The South-West Brooklyn Exhibition Program offers innovative visual artists with an opportunity for increased exposure to a diverse and broad audience. The program aims to engage artists in South-West Brooklyn in cross-pollination and dialogue through a curated group exhibition and contribute to the recognition of the region’s artists in the context of the greater New York art community.
In 2015, the NARS Foundation introduced a new program: the South-West Brooklyn Exhibition Program, providing emerging and underrepresented artists from a designated area with the opportunity to participate in a group exhibition in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. For the purpose of this program, South-West Brooklyn is defined as living and/or with studio space in Sunset Park, Park Slope, Gowanus, Red Hook, Bay Ridge, Dyker Heights, Borough Park, or Windsor Terrace. The aim of the program is to engage artists of South-West Brooklyn in a dialogue through a curated group exhibition. South-West Brooklyn has become a hub of artistic activity but is still largely under recognized in the art world. As part of NARS’ mission to engage with and promote emerging and underrepresented artists, the NARS South-West Brooklyn Exhibition Program strives to contribute to the recognition of the art world of South Brooklyn by highlighting the innovative work being produced today. As part of this community of artists, our mission should start at home with the artists working and living in our neighborhood and surrounding areas.
NARS intends to continue the South-West Brooklyn Exhibition program as a yearly event that will be expanded each year to include additional venues for the display of art, public programs, and performances. Through partnerships with other organizations, both non-profit and for-profit, we hope to expand the exposure of artists in South-West Brooklyn to a larger New York audience.
The NARS exhibitions works mainly through annual open calls that are open to artists, curators, collectives, cultural producers, and thinkers to propose solo or group exhibitions that reflect our mission to foster and represent important artistic directions and critical dialogue in contemporary art and culture with large. NARS selects proposals to be further developed, and provides the space and support to mount ambitious and compelling exhibitions.
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