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Join us for exhibits, intimate performances & community events. Gallery hours (when exhibits are on view): Tues, Thurs, Sat, & Sun 11 - 5.
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Cover Art/Other Art is an exhibit of three working artists at the Puffin Foundation’s Brooklyn location. The exhibit explores the intersection between “creative work” and “commercial work.” Tabitha Arnold, Molly Crabapple, and Matt Rota are well established artists working in illustrative journalism, but each of them has an expansive creative practice outside of their commissioned work. This exhibition gives viewers a sense of their range while highlighting some of the important independent media that The Puffin Foundation supports. It asks what threads bind creative and commercial work together, and considers what it means to be a “working artist” when creative livelihoods are increasingly under threat from unregulated AI. Co-presented by The Puffin Foundation and Dissent magazine, the exhibit will include drawings, prints, and zines by Matt Rota; paintings and journals by Molly Crabapple; and the punch needle tapestries of Tabitha Arnold. On view: Sunday, Oct 11th - Sunday, Dec 13th. Tues, Thur, Sat, Sun from 11-5. 227 5th Avenue in Park Slope, Brooklyn. Details about our opening event on Saturday 10/10 to come! taken in Puffin Brooklyn by @puffinbrooklyn
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Gray Zones: Unmaking the Myth of a Polarized Nation is heading to Teaneck, NJ!! If you missed the show in Brooklyn, or want to experience it again, then join us in Teaneck for the opening reception and photographers' panel. Opening Details: 📆 Saturday, October 3 ⏰ Gallery Viewing: 1:00PM-4:00PM 🎤 Panel: 2:00PM-3:00PM (With Brooklyn Kascel, Carlos Javier Ortiz, Danny Wilcox Frazier, Jordan Gale, Ron Haviv, & Zun Lee). 🎟️ RSVP for free at puffinculturalforum.org 📍20 Puffin Way, TEANECK, NJ - Gray Zones was inspired by the semiquincentennial of the United States, which feels less united with every passing day. Yet the reality is that all of us, whether we are urban or rural, queer or straight, born in the USA or elsewhere, share similar struggles, loves, hardships, and joys. The dominant narrative is invested in dividing us to concentrate wealth and power in the hands of the few while keeping the rest of us on the margins. This exhibition – an extraordinary collection of work by highly accomplished photographers – challenges viewers to reconsider traditional lines of division. It invites us to see ourselves in each other, regardless of race, class, or other differences. It reminds us that solidarity is not only possible but necessary if we are to continue as a nation. nina_berman @shepreebright dannywilcoxfrazier @jordangalephoto @ronhaviv_vii @ista_maza @brooklynn.kascel @eakirklandphoto @jonlowenstein @carlosjavierortiz zunleephoto - #bergencounty #njart #nycart #photographyexhibit #viifoundation taken in Puffin Cultural Forum by @puffinbrooklyn
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Join The Puffin Foundation and Molly Crabapple tonight as we support In These Times! Learn more at the link in our bio! https://secure.actblue.com/donate/mollycrabappleitt by @puffinbrooklyn
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Catch "Gray Zones: Unmaking the Myth of a Polarized Nation" before it closes! On view in Brooklyn for just one more day. On Saturday, 8/15, we'll be open from 11-5. But if you can't see it in NYC, you'll have another opportunity when the show moves to The Puffin Cultural Forum, in Teaneck, NJ, in the fall. Don't miss this powerful exhibit, which features the work of @nina_berman @shepreebright @ista_maza @dannywilcoxfrazier @jordangalephoto @ronhaviv_vii @brooklynn.kascel @eakirklandphoto @zunleephoto @jonlowenstein @carlosjavierortiz Puffin Brooklyn is at 227 5th Ave in Park Slope, Brooklyn. by @puffinbrooklyn
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Please join us on Thursday, August 20th for a free screening of Happy in the Bronx. Directed by Nancy Siesel @magnoliapetunia, this 27 minute documentary tells the story of a Bronx Zoo elephant named Happy who was held in captivity for 49 years. After the screening, Nancy will lead a panel discussion and/or an audience Q&A. This event is free and open to the public but please note that space is limited and attendees will be admitted on a first come, first served basis. Doors open at 6:!5, event begins at 6:30. Puffin Brooklyn 227 5th Avenue (Btwn President & Carroll) taken in Puffin Brooklyn by @puffinbrooklyn
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Come see Gray Zones: Unmaking the Myth of a Polarized Nation in its final days at Puffin Brooklyn! Viewing hours are on Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays, and Sundays from 11:00am - 5:00pm, through August 15th. Gray Zones is curated by Danny Wilcox Frazier and features work by Nina Berman, Sheila Pree Bright, Danny Wilcox Frazier, Jordan Gale, Ron Haviv, Tyrel Iron Eyes, Brooklynn Kascel, Erin Kirkland, Zun Lee, Jon Lowenstein, and Carlos Javier Ortiz. This exhibition challenges viewers to reconsider traditional lines of division. It is an invitation to see ourselves in each other, regardless of race, class, or other differences. It is a reminder that solidarity is not only possible but necessary if we are to continue as a nation. Catch it before it's gone! taken in Puffin Brooklyn by @puffinbrooklyn
