Exhibition Opening & Reception ::: April 4

Doll Sewing Circle

Our second meeting revealed a beautiful and diverse array of dolls-in-progress, included the genesis of the fabric backdrop for our video-play, and lived up to our wildest dreams for our doll-making bee!

Doll Stories

Last night at Gureje, all the doll neighbors met for the first time, and we shared our individual doll stories, then had an amazing fabric swap/initial doll-making session. Thanks Linn Edwards for taking these pictures:




This blog will serve as a space where we can record those memories of dolls past, whether dolls we made or dolls who belonged to our families...as we are simultaneously thinking about our new dolls, and all that they will be.

Please share your stories!

Doll Neighborhood Members Selected

The Doll Neighborhood is happy to announce our list of artist-members:










Abbee Bourret (work pictured)
Aimee Hertog
Angela Earley
Debora Kellogg
Deborah Singletary
Edwin Serrano
Elisha Georgiou
Elizabeth Weiner-Cohen
Ellie Balk
Heather Love
Hilary L Lee
Ibou Ndoye
Julia-Petra and Camille
Joyce Stroman
Ken Wright
Kristin Brenneman Eno
Lauren Hartman
Linn Edwards
Liz Vaisben (work pictured)
Lulu Yee
Louise Fischer Cozzi
Maureen Shea
Minnie Curry
Nathasha Brooks-Harris
Nicole Tammelleo
Selena Lounds
Stephanie Pereira
Sylvia Holden
Tonya Dyce

Doll Neighborhood: A Call to Artists

Join us as we explore the idea of collaboration surrounding the creation, interaction and display of a collection of unique, handmade dolls. We welcome artists to be a part of this social as well as artistic experiment, a meeting of minds as well as of creative designs. Artists who become members of the collaborative will take part in a sewing circle and video story by welcoming unguarded dialogue as our dolls take on lives of their own. All dolls created by “doll neighborhood” members and our video story will be exhibited at the Renate Albertsen-Marton Space @ Gureje on Pacific Street, between Underhill and Washington Avenue, in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn (opening April 4).

Sewing skills are not required; membership is free; a dedication to the collective vision is imperative. The Village @ Gureje is a committed partner in this project and will provide meeting and exhibition space along with community support.

All Doll Neighborhood members must attend three creative workshops leading up to the exhibition: the first to exchange materials that we will use to make our dolls (Feb. 5), the second to make our dolls together (Feb. 26), the third to make a video in which our completed dolls interact (March 11).

Prospective members should send a paragraph including personal reflections in response to the Doll Neighborhood premise, 1-2 images (72dpi /6 inch max JPGs) of past work or a link to your website, and contact information, to dollneighborhood@gmail.com. Deadline Jan. 25, 2008. Artists will be notified of acceptance by Jan. 29. For more information about this collaborative project and the Village @ Gureje space, please visit www.dollneighborhood.org.

Download PDF version of Call to Artists.