2011 EXHIBIT DATES & TIME

Friday, August 5th
Saturday August 6th
Sunday August, 7th
Friday, August 12th
Saturday August 13th
Sunday August, 14th
Noon-6pm
On the Fence

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available as a MS Word Doc

or
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HOW YOU CAN JOIN FAF

Are you seeking new ways to promote your work and opportunities to show what you can do? Meet others in your creative field? Join Fulton Art Fair and broaden your networking base, learn new artistry, reach the public, become a distinguished member of this legendary brotherhood & sisterhood of artists.

MEMBERSHIP
$75.00 until July 21st (Postmarked)
The Membership Fee for applications received after July 21st  is $100.00. Final deadline is August 1st.
$40.00 Membership
for Seniors Age 65 & Over & Students (16 – 22 Yrs)  
Free for Children Under 16 Yrs

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Thursday, September 23, 2010, 6-8pm
(BK Art Lovers Get in free. More Info.)
Opening Reception:
Friday, September 24, 2010, 6-8pm
Dumbo Arts Festival Hours:
Saturday, September 25, 2010, 12-4pm

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BAC Gallery, in conjunction with Black Brooklyn Renaissance, Black Arts + Culture, 1960 – 2010, presents Otto Neals & Emmett Wigglesworth: Kindred Spirits Forging Forward, curated by Wendy Jones. This exhibition features selected works on paper and canvas, and sculpture spanning the 50 year careers of two iconic Brooklyn artists, whose works are highly influenced by personal history and life experience.

Black Brooklyn Renaissance is a holistic look at Black culture and arts in Brooklyn over the past five decades. The project explores the ways in which Black artists retain ties to mid-century social and political movements, and preserve traditions across generations. Joining together local cultural institutions and organizations across Brooklyn, Brooklyn Arts Council’s goal is to educate a new generation of artists and audiences about Brooklyn’s Black artistic legacies by encouraging attendance at a wide array of BAC curated and sponsored programs.

As the early 1960’s inspired solidarity among artists of African descent in the United States, a new visual vocabulary of symbols rooted in the African experience emerged. This new vocabulary is depicted figuratively in Neals’ early woodcuts and in prose found in Wigglesworth’s sketches from the 1970’s. As artists living through a 50 year period wrought by significant change, including the upheaval of traditional values and the growth of the global community, Neals and Wigglesworth understand humanity’s great potential and have long sought to demonstrate this through their art.

FIRST THURSDAY EVENTS
Thursday, October 7, 2010 – 6:30pm:
Storytelling by Emmett Wigglesworth, featured artist
Thursday, December 2, 2010 – 6:30pm:
Artist talk with Otto Neals and Emmett Wigglesworth

Saturday May 1, 2010 at 1 p.m.

ADRIALA GALLERY

62 IRVING PLACE
(AT CORNER OF PUTNAM AVE)
BROOKLYN, NY 11238

FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE CALL 646-208-8214

Please come down and support your fellow FAF members. If members are participating in any shows or events, and would like to send a notice to the list and post on the Fulton Art Fair, please send the details to info@fultonartfair.com

ADRIALA GALLERY

www.adrialagallery.com

proudly invites you to its

GRAND OPENING ART SHOW:

SOULstice: On Nature, Spirituality and the Sacred Feminine Energy

featuring

Otto Neals

Ed Bates

Will Gray

Amete Sellassie

& Brian “Strong-Wind” Williams

OPENS end of solstice week:

Sat. JUNE 27, 2009 3pm to midnight

Deep in the heart of Brooklyn, a Vortex is Born. Where humanity reconnects with Nature.

A sacred space for the creation and appreciation of art opens to the public as a place for: artistic encouragement, learning and teaching, healing and praying, displaying and representing the Sacred Feminine Nature of FINE ART for the SPIRIT.

Please come down and show your support.

Adriala Gallery :: 57 Putnam Ave. :: Brooklyn, NY

Show is open thru the end of the summer by appointment.

TO DOWNLOAD and PRINT THE SHOW POSTER IN PDF FORMAT, PLEASE CLICK HERE.

To inquire about the purchase of artwork or to show some support or for more information, please visit our site www.adrialagallery.com or call 646.208.8214 or email info@adrialagallery.com

Otto Neals :: www.ottoneals.com

Born in Lake City, South Carolina, artist, sculptor and printmaker Otto Neals taught himself all mediums except printmaking which he learned at the Bob Blackburn Printmaking Workshop. His commissioned works include a 20-foot mural at Brooklyn’s Kings County Hospital, a bronze work at the Brooklyn Children’s Center, 10 bronze plaques at the “Harlem Walk of Fame” and a bronze work at Prospect Park in Brooklyn.  Neals’ work appears in many collections, public and private, and has won many awards.

Ed Bates, painting

Edward Bates, (b.1925) is a native of Atlantic City, NJ and has lived in New York since 1957.  After serving in the Navy for two years, this African American artist made his home in Brooklyn, NY and became a Textile Designer.  Presently, living in Deer Park, NY, Edward is married to his wife Gladys and together they had six children. Upon retirement after already painting for 30 years, Edward was able to devote his time and passion to the development of his skills as an artist.  A self-taught artisan, Edward lists amongst his achievements being the Grand Prize winner of a citywide contest sponsored by the New York City of Housing for his portrait of Eubie Blake. Edward has been a participant in the Fulton Street Art Show for over 25 years.

Will Gray, photography

Mr. Will Gray a former teacher of photography in the early 70s saw the medium as a way to communicate with wayward youth from the Fort Green section of Brooklyn. Mr. Gray was instrumental in the development of a community based photographic appreciation program that exposes underprivileged youth to the joys and excitement of photo journalism through visits to museums and art galleries. Mr. Gray’s experimentation with lighting, exposure settings and abstract dark room development techniques, such as double exposure has led Mr. Gray to develop his current view of photographic imagery. Mr. Gray’s desire to capture nature’s own paint palate has motivated the current photographic offer offerings.

While most of the photographs in Mr. Gray’s repertoire are of various species of orchids, they also include other flowers such as lilies and roses.

Amete Sellassie, painting

With almost 20 years at the NYC Department of Education and no formal art training, Amete Sellassie first began painting six years ago when she was assigned to assist an art teacher and she discovered the world of pastels and began painting.  She found her inspiration in the works of Georgia O’Keefe and Frida Kahlo and later decided to try her hand at portraits.   Amete Sellassie is known among her peers as an iconographer because her work depicts biblical figures and scenes inspired by the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, as well as historical portraits of Ethiopian nobility.

Brian “Strong-Wind” Williams, Photo-Healing

It is through the camera lens that Strong-Wind captures the “Healing Energy” of the Earth.

Born in Queens, N.Y. in 1964, Brian Strong-Wind was raised in the Bedford Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, New York and currently resides with his family in the Clinton Hill section of this borough. He attended Brooklyn Technical High School and The Technical Career Institute (T.C.I.) for Electrical Engineering. Brian Strong-Wind has been a licensed Private Investigator and owner of a Security Company (Talon Investigation & Security Company, Ltd.) for over 25 years. He holds two Black belts in Korean Martial Arts and specializes in Armed and Unarmed Executive Protection. Strong-Wind displayed an interest in artistic expression at an early age (Martial Arts, Poetry and Drawing). However, it was not until a trip to Teotihuacan, Mexico in March 2002 (during the Spring Equinox), that Strong-Wind says he was “Spiritually Commanded” to take photographs with the intent to heal others.