After Ten Years, Pioneer Works Embraces Its Amorphous, Trans-Disciplinary Spirit, Where Art Meets Science
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Photo caption: A performance by Kinlaw, a past Pioneer Works music resident, for the organization’s Midsummer Benefit in July to celebrate its newly renovated Main Hall, including the mezzanine levels (pictured here). Photo credit: Walter Wlodarczyk. Article by Hilarie M. Sheets. ARTnews – November 8, 2022.
Pioneer Works began a decade ago as an artist’s wild dream, sprung from the head of the sculptor Dustin Yellin. He transformed a dilapidated 1866 red-brick industrial building, originally an iron works, across the street from his studio in Red Hook, Brooklyn, into multidisciplinary cultural center, with an initial budget of $200,000 that was largely funded by his own art and renovated by himself and his studio crew. […]