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@mollycrabapple's work captures the tensions working families face in trying to get by while the absurdities of political and corporate power wreak havoc on our lives. It is art made not as decoration, but as journalism and movement work. We are thrilled to announce that Molly is joining In These Times as our first-ever Artist-at-Large, in partnership with The @puffinculturalforum. Her next major body of work begins here. Click the link in our profile to read, "Molly Crabapple's Next Major Project Is With In These Times" #PoliticalArt #VisualJournalism #MovementArt #ArtAndPolitics #IndependentMedia by @puffinbrooklyn
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The Puffin Foundation Brooklyn presents Gray Zones: Unmaking the Myth of A Polarized Nation. Curated by VII Foundation's Danny Wilcox Frazier and featuring Nina Berman, Sheila Pree Bright, Tyrel Iron Eyes, Danny Wilcox Frazier, Jordan Gale, Ron Haviv, Brooklynn Kascel, Erin Kirkland, Zun Lee, Jon Lowenstein, Carlos Javier Ortiz. We're at 227 5th Ave in Park Slope (11215), open Tues, Thurs, Sat, Sun from 11-5. Please come visit! taken in Puffin Brooklyn by @puffinbrooklyn
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Gray Zones: Unmaking the Myth of a Polarized Nation Opening Reception Sat 6/20/26, 12-5 pm Panel discussion with photographers and curator @dannywilcoxfrazier at 1 pm On view 6/20 - 8/15 Tues, Thurs, Sat, Sun from 11 am - 5 pm (except July 4) At Puffin Brooklyn: 227 5th Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11215 Featured here, photos by Danny Wilcox Frazier (@dannywilcoxfrazier) from Lost Nation Slide one: John Neumann works on an old pickup, Neumann ranch, Cactus Flat, South Dakota. John shot himself on June 9, 2019. He left behind a six-month-old son, Stetson, and fiancée, Tabatha Swartz. The lack of access to healthcare in rural South Dakota was central to the cowboy’s death. Stetson will take over the ranch when he turns 18, John’s wish for his son. 2008 Slide two: Home Defense, Cowles (population 30), Webster Co., Nebraska. Webster County has lost 61% of its population over the past century. (2017) Documentary photographer and filmmaker Danny Wilcox Frazier focuses his work on marginalized communities both in and outside of the United States. Frazier has photographed people struggling to survive the economic shift that has devastated rural communities throughout the U.S., including in his home state of Iowa. With his photographs from Iowa, Frazier documented those individuals continuing to live traditional lives in rural communities across the state, people challenged economically but often unwavering in their conviction to stay. The project was awarded the Center for Documentary Studies/Honickman First Book Prize and was published in 2007 as Driftless. After completing the book, Frazier directed and co-produced with MediaStorm an Emmy nominated documentary by the same name. Frazier’s photographs are in public and private collections, including: The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Philadelphia Museum of Art, George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film, Duke University’s special collections library, Honickman Foundation, and Smithsonian, National Museum of American History. Danny will be at the opening on 6/20 and hosting the panel discussion! We hope you'll be able to join us. A person's legs in jeans and boots emerge from the underside of an old truck that they are repairing. Their cowbow hat sits on the front wheel. taken in Puffin Brooklyn by @puffinbrooklyn
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Gray Zones: Unmaking the Myth of a Polarized Nation Opening Reception Sat 6/20/26, 12-5 pm Panel discussion with photographers & curator @dannywilcoxfrazier at 1 pm On view 6/20 - 8/15 Tues, Thurs, Sat, Sun from 11 am - 5 pm (except July 4) At Puffin Brooklyn: 227 5th Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11215 Featured here, photographs by Sheila Pree Bright (@shepreebright) Slide one: 2015, Students of Historically Black Colleges and Universities stand in solidarity with students of University of Missouri, demanding the resignation of President Tim Wolfe. Atlanta GA Slide two: 2005, Untitled 12 Sheila Pree Bright is an International Lens-based artist and the mind behind the celebrated book #1960Now: Photographs of Civil Rights Activists and Black Lives Matter Protests. Bright's expansive bodies of work weave deep insights into contemporary culture. Her iconic series include Plastic Bodies, Suburbia, #1960Now, Invisible Empire, Young Americans, and an evocative portrayal of the 90s Hip Hop scene. Her work is included in the book and exhibition Posing Beauty in African American Culture. The 2014 documentary Through the Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People and she appeared in the 2016 film Election Day: Lens Across America. Among the prestigious spaces that have exhibited her works are the Smithsonian National Museum of African American Museum in DC, High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Saatchi Gallery in London, The Art Gallery of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA and the International Center of Photography, New York. Her photographic series are housed in several prominent archival collections: The Hip Hop is part of the Woodson Research Center, Special Collections & Archives at Rice University's Fondren Library; Plastic Bodies and Suburbia are held by the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library at Emory University; and #1960Now is archived at the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Duke University. Sheila Pree Bright will join our live panel discussion via Zoom on Sat 6/20! In conversation with Danny Wilcox Frazier, Nina Berman, Brooklyn Kascel, Jon Lowenstein, & Carlos Javier Ortiz. Close up (chest up) of a dark skinned woman with short hair, her ams up at the edges of the photo. Behind her can be seen a crowd, possibly with flames or lights. taken in Puffin Brooklyn by @puffinbrooklyn
