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With Sunk Shore Bay Ridge we aim to connect to different facets of the community and give space for considering the past, noticing changes over time, and envisioning the future of Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, including the shoreline, but also upland flooding, sinkholes, and more.

In October 2024, we began working in collaboration with Stand4 Gallery to engage community members across Bay Ridge, including the Bay Ridge branch of the Brooklyn Library, The Bay Ridge Center for Older Adults, and a core group of collaborators: Adrian Jones, Charlie Maliha, Mariya Isabella, Maureen Godwin, Nick Isabella, and Sally McMahon. Other important interlocutors include Bay Ridge historian Henry Stewart and long-time resident Mohamed Saleh.

Sunk Shore Bay Ridge includes:
Bay Ridge: Shore Strata, a new artwork by Hall and Mac Low that plays with bioplastic and transparencies

From Brownstones to Flood Zones, a short documentary by Bay Ridge core collaborators Adrian Jones, Charlie Maliha, Mariya Isabella, Maureen Godwin, Nicholas Isabella, and Sally McMahon and accompanying map by the Bay Ridge core collaborators

A neighborhood map by Charlie Maliha and Mariya Isabella, with help from Nicholas Isabella

A collage workshop at the Bay Ridge Center for Older Adults

A Round Table community discussion and a Sunk Shore workshop; art-making and conversation at the Bay Ridge Library

Participatory performances on the 69th St. Pier

Sunk Shore Bay Ridge was part of Essential Shore/Permeable Future, the second Bay Ridge Public Art & Ecology Biennial, curated by Jennifer McGregor and taking place at the Stand4 Gallery and Community Art Space and in public spaces around Bay Ridge April 19-June 21, 2025.
This work was made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature and was sponsored, in part, by the Greater New York Arts Development Fund of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, administered by Brooklyn Arts Council.

Final Public Participatory Performance:
June 21, 2025: 12 noon
69th St. Pier

Exhibition opening:
April 19, 2025 3-6 PM
Stand4 Gallery and Community Arts Space

Round Table conversation:April 22, 2025 5:30-7 PM
Bay Ridge branch of the Brooklyn Library

An open conversation about the climate past, present and future of Bay Ridge with Sunk Shore Bay Ridge core collaborators Adrian Jones, Charlie Maliha, Mariya Isabella, Maureen Godwin, Nicholas Isabella, and Sally McMahon, joined by Mohamed Saleh. Are you part of the Bay Ridge community? Come join the discussion! We want to hear from you.

Sunk Shore Introductory Workshop:April 26, 2025 3-5 PM
Stand4 Gallery

An introduction to the Sunk Shore method of inventing possible futures using sensory and scientific data, movement art, speculative fiction, and humor.

Drop-in art-making and conversation:May 3, 2025 12-2 PM
Bay Ridge Library

We’ll be in the lobby of the library. Come by to tell your shoreline stories and create some climate-related art!

Public Participatory Performance:May 4, 2025 12 noon
69th St. Pier

Sunk Shore Bay Ridge is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature through the kind fiscal sponsorship of Segue, Inc.

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