Brooklyn Arts Council Seeks WTC Images

Thanks to both the Brooklyn Record and Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn for drawing our (tardy) attention to the Brooklyn Arts Council's call for memorial images of the World Trade Center. We'll hope to spread the word further to the one or two people that haven't already heard about this wonderful exhibition at those two Brooklyn blogs. The exhibition will run from From September 7- September 30th and will be called "Here Was New York: Twin Towers in Memorial Images." It will be held at a number of Brooklyn galleries including 5+5 Gallery, Safe-t-Gallery, and Gloria Kennedy Gallery, all located at 111 Front Street Galleries in DUMBO, to mark the fifth anniversary of September 11th. From the Arts Council's site:

"Here Was New York" seeks photos that document the Twin Towers as they appear throughout the New York Metropolitan region in vernacular expressions such as wall murals, shrines, custom painting on trucks, logos, graffiti, tattoos, merchandise display, window stickers, and so on. Curated by BAC folklorist Kay Turner, the impetus for the exhibit stems from a wish to acknowledge local forms of remembrance that keep the Twin Towers visible to us as we go about our daily post- 9/11 lives. "Never forget" means never forget that day, but in another sense it means never forget what was before that day.

This exhibit also serves as an homage and a counterpoint to "Here Is New York," a photo exhibit which opened immediately after the attacks in 2001. Held in a makeshift gallery in Soho, that remarkable exhibit made it possible for anyone to hang their photos recording the events of September 11th. Hundreds did so and thousands came to see the pictures. "Here Was New York" acts upon the same democratic principles as its predecessor and invites anyone in the New York area to submit a photo documenting the Twin Towers as they remain visible in symbolic form throughout the city.

Photos will be accepted from Monday, July 24, 2006 until Thursday, August 31, 2006.

Submission guidelines are at the Arts Council's website, here.