We have some great artists showing work at the cafes throughout the month of June:

In Greenpoint, “See Saw”, by Sarah Lutkenhaus and Christine Garvey, is a set of collaborative drawings, where one artist begins a drawing and gives it to another to finish. The activity is an exercise in call and response; of creating a beginning and allowing another to find the end. The result is a new drawing that captures the tension between what we see and what was seen.
 
Sarah Lutkenhaus is a designer and illustrator currently residing in Brooklyn (via Kansas). She is interested in telling stories and visualizing ideas, no matter what the form may be: posters, books, installation, t-shirts.
 
Christine Garvey is an artist and printmaker also residing in Brooklyn. She teaches DIY Printmaking at Brooklyn’s The 3rd Ward and enjoys sharpened pencils, doughnuts, and collaborations of all kind.

In Chelsea, “Alteration” is a colorful series of portraits of people and their individual styles by Akane Ogura. Akane Ogura is originally from Japan where she studied Dressmaking and Fashion Design in Tokyo. After graduation, she worked as a Theatrical Costume Designer then moved to California. She found herself creating her world by using not only fabric and thread on a figure, but also with line, shape, value and color on a surface more freely. She received her BFA in Illustration at Academy of Art University in San Francisco in 2010. She currently lives in New York, and works as a Fine Artist and Illustrator.

In Park Slope, photographs of Diana Schoenbrun‘s “Beasties” are on display. Diana Schoenbrun is an illustrator, author, and crafter living in Park Slope, Brooklyn. She wrote Beasties: How to Make 22 Mischievous Monsters That Go Bump in the Night and Puppet Play: 20 Puppet Projects Made with Recycled Mittens, Towels, Socks, and More. She has worked in publishing, taught creative writing and puppetry workshops for children, and works as a freelance illustrator. She currently works as a puppet builder at Puppet Heap Studio. She received her BFA in illustration from the RISD.