Friday, October 13th - 15th
DUMBO, Brooklyn
Various Times

The d.u.m.b.o arts center (dac) gets a kick out of announcing its 10th annual art under the bridge festival from October 13-15, 2006. The free three-day festival spans 30 blocks of DUMBO, Brooklyn, when an anticipated 200,000 visitors descend on the locality to celebrate the creative ferment of a unique terrain. No neighborhood in the United States, let alone New York City, could host a public space art event of such scale and intervention without the full and enthusiastic support of the local community: artists, residents, and local business, not to mention the unprecedented model of art patronage by local developer, Two Trees Management, which puts its numerous properties, inside and out, at the disposal of artists. Then again, no neighborhood is quite like DUMBO: created by an accident of urban planning, the area is circumscribed by the Brooklyn Queens Expressway, the Manhattan and Brooklyn Bridges and the East River waterfront, where colossal warehouses, vestiges of 19th century industrial manufacturing, are set against a breathtaking backdrop of iconic engineering and skyline.

Art on STREETS, LOBBIES, ELEVATORS, LOADING DOCKS, FACADES, UNDER THE MANHATTAN BRIDGE, STOREFRONTS, SIDEWALKS, PARKS, TREES, GRASS, BILLBOARDS, ROOFTOPS, SKY, CORRIDORS, WALLS, WATER, RIVERBANK, WINDOWS, IN FACT, EVERYWHERE AND ANYWHERE IN DUMBO: a multitude of site-responsive projects by a rising generation of visual artists.

See schedule for details.