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Dumbo Arts Center
Category: Art Galleries [Edit]
Neighborhood: DUMBO30 Washington Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201
(718) 694-0831
- Nearest Transit:
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York St (F)
High St (A, C)
3 reviews for Dumbo Arts Center
Wonderful art space that is responsible for giving us that wonderful and unique festival that is DUMBO Art Under the Bridge Festival. This by itself grants DAC 5 stars.
I love this spacious, loft-like space, with its wooden floors and wooden pillars. Most of the installations and exhibitions they host tend to be wonderful, challenging, and even playful. The last one I saw was the "Experience of Green" by Wade Kavanaugh and Stephen B. Nguyen. It is a beautifully crafted paper installation representing enormous old tree trunks, in a brilliant red.
I love the DUMBO Arts Center. I've been there many times, and yet they keep allowing me in the door. The space is large and surprisingly versatile; gallery openings, exhibits, private events...everything they throw tends to be stellar. The fact that they organize DUMBO Art Under the Bridge is just the icing on a beautiful, interesting cake.
My most recent visit was during the Collect DUMBO Halloween Art Crawl, and their installation was easily my favorite stop on the tour. It is called the Experience of Green, and it's fantastic.
The artists have transformed the space into a forest of crimson, built with layers and twists of paper. It's difficult to describe, but wonderful to see. It's like a redwood forest, complete with trees you can actually walk into and hide from trick-or-treating children who point and laugh at your asinine costume, which regrettably was just your every-day clothing.
FYI: the Experience of Green runs through November 29th: http://dumboartscenter...
But don't worry if you can't make it, I'm sure the DAC will have something equally interesting to follow.
Volunteered at the 12th Annual DUMBO Arts Festival yesterday 10am-2pm. Amanda, Heather, and the crew were nice enough to welcome us and have us distribute program books to the galleries, commercial spaces in the rain. I kid. It was a blast. My friend had the idea of distributing them at the F (Jay St) and A, C (High St) Subway Stations. What a novel idea! Needless to say that was a huge hit. We stuck around a bit after to enjoy the rest of the Festival and have lunch in the area. We got free Ciao Bella, free hand cut fries, free DAC Tee, and free Ito En (a sponsor). There was also a Farmer's Market going on (much cheaper than USQ) where we tried Almond Butter ($10) which is to die for.
