The Red Hook installment of Rusty Zimmerman’s “Free Portrait Project” opens Friday, October 9 from 6:00 to 9:00pm at Strong Rope Brewery with a DJ and food trucks. This is an opportunity for the viewing audience to meet the participants, and for the participants to meet each other. Each portrait will be accompanied by a QR code leading to their oral history excerpt published on SoundCloud.
Strong Rope Brewery will hold all 50 of the portraits and recorded oral history excerpts for the month of October in partnership with Red Hook Open Studios.
After the exhibit, images and audio will then be shared with PortSide’s virtual museum www.redhookwaterstories.org and Story House, and offered to the center for Brooklyn History for consideration into their permanent collection of oral histories of Brooklyn.
PortSide supported this project in several ways (we suggested people for the project, we made our ship available as a painting studio, we allowed Rusty to store painting supplies here so he didn’t have to bike them across Brooklyn for his painting sessions)
More info at this great project at https://freeportraitproject.org/
Rusty is no longer accepting applications for the Red Hook project. The image is one of his outreach graphics.
The 50 Red Hook people are:
Alexandra Rosen
Jackson Reed Cook
Caitlin Rose Devlin
Chris Milazzo
Charlie Nelson
David Sharps
Carmen Rodriguez
Wes Michalski
Carolina Salguero
Dashana Gooding
Wally Bazemore
Sally Mize
Zach Adams
Jackie Gilliard
Andrea McKnight
Juana Narvaez
Reverend Henry Watkins
Ben Schneider
Sophia Curran
Par Parekh
Valerie Hill
Michelle Ruffin
Jacqui Painter
Tiffiney Davis
Dyan McCuen
Clarence Niles
Paul Kennedy
Peter Rothenberg
Louise D. Bauso
Victoria Alexander
Nico Kean
Harriet Zucker
Betty Cooper
Mati Kalwill
Elijah Miller
Sarai Brazofuerte Heria
Imre Kovacs
Henrietta Perkins
Oda Balzano-Johansen
Barry O'Meara
Scott Pfaffman
Melissa Rivera
Jacqueline Renaud-Rivera
Shaniya Harper
Michael Buscemi
Xiao Sun
Ana Hernandez
Stanley Morrison
Megan Suttles
Shasha Pang Léonard
