This document provides information about the No Longer Empty organization and its work producing site-specific art exhibitions in non-traditional locations. No Longer Empty's mission is to engage new audiences for contemporary art through curated exhibitions that provide opportunities for artists and enriching programs for the community. One of No Longer Empty's past projects involved opening up the abandoned Andrew Freedman Home in the Bronx for the exhibition "This Side of Paradise" which included art installations and public programs. The document discusses the benefits of creative interim use of vacant spaces and recommends that the mayor support more initiatives of this type as they are cost effective and inclusive ways to promote community building.

1. EMPTY AS
OPPORTUNITY.
@nolongerempty
Talking Transitions, November 2013

2. A Tale of
Two Cities

3. 2013 $2/student
1/28/13
2003 $65/student
Source: WNYC NPR “Mayor Elect” news.

5. Photo credit : Flick’R/Cameraton Cleric

6. Photo credit : Flick’R/Cameraton Cleric

7. MISSION
Engage new audiences for contemporary art
through curated, site-specific exhibitions in
non-traditional locations that provide creative
and challenging opportunities for artists,
provide enriching cultural and educational
programming, and leave a legacy in the
community.

8. “This Side of Paradise” (2012) opens the gates of the Andrew Freedman Home to the public.

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Credit: Whitney Brown Photography

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Credit: Whitney Brown Photography

11. KEY ELEMENTS
SITE-SPECIFICITY
REVITALIZATION
COLLABORATORY
LEGACY
REPLICABILITY

12. The Andrew Freedman Home on the Grand Concourse in the Bronx, site of “This
Side of Paradise” (2012).

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Research in preparation for The Andrew Freedman Home on the Grand
Concourse in the Bronx.

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BEFORE: One of the abandoned bedrooms on the upper floors of the
Andrew Freedman Home.

15. BEFORE: One of the abandoned bedrooms on the upper floors of the
Andrew Freedman Home.

16. AFTER: Daze, Further (2012) in “This Side of Paradise.”

17. AFTER: How and Nosm, Reflections (2012) in “This Side of Paradise.”

18. AFTER: Sylvia Plachy, (2012) in “This Side of Paradise.”

19. Installation shot of ballroom, “This Side of Paradise” (2012).

20. The Andrew Freedman Home on the Grand Concourse in the Bronx, site of “This
Side of Paradise” (2012).

21. Tour with the seniors of Riverdale HebrewHomeThe Andrew Freedman Home on
the Grand Concourse in the Bronx, site of “This Side of Paradise” (2012).

22. Y.DOT Tour of Scherzeda Garcia, 2012.

23. Kids learn how to make ink drawings at a No Longer Bored program in Queens
Y.Dot Youth Docent Program leads a tour of “About Face” (2011).
School kids discuss artworks in the Bronx

24. Concert 'Metropolis', Lower Manhattan
Empanada making workshop, Bronx
Site specific Modern Dance Day, Bronx
No Longer Bored Children's workshop, “This Side of Paradise” (2012).

25. 1/28/13
Melanie Crean in
collaboration with
Burak Nehbit,
Theatre of the
Oppressed, and
BronxWorks, Once
Upon a Time in the
Bronx (2012) in “This
Side of Paradise.”

26. Sofia Maldonado, La Cocina
(2012) live cooking
workshop in “This Side of
Paradise.”

27. “This Side of Paradise”, Andrew Freedman Home, the Bronx, 2012

28. Site
No Longer Empty produced map of cultural anchors in the Bronx.

29. LEGACY
Building a legacy- from imparting a model, to launching a business to
continued collaborative efforts among cultural anchors.

30. WHY SUPPORT CREATIVE INTERIM USE?
•INCLUSIVE OF ALL NEW YORKERS
•INNOVATIVE COMMUNITY BUILDING
•COST EFFECTIVE & RESOURCE
SHARING
•PRESERVATION OF HISTORY & SITE
•COLLABORATIVE & CROSSDISCIPLINARY

31. NO LONGER EMPTY’s RECOMMENDATIONS
1.WE NEED MAYOR’S ENDORSEMENT FOR
INITIATIVES OF THIS KIND.
2.THEY ARE COST EFFECTIVE AND
INCLUSVE BUT NEED FUNDING AND
INCENTIVES.
3.CARROT AND STICK APPROACH FOR
VACANCIES.
1.EACH MUNICIPAL DEPARTMENT SHOULD
HAVE AN ARTS PROGRAM. CROSSEFFECTIVE USE OF EMPTY SPACE AND
NEW SET OF SKILL SOLVING BROUGHT TO

32. THANK YOU.