Tiny Houses: Ice Fishing Shanty
Art & Design Events...
- Amanda Mathis: Bringing Down the House
- Amanda Mathis uses common building materials to meticulously recreate large sections of rooms--a wall, a doorway, a corner--and then presents them in unexpected ways.
- April 6th through May 06th
- James Nicholson Gallery, 547 West 27th Street, 2nd Floor, NY, 212.967.5700
- Garden Paradise
- Artists explore the idea of garden as paradise: with its beauty and darkness
- April 19th through May 24th
- The Arsenal Gallery in Central Park, 5th Avenue at 64th St.
- Submit your work to HauteGREEN
- HauteGREEN is accepting submissions for furniture, lighting, and domestic accessories that are both aesthetically-pleasing and eco-friendly.
- HauteGREEN showcase will be held in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, May 20-22, 2006, as an offsite exhibit coinciding with the International Contemporary Furniture Fair.
- Submissions are due April 7th
- Battery Park City - Green through Government
- In 2000, Battery Park City Authority issued mandatory green guidelines for new residential towers.
- April 5th, 6:30pm
- Donnell Library Auditorium, 20 West 53rd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenue
- Grand Central Portraits: People in a New Town Square
- Photographer John Sarsgard views the Beaux Arts masterpiece and the people that pass through it as a kind of social crossroads.
- Reception, April 5th, 6-8pm, Exhibit runs through May 18.
- Municipal Arts Society's Urban Center 457 Madison Avenue, 212.935.2075
- Tiny Houses
- From the tiny houses of the early settlers to the diminutive but highly technological designs of today, author Lester Walker reveals the persistent fascination with self-sufficiency in American living.
- April 18th, 6:30-8pm
- Urban Center Books 457 Madison Avenue, 212.935.2075
- Olivo Barbieri: Site_Specific
- Global photo investigation into the nature of cities from 300 to 500 feet above ground with a large-format camera and a tilt-focus lens
- Through May 13th
- Yancey Richardson Gallery, 535 West 22nd St.
- Physical Work: Tim McDonald, Onion Flats, Philadelphia
- This 11-unit residential project explores modes of urban living by dealing with issues of density, intimacy, privacy, community, and sustainability.
- April 6th, 6:15-7:30pm
- Parsons The New School for Design, 2 East 13th Street, 2nd floor
- The Business of Green Products
- Learn the best strategies to design products that are profitable, innovative, sustainable and globally competitive.
- April 8th, 9am-1pm
- Design Business Center 45-50 30th St. Long Island City, 718.482.5960
- Designing and Building Your Own Green/ Environmentally Healthy Home or Apartment
- How can individual home owners, renters, and builders transform their living spaces into green homes? Each class will cover practical, technical, and theoretical information on a variety of topics ranging from energy efficiency to rooftop gardens to lighting and insulation. The course will also feature a tour of local green buildings.
- CUNY Continuing Education, 365 Fifth Avenue (34th St,)
- 6 Tuesdays, March 14th-April 18th 7-9pm $250. 212.817.8215, or email continuinged@gc.cuny.edu
- Mind the Gap
- Through sculpture, photography, video, performance, and urban-scale architectural interventions, artists amplify and animate the urban void
- March 18th through April 30th
- Smack Mellon Gallery, 92 Plymouth Street, Dumbo, Brooklyn (718)834-8761.
- Floral Design
by NY Botanical Garden in conjunction with Cooper Union
- Learn how to create basic centerpieces and arrangements
- Eight Wednesdays, starting April 19th, 6:30-8:30pm. $336
