THE OPEN SPACE GALLERY PROJECT

PROJECT AWARDS:  COMMUNITY SERVICE

-2014   Brooklyn Queens Land Trust Presidential Award  

-2010   Brooklyn Queens Land Trust  Greening Award  by Borough President Marty Markowitz        

-2010  Certificate of Special Congressional Recognition  from Congressman Ed Townes.

-2004   6/15 Green Honoree Award for community service at Garden Opening Ceremony presented by Borough President Marty Markowitz.  

GRANTS:    THE ARTS                                                                                                                     

-2006    NYSCA Grant adminstered by Brooklyn Arts Council, Inc. in Kings    

-2003     NYSCA Grant administered by Brooklyn Arts Council, Inc. In Kings County.

FIELD OF STUDY:                                                                                     International Center of Photography and ICP "The Point".

Professional Photography Career Studies & Fashion Buying and Merchandising  at Fashion Institute of Technology.  Self-taught.

INSTALLATIONS:

Curated "IMAGES OF THE GARDENS"  at Founders Day Celebration of Brooklyn Queens Land Trust at the Magnolia Tree Earth Center in Bedford Stuyvesant, George Washington Carver Art Gallery in March 2008.  

-BQLT COMMUNITY GARDENS - David Foulke Memorial Garden, Clifton Place Block Association Garden, & Woodbine Block Association Garden.

-BANG! LAND TRUST GARDEN- 6/15 Green

-EARTH MATTER NY at Governors Island

-PROSPECT HILL SENIOR SERVICES CENTER, INC. - Park Slope

GALLERY

-TImes Square Gallery-Manhattan

-Ryan-Chelsea Community Center-Manhattan

-La Pena Institute in Austin  

NOTE:

Presently exploring Storytelling and Collage. An artform that was introduced to me by Dave Johnson with  Lifetime Arts. 

-My first reading was at the Park Slope Public Library on Ninth Street, April 2013.   

-ART ON DEAN at the Walt L. Shamel Community Garden in Crown Heights in Summer (2013).

CURRENT COLLABORATIONS:

PROSPECT HILL SENIORS SERVICES CENTER in Park Slope.  Senior Portrait Series

6/15 GREEN - Community Garden in Park Slope

EARTH MATTER, NY- Governor's Island 

BROOKLYN QUEENS LAND TRUST-Communications Committee

BANG! LAND TRUST-Park Slope, Brooklyn

MILLION TREES - Certified Tree Pit Steward

CITIZENS COMMITEE NYC-Certified Community Organizer