FiveMyles Gallery
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FiveMyles gallery is located in the Crown Heights area of Brooklyn.{{Cite web|url=http://fivemyles.org/|title=FiveMyles|website=FiveMyles|language=en-US|access-date=2019-10-21}} Founded in 1999, it is a non-profit gallery that exhibits visual and performance art. Its founder/director is Hanne Tierney.{{Cite web|url=https://brooklynrail.org/2019/03/art/HANNE-TIERNEY-with-Alex-A-Jones|title=HANNE TIERNEY with Alex A. Jones|last=Jones|first=Alex A.|date=2019-03-07|website=The Brooklyn Rail|language=en-US|access-date=2019-10-18}} FiveMyles was the location for the Crown Heights Film Festival in 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2021.{{cite web |url=https://www.crownheightsfilmfestival.com/ |title=Home |website=crownheightsfilmfestival.com}}
Early years
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. The first exhibit was a show of African photojournalism.{{cite web |url=https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/haven-arts-crown-heights-fivemyles-gallery-miles-article-1.1081582|website=New York Daily News|title=As a haven for the arts in Crown Heights, FiveMyles Gallery is miles ahead }}
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.{{cite web | url=http://fivemyles.org/past | title=Past }}
In 2000, FiveMyles received an Obie Grant for{{Cite web |title=2000s |url=https://www.obieawards.com/events/2000s/ |access-date=2022-03-26 |website=Obie Awards |language=en-US}} "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.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/06/arts/art-in-review-man-the-flower-of-all-flesh.html|title=Art in Review; 'Man, the Flower of All Flesh'|last=Cotter|first=Holland|date=2005-05-06|work=The New York Times|access-date=2019-10-19|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}
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Category:Art museums and galleries in Brooklyn