COPE NYC X Parsons School of Design I The New School Design Project Collaboration:
We are collaborating with Parsons School of Design I The New School to design a floor-to-ceiling window for October’s Fashion Week Brooklyn Runway at the former Pfizer Building in Brooklyn. For over five years, COPE NYC has been hosting and co-organizing Fashion Week Brooklyn - a bi-annual international collection show and this year we are excited to expand on what a fashion runway can look like.
We are always looking to collaborate with a broad discipline of creatives, as our mission is to bridge communities through an interdisciplinary, experiential approach. For this design opportunity we are looking for creatives to design a visual communication between the outside and inside space that is colorful and playful, using transparencies on a floor-to-ceiling window to create a contemporary stained-glass window effect.
This is a great opportunity to work collectively and to work with specific materials and space to meet the expectation of a multiday fashion event.
Here are a few guidelines based on our partner Fashion Week Brooklyn’s vision:
Transparency of inside and outside is desired.
Consider Spencer Finch’s incredible glass window, ‘The Secret Life of Glass,’ as a visual reference.
Please submit a short bio, portrait photo, and why you are interested in doing this to info@copenyc.org. We are open to ideas and excited to hear from you.
Below are visual references of past COPE NYC artists in residence (former Pratt students) at the Pfizer building, who designed a nonfunctional bus stop and a large floor-to-ceiling window, transforming spaces into a colorful rainbow that engages passersby through the activation of sunlight and color. Bus stop transformed by Nazli Efe titled ‘Luminous & Luminal,’ and Susan Luss ‘is It Time?’ a site responsive floor to ceiling window installation.
Commissioned Projects:
We are delighted to continue commissioning artists to design interior spaces for Little Flower, a nonprofit organization that provides programming for thousands of abused and neglected children and teens.
COPE NYC projects focus on functionality for its residencies, exhibitions, and community projects through inclusivity, and accessibility; they are site specific, community-oriented, and connected to an audience through cultural and sustainable methods. The projects are guided by a desire to promote social relations for all ages and abilities through creative community projects. COPE NYC strives to bridge communities and people, the academic, and artists through sustainable practices. We achieve this through innovative entrepreneurial participation, the experimental, to foster a hybrid community space for people of all ages and abilities. Our goal is to create distinct experiences for visitors in reimagined spaces, encouraging moments of wonder, reflection, learning and delight.
This year we have selected artist, Nazli Efe to design a Little Flower meeting room where children in foster care meet with their families and guardians. We first worked with Nazli Efe when she was a Pratt Institute student who designed an unused bus stop now used by 630 Flushing tenants as a communal space, for her course work. She revitalized the bus stop with creative reuse of colorful transparencies and silhouettes, transforming it to a rainbow color meeting place.
Nazli Efe has two designs under her proposal, Blue Lagoon, for a meeting room. The design will be selected by families that Little Flower services to promote interactivity and civic engagement. The focus on blue in her proposal is to contribute to our current exhibition, "Blue," in the 630 Flushing South Lobby Gallery, an exhibition project that has far reaching moving parts, including the experiential and intersection of arts and design.
About the Artist:
Nazli Efe is a Turkish/Cypriot artist and architect.
She completed her undergraduate and master's degree in architecture at Bahcesehir University (TR) and at Virginia Tech University (USA). After working in creative fields she received her MFA at Pratt Institute (USA) in 2022 with high honors. She is an interdisciplinary artist making installations, sculptures, and performances that focus on spirituality and the qualities of water.
Nazli discusses the dialogue between immateriality and materiality, permanence and ephemerality, from a mystical aspect. In her art practice she embeds traditional techniques that utilize water especially marbling and Molvbdomancy. Water is a ritualistic, meditative, and performative medium that allows Nazli to access her subconscious mind.
Nazli is a Member Artist at the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Studio Program in New York. Her works have been featured in Hyperallergic and exhibited both in the United States and Turkey.
Art Meets Fashion
COPE NYC is dedicated to bridging communities through creative opportunities. We are partnering with Brooklyn Beauty Fashion Labo (BBFL) and BK Style Foundation for their upcoming launch of a virtual exposition of sustainability themed event for Artists, Designers, and Vendors. The bilingual event, titled, Art Meets Fashion, COPE NYC will select artists to offer an exciting new opportunity to showcase a work on BBFL’s virtual exposition. BBFL’s four categories to define sustainability are: "Much Love Local," "Less is More," "Inspired by Nature," "Make a Difference."
COPE NYC in partnership with BK Style Foundation x BBFL, will feature Art Meets Fashion virtual exposition, from October 15 to October 28, which will provide sales opportunities as United States and Japanese consumers have an opportunity to view and purchase art and fashion accessories with artists’ designs.
After October 5, artists will have an opportunity to showcase up to six images of their work.
COPE NYC will review and select work that will inspire fashion design with colors, textures and shapes.
COPE NYC will sponsor first six selected artists for this collective artistry that forms a bridge from Brooklyn to Japan. Sponsorship includes: One-year complimentary BBFL Membership - you may display six (6) items on your member portfolio page (English only); opportunities to participate in COPE NYC 2021 Projects.
For more information email: kirsten@copenyc.org
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Please note for Art Meets Fashion we are registering selected artists.