Amplify Action: Sustainability through the Arts
A Group Exhibition
Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation (BSRC), the Pratt Center for Community Development and Pratt’s Initiative for Arts, Community, and Social Change (IACSC) are honored to announce the presentation of “Amplify Action: Sustainability through the Arts”, an exhibition of works that will be presented by the Skylight Gallery, a department of BSRC's Center for Arts and Culture, created by both local artists and artists abroad that promote a civic dialogue about community sustainability. Please join the artists for the opening reception in Spring 2012 at the Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation’s Skylight Gallery, 1368 Fulton Street, 3rd Floor, Brooklyn, New York.
“Amplify Action: Sustainability through the Arts” demonstrates how arts, culture and media are powerful catalysts for social change, and aims to engage neighborhoods in a dialogue about sustainable living, making healthy consumer choices, and taking environmental action. Works in the exhibit will directly and indirectly examine the different components of sustainability such as, but not limited to: ecology, economy, equity, environmental consciousness, resource conservation and efficiency, agriculture, architecture, infrastructure, environmental justice and health.
About Bedford-Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation: Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation, the nation's first community development corporation, partners with residents and business to improve the quality of life of Central Brooklyn by fostering economic self sufficiency, enhancing family stability and growth, promoting the arts and culture and transforming the neighborhood into a safe, vibrant place to live, work and visit.
About Pratt Center: The Pratt Center for Community Development works for a more just, equitable, and sustainable city for all New Yorkers, by empowering communities to plan for and realize their futures. The Center was founded at the birth of the community development movement, as the first university-based advocacy planning and design center in the U.S. For over 40 years, we have helped community groups revitalize their neighborhoods, create and preserve affordable housing, build childcare and community centers, and improve their environment. We have trained hundreds of community leaders and organizations to implement effective community development strategies, and supported a wide array of successful public policy and community planning efforts.
About IACSC: The Pratt Initiative for Arts, Community and Social Change encourages and supports students, faculty and staff to cultivate awareness, discourse and action to use the power of the arts as a catalyst for social change. This is approached through fostering structures that stimulate cross-disciplinary collaboration among various communities at Pratt, academic and programmatic departments, student organizations, and artistic disciplines, as well as through building external partnerships with community organizations and individual artists. In the academic year 2012, the work of IACSC will focus on considerations of Diversity.
This exhibit is made possible by the generous support of the Rockefeller Foundation’s “Arts Implementation Fund” in conjunction with Pratt Center for Community Development and Pratt’s Initiative for Arts, Community, and Social Change.