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Gray Zones: Unmaking the Myth of a Polarized Nation Opening Reception Sat 6/20/26, 12-5 pm Panel discussion with photographers and curator @dannywilcoxfrazier at 1 pm On view 6/20 - 8/15 Tues, Thurs, Sat, Sun from 11 am - 5 pm (except July 4th) At Puffin Brooklyn: 227 5th Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11215 Featured here, photographs by Carlos Javier Ortiz (@carlosjavierortiz) from Inherit America Slide one: Chicago, Illinois. Albert Vaughn was known as the neighborhood guardian—an older teenager who played basketball with younger children and tried to keep them out of trouble. Friends and family gather on the block where he was killed to remember “Lil Al.” Slide two: Dudley, North Carolina, September 2011. A family gathers to celebrate a one-year-old girl’s birthday at the offices of the Farm Labor Organizing Committee. Carlos Javier Ortiz (born in San Juan, Puerto Rico) is a director, cinematographer, documentary photographer, and visual artist whose work explores urban life, social justice, and the enduring impact of structural inequality. Through photography and film, Ortiz combines personal narratives with broader social and political histories, creating work that fosters empathy and critical engagement with contemporary issues. Influenced by traditions of social realism and humanist storytelling, Ortiz examines themes of race, migration, violence, labor, and community resilience. He is the recipient of a National Geographic Explorer Fellowship (2021) and a Guggenheim Fellowship (2016). Ortiz’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and is held in the permanent collections of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, the Worcester Art Museum, the George Eastman Museum, and the Library of Congress. His photography contributed to Ta-Nehisi Coates’s landmark Atlantic essay, The Case for Reparations. Based in Chicago, Ortiz teaches documentary filmmaking at Columbia College Chicago and serves on the board of the Museum of Contemporary Photography. We hope to see you at our opening on 6/20 where guests can meet several of the extraordinary photographers in this exhibition, along with the curator Danny Wilcox Frazier. Several people (all with dark skin) are shown at night, their faces illuminated by candles. The central figure is a boy, perhaps an adolescent, who is crying. A younger boy is show to his right, and the profile of a woman to the left. All figures appear somber and sad. taken in Puffin Brooklyn by @puffinbrooklyn
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Gray Zones: Unmaking the Myth of a Polarized Nation Opening Reception Sat 6/20/26, 12-5 pm Panel discussion with photographers and curator @dannywilcoxfrazierat at 1 pm On view 6/20 - 8/15 Tues, Thurs, Sat, Sun from 11 am - 5 pm (except July 4th) At Puffin Brooklyn: 227 5th Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11215 Featured here, photographs by Brooklynn Kascel (@brooklynn.kascel) Slide one: Nel in their kitchen after I gave them a haircut. Minneapolis, MN. 2024 Slide two: Three crosses in the middle of nowhere. Iowa. 2021 Brooklynn T. Kascel is a queer photographer from Iowa who makes non-fiction photographic essays. Working within the sociological framework of human ecology, Brooklynn interacts with themes of gender, queerness, Christianity, the family unit and current events to study social Systems. Kascel was selected for the Leica Women Foto Project x VII Mentor Program, attended VII Academy Level 3 Seminar Arles: Program for Narrative & Documentary Practice at The Alexandra Boulat Campus in Arles, France and is a grant recipient from the Magnum Foundation. Recent exhibitions include USA 3.0., curated by Danny Wilcox Frazier and Ron Haviv, Festival OFF Arles, Arles, France - Photoville, Brooklyn, NY and If This Isn’t Love, curated by Jeannie Dale and Werner Paul, Leica Gallery D.C. - Leica Gallery Boston, MA. Their pictures have been published by ACLU, Guardian, MPR News, New York Times, TIME and featured by VII Foundation and Magnum Foundation, among others. Their work has been selected for physical and online exhibitions in France, Georgia, Italy, Kosovo and the U.S. Brooklynn lives in Brooklyn, NY. Brooklynn is expected to be part of the panel discussion on 620! Don't miss this opportunity to meet them and several of the other extraordinary photographers in this exhibition. A young person with light skin and short curly hair is shown seated on a stool in what appears to be a kitchen, wearing boy shorts and a bralette. Their gender is ambiguous. They gaze directly at the camera, head tilted slightly, with an unsmiling but serene expression. taken in Puffin Brooklyn by @puffinbrooklyn
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