July/August Underdonk Artists in Residence: Mildred Beltré and Oasa DuVerney
press release
Underdonk welcomes Mildred Beltré and Oasa DuVerney to the July/August artist residency. These Brooklyn based artists are co-founders of the artist collaborative, Brooklyn Hi-Art! Machine, BHAM.
Mildred Beltré is a Brooklyn-based artist working in print, drawing, and participatory politically engaged practice to explore facets of social change. She is invested in exploring political movements and their associated social relations and structures. Beltré is the co-founder of the Brooklyn Hi-Art! Machine, an ongoing socially engaged collaborative art project in Crown Heights, Brooklyn that addresses gentrification and community building through art-making. Beltré’s selected exhibitions include: Brooklyn Museum; Zuckerman Museum, GA; De Cordova Museum, MA; Everson Museum, NY; IPCNY, NYC; Five Myles Gallery, BRIC, Smack Mellon.
Oasa DuVerney was born in Queens, NY. Select group exhibitions include: Brooklyn Museum, Studio Museum in Harlem, BRIC, and Postmasters Gallery, all NY. She has taken part in following residencies: BRIC Workspace, Rush Philanthropic Foundation, Smack Mellon, and LMCC Workspace Residency, all NY. DuVerney along with Mildred Beltre is part of the artist collaborative, Brooklyn Hi-Art Machine.
The Brooklyn Hi-Art! Machine (BHAM) is a socially-engaged project started in 2010 by artists Mildred Beltré and Oasa DuVerney. Dubbing ourselves the “Official Unofficial Artists in Residence” of our block, we set up tents, tables, and art supplies on the street outside our apartment building and invited anyone walking by to stop and make art with us. In this way we co-founded the Brooklyn Hi-Art! Machine, a collaborative public art intervention that explores art-making as a community-building tool.
