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Poor Man's Artists' Colony — Brooklynian

Poor Man's Artists' Colony

resurrector
resurrector
edited November -1 in Fort Greene, Clinton Hill, Bed-Stuy

Subject: Poor Man's Artists' Colony

I'm a Writer and Freelancer interested in building a co-working/creative community in the neighborhood...like a mini, local, inevitably far less idyllic artists' colony.

With other serious working professionals or serious starving artists. Or both (like me).

Commitment and community breed immense productivity.

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  • kevin_on_putnam
    kevin_on_putnam
    Do you need a physical space or building or are you just looking to be part of a community of writers? NY Writers Coalition has workshops on Hanson Place, which is not far away. I've been part of that community and enjoyed it -- still hoping to get back if I can find the time. They have a nice e-zine, pod-casts, workshops, and community activities.

    http://nywriterscoalition.org/index.html
  • resurrector
    resurrector
    Thanks, I actually joined them last week for other purposes.

    This vision I have is more like a regularly scheduled meeting of local artists/freelancers working synergistically alongside other writers/artists/freelancers, gathering in various locations (often even the quietude of home offices) wherein some people might be outlining, studying, researching, fact checking while others such as writers, painters or designers might be writing, sketching, designing a website, etc., every once in a while touching base to work through an idea when it strikes, all the while though being fueled by the creative energy percolating throughout the space, as everyone moves fluidly toward optimum productivity.

    It worked quite well for Dunne and Didion, Renoir and Monet, Mary & Charles Lamb, the Black Mountain Poets, Percy & Mary and sometimes Byron, et. al., in a sense Stein and Toklas, probably the Beats and countless members of the Factory.
  • kevin_on_putnam
    kevin_on_putnam
    Don't forget the Doobie Brothers, Topo Gigio, and the Richard Nixon/Spiro Agnew team
  • resurrector
    resurrector
    Yah, I should have known it was too much to ask here, and in 2008...Oh, and you forgot Simon and Simon, all the members of Zoobilee Zoo...that was really my primary model for this.
  • pithanon
    pithanon
    Your vision of an incubator and nuturing artist's coalition, in our community, is a dream shared by many artists whom call the Fort, the Stuy, and the Hill (FoBeHi), home.

    The realization of that dream is not only possible, but necessary. The paucity or abundance of arts organizations and artists coalitions in neighborhoods, speaks to what defines a community and the quality of life experienced by its residents.

    As a visual artist, writer, arts administrator, and long time resident of Bedstuy, over the years I've come to know many other artists whom live and work in FoBeHi.

    More then a few have communicated their vision of a coalition of artists that encompasses yours and some believe that in time that could well be a physical space or building or a community of artists.

    This vision is an idea whose time has come.

    "Commitment and community breed immense productivity."
    That's what I'm talking about.

    Writers and visual artists, living in Clinton Hill, Bedstuy, and Fort Green, whom share this vision....let's make contact.
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