JOIN US FOR A READING AT PARK SLOPE'S 440 GALLERY!
About 440 Gallery: Park Slope's only artist-run gallery, a jewel box space offering an alternative venue for nine Brooklyn artists. 440 Gallery seeks to present surprising, unexpected art to the community through exhibitions, talks, readings and events centered around direct contact with the artist. Open Thursdays and Fridays, 4-7 pm and Saturdays and Sundays, 12-6 pm, or by appointment.
Admission Free
WHO:
R.A. VILLANUEVA holds graduate and undergraduate degrees from Rutgers University. Twice awarded a Geraldine R. Dodge scholarship to the Fine Arts Work Center, he is actively involved with literary outreach programs throughout New York City. Recent poems have appeared in Washington Square and RATTLE; his songwriting has been featured at the Bowery Poetry Club and the Nuyorican Poets Cafe. He is an inaugural Kundiman fellow, serves as a writer in-residence at the Bronx Academy of Letters, and is pursuing a MFA at New York University.
STEVE ROBERTS has lived and written in Texas, New Mexico, Oregon (briefly), and New York. He has a bunch of degrees. He's currently writing music reviews for a number of blogs and publications and is "working" on his novel. He enjoys avoiding things in his spare time.
SUSAN J. CRONIN has an MFA in poetry from the Graduate Writing Program at The New School. Her poetry has appeared in Mid-American Review, PMS: poemmemoirstory, and Wicked Alice. She currently teaches at SUNY New Paltz.
AMY WILLIAMS, April's featured artist, will give a brief talk on her evolving photographic narrative of her eight-year-old niece, a series which offers the viewer a captivating crystallization of selves on the brink of being lost, the opportunity to reexamine, and re-imagine, the narrative of childhood. Williams attended art school at the University of Texas at Austin and has lived in Los Angeles and New York. Her photographs of Karen Kilimnick's paintings were featured in Frog Magazine, in which she has an upcoming feature on artist Charles Long. Her work will be displayed, along with that of other artists, in the 2007 holiday windows of Saks Fifth Avenue. For more information, go to http://www.440gallery.com/artist_awilliams.htm.
Official Website: http://www.440gallery.com/