{"id":181,"date":"2013-11-29T19:13:06","date_gmt":"2013-11-29T19:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.annelafond.com\/Temp\/?page_id=181"},"modified":"2026-03-04T22:28:45","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T22:28:45","slug":"window-studio","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.annelafond.com\/?page_id=181","title":{"rendered":"Window Studio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.annelafond.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Anne_E.w.portrait_hires_crp.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-105 size-full\" title=\"Anne and Elan at Window Studio\" src=\"https:\/\/www.annelafond.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Anne_E.w.portrait_hires_crp.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"988\" height=\"726\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.annelafond.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Anne_E.w.portrait_hires_crp.jpg 988w, https:\/\/www.annelafond.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Anne_E.w.portrait_hires_crp-300x220.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.annelafond.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Anne_E.w.portrait_hires_crp-640x470.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.annelafond.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Anne_E.w.portrait_hires_crp-780x573.jpg 780w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 988px) 100vw, 988px\" \/><\/a>From September 2012 until forced by the COVID-19 pandemic to shut down, I painted in the storefront window at 356 Marcus Garvey Avenue to create a \u201ccollaborative portrait\u201d of the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn. Made possible with funding from the Puffin Foundation, the Brooklyn Arts Council, Citizen Committee of NY and the generosity of private donors, the project&#8217;s mission was to \u201ccontinue the dialogue between art and the lives of ordinary people.\u201d The project became a nexus not only of art but an assertion of personal and community empowerment in a historically poor, working class area undergoing sharp economic changes.<\/p>\n<p>To view all the portraits, and learn more about the project, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/window-studio.com\">www.window-studio.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From September 2012 until forced by the COVID-19 pandemic to shut down, I painted in the storefront window at 356 Marcus Garvey Avenue to create a \u201ccollaborative portrait\u201d of the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn. Made possible with funding from the Puffin Foundation, the Brooklyn Arts Council, Citizen Committee of NY and the generosity of private [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":179,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-181","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annelafond.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annelafond.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annelafond.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annelafond.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annelafond.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=181"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.annelafond.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1042,"href":"https:\/\/www.annelafond.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/181\/revisions\/1042"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annelafond.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annelafond.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}