Contemporary Art
Protest Garden 2019
Historical Resistance and Radical Cultivation in Brooklyn
Beginning this summer Wyckoff Farmhouse Museum in partnership and curatorial vision with Museum of Impact, through the generosity of the Lincoln Center Cultural Innovation Fund will begin a series of programming titled Protest Garden: Historical Resistance and Radical Cultivation in Brooklyn. Over the course of six months local artists, Sirene Dantor, Yasmin Gur, Jennifer Harley, Veroneque Ignace, and Kelsey Pyro, will inhabit our historic house and garden, applying their unique practices to create sensory, immersive explorations into righteous rebellion, social justice, activism, and self care. As each artist’s event evolve over the next several months, our community is invited to participate in workshops, observe performances, and take their time to reflect in our space, sample from our self care garden and contemplate their own activism.
Artist-in-Residence Program
The Artist-in-Residence Program at the Wyckoff House Museum is a unique opportunity for contemporary artists to consider and respond to the history of early New York through the narrative of the Wyckoff House, one of New York’s oldest, now situated in East Flatbush, a primarily Caribbean community today.
Due to limited resources, the AIR program is currently by invitation only. We are not accepting applications for artist-in-residence positions.
Recent Programs and Installations
Iviva Olenick’s (Im)Migration Lines, Artist-in-Residence, October 2018 – June 2019
Brooklyn Hi-Art! Machine’s Fence Weaving, Stories Tell of Loss, Each New Land Allows New Dreams, May 2018 – June 2019
Nou La- We Reach! The Journeys and Dreams of Brooklyn’s Caribtropolis: a mixed media, multi-disciplinary, interactive exhibition in partnership with Brooklyn Arts Council’s Creative Coalitions, June 16 – September 23, 2018
Farida Sedoc’s Thread Lines: Cross-Cultural Textile Traditions in the Netherlands, the Caribbean, and New York, August 12 – September 24, 2016
Partners
Supporting partners have included Brooklyn Arts Council, Humanities New York, New York City Parks and Recreation, The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with Council Member Alan Maisel, Dutch Culture USA, the Consulate General of the Netherlands in New York, the Netherland-America Foundation, the Historic House Trust Contemporary Art Partnership. Protest Garden is made possible, in part by the Lincoln Center Cultural Innovation Fund, which is generously supported by the Rockefeller Foundation and administered by Lincoln Center.
Program partners have included Caribbeing, Textile Arts Center, Weaving Hand, Made in Brownsville, Suede Restaurant, Footprints Restaurant, ShorBlu Events.
If you would like to support this program or partner with us on an AIR or learn more, please email melissa@wyckoffmuseum.org
