The Brooklyn Utopias exhibition series, in partnership with Brooklyn’s Old Stone House & Washington Park, and the New York City Department of Transportation, is pleased to announce a call for submissions for our upcoming exhibition Brooklyn Utopias: In TRANSITion. This upcoming exhibit, public art and events series, opening in September 2013, invites artists to consider the future of urban transportation, in Brooklyn and beyond. Projects can either critically respond to historic and contemporary ideals about urban transportation, or propose their own. Artwork can address conditions in Brooklyn, and/or other boroughs and cities. Brooklyn Utopias: In TRANSITion will also explore artists’ direct role in shaping the future of transit design by inviting transportation organizations that partner with artists to showcase their work.

APPLICATION DEADLINE: JULY 1, 2013

EXHIBITION DATES: SEPTEMBER 17, 2013-JANUARY 12, 2014

EXHIBITION SITES:
In addition to holding a main exhibition in the 2nd floor Great Room gallery of Brooklyn's Old Stone House & Washington Park (OSH), we are very excited to be partnering with the NYC Department of Transportation's Urban Art Program to commission several temporary public art pieces, relating to the exhibition theme, for nearby traffic medians on 4th Avenue in Park Slope/Gowanus. There are also opportunities to propose public art for OSH's exterior and surrounding gardens.

TO APPLY AND FOR MORE INFORMATION:  VISIT THE SUBMISSION PAGE  AT http://brooklynutopias.wordpress.com/calls-for-entries/

ABOUT BROOKLYN UTOPIAS:

Brooklyn Utopias (BU) is an ongoing exhibit and event series, founded in 2009 by curator Katherine Gressel, in which artists, young people, activists, architects, designers and urban theorists consider differing visions of an ideal city through the “concrete” example of Brooklyn. Previous BU exhibits in 2009, 2010, and 2012 have dealt with such topics as overdevelopment, community preservation, urban agriculture, and most recently, public park and public space design. BU's work has been recognized by Time Out New York, Hyperallergic, the L Magazine, The Brooklyn Paper, The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, and Brooklyn Independent TV. Critics and community leaders have described the past BU exhibits as “expansive,” and “provocative and thoughtful fusions of practical imagination and artistic vision.” According to Allison Meier in Hyperallergic, "After spending time in the tranquility of Brooklyn Utopias: Park Space, Play Space [2012] in the Old Stone House…it was possible to imagine...that artists are an essential voice in imagining an exuberant, yet intelligently developed, future for the borough."

To see images of our past exhibitions and events (including shows at the Brooklyn Historical Society and the Old Stone House) please visit: brooklynutopias.wordpress.com and www.brooklynutopias.com.

Brooklyn Utopias: In TRANSITion is sponsored, in part, by the Greater New York Arts Development Fund of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, administered by Brooklyn Arts Council (BAC).

Programming and promotional support provided by The New York City Department of  Transportation, Old Stone House & Washington Park, and Transportation Alternatives.