Park Slope Open Studio Tour

64 artists in 25 locations open their studio doors to the public for an intimate tour of their work (including PAD’s very own Scott Faucheux).

Saturday and Sunday, May 17th and 18th,
12 noon to 6 p.m.

See map on website for studio locations
http://www.bwac.org/

free! BLACK-LIGHT-PING-PONG
- aka -
BEATS, BALLS & BEERS
- aka -
THE CORE77 PARTY

Saturday, May 17th
8:00 p.m.

Email rsvp77@core77.com
for location & details

GLASSLAB

“GLASSLAB brings the ancient processes and skills of glassmaking together with creative and innovative minds in the design world. Contemporary designers, working with Corning Museum of Glass glassmakers in a unique mobile hot glass studio, will have a rare opportunity to use the immediacy of hot glassmaking as a catalyst for innovation, rapidly prototyping their design concepts using glass.”
Saturday May 17th to June 3rd

Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum

2 East 91st Street, New York, NY

Meatpacking District Design

“In 1884 the city of New York parted two acres of land to establish a bustling outdoor food market called the Gansevoort Market, named after General Peter Gansevoort, a Revolutionary War hero and the grandfather of Herman Melville. In 1949 the Gansevoort Meat Center opened. Today, the Meatpacking District is 20 square blocks, 24-hour neighborhood on the West Side of Manhattan, located between 15th and Horatio Streets, West of and including Hudson Street. Alongside the meatpacking plants fashion designers, graphic artists, writers, architects, artists and photographers have created a destination for design, architecture, fashion salons, fitness centers, and luxury boutiques. Over 50 restaurants and nightlife clubs create the “up-all-night” vibe about the neighborhood. In the summer of 2008 a $130 million elevated park, The High Line, originating in MPD will open. Visitors will be able to walk on this never-before-seen “park in the sky” from Gansevoort Street to 20th Street and soon thereafter all the way to 34th Street."

http://www.meatpacking-district.com/flash.html