FiveMyles gallery is located in the Crown Heights area of Brooklyn. [1] Founded in 1999, it is a non-profit gallery that exhibits visual and performance art. Its founder/director is Hanne Tierney. [2] FiveMyles was the location for the Crown Heights Film Festival in 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2021. [3]
The gallery was founded by Tierney in 1999 as a place to show her work. She had named it after her son, Myles, a filmmaker who was killed while covering the war in Sierra Leone. [2] The first exhibit was a show of African photojournalism. [4]
Operating outside many of the familiar patterns of commercial galleries and artist-run spaces in New York City, the gallery's roster of artists often features lesser-known presenters from within the Crown Heights neighborhood and artists from the African continent and the Caribbean. [5]
In 2000, FiveMyles received an Obie Grant for [6] "presenting magnificent contemporary performance work."
In 2005, programming included, in addition to visual art exhibitions, a performative program attributable to Ms. Tierney's longstanding practice of multi-media theatrical puppetry. [7]
FiveMyles gallery is located in the Crown Heights area of Brooklyn. [1] Founded in 1999, it is a non-profit gallery that exhibits visual and performance art. Its founder/director is Hanne Tierney. [2] FiveMyles was the location for the Crown Heights Film Festival in 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2021. [3]
The gallery was founded by Tierney in 1999 as a place to show her work. She had named it after her son, Myles, a filmmaker who was killed while covering the war in Sierra Leone. [2] The first exhibit was a show of African photojournalism. [4]
Operating outside many of the familiar patterns of commercial galleries and artist-run spaces in New York City, the gallery's roster of artists often features lesser-known presenters from within the Crown Heights neighborhood and artists from the African continent and the Caribbean. [5]
In 2000, FiveMyles received an Obie Grant for [6] "presenting magnificent contemporary performance work."
In 2005, programming included, in addition to visual art exhibitions, a performative program attributable to Ms. Tierney's longstanding practice of multi-media theatrical puppetry. [7]