The Brooklyn Waterfront Research Center and the Brooklyn Historical Society Present a half-day conference discussing the evolution of the way art has been made, shown, and sold along the Brooklyn waterfront.

The conference will open with a Keynote by New York Department of Cultural Affairs Commissioner Tom Finkelpearl. It will continue by offering a historical overview of art in the borough over the centuries, taking us to the recent past. It will then use panels to open a discussion among artists, gallery owners, art distributors, and those who, in one way or another, make spaces available for the “process of art.”

The question implicit in all these discussions will be, “how much space and what kind of space is available for the process of art along the Brooklyn waterfront and who is responsible, if anyone, for insuring that such space continues to be available?” Not only the speakers, but all of us have a stake in the answers to that question.

Full Speakers List.