For information regarding GOWANUS TOUR 2001 please go to Gowanus Tour 2001
Gowanus Artists Studio Tour November 4th & 5th, 2000
A visual artist studio tour of over 30 Gowanus area artists. Participating artists will open their studios to the public on both weekend days Saturday and Sunday, November 4th and 5th from 12 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Maps of the Tour are available at: Cucina Restaurant, The Rising Cafe, Rose Water, New College Restaurant and Halcyon among other neighborhood places. Some of the participating eateries are having special promotions--at discounted prices. Click here for the latest Food News.
For a list of contacts and map pick-up spots, click here: Gowanus Contacts list The map is available on-line on this very site, you can jump to the Studio Tour Map here: Art Map. For more information call: 718.243.0849 or, e-mail: info@gowanusartists.freeservers.com
The Gowanus Canal Area
Located between Carroll Gardens and Park Slope Brooklyn, the area around the Gowanus Canal and its basins has attracted emerging artists because of inexpensive, formerly industrial spaces
To learn more about the Gowanus Canal please visit our friends at the Gowanus Canal Community Development Corporation (GCCDC). The GCCDC is a neighborhood preservation non profit group dedicated to the revitalization of the Gowanus Canal area in South Brooklyn, New York. Gowanus Canal Community Development Corporation
Take the F train to: Carroll Street, Smith & 9 street or 4th Avenue at 9th Street - depending on where you would like to start the tour. Take The N to Union Street - No R service this weekend and there is no N service between Canal Street in Manhattan and Dekalb Avenue. MTA Bus also goes along 4th and 3rd Avenues.
Many studios are also not too far from the Atlantic Avenue Subway stop. Trains that stop there include 2&3,4,D, & B(Pacific Street)
Check the subway map link below for more information:
From Manhattan: take the Manhattan Bridge. The MANHATTAN BRIDGE becomes FLATBUSH AVE. Go along Flatbush Avenue until you come to 3rd Avenue and take a right onto third Avenue. Once along third Avenue-you will see Butler Street then Douglass Street. Douglass Street and 3rd Avenue is a good central point for many of the Gowanus South studios.
Also on Douglass Street are additional maps - they can be picked up at: 267 Douglass Street - 4th floor 295 Douglass Street- ground floor & 2nd floor
