Presenting an amazing ArtWalk info video to watch! We are excited to see you all next weekend! Check out this video to hear about the amazing things happening this year!

Looking for art to see this weekend? Our Director Johnny Thornton and his wife Hally just took ownership of a gallery in Brooklyn and tonight is the inaugural opening, of course featuring an amazing group of 7 Gowanus artists! Congrats Johnny!
Plus some other amazing local art to see!

Also- check out our survey for the Gowanus Improvement District!

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Arts Gowanus Artwalk On Atlantic Avenue Is Back!

Check out this amazing video done by Brooklyn Free Speech BRICTV

This video piece highlights the importance of the ArtWalk in June, 2022. Told through the eyes of Johnny Thornton, Executive Director of Arts Gowanus the viewers will get a peek into the event and how to enjoy themselves along the avenue.

Artwalk on atlantic avenue is back! Opening june 18th!!!

Back by popular demand, “Arts Gowanus ArtWalk on Atlantic Ave” is set to return the weekend of June 18th and run for two weekends until June 26th. The 1.5-mile self-guided ArtWalk through Brooklyn neighborhoods of Boerum Hill, Brooklyn Heights, and Cobble Hill will include the works of local artists such as paintings, photography, drawings, sculpture, and large installations. Over 100 artists will display their works in over 60 local businesses’ storefronts, windows, roll down gates, doors, and open galleries. Attendees are encouraged to walk from Fourth Avenue down to the Waterfront to enjoy art, stop for lunch and rediscover the businesses on Atlantic Avenue and the triumphant return of New York City life.

ArtWalk was introduced in October 2020, in place of the annual Arts Gowanus Open Studio event and the Atlantic Antic™, Brooklyn’s oldest and largest street festival, presented by the Atlantic Avenue Local Development Corporation. Both annual events are known to celebrate the community and support local artists. ArtWalk personified those sentiments and also provided attendees an opportunity to explore Brooklyn and return to a sense of normalcy during the pandemic.

Exciting opening TONIGHT 6:30-8:30pm featuring 7 amazing Gowanus artists at Established Gallery!

As Established Gallery begins its next chapter, we are pleased to announce our inaugural exhibition, So Says This Tranquil Space. Curated by new owners Johnny @_johnnythornton and Hally Thornton @hally_leigh_comics , the exhibition showcases dynamic abstract work by Brooklyn artists working in a variety of mediums. 

“Nothing as drastic an innovation as abstract art could have come in to existence, save as the consequence of a most profound, relentless, unquenchable need. The need is for felt experience - intense, immediate, direct, subtle, unified, warm, vivid, rhythmic.”
-Robert Motherwell

Featured artists: 
Jon Bunge @jonbunge 
Ai Campbell @aicampbell 
Beverly Crilly @bevcrilly 
Marjani Jones @marjanimarjanimarjani 
Tracy Penn @tracypennart 
Sean Qualls @sean_qualls 
Sonjie Feliciano Solomon @sonjiebk 

(Featured work by Beverly Crilly)

Johnny and Hally made the decision to assume ownership of Established Gallery after Johnny served as Gallery Director for 3 years. Over the past three years, this space has housed so many amazing exhibitions, spirited gatherings, and meaningful conversations. The gallery location on 6th Avenue and Flatbush truly feels like the crossroads of Brooklyn – it’s impossible to spend any time in the space and not feel invigorated and inspired by the people and the neighborhood. We are confident that there are still many memories to be made and stories to be told at Established Gallery, and we invite you all to join us in this journey!
AND joining them as Associate Director is Gowanus artist Rick Secen!

Other shows to see this weekend!

Gowanus Paintings by Dennis Masback at The Gowanus Dredgers

Saturday, June 11From bucolic outback to fetid backwater, the Gowanus Canal is an integral part of Brooklyn’s history. Masback’s paintings depict the Gowanus as a luminous and active transportation network.

Perennial by Gail Flanery at 440 Gallery

Flanery has assembled a collection of work that explores facets of nature in both a figurative and abstract way. Traditional renderings of recognizable flowers and trees are combined with idealized notions of nature observed, all influenced by Flanery’s love and concern for the natural world and the effects of climate change.

Summer Salon at Atelier Canal

Check out hundreds of amazing works from almost 30 talented artists and makers throughout NYC!

New Gowanus Improvement District!

We’re excited to share a new initiative that Arts Gowanus is on the Steering Committee for: the Gowanus Improvement District Formation Effort! Community-led, this effort explores the potential to establish a Business Improvement District (BID) in Gowanus. This BID would specifically focus on advocacy for and management and programming of the public realm in Gowanus, to guarantee that all members of the community can enjoy emerging parks and public spaces, and to reinforce a vibrant live-work neighborhood.

The Gowanus Improvement District Formation Steering Committee has created a Neighborhood Needs Survey for community stakeholders to weigh in on current quality of life concerns and priorities for needed services in the neighborhood.

Learn more about the process here,
and add your voice to the Formation Effort by filling out the survey by June 30.

Please consider donating and helping us to continue our work!

Help us with our mission! Arts Gowanus works to support, promote, and advocate for artists and a sustainable local arts community. Please consider being part of the driving force that keeps artists in this community and helps them thrive. Whether you are an artist or art lover, your support makes possible professional development workshops for artists, exhibitions showcasing Gowanus artwork, the annual Gowanus Open Studios weekend, and ongoing advocacy for Gowanus and Gowanus artists.

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Arts Gowanus is an accredited 501(c)3 nonprofit organization. Contributions are 100% tax-deductible to the full extent of the law.