the\u00a0 British Navy fleet in New York Harbor in 1776 through today, the waterfront has been an intermingling of cultures. The Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition (BWAC) shares in that history, first bringing art to the Brooklyn waterfront in DUMBO back in 1978, then taking up a 35-year residence on the Red Hook waterfront, before losing their gallery to a raging fire that devastated their warehouse space \u2014 itself built in 1869.\u00a0\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
It seems only fitting, then, that as the nation celebrates its 250th anniversary, BWAC, in a temporary location in the Whale Building on the Sunset Park waterfront, presents new art exhibitions that span the diversity and depth of the American experience. This co-mingling of past and present, of history and culture, of freedom and restriction, is a reminder that Art, like\u00a0 Democracy, is a Big Idea that belongs to all of us.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Between Two Waterfronts: A Brooklyn Landscape\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
The waterfront reflects the broader Brooklyn landscape. It is shaped by industry, development,\u00a0 climate pressure, and displacement, but also by resilience, adaptation, and everyday life. It is a place of contrast \u2014 industrial and residential, built and changing, visible and overlooked. In the\u00a0 Between Two Waterfronts: A Brooklyn Landscape exhibition, artists explore the Brooklyn\u00a0\u00a0waterfront as both a lived environment and a symbolic space, where land meets water, industry meets community, and histories of labor, migration, and culture are shaped by ongoing urban change.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
Summer of Soccer: the World\u2019s Game\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
As New York welcomes the world\u2019s premier international soccer tournament in 2026, BWAC, in collaboration with Socceroof in Sunset Park, and Favela Project Inc, presents Summer of Soccer:\u00a0 The World\u2019s Game, a juried exhibition celebrating the global passion and cultural impact of the world\u2019s most popular sport. Reflecting personal experiences, local soccer culture, legendary\u00a0 moments, or the sport\u2019s influence around the world, these artists have captured the excitement,\u00a0 emotion, diversity, and universal appeal of what has been called \u201cthe beautiful game.\u201d\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
Crazy Joy Time for You\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
We live our daily lives amidst a wide range of emotions \u2014 anxiety, worry, anticipation, joy, delight,\u00a0 sorrow, and anger. At first glance, this solo selection of art by BWAC member Kumi Hirose appears vivid and pop-inspired; yet, beneath the surface lie joy and madness, beauty and chaos,\u00a0 and a deep desire to offer powerful encouragement.\u00a0\u00a0Commenting on her exhibition, Ms. Hirose said, \u201cI hope that those who view the works in this\u00a0 exhibition will reconnect with the free emotions that reside within themselves.\u201d\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
Exhibition Location and Dates\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
The exhibitions will be on view on the third floor of the Whale Building at 14 53rd Street in\u00a0 Sunset Park (at 1st Avenue) on weekends from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. Please note the space will be closed on Saturday, July 4, in observance of the holiday. There is an opening reception on Thursday,\u00a0 July 2, from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. There is no required admission fee.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For 250 years, the Brooklyn waterfront has played a vital role in the culture and history of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278739,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-278738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278738","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=278738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}