FiveMyles Gallery

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588 St Johns Place, Brooklyn

FiveMyles gallery is located in the Crown Heights area of Brooklyn.[1] Founded in 1999, it is a non-profit gallery that exhibits visual and performance art. Its founder/director is Hanne Tierney.[2] FiveMyles was the location for the Crown Heights Film Festival in 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2021. [3]

Early years[]

The gallery was founded by Tierney in 1999 as a place to show her work. She named it for her son, Myles, a filmmaker who was killed while covering the war in Sierra Leone.[2] The first exhibit was a show of African photojournalism.[4]

Operating outside many of the familiar patterns of commercial galleries and artist-run spaces in New York City, the gallery's roster of artists often features lesser-known presenters from within the Crown Heights neighborhood and artists from the African continent and the Caribbean.[5]

In 2000 FiveMyles received an Obie Grant.[6]

In 2005 programming included, in addition to visual art exhibitions, a performative program attributable to Ms. Tierney's longstanding practice of multi-media theatrical puppetry.[7]

References[]

  1. ^ "FiveMyles". FiveMyles (in American English). Retrieved 2019-10-21.
  2. ^ a b Jones, Alex A. (2019-03-07). "HANNE TIERNEY with Alex A. Jones". The Brooklyn Rail (in American English). Retrieved 2019-10-18.
  3. ^ https://www.crownheightsfilmfestival.com/
  4. ^ https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/haven-arts-crown-heights-fivemyles-gallery-miles-article-1.1081582. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  5. ^ http://fivemyles.org/past
  6. ^ https://www.obieawards.com/events/2000s/
  7. ^ Cotter, Holland (2005-05-06). "Art in Review; 'Man, the Flower of All Flesh'". The New York Times (in American English). ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-10-19.

Coordinates: 40°40′21″N 73°57′35″W / 40.672624°N 73.959634°W / 40.672624; -73.959634

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