Atelier Artist, a brand new reasonably priced and inclusive artist {and professional} inventive co-working studio in Central Brooklyn, debuts “Lakay” on Sunday, Sept. 14, showcasing a dozen artists from its residency program.
“We established Brooklyn’s first BIPOC-owned and-operated co-working artist studio with a concentrate on empowering our group because the at the beginning precedence, and the artists featured in our inaugural exhibit mirror that,” Co-founder Jonathan Pierre Lafleur instructed Caribbean Life on Wednesday, Sept. 10.
He stated “Lakay,” which is the Haitian Kreyòl phrase for “residence,” “emulates the Caribbean Diaspora’s sense of residence – by boosting tradition pleasure, sense of belonging, and a collective spirit of resilience.
“Identical to ‘Lakay’ means much more than residence to immigrants, we’re way more than one other studio house — Lakay’s values outline Atelier Artist’s mission,” Pierre added.
As a house for all creatives, he stated the residency gives 24/7 studio entry, month-to-month exhibitions, artist talks, and community-driven programming together with therapeutic circles, open mics, and mixers.
“By amplifying BIPOC, immigrant, queer, and rising voices, Atelier Artist goals to function a cultural anchor and incubator for Brooklyn’s creative future,” Pierre stated.
“This house was born from our personal struggles as artists looking for reasonably priced locations to create,” stated Franck Henry Godefroy, co-founder and managing associate of Atelier Artist. “We needed to construct a house the place our group can thrive, join, and have fun its cultural identification with out being priced out of the neighborhoods we helped form.”
“Atelier Artist isn’t nearly making house — it’s about reimagining what community-centered creativity seems like,” added Mc Alexander Ciceron, inventive director and associate. “By means of ‘Lakay’, we’re amplifying tales that too typically go unheard and making a platform the place artists from each background can actually belong.”
The disclosing takes place at Brooklyn Commons, Clock Tower Loft, 495 Flatbush Ave., Brooklyn, from 5:00 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.
