MARCH 5 - MARCH 11, 2015 • TIMES 21 Artists Ready For Bushwick ‘Beat Nite’ Bushwick art spaces will be keeping their doors open late tomorrow night, Friday, Mar. 6, for the 12th edition of Beat Nite, as part of Armory Arts Week. Beat Nite, produced by Jason Andrew and organized by non-pro t arts organization Norte Maar, is a late night gallery hop within the Bushwick community. Visitors and collectors can tour popular neighborhood art galleries throughout Bushwick, during late-night viewing sessions from 6 to 10 p.m. This year’s edition of Beat Nite is curated by Ben Sutton, a Brooklynbase art writer and critic. “Part of what I love so much about Beat Nite is that it always encourages me to go discover galleries I know about but have never actually visited,” Sutton told the Bushwick Daily. The event beings at host space Norte Maar located at 83 Wyckoff Ave. Visitors will then travel around Bushwick hitting galleries such as the Microscope Transmitter TSA located at 1329 Willoughby Ave., the 99¢ Plus gallery at 238 Wilson Ave. and Centotto at 250 Moore St. When the viewings are done, the party does not stop. There will be an afterparty at The Vazquez, located at 93 Forrest St. from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. Tickets for the after-party are $10 at the door and include a drink ticket. Beat Nite debuted in 2009 when it featured all of Bushwick’s alternative art spaces and galleries— only seven at the time. Now with over 50 galleries and spaces in Ridgewood and Bushwick, Beat Nite selects a special guest curator to select 10 spaces throughout the communities. For more information about this year’s Beat Nite visit, www.nortemaar.org Reviving classic photography in Bushwick’s ‘Darkroom’ BY ANTHONY GIUDICE [email protected] @A_GiudiceReport The art of analog photography has been on the decline ever since digital media became king. The Bushwick Community Darkroom is breathing life into a dying art form. The Bushwick Community Darkroom is a place where photographers can come together and share their love of developing lm. Photographers are charged an hourly rate, or they can sign up to become a member and use the facility—a space at Shops at the Loom, located at 108 Thames St.— for a yearly fee and a few hours of donated time. The Darkroom usually has around 20 members and services an average of 50 customers per month. After graduating from the School of Visual Arts, “I lost access to their darkrooms and couldn’t afford to go to any of the darkrooms in Manhattan, so I built my own,” Lucia Rollow, creator of the Bushwick Community Darkroom, said. Rollow started her darkroom in 2011 with nothing more than an empty b a s e m e n t , d o n a t e d equipment and a love for analog photography. As the darkroom grew in popularity, Rollow had to expand as well. In 2012, she moved out of her basement and into the location on Thames Street. N o w , the Darkroom is in the process of moving again. “Our new home is at 110 Troutman St. and hopefully will be open at the beginning of April,” Rollow said. The new space will offer customers and members a 10 station black and white darkroom, a lm developing station, drop off drum scanning and digital printing services, printing and developing services, a full service photography studio with a 400 sq. foot cyclorama, among other features and services. “The biggest challenges have been scaling up, staying organized and learning customer service/ business management skills for sure,” Rollow stated. Although the process has been challenging, “it’s been amazing to watch this place grow and feel the love that so many people have for it,” she added. > V I C T O R I A ’ S S E C R E T S > H A P P E N I N G S BY ANTHONY GIUDICE [email protected] @A_GiudiceReport Come join the Bushwick community in celebrating alternative art galleries and spaces on Friday, Mar. 6, from 6 to 10 p.m. (photo: Ellen Letcher) A photographer uses the Bushwick Community Darkroom. (photo courtesy of Bushwick Community Darkroom) WHAT’S THE
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