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The house may not be original, but this is a place of significant history. Amy Khoshbin is an Iranian-American Brooklyn-based artist, activist, and educator. Her practice, as an artist and pedagogue, builds bridges between disparate communities to counteract fear with a collective sense of empowered radical acceptance. She pushes the formal and conceptual boundaries of artmaking to foster progressive social change through performance, social practice, video, rap music, installation, tattooing, teaching and writing. She has received residencies at spaces such as The Watermill Center, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Project for Empty Space, Anderson Ranch, and Banff Centre for the Arts.
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She carefully chooses each photograph to reflect confidence and power; then selects an African-themed design that best contextualizes each figure’s attitude, creating an exchange of multiple layers and emotions. Co-Curated by Monica O. Montgomery, Founding Director, Museum of Impact and Katherine Gressel, Curator, Old Stone House & Washington Park. Presence is an exhibition curated by Katherine Gressel which explores the evolution of artist Alicia Grullón’s socially-engaged work over 15+ years.
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Sign not of the times: Old meets new at Slope's Stone House • Brooklyn Paper - Brooklyn Paper
Sign not of the times: Old meets new at Slope's Stone House • Brooklyn Paper.
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Her interventions have included public spaces, cultural and academic institutions, the dominant history of the United States, government policy, environmentalism, feminism, the United Nations, and the mass media. We hope you will join us for our free public events hosted by participating artists. The exhibition includes video, sets and objects from the TV episode; and related artworks, including outdoor banners.
Old Stone House to get $10.9 million upgrade - Brooklyn Daily Eagle
Old Stone House to get $10.9 million upgrade.
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Race and Revolution: Reimagining Monuments (Spring
On August 27, 1776, the house was an important location in the Battle of Brooklyn during the American Revolutionary War – the first major engagement of the Continental Army after the Declaration of Independence, and the largest battle of the entire war. The Old Stone House is a 1933 reconstruction—with some original materials—of the Vechte-Cortelyou House, which was destroyed in 1897. The house, an important part of the 1776 Battle of Brooklyn, is located in JJ Byrne park in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York. At one point, it was the clubhouse of the Brooklyn Superbas which later became the Brooklyn Dodgers. The grounds were also the culminating site of The Battle of Brooklyn, the largest battle of the Revolutionary War. It was the first military engagement following the adoption of the Declaration of Independence in July 1776, and its outcome was the seven-year occupation of Brooklyn and Manhattan by the British.
Regeneration in Place is the Old Stone House & Washington Park (OSH)’s newest contemporary art programming, featuring the artist collectives Environmental Performance Agency (EPA) and Gowanus Swim Society (GSS). Originally scheduled for Spring 2020, the format for the exhibition has shifted in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and the consequent mandated social distancing. We are pleased to announce the launch of the participatory online project by the EPA, as well as a series of digital programs with GSS. Our exhibition component Nature Contained with Gowanus Swim Society will be postponed to 2021. The Old Stone House is a reconstructed 1699 Dutch farmhouse modeled after the house that was central in the Battle of Brooklyn during the American Revolution.
Where George Washington Lost a Battle in Brooklyn, a Museum Dedicated to Its History Sits
Park Space, Play Space brought together 19 artists and arts groups to address the ideal design, planning and use of public parks. Curated by Katherine Gressel, this exhibit brought together emerging artists Tahir Carl Karmali and Justin Sterling to respond to the Old Stone House’s unique space. Both artists use reclaimed and abstracted vernacular materials––including used cell phone batteries and broken windows––to symbolize local and global policies that contribute to inequality and displacement.
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But beyond that, the house hosts contemporary works by local artists and maintains an active garden. The organization hosts a consistent calendar of events, ranging from concerts and tours to rotating exhibitions and lectures. Come for the history but watch the calendar for exciting community events. For their future exhibition at OSH, Nature Contained, Gowanus Swim Society member artists K.
90 minutesGrades 3-8, IndoorsAn intimate slice of daily life in Brooklyn in the 1700’s. Classes divide into small groups, with each group trying their hand at one traditional household craft. Activities include wool production and weaving, sewing and candle making. In 1997, the house was fully restored and opened as a museum thanks to the passionate efforts of two Brooklyn historians, Herb Yellin and John J. Gallagher. Mr. Gallagher is the author of the book “The Battle of Brooklyn 1776.” He argued that the conflict’s alternate name, the Battle of Long Island, was misleading because the fighting was concentrated in Brooklyn, not spread across Long Island.
Old Stone House Garden Video Series
We hope this perspective can inform our observance of Earth Day on April 22 as we continue to shelter in place. Now located in a 1699 Dutch farmhouse, the Old Stone House tells the story of the battle, the first major engagement of the Continental Army after the Declaration of Independence, and the largest battle of the entire war. The resulting work teeters between representation and abstraction – teasing recognizable forms out of abstract ones or abstracting recognizable elements through stripping down or layering/obscuring. Specific works were selected for the exhibition that can trace the evolution of most artists’ work processes. This includes collecting and performing the stories of individuals whose voices might otherwise be absent.
The square block around the battle shrine remained intact and became Washington Park in 1883. Its lawns were the summer home of the Brooklyn Baseball Club—later known as the Brooklyn Dodgers—which used the house as its first headquarters. In 1889 and 1890, the World Series was played at Washington Park, establishing a tradition in Brooklyn baseball. After the war’s end, the Cortelyou family owned the house from 1790 to 1850. In the following years, the land surrounding the old Vechte-Cortelyou farmhouse was filled to provide level building lots for fashionable row houses. Today, the Old Stone House and Washington Park are part of the Historic House Trust of New York City, and were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.
If you’d like to visit, or become part of the Old Stone House and its partners, feel free to visit their supporting page. J. Byrne, Brooklyn’s borough president, spearheaded the excavation and reconstruction of the house near its foundation; the adjacent playground is named for him. A tumult of children play soccer and skateboard around a Dutch Colonial farmhouse in Park Slope, oblivious to the site’s brutal, blood-drenched past.
The house was reconstructed in 1934 using many of the original stones, though it was moved slightly from its original location. The Old Stone House was also the original clubhouse of the team that became the Brooklyn Dodgers when they played at Washington Park, now Washington Park/JJ Byrne Playground. The ball park was built on swampy ground located near the shore of a mill pond and the Gowanus Creek. By 1910, the Old Stone House had fallen into disrepair and was gradually buried under 15-ft of landfill. As part of Robert Moses’ ambitious playground construction program, the site of the “Old Gowanus House” was redesigned as the JJ Byrne Playground, wich opened in 1935.
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