ShowcaseFolk Arts Archive
This is a sample from the BAC Folk Arts archive. More to come. Please check periodically for updates.
The Williamsburg Bridge 100th Anniversary Celebration in June 2003 included a traveling exhibit on the cultural history of the Bridge. Seen here is a photo from 1958 showing local boys under the bridge making a raft out of boards from a decaying pier. Photo: Copyright 2003 Jerry Dantzic, Courtesy of Jerry Dantzic Archives, East River Raft Series, 1958. 
The Williamsburg Bridge 100th Anniversary Celebration in June 2003 involved fieldwork with ironworkers, lathers, engineers, and numerous other workers doing a major Bridge reconstruction, which lasted from 1989 until 2005. Seen here are workers in 2001 involved in discussion about lifting a steel beam from street level to placement on the Bridge. Photo: Kay Turner
BAC Folk Arts sponsors an annual September 11th Anniversary project on the meaning of memorial. In 2006, Kay Turner, BAC Folk Arts Director, curated Here Was New York: Twin Towers in Memorial Images, a photo exhibition. Shown here is a mural painted behind the counter at Anthony’s Deli in Williamsburg. Photo: Geoff Rockwell
Fieldwork photo of a Mexican mariachi musician displaying an image of St. Cecilia, folk catholic patron of mariachis, at her annual celebration in Brooklyn in 2003. Photo: Kay Turner
BAC Folk Arts sponsors an annual September 11th Anniversary project on the meaning of memorial. In 2006, Kay Turner, BAC Folk Arts Director, curated Here Was New York: Twin Towers in Memorial Images, a photo exhibition. Shown here is a street painting of the Towers on Lorimer St. in Williamsburg. Photo: Geoff Rockwell
Fieldwork involves meeting new artists, sometimes in unlikely places. We encountered Brooklyn Chinese reed-weaver Yu Shao Hua on Mott Street in Chinatown in summer 2004, making and selling his highly detailed animal miniatures. Photo: Kay Turner
BAC Folk Arts sponsors an annual September 11th Anniversary project on the meaning of memorial. In 2006, Kay Turner, BAC Folk Arts Director, curated Here Was New York: Twin Towers in Memorial Images, a photo exhibition. Shown here is are men’s neckties photographed in the window at Macy’s. Photo: Paul
In May 2002 BAC Folk Arts presented Local Eyes: Folk Photographers in Brooklyn, an exhibition at five myles gallery. Photographer Elena Marrero presented us with the work of her mother, Helen Marrero, who documented life in Ft. Greene in the 1950s and 1960s. Shown here is gathering of neighborhood girls celebrating First Communion with one young cowboy. Photo: Helen Marrero