THE CITY—“Art on the Ave,” which provides artists with opportunities to showcase their work in vacant storefronts across the city, is opening its first NYCHA-based exhibit.
Usually, a New York City vacant storefront has nothing to offer passersby but the dead and empty husk of what once was an alive and vibrant business.
The nonprofit Art on the Ave, however, has taken over some of that barren window space to transform it into elaborate art exhibits for New Yorkers to enjoy.
Barbara Anderson, the founder of Art on the Ave, came up with the idea during the COVID-19 pandemic while jogging through the Upper West Side and taking note of all of the closed-down businesses coupled with all of the struggling street artists coping with societal shutdown.